Farty Like a Rock Star!

Hey there everybody, I (Chris) was clearing hard drive space and I found this gem from the Wilson Family Summer Vacation in 2006, which was our last summer before Cadence came and improved our lives.  I know that this goes against the spirit of the blog... this is not a post about little Shae Shae, but if you don't bust a gut watching this there is something seriously wrong with you.

Ice Cream

After the baseball game (see post below) we were driving back and passed thru Davidson. Once a year the Ben & Jerry's in Davidson has a free ice cream cone day for the community. So, we stopped to get some ice cream. Cadence thought it was the greatest thing ever and ended up with both Mommy and Daddy's cone (at least for the picture). She really only ate Mommy's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. 

The baseball game

A couple of weeks ago Cadence and I went with Chris' class to a Charlotte Knights Baseball Game. The weather started out really cool but ended up being perfect with the sun keeping you warm but a cool breeze all day long. 

Here are the Charlotte Knights playing the Norfolk Tide. Cadence wanted to be held by her Daddy the entire day. She was pretty scared of the mascots that kept running around and there were just lots noise kids running around so it was pretty overwhelming for her. Fantaiga was so excited that Cadence was there and even let her play with her cell phone AND shared her popcorn with her. Thankfully Cadence really likes Fantaiga so it makes it nice that she will go to her and play with her. 

Allison ready to watch the big game!

Cadence not really having fun :

Ms. Mitchko really paying attention to the game. She is a volunteer that comes in every day to Chris' class to help with the kids just because she loves the kids. She is really amazing. 

They took Tyler out of his wheelchair and put him in a seat in the middle of the other kids. He had so much fun being with all of them. 
Mr. Brown carrying Tyler when it was lunch time. 
Trask got to take one of his 4 wheeler magazines with him to help occupy him throughout the day. This is what he does with a magazine when he really loves it. He literally shreds it into little pieces. 
The magazine under Trask's seat. We would pick up pages of it for him to look at. But what was really interesting is that he would want a certain 4 wheeler picture and we would have to look thru the pages and try to find what he was wanting to see. Then he would tear it up. 
All that was left was the spine of the magazine. 

The mascot that scared Cadence so much. The lion had to do with some school's DARE program but the 2 dragons went with the Knights. 

The most scared I've ever been in my life

I don't have any pictures of this but I thought I would share regardless. Just a few minutes ago, I was sitting outside checking email. Cadence and Mitchell Larabbee (he's hanging out with us today) were inside watching Napolean Dynamite and had been playing outside and so the back door was open. All of a sudden, two birds flew into our house. I nearly peed my pants (this is not a joke)!!! They were just sitting on top of our refrigerator. Then one of them flew and got stuck in the blinds in the living room. I was about to die with 2 children in my house so I went to my bedroom and shut the door and called Chris. I told him he had to come home righ tnow because there were birds in our house. Then i went back into the living room and the one that was in the blinds was gone. So, I got Mitchell to go into the kitchen to see if there were still birds and he was like "yup there's one sitting on top of the refrigerator" So then it took off flying and went into Cadence's room. So we shut the door and waited until Chris got home.

So, Chris got here like 2 minutes later (but it seemed like 3 days) and we told him that the bird was in Shae's room. Chris said I had to hold up a blanket in front of Shae's door to try and make the bird go out the front door. Well thankfully, when he opened Shae's door the bird was stuck in her blinds so he just shut her door, took out the other screen from the other window and then pulled up the blinds so the bird would fly out the other window.

And now we are bird-free again and I will keep doors closed from now on.

Fun with Friends

This past Sunday night, we got a call from our good friends Matt and Jenn saying that she was in labor. We had planned for Mary, their daughter, and Ella, Keith and Mandy's daughter, to come over while Jenn was in labor. We just didn't plan for it to be midnight on Sunday night. But either way, the girls came over Sunday night very late and just went to sleep. Well, when Cadence woke up to see Ella and mary in her room on Monday morning you would have thought it was Christmas. She was speechless and SO excited. She just kept saying "oh, oh, oh," over and over again. It was so cute. So here are some pics of the fun the girls had on that day before going to the hospital to see new baby Emily.

Eating pancakes

making a mess :)

I wanted to get the yard mowed on Monday so I left the girls playing in the back yard and would see them as I circled around. That is also when these pictures of them running up and down our hill were taken.

Later on jumping off of the front step.

Having a snack.

Cadence spotting Ella and Mary coloring with chalk and needing to join them.

Cadence telling Mary just how to push her in the car. and Mary and Ella doing it. :)

We are so grateful for good friends, and new babies, and whole Spring days of fun outside.

Bowling with Daddy's Class

Last Week we went Bowling with Chris' class. They were practicing (along with the other EC kids) for the Special Olympics Bowling Championship coming up - this is not a joke - and so Shae and I decided to go join them for the day. Here we are going in and Shae not being so sure of why Daddy wasn't paying attention to her (but she was dressed really cute) :)
Getting more sure and finding a friend in Fantaiga

Fantaiga could have her own blog. She is so much fun every time we're with Chris' class and loves Cadence so much. She likes to push her in the stroller when we're with them and likes to look at pictures of her throughout the day when Chris is at school. She is always asking him "Mr. Andersen, whacha think your little girl is doing right now? " and Chris will answer "she's probably getting a spanking or eating breakfast or something like that. "

Here is Fantaiga when she got a strike.

Here she is carrying her ball up on her turn. Getting a gutter ball (which she blamed on Mr. Brown)
Not caring so much about missing at the beginning of the day.
This is Trask. He loves 4-wheelers. Chris is trying to show him why he's got to get away from his 4-wheeler magazine and roll a ball instead.

Here he is with his magazine.
Christine (I don't think she even knew where we were), Mr. Brown and Mrs. Caldwell. Tyler - wishing he could just watch his Sesame Street podcast.
Nikki waiting her turn (she's a girl)

Nikki getting her turn with a little help from Mrs. Caldwell.

Brad's turn (again has now idea of where he is he slept the whole time)
And Allison by far the happiest and most excited one of the bunch.

We have such a great time with his class and love that there are days when we get to be with Daddy even tho he's at work. This coming week we're going to a minor league baseball game so that will be interesting. Stay tuned..................

Cadence's new room

For those of you that follow the ever changing Andersen life story, we had moved lessons out of our house so that Cadence could have a play room and we could kind of claim our house again as a place to live. So, lessons moved to Studio 18 (a place that one of our friends runs that does music and art lessons). We've been there 2 months and have enjoyed having a more relaxed lifestyle at home. However, we have been reevaluating things and have realize that while we have gotten our home back, we have lost the relationship building part of lessons because it's become very business-like with parents just dropping kids off for lessons and not hanging out to talk like they did when lessons were in our home. So, because we are "relational" and want to be able to ultimately share Christ with these people, we have decided to move lessons back to our house and have just given Cadence the old office/playroom as her bedroom because it is bigger and holds her toys and her bed. So, this past weekend we painted and moved furniture and here is her new room.