Caden spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa Miles last night.  I asked him what time he went to bed, and he said "10:30 because we were watching Trump and Joe fight about that thing."

 hahahah

(Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden 2020 presidential debate)

 While playing at the playground tonight, Caden and Colt were having a competition to see who could hang from one arm the longest.  Caden (7) beat Colt (12) easily.  Colt informed Caden it was because Caden was only like 30 pounds (exaggeration).  Caden retorted, "If I had THESE ARMS and YOUR BODY I could still beat you." 

That just cracked me up.  Now it's an ongoing joke. . .If I had THESE _______ and YOUR ______ then I could __________. 

 Caden was getting out of the shower and asked me to bring him some clean clothes.  He said, "Don't forget the. . . the. . . the. . . mayonnaise!"  

I wasn't really sure what he meant by that, but he saw that I had his pajamas and underwear in my hand.  He said, "Oh, you got them"  (the mayonnaise was his underwear).

I chuckled, and corrected him.  Then I asked if he knew what mayonnaise really was.  He replied, "Um, some kind of fish maybe?" 

The life of the third culture bilingual kid. 

Caden has really been enjoying writing poems here in first grade. . . We do poem memorization at home in English, and apparently his teacher at school also encourages them to write poems and she records them.  He brought home this huge stack recently.  His teacher also helped him get one of his poems published in a book.  Pretty neat memories!

Someone asked Caden how he got the scar above his eyebrow and he simply replied, "I fell." The friend said, "Oh, come on. You have to have a better story than that!" So Caden thought for a moment and said, "It was a dark and stormy night in Gotham City. . ."

Today was Caden's last day at Rainbow Learning Nest Preschool. He has just been there 2 short months for half days while his former preschool worked out some registration issues with the government causing them to be temporarily closed. Caden took quite a while to get adjusted to the new school and new friends, but the past 2 weeks he has seemed much happier. Go figure. . . it's time to leave. When he was leaving today, his friend Amy said, "See you on Monday Caden!" Caden replied, "See you never!" Um, that's kind of rude Son. . . Where did he get that?

While eating at a restaurant today, Caden's behavior was far from acceptable. I told him he was "in the negatives." He narrowed his eyes and thought for a minute before replying, "What's a Tenagive?" I just laughed. Later, he was playing too rough and I reminded him to calm down. He said, "I know I'm a negative." Again, I burst out laughing.