Kid-isms

Hey there.
The year is off to a good start. My oldest son Drew got a soccer/goal/net/thing that I had to put together. I did it INSPITE of the instructions.
It came time to take it out and bend it like what's his name. A good time was had by all. I had to make up about 23 different 3-man games to keep their attention. During the "game" Caden, the 5 yr old had some great Caden-isms. Two of the three soccer balls got kicked over the net way out in the field. (dad probably had something to do with that) - off the boys took off to retrieve. Half way there Drew must have hit a gopher hole or something because he completely wiped out onto the ground. Which prompted Caden to turn and say (while still running) "Watch out for that grasshopper!"
20 minutes later the ball was kicked, again, way out in the field, (maybe we need to have a ball control course or something) Drew took off to get it which prompted a yell from Caden, this time sitting on the porch - "Watch out for the grasshopper!"

Once finished with the external kicking of the ball we came inside. Such a beautiful day we decided to open the windows and let the (uh?) January air flow through. Unbeknownst to me, one of the screens on our window was off. Well, it was actually knownst, I just didn't want to put it up at that time. In flies 1 of 3 bees.

I was outside and my wife sticks her head out the window saying "there's a bee in the house"
I walked ('cause why run just to get stung?) around to the front where little Caden was waiting for me. "Dad, there's a bee on the loose!" - As if we have trained hives of them and one of the native bees ecaped or something.

Moving on to Sunday. Drew had finally decided to get baptized. We called in the fam and had 4 times the crowd we normally do. (Small church)

The deal with country churches is that you have old country heaters heating the old country....baptistery?....baptistry?..... - We were depending on the old-240-volt-acme-water-heater-deluxe-heat-o-matic!
Sunday night arrived. Mommy and little Drew went to change and we sang some songs. The reason that we knew the water was cold was that the preacher yelled "OH IT DIDN'T WORK!" as soon as he entered the water! We heard it over everyone's singing! Ah, but Drew was a trooper. He did have to comment as soon as he got out. "That was soo cold!" Then, a few minutes later he said "It was cold though" "I mean cool" "Not cool like it was cold, but cool like it was awesome!"

We are very proud of him and are relieved that electrocution was avoided.

Let's have a good year, and, for goodness' sake - watch out for that grasshopper!!