Caden — August

Caden has a favorite number.  It is 1055 — “one thousand fifty five.”  Why?  He doesn’t know, he just likes it and uses it all the time!  We’ve been talking about rating scales, but Caden is missing something with his consistency of scoring.  One day the scale will be out of 100, the next day out of 500, the next day may be out of 1055.  So it’s hard to say if a 99 is good or not!

Caden has always had a special spot for Jess.  This was made abundantly clear one afternoon, with emphasis as spoken:

Caden: “Daddy, I love you 1055.  And I love Jess 1056.  Which is MORE.”

The kids completed Caden’s save file on Yoshi’s Wooly World this month too.  Kamy’s account was completed first, but Caden had collected more Yoshi characters on the way, so he had some bragging rights too.  Mellow mode is a great option for the kids because it allows them to do some of the harder levels together and not worry about dying.  Both kids are pretty good at the Wii platformer games now though, so I am not always a net-benefit when playing.

Caden finished the summer program for gymnastics this month.  He’s registered to continue in the Boys class that starts at the end of the month.  There is only one coach who handles the boys classes, so it will be pretty identical to the summer program.  Caden still loves the physical outlet and getting to run around and do cool stuff!  His favorites are trampoline and P bars (parallel bars).

For school, Caden is working through his math curriculum — focused primarily on addition and introducing reading clocks.  We’re also working on identifying and counting coins.  Caden is really enjoying the unit on Africa right now and loved listening to the Anansi the Spider folktales.  Caden also likes to pick “school books” to read before bedtime — books that build on what we’re currently studying or go more in depth about how something was done (ie — building the pyramids for the pharaoh mummies).