I'm only bragging just a little bit

I guess I've been a little quiet lately. We went out of town for a week and it's thrown me off I guess. We went to Eufaula for our annual Cox fishing tournament. Oh man, did I make ALOT of observations on that trip. That's a 3 page blog by itself. I will save it for a day where I feel a little more on my game than today. In the mean time, to give my fans something to read (ha ha ha) I will share some predictions I have made recently. For those of you who don't get to see my children often and watch all the funny things they do and hear the insightful things they say, I will share.

It's been really interesting to watch my children develop their little personalities. I think I heard somewhere that by about age 5 a child's personality is almost 100% developed. I've taken the liberty of making some predictions about what my children will be like when they get older. I guess I'll check back in with you in about 10 years and tell you if I was right or not. LOL. I have to preface these remarks by verbalizing that all these things I have noticed are traits they have come up with on their own. I really let them be themselves and encourage the interests they come up with on their own.

Caden is 4 1/2 now. He loves science. He has taught himself to read numbers by using the remote control. LOL. He watches lots of nature shows and science fiction stuff for kids. He can tell you all kinds of things about just about every animal there is. He's always telling me something about random animals and their habits that I didn't know. I can thank Bindi the jungle girl for that. He loves dinosaurs. He can rattle off their names while I stutter just trying to pronounce them. He surprised me one day by telling me how many planets there are, which one we live on, and them naming them all correctly. He tells me all about outer space. I think he is going to excel in science and biology. He does so many things that remind me of things I do myself. He and I are alot alike. I can tell that he observes people and situations like I do. He communicates very well and seems particular about the words he chooses. I would not be surprised if he grows up with a love for writing. He's very outgoing. He has no problems running up to any kid anywhere and making a new best friend. He's polite and mellow. He tends to go with the flow and set his own pace for things. He is a social butterfly. He sometimes will let people push his buttons for quite a long time without reacting, but eventually if you push too hard he will get irritated and sock you in the nose. He loves his father and anything Chris is interested in is an interest of his too. With both people and activities. In general, he's just a pretty cool kid to be around. He makes being a parent pretty easy. I think he's going to be the kid in school that everyone likes. He is a really smart kid. I think he'll be great at science and english, but struggle in math. I think that he will always be super skinny. LOL. I think he'll want to play baseball and golf. At least right now he couldn't care less about basketball and he'd have to gain a massive amount of weight to play football. I'm okay with no football though. His face is too pretty for all that smashing around.

Macy, oh my little Macy. She is so set in her ways. She's the very definition of girl. She never leaves the house without her purse. She always has on lip gloss and begs for more makeup. It's a chore to get her to wear pants or anything that isn't pink. If she could wear pink dresses every day she would be a happy girl. She changes clothes at least 7 times a day. So much so that I'm considering emptying her whole dresser and hanging everything up where she can't reach it. She has no fear. Caden and I severly dislike going fast in cars and boats or motocycles. Macy and Chris throw their hands in the air and yell "Weeeee!" the faster and faster they go. She is a risk taker, which I am sure as she gets older will both get her in trouble and afford her a few opportunities. Courtesy of Dora the Explorer, Macy can count in spanish just as well as she can in english. She is not quite 3 and she can count to 20 in 2 languages. I'm impressed. She is LOUD and sometimes gross. LOL. She belches at the dinner table in public which mortifies me. She thinks farting is hilarious and is the first to take credit when the room stinks up. As much as she is a girly princess, she is always always always covered in dirt and food. Caden even as a baby really gets dirty. Macy is my little pigpen. You can almost see the cloud of dirt following her around. I can wipe her face and wash her hands, five minutes later she is covered in dirt again. This child is a bottomless food pit. I can't order her a regular happy meal. She always has to have extra chicken nuggets. I've seen her eat 12-15 nuggets in one sitting more than a few times. She is going to make an excellent mother. She loves her baby dolls and every one of them is as real to her as she is to me. She corrects me when I am wrong. She counts to 3 and threatens spankings if we are not doing what she thinks we should be doing. She often sticks out her little hip with her hand firmly attached to it, while the other hand sternly has a finger pointed straight at you, all the while she is seriously giving instructions. She can be stern but she is also very loving. She doesn't give out hugs and kisses to just anyone. You have to be someone special. But she takes care of her babies and looks after her big brother. When she gets in trouble she cries for Caden and he scoops her up and tells her everything will be okay. I predict that her teenage years will torture me tremendously and she have many attempts at sneaking out her window at night. She will be wild. She will date boys with too many tattoos and I will have to take a variety of medications to stay sane. LOL. I think she will be sassy and pretty and tough. I refuse to let her be a mean girl. We are working on our manners. She starts preschool in the fall and I'm excited to see how she will handle stepping out on her own for the first time.

What else? My children love McDonalds and chinese food. I'm extremely proud that they both like salad. They are good kids and I am proud that they are mine. They get along with everyone they meet. Macy can be a little selective, but as a girl I appreciate that. :) I wish they could spend more time with my aunts and uncles. They only have 1 uncle. They will have no cousins. That makes me very sad. I really enjoyed my ten thousand cousins growing up. Good thing that Chris and I have a lot of friends. They can pretend all their children are their cousins. Enough mama babble from me for one night. When I get around to posting about our Eufaula trip it will be a must read. I am thoroughly amused by all the things I observed that week.

Okay then. I have broken the silence. I will pick back up my regular blogging schedule soon. LOL. Anyone who is interested Caden has a tball game on Friday night! Let me know if you'd like to come.