Girls Wildwood Weekend 2008

We had such a fabulous weekend last week! On friday Cayden and I drove down to my parents beach house to meet up with 3 of my friend who also have daughters who are 4. Both the little girls and us big girls had a blast! I never imagined being at the beach would be as relaxing as it was. The girls just played and played and us moms chatted away. It was so funny watching them play inside the beach house. Using their imaginations the little scenes they were playing were hilarious! It's funny seeing them together at 4 since the first time Cayden and Kennedy ever played in the sand together they were only 18 mths.

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Growing up too fast and sprinkler video!

Things are changing quite a bit around here these days. I'm proud to say Cayden is no longer a thumb sucker. It's been over a week since she quit and we haven't seen her do it AT ALL since then. Eric told me it was time to do what his parents did to him to get him to stop sucking his fingers. He showed her nasty pictures and told her that was what was going to happen to her if she didn't stop sucking her thumb. The one picture was so nasty. It was of a thumb sucker who got hand, foot, and mouth disease. The kid had their tongue out with blisters all over and was giving the thumbs up sign and there were the same blisters all over the thumb. It was disgusting looking. It sure did work! I almost couldn't believe it when she didn't suck her thumb the first night, then the second night....I started watching her secretly during "zone" times when I'd normally catch her like in the car when she's sleepy or watching t.v. I didn't catch her at all! She just stopped cold turkey. I have to admit it's bittersweet. It was surely time but she's growing so fast and late at night when I'd check on her she'd be curled up sound asleep in her bed sucking her thumb. She'd look so small and it'd remind me that she was still my little girl - but that is no longer!

Keenan is making changes around here too. His vocabulary is growing rapidly and he repeats almost everything Cayden says. But he was still hanging onto "momma" and "dada" and we've been waiting for the change. All of a sudden a few days ago he just started saying "Daddy" and "Mommy" and he sounds so big. I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast! In other fun news - he has now decided as of today he loves the sprinkler. Just days ago he would not go under it and would just run away from it. We try all the time since Cayden loves to go in it. So today I just threw a swim diaper on and let him keep his shirt on instead of changing into a bathing suit since he never goes in it anway. Of course he just randomly decided to! He had such a blast and would try to drink the water when it went down!