Casen's 3 year Questionnaire

I asked these questions back at his birthday but to be honest with his speech delay and issues with articulation it was pretty hard to get answers. I recognized that he couldn't answer some of the questions and am filling in where I can.

What is your name? Asen (sometimes says Asen Andrew)

How old are you?  3 (and holds up his three fingers)

What is your favorite number? I non't know

What is your favorite color? lellow (loves yellow and red, says lellow like bumblebee -Bumblebee transformer)

What is your favorite drink? cholit mil (This kid is obsessed with chocolate milk and he loves to drink liquids all day. Luckily we don't make it very chocolatey. He still hates sodas and would pick chocolate milk over juice every time).

What is your favorite food? mac and cheese (If we ask what he wants for dinner he always picks mac and cheese and sometimes hot dog or corn dog. That being said he is actually a pretty good eater. He LOVES green beans. Doesn't have a very big sweet tooth (unlike his brother and mommy).

What is your favorite show?  Mieeee Mou (He LOVES Mickey Mouse yet never sits still long enough to watch a full episode)

What is your favorite holiday? didn't answer

What is your favorite thing to do with mommy? (Casen loves for me to build him train tracks)

What is your favorite thing to do with daddy? (he loves to wrestle with Kyle and Cooper. He also LOVES to help his daddy anytime he can and would prefer to spend all of his time outside)

What is your favorite thing to do with Cooper? Fight sords (they like to pretend fight with anything they can find and build forts/mountains in Cooper's room.)

What is your favorite book? (Casen can't typically sit still long enough for a book but usually pics a train book or puppy book)

Who is your best friend? Weverly and Tinny (Weatherly and Tinsley)

Who are your teachers? emeeeee (He loves his teacher Miss Emily and Miss Telo. Both boys also love Graham and Dickey at day-care)

What do you want to be when you grow up? no answer

What is your favorite movie? N/A

What is your favorite toy? Honestly he doesn't have a favorite toy though he does really liked stuffed animals especially dogs

What is your favorite thing to wear?  His favorite thing to wear is boots, jeans, his purple tcu shirt, and cowboy hat. He loves to wear his boots every time he is going to Ennis.

Who are you going to marry when you grow up?  N/A

What is your favorite sport? He likes to watch Rangers baseball with me sometimes but not really into sports yet.

What do you like to do at Babi and Grandaddy's house? see moo cows and piggies. play with tinley and mac mac.

What do you like to do at Mimi and Grandpa's house? dog dogs lick me (he loves to play trains or with all the hot wheels too)

Cooper's 5 year Questionnaire

This was answered in July but I never typed it up and posted it.

What is your name? Cooper Scott Cline

How old are you?  5

What is your favorite number? 10 hundred, 500

What is your favorite color? white (actually green or orange is his typical answer)

What is your favorite drink? coke and orange crush

What is your favorite food? pizza, mac and cheese, hotdogs (sings hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog)

What is your favorite show?  Rescue Bots!!! (also Paw Patrol, Octonauts, Miles From Tomorrowland)

What is your favorite holiday? Halloween

What is your favorite thing to do with mommy? build legos and be nice

What is your favorite thing to do with daddy? wrestles battlebots (??) and superheroes

What is your favorite thing to do with Casen? wrestle but sometimes he bites me (ha!!!)

What is your favorite book? Legos (He has one lego book but he actually loves the Bernstein Bear books the most)

Who is your best friend? Brody and Aiden

Who are your teachers? Miss D

What do you want to be when you grow up? astronaut

What is your favorite movie? Lego Movie (he had watched it recently but still doesn't watch many movies)

What is your favorite toy? ninja legos (all of his legos, ninja turtles, leap pad games)

What is your favorite thing to wear?  I don't know (He loves to wear athletic clothes)

Who are you going to marry when you grow up?  Momma don't ask that question (I couldn't stop laughing. He is already dodging these kinds of questions)

What is your favorite sport? basketball (this shocked me because he often asks to play soccer or baseball)

What do you like to do at Babi and Grandaddy's house?  Cut paper, look at stuff, go see the cows that pee and poop (such a boy!)

What do you like to do at Mimi and Grandpa's house?  Go to the park, water the flowers, play with trains

Posted late but finally posted :)

Weekend Recap

One night we did some alphabet practice with the boys. I was hoping this would help Casen with letter identification but he easily gets distracted... Cooper enjoyed it though.

Casen has been interested and also concerned with masks ever since Halloween, but he enjoyed dressing up as Batman one evening

I tried these the other day at work and they were pretty good. #iloveflaminhot

Casen brought this book home from school and I thought it was too sweet and wanted to document it.

Saturday morning we got to attend a birthday party in our jammies.

Can't believe sweet Andie is 1 already. She is one of our youngest babies and this is the first time in years that no one in our family is pregnant (as far as we know).  Our youngest is Tracen and he is 5 months. This makes me sad...but not sad enough to have one myself.

Casen loved their dogs

Cooper was so busy playing with his older cousins that I didn't get many pics of him. When we got in the car after the party he said 'that was the best pajama day ever!'

We came back home for lunch, games, and to decorate for Christmas. The boys enjoyed hi ho cheerios.

While getting boxes down from the attic one plastic tub opened up and broke about 9 ornaments. I was sad but mostly for the cleanup. Thankfully they weren't our sentimental ornaments.

I got my advent wreath out only to realize I was missing a candle...Kyle used it to make the jack o lantern glow back at Halloween because he found the candle under a sink.

I bought this metal nativity on Jane.com and I LOVE it. It looks so great on our bookshelf.

Saturday evening we finally got out of our jammies to head to dinner and shopping. I was enjoying my comfy yet cute outfit.

This boy loved pushing the cart at Kohls.

Sunday the boys and I went to church. They wore me out but reminded myself of my responsibility as their mother.

We came home to see Mimi and Grandpa helping Kyle put up Christmas lights. Then we had lunch and naps before heading to see Santa Claus. This was a quick pic I took with my phone.

Thanksgiving week recap

I took Monday and Tuesday off the week of Thanksgiving. I had to work Wednesday because of a deadline.

Sweet Tinsley spent the night with us and woke up with a smile on her face.

And Casen and I had to catch a cricket that got in the house. Anyone else being invaded by crickets!?!? YUCK!!!

Yes, he is wearing one glove for the capture

Monday I stayed home and did things around the house (lots of blogging, laundry and DVR). Melisa swung by for a bit and I convinced her to do a workout with me. Ranger looks how we felt afterwards.

Monday evening we had fun playing trains

And I am not sure what he was doing but he is still cute.

Tuesday I ran errands, more blogging, and even went for a run.

He is such a mess!!

We've been counting down to Disney World!!

One night Casen and I did some coloring Guess which one is mine? Ha!

Then when a commercial came on Cooper suddenly hopped up and said 'TV Commercial Workout' and did running in place, jumping jacks, and more. I have a video where Casen joined in and it was adorable.

Casen wanted pictures with his colorings.

This boy and his cheesy smile actually reminds me of Cooper a lot!

Thursday morning I asked Casen to take a picture of me and this is what I got. There were about 15 pictures and almost all of them were blurry.

But he did get this one.

And then Kyle got this one for me. Jen made this cute shirt and I wanted to show it off! It says 'Gobble til you wobble'

Packed up and headed to Thanksgiving with the Clines

After I sent my selfie to family I got the Tobola selfie

And from my parents. The Minears were camping so no selfie

We had a great time and delicious food at Thanksgiving. I tried a crockpot mac and cheese recipe that got overcooked, but I will try again. We always have fun playing games and catching up.

The boys love playing with Ryan and Tiffany's old toys.

Kyle and I didn't make plans to go Black Friday shopping but like every year we start wishing we were going. Friday morning I woke up at 5 and couldn't sleep so I headed to Walmart and found the big toy Cooper asked for this year that was a Black Friday deal but couldn't get online. Yay!! And then I proceeded to spend a whole lot more but most of it was Christmas.

When I got home I cleaned out the playroom which meant Casen fell in love with each thing I planned to get rid of.

And also cleaned out the hall closet! Don't worry this was before I had put everything back in.

And then I tried on lots of boots as I was getting ready for family Christmas pictures. I will share those in a few weeks, but man I am very happy with them.

Friday night Casen and Tinsley went to my mom's and Cooper went to Melisa's. So Kyle and I had a date night with Mexican food, Barnes and Noble, and Starbucks. Not a typical date night for us but it was fun

And Melisa sent me these funny things Cooper said.

Saturday we had Thanksgiving at Granny and Papa's. And this is the only picture I have.  Have I mentioned that Casen is obsessed with 'baby Tracen?' In fact when I told him Tinsley was going to spend the night with us earlier in the week he said 'And Baby Tracen?'

Saturday afternoon Kyle took Cooper on his first hunt of the season and they had to checkout the cows first.

Nothing got close enough to shoot but they did see a small buck and some doe so that is better than the cows Casen got to see. Or maybe not? Maybe cows were perfect for Casen.

Sunday Cooper went to church with me and he was so good. He threw a fit about going because he wanted to stay home with Casen and play. Because Kyle isn't Catholic there are some Sundays when I leave both boys at home with Kyle or just take one to church. Church by myself with them can be exhausting which really just means I need to work on teaching them how to behave in church. Unfortunately this has led to me doing what is easiest instead of what is best and Cooper would prefer to stay home in his pjs.

But this week I told Cooper it was just going to be me and him at mass. During the mass he was very attentive. He said the prayers and tried to sing some of the songs. Afterward he told me he loved church! I had tears in my eyes several times during mass and am thankful he enjoyed it.

Later I went grocery shopping and found this goodness. I couldn't resist and took some to work on Monday to share. Otherwise I would eat them all.

Sunday evening my mom came to stay with the boys so Kyle and I could go to the Mavericks game. When I asked Kyle to go he said 'I don't care about the Mavs, but I'll watch anything in a suite!'

They had nachos, tostadas, and chicken strips that weren't very good.  But when they brought these warm fresh pretzels we couldn't resist. We tried one regular and one cinnamon and sugar (picture taken at end of night and we really didn't want to leave them to waste but we did). OMG they were so dang good!!

Then the dessert cart came around and it was ridiculous. Bags of candy, 4 or 5 cakes, ice cream, cookies, brownies and more.

We tried these two and they were yummy but way too big!

We had a fun night and agreed we could become Maverick fans if we got to watch each game in a suite. And if they won like they did for us.

It was a fun holiday weekend and we weren't ready for it to be over. Especially because I didn't get a single Christmas decoration out!! Eek!