A Sweet Day

Krispy Kreme Field Trip

Cade had a field trip with his preschool class to Krispy Kreme yesterday. Probably the best field trip of the season... I still remember my field trip to the "Twinkie" factory in grade school.

They showed us how the "powder" becomes dough, how the different donuts are formed, how to "fill" a jelly filled.

They can make 270 dozen donuts an hour.

Cade's favorite part was checking out the glaze waterfall.

The highlight was that each kid got to "make" their own donut.
Cade got more sprinkles on his donut than any other kid.

Cade with a pre-cooked donut hole.

There's this kid Jaden in his class. Jaden is one of those 'know it all' kids who tattles on everyone and always has to one-up everyone. He CAN be very sweet, but he chooses not too be most of the time. On the bus ride, he turned around and this was part of our conversation...

Jaden: "Cade brought a gun to school today...a squirt gun, he showed it to me".

Me: "He did?"

Jaden: "I have a gun too"

Me: "Wow, well Cade really only has pretend guns"

Jaden: "Mine are real"

Me: "Really, aren't you too young to have a real gun"

Jaden: "I have a shotgun and a pistol...they're real"

Me: "Yes, you said that" (remembering I add...) "Cade has a nerf gun too, do you know what that is?"

Jaden: "Yeah, I have ten!"

Of course you do...I just had to laugh. Funny kid. I wonder what my kids say sometimes when I'm not around to hear them.

Cade's teacher told me a sweet story. They were explaining to their kids that their parents could go on the trip and they could either meet them at Krispy Kreme or that they could pay $1.00 and ride the bus with the school. He said, "my mommy can get some money out of my 'piddy bank' cause my mommy ran out of money".

Such a "sweet" kid!

A little Funny

I get this weekly email that updates me on how the baby is growing and developing each week and at the end of it was this little "Question & Answer" segment on Childbirth class---it made me laugh and I thought I'd share a portion of it.

Q: Will keeping a hand in a bucket of ice during class really approximate labor pain?
A: Yes, more or less — just imagine the ice is the polar ice cap and you're slowly being crushed under it while somebody jabs an icicle in your spine.

Q: Will there be men in the class who snicker every time the instructor says the word "vagina"?
A: Yes.

Q: Will my husband be one of them?
A: Probably.

Victory

We had a huge victory in our house this past week.
Brooke has been sick with the Rotavirus (which is a nasty vomitty, diarrhea-y high fever illness). She was so dehydrated they sent us to the hospital to get some IV fluids in her. We were there most the afternoon and night. She's doing much better now...but the huge feat was that no one else got it! Usually this house is sick for 2 weeks with one kid passing it to the next and this time no one else has gotten it!
I was talking to my brother tonight and he mentioned how impressive that was considering how "VomitFest '08" wickedly spread through multiple families and spanned 4 states.

Also I have a new nephew...my brother Heath just had his first! Which, according to Riley now makes him an adult (she doesn't think you are an adult unless you have kids). He's a cutie. Makes our total 4 nephews and 2 nieces.