Kaiden is showing me all the ornaments.
After the candlelight service at church, Kaiden had to make sure the candle was blown out!
Christmas brunch at our house, stocking stuffer game and gifts. I think the toothbrush was his favorite! It was a good Christmas.
I would find him moving the ornaments and saying "Don't touch". Parents can be so confusing sometimes.
Helping Tito put the track together
Putting the engine on the track
Look at it go!
Kaiden and I were reading a book the other evening when his mother snapped a picture.
He immediately wanted to see the picture. I couldn't help but think about how things have changed since his father was this age or when I was growing up. We didn't get to see the pictures until the roll of film was used, then taken to be developed and wait until the pictures came back. There wasn't one hour developers then. It could be weeks even months before you could take the picture.A couple weeks ago when the kids were here, someone was wondering the name of a movie Diane Keaton had been in. One of them took out their phone and looked it up. Someone else wanted to know how late a store was open on Sundays. One of them took out their phone and looked it up. The phone we had growing up only made phone calls and it was a party line. When we first moved to our town 37 years ago we even had a party line because there were not enough lines available. Can you imagine anyone accepting that now?
I can not even imagine how things will change by the time Kaiden is grown. I only hope that in this world of instant everything, he learns that fast and convenient isn't always better; that you can't always get everything you want that's okay; that some of the old ways of doing things are still the most fun and the anticipation of waiting for something is part of the joy.
Last year, Kaiden was quite sure about this crazy penguin
This year
He's got it figured out!
