Smith Family: The Big 8

Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Big 8

On April 27th, our Caden turned 8 years old! He has been such a joy in our lives, always so happy-go-lucky and funloving. We are so blessed to have him in our family. Happy Birthday, bud!

Apparently, his big sisters were not too happy about joining in on the above photo... c'mon girls, it's a birthday party! Smile! :)

4 comments:

Leslie said...: Wow! What great times and memories. Sorry to not be able to comment on each of these fun posts...Happy birthday to Caden....I remember him being a newborn in his little carseat at our house for Memorial day...how time flies. Sierra and her friends looked like they had the time of their lives. Certainly something they'll all remember forever. I love that song by the way. I can't even imagine being dunked in 40 degree weather. FREEZING! Good thing you have little ones that are still excited and happy to explore and smile for photos because as you have discovered, they just aren't so thrilled about all the little things when they get older. I hear that they do repent and start to love you again after their missions/weddings. I'm looking forward to that :) Thanks for all the fun updates.; May 4, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Dan, Pam and Family said...: We hope Caden had an awesome birthday, and we wish we were there to celebrate it with him.
We had a blast with him last summer!
Funny Picture, Solei and Sierra don't look thrilled in that last one. But everyone else looks happy :-)
Loves,
Pam; May 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Debbie Hadley said...: 8 years old already!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADEN!; May 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Me, Myself and I said...: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADEN!!! You are SO stinkin HANDSOME!! Can't believe you are ready to be BAPTIZED!! How EXCITING!! WE LOVE YOU!!!; May 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM

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The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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The Big 8

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