A week with two

I've had a very entertaining week! With Cade out of preschool for the summer, he & Callie have been my buddies this week while Hudson finishes his school. Those two...whew! They're a hoot together! They have a "love-aggravate" relationship! ha! They'll play together really well for a while, then they can't get into each other's business enough! All in all it's been fun :) Here are a few highlights...

SPIRIT is back! Cade, of course, will watch the entire movie. Callie sat like this for almost a whole hour! I was impressed! She was glued to SPIRIT, too :)

 As Howie & I were getting Callie ready for bed one night, she belched really loudly, laughed, and said, "scuse me!" Oh well... at least she's learning some manners.
A little fun together, even at the mall!

Callie got her first taste of riding a bike this week. Her brothers ride their bikes pretty often, so, of course, she wants to ride a bike, too. So we pulled down Cade's old "Thomas" bike out of the attic. Fits her pretty well! Now we just have to gain the concept of pedaling :)

 Speaking of riding bikes, Cade gave riding without training wheels a try this week. These pictures are from his first attempts. (Daddy, of course, is there for guidance & support, and getting a little exercise in the process! lol!) The bike looks pretty sideways here, but by day 2, he was riding the length of our road with no help from Daddy! He's got to learn to take off on his own before he's fully independent without training wheels, but he's getting there. Go, Cade!

Cade & I have been reading a lot this week. He loves all kinds of books, but especially books about animals. We had read a dolphin book one day and talked about how dolphins have a blowhole. They need to come up to the surface to breathe because they are mammals. Another day we were reading about other fish and how they have gills that let them breathe underwater. Cade said, "Yeah, fish don't need to come to the circus (read: surface) to breathe like dolphins do." Yes, smart boy, you are most certainly correct :)

Cade also informed me this week that he needed to start helping me out by babysitting Callie. HA!