HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Caiden is going to visit his Oma, Papa and Brothers for Thanksgiving.

He can't Wait!

(Shut off the music at the bottom of the blog.)

Here is a calm one....

Starting School

Caiden started preschool a couple of months ago and is loving every minute of it. He is attending at the Haak'u Learning Center. He is having a blast. He is the furthest along in his class academically but can you believe they told me I needed to 'cut the apron strings'? I guess I do tend to protect him a bit.... So with him attending an all native school (except for him and one other little boy) his teacher didn't want him to feel left out when they started talking Keresan and calling each other by their Indian names. He needed an Indian name too! His name at school is Ka'shesh. It means 'White Corn'. We got a kick out of it because he is the white corn in the Indian corn crop.... FUNNY!
He is pre-reading and we expect that he will be reading in the next couple of months. It is amazing to listen to my 3 year old sounding out words by himself. His progress is truly amazing and awe inspiring! He knows all of his letters with their basic sounds and we are working on vowels right now too. He is a genius in our eyes! He gets that from his daddy for sure.

Caiden is learning two other languages right now as well. Keresian which is the Pueblo Language and Portuguese which Scott is teaching him.

He speaks both Keresan and Portuguese better that I do. He sings songs, says prayers and is learning basic vocabulary in Keres while he is at school.

At the end of scriptures, a book (usually Berenstain Bears)and prayers in Portuguese, Caiden and Scott have a phrase that they always say. (I am going to butcher this next part.) Isso é tudo por hoje a noite. It means "That is all for tonight."

What a cutie-

Caiden is such a cute boy and is so very smart too. We sure love our little boy and feel blessed to have such a wonderful son.

-The Presidential 'Race' through Caiden's eyes-

This is a conversation that Caiden and I had on election day. I was quite impressed to know that they are already talking about national events.... even if the meaning to this one got lost in translation.

Mom- Who won the race to be President?
Caiden- Not John McCain. He lost- he ran out of gas.
Mom- So who won?
Caiden- Brock Ovama! He ran a good race.
Mom- What does that mean?
Caiden- He runs really fast, but he flies in a plane to Washington. Huh Mom.

Halloween

Halloween this year was fun, exciting and very busy for Caiden.

A week before Halloween we went to the 25th annual 'Zoo Boo' in Albuquerque. We got to play games, see the haunted habitats and have every one tell us how cute our family was.

Caiden was the cutest "breathing fire dragon" ever. On Halloween he woke up early to get into his costume as did Scott and I. Scott and Caiden rode the bus to school and checked in. It was then time to head off on the field-trip. I met them at the Casino where the workers had the ballroom set up as a spook-ally. It was awesome!

We then went to the hospital which was a kick for Scott because he got to show off his 'Dragon and Princess' to his coworkers. We then went back to the school for the classroom pizza party and junk food fest. We got so much candy from the field-trip and school. We would never be able to eat it all- at least not without acquiring diabetes and the 10 pounds that was lost.

I asked Caiden if it would be OK if we gave it away and he thought that was an awesome idea. I re-gifted it at the trunk-or-treat that we went to that night and then sent a huge container of it to Scott's work. I did let Caiden pick out a few things before I got rid of his loot. (I kept some chocolate for myself too.)

We spent Halloween night at a community carnival and they gave out candy too. We were going to go out trick-or-treating but it had been a huge day, and we were all very tired.

Thank you Scott for taking the day off of work to be with us. "You complete me... I mean us."