Not so proud moment...

Yesterday we had a not so proud moment in the Brown household. Caiden had some cars in his backpack when I picked him up from school. He told me they were his and I really had no idea since he packs his backpack with anything and everything, so we left with them. Well as we were on the way to pick up "baby" as Caiden calls Ethan, I noticed that the Lightning McQueen car had eyes like I have never seen before. {I know some of you think I never pay attention to details but I did know that one!} So as I take a closer look at the cars Caiden claims are his, I realize that he took them from school.

{the stolen goods}

From there I continue to interrogate my 3 year old, which by the way if you have never done is like spinning circles for long periods of time! FINALLY I got out of him {with a lot of crying involved} that he took them from school because he did not have cars like these at home. Now let me remind you people that my sons DO NOT I repeat DO NOT lack in the toy cars department! I took the cars and then had a teaching/learning moment with my thief of a son. I explained to him that he lied and then what that meant and what the truth was. Try explaining all of that to a 3 years old and use words that he would get explaining these "new" terms. UGH! I also explained that he stole and what that was. I pulled the whole mom card and told him what he was going to do tomorrow and that if he didn't I was going to call the police and they would take him to jail. This immediately made him cry and he said "No mommy I told the truth now and I don't want to go to jail!" {don't start feeling sorry for him now!} I also told him that he was going to have to tell his Uncle Jeff and his daddy what he did...more crying and pleading involved!

Uncle Jeff came over for dinner {Katrina was out of town for business} and he told him what he had done. Jeff reinforced what I said and really put the male influence into it! Then later that night he had to tell his daddy and that was tough to get out of him! He really really really did not want to tell daddy what he had done. But he finally did and also told hid daddy what he was going to do to correct it tomorrow!

So today as we are driving to school I asked Caiden "What are you going to do today when we get to school today?" He repeated what I told him in his random 3 year old order, but I knew he got the jift. So as we come walking up to the door he took the teacher the cars and apologized for taking them home and then he apologized to his other teacher for lying to her. Both of them had a conversation to reinforce mommy and then they forgave him.

The not so proud moment quickly turned into a proud moment! My son did the right thing in the end! I was so proud that he took responsibility {as much as a 3 year old can} for what he had done!

Day with Grandma and Grandpa Brown

So Saturday we celebrated Easter and Chun's birthday early. We drove down to Lawton and met up on Fort Sill for the giant Easter festivities. They had a huge egg hunt, but I was out on that since the kids were getting a little out of control and I was by myself for a while since the in-laws got stuck in traffic. So we opted for the pony rides and I couldn't do the job of everyone so I basically asked this guy to take our picks as we were walking around. I really didn't give him the option of saying no, but I like to think he did it out of the kindness of his heart. Afterwards I thanked him and said it is hard to record memories for daddy when I am by myself.

We finally found grandma and grandpa! They visited the fire truck while I waited in line for the petting zoo. Grandpa wasn't into the snake like the boys were, but he did stand by it!

Caiden wanted to pet every animal they had! He loves animals, Ethan was into a few different ones but not all of them yet!

{sylvia the snake}

{Caiden's favorite...turtles}

{easter bunny}

{weird looking duck that tried to eat Caiden's coat...he thought that wasn't too funny at first!}

We got a snack after that which resulted in a big mess! Grandpa got the great idea to get some free punch they had and both the boys spilled it all over. The wind didn't help much either! The boys saw a bunch of different "characters". They liked most of them, but were scared of a few. Caiden was scared of the giant bowling pin, but liked McGruff the Crime dog and the recycle guy. The boys then payed in the basketball pit and the bouncy. After that we were all tuckered out and decide to go home and eat some lunch and hang out!

After lunch we sang grandma Happy Birthday and we ate the upside down pineapple cake that I made for her. It didn't look very pretty, but it tasted good :) I will have to work on that recipe!

All in all a great day with the family, but we missed daddy every minute!

What a day!

So Easter Sunday was a long and fun day! I want to start this post with a quick story of Caiden and the Easter Story. Friday we were driving to school, listening to KLOVE and they were talking about the meaning of Easter and Good Friday...yada yada and Caiden chimes in "Mommy they said Easter!" So me being the mommy I am sees this as a sign to be able to share with my child the real truth behind Easter. So I proceed to ask him if he knows why we celebrate Easter and go into the story of Jesus dying and then His resurrection. After I get done with my whole story and had him talking the whole time he gets this concerned tone to his voice and says "Mommy I don't want Jesus to get ran over and die" So then I realized that either I am horrible story teller or my son may be a little too young to fully understand the meaning of Easter celebration!

Okay so onto our actual Easter Sunday events. We wake up early (Caiden and I) and Caiden wants to know if the Easter Bunny came. I told him yes but we had to wait for brother to wake up. Well I should have known that wasn't going to happen. Caiden proceeds to come into my room with the baskets and says look what the Easter Bunny brought us. I then go get Ethan up (that is why he looks a little out of it compared to Caiden!) and they start to tear into the goods left for them.

So the Easter Bunny was on a new budget this year and thought that he did really good to get out under $30 for 2 kids by going to the Dollar Tree. Well lets just say that the Easter Bunny was a flop, but the bright side is that the boys are young enough that they still loved it all!

This is the cool gun that was supposed to shoot balls out of it...but fail. It didn't work! Also he got some gum that was so hard I made him throw it away. And bubbles that had a package impossible to pull out the wand to even use.  We poured out the entire bottle and still couldn't get the wand out :( Needless to say the Easter Bunny will rethink the Dollar Tree next year for basket fillers!

Ethan is not sad here he just is eating his fruit roll up the Eater Bunny left for him. That was actually good :)

Then we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and got ready for church. Now that this was rough because like I showed you on my previous post that Caiden really likes to dress himself, we went round and round about what he was going to wear. Any other Sunday I don't care what he wears to church, but his Sunday I was going to win. So he wore what I picked out, but he got to wear his Toy Story flip flops!

After church we went to Natalie's parent's house for lunch and an Easter egg hunt. Ethan did good but needed some help, so David graciously volunteered! Caiden did really good on his own this year! He is getting so big! The kids had fun and were sooo tired that they passed out on the way home!

Kids are Weird!!!

BUT we LOVE them! The boys received their Easter cards from my mom the other day and they had money and lots and lots of stickers in them. So what is a kids gonna do with lots and lots of stickers? Take a looksy...

Then there is the new "I'm gonna dress myself" stage that Caiden is into. He is obsessed with wearing 3 shirts at time. So after many minutes of trying to convince my 3 year old that he did not match and needed to change I gave up! And this is what the outcome was...

Hmmmm...starting to look more like daddy everyday :) LOL!