Worth the hike!

I think it is so fun to see what the kids come up with on there own for Mother's Day and Father's day so once again I left it up to them to decide what they wanted to do. For Father's Day Cayden wanted to get Lance a new bike so that he could "ride fast and pass people"!! Apparently Cayden doesn't think that the 2 bikes Lance already has are getting the job done!! No matter how many times I asked him this week he would not change his mind. Lance had to settle instead for a new bike jacket that he wanted:) Carlie of course wanted to get him something more practical (chocolate covered cinnamon bears), Lance's favorite!! It was such a nice day we went for a hike. Lance's idea and my idea of a "little" hike are not he same!! The kids survived though and it ended up being a fun day. It paid off at the end when we made it to the waterfall:) Happy Father's Day!

Stubborn = Cayden

Cayden is so stubborn sometimes (actually a lot of the time)!! He has never been good at trying and eating new foods. There is a small list of things he is guaranteed to eat and it does not include any fruits or vegetables! Dinner time is getting worse and worse so I finally decided I was going to be tough and enforce things (after all the Dr. makes it sound so simple, he eats a couple bites or doesn't get dessert)!! It's not that easy. I spent over 25 minutes convincing him that he had to eat 1/2 a meatball (which he has eaten in the past but decided tonight he wasn't going to) or he wasn't going to get dessert!! Finally he ate it after lots of tears and tantrums. I thought once he took a bite he would remember how much he liked it and eat more. Nope, he just reminded me that I had said he only had to eat 1/2!! He is so smart, sometimes too smart:) It's a good thing he doesn't look the way he eats or everyone would think I am starving the kid!!