thoughts from Caeden

Caeden loves to hold Tadhg and often asks to sit and hold him. Yesterday, they were on the couch and I was putting away laundry. As I was walking back I hear Caeden say to Tadhg, "no way, I wouldn't sell you, never, not even for a hundred dollars!" 

While driving this morning Caeden tells me, rather out of the blue since we hadn't been discussing football, horses or seen either recently, that "Mom, I think it would be really hard to play football while you were riding a horse. It'd be a little dangerous to tackle someone, you could get quite the injury (yes, that was his word), But if you were going to play football and ride a horse, you'd have to practice your balance, that would take alot of balance I think." 

brothers

I find it rather ironic these pictures were all taken of the boys in December.....

so that means, Caeden was just 6 months, Colm was 9 months and Tadhg was 4 1/2 months, 

Tadhg is for sure my big baby! 

Just for comparison:

Tadhg was 15 pounds a week ago at just 5 months. And 26 inches long

Caeden was hit that same size and weight between 6 and 9 months

Colm was 12 1/2 pounds & 25" at 5 months

and Alannah..... well she hit 15 pounds, 3 ounces at 10 months!

And just for posterity sake so I can refer back here when I update baby books ;-)

in early January 2011:

Caeden - 39 pounds

Colm - 33 pounds

Alannah - 22 pounds

Tadhg - 15 pounds

and yes, I'm guessing Tadhg will catch Alannah in weight within the year ;-)

from the backseat

You can hear interesting things discussed when you have a 5 and 3 1/2 year old in the backseat...... here's a couple recent conversations.

Caeden: Mom, I know what I want for my birthday.
Me: what's that?
Caeden: a puppy, a real live puppy
Me: oh my, that would be fun, but I don't think we are going to get a puppy for awhile. We need a house with some land around it before we get any puppies.
Caeden: well, before we would get a puppy we'd have to get him some food, and that would cost money. And we'd have to have a place for him to sleep..... and play..... puppies are alot of work.
Me: that's right, (slightly relieved he seems to have talked him self out of a puppy.....!) but someday we can get one, it'll just be a bit down the road.
......... several minutes of silence then:
Caeden: mom, how much work is a worm?
Me: (seriously trying incredibly hard to laugh myself silly didn't reply)

Colm: Mom, when I get to heaven I'm going to find Gedaliah and see where he sleeps and I'm going to take my nap with him.
Me: okay, that would be nice
Caeden: No, you won't..... when we get to heaven we won't take naps.... we will get new bodies and we won't have to take naps anymore

Caeden: (after hearing the word Indian in some context) - Are there any bad indians around anymore?
Me: No, I think all the Indians around are nice ones (figured this was a safe answer just in case we were to see a real Indian at the store - I didn't want to have to be answering then in response to a loud "is that a bad indian?")
Caeden: yeah, I guess Davy Crockett killed the rest of the bad Indians.
Me: that's a good possibility............
Caeden: when did Davy Crockett die?
Me: a long time ago
Caeden: like before I was born or right after God finished making everybody? (gotta love the kid's sense of time!)
Me: Uh, I guess somewhere in between that
Caeden: well, were YOU alive?
Me: no, it was before I was born too, you know Great-Grandma..... it was even before SHE was born.
Caeden: (in awe of how long ago THAT was) well, I think we should call Grammie and ask her if she knows. And if she doesn't know then we'll call Great-Grandma and I know she'd remember
(We did, and of course, Grammie knew all sorts of nice details for the wondering mind, just for the record I did have it in the right century myself - and in case you didn't know, he was born while George Washington was president and died in 1836)

Don't you wish you could drive around with us?