10 posts tagged “cade”
Even though I babysit the Tibbles every Friday, I rarely get to see my nephew Cade. He's at school by the time I get there and I leave before he gets home. I spend the time in between talking about bats with Nolan and listening to Liam tell me everything I say is boring and that he likes Katie Lou much better (this, of course, cracks me up and I argue with him incessantly about it).
Yesterday Cade and I passed briefly in the living room.
He stood in front of me wrapped in his snow gear, backpack still affixed to his back. "Did you want really want an electric pencil sharpener for Christmas?" He asked, looking up at me from under the Superman hat.
"Yes."
"Good!" He pointed at the Christmas tree. "That's what we got you."
Sweet!
Look at these kids, look how happy they are to have Brownies. Brownies make kids happy.
I was cleaning off Zippy the WonderCam tonight and came across these awesome pictures of The Pope's Tibbles. It is clear from these pictures that my entire family is all about the rock and the roll.
This afternoon I got a chance to hang out with my three favorite Tibbles. I entertained them with a bag of Starburst Jellybeans, my camera, and my ability to answer every "Why?" they asked. The Tibbles are easily my favorite photographic subject, especially because without any prompting you get something like this:
Today my favorite redheaded boy of all time turns five! He's one whole hand old now.
Show us a great Halloween costume.
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A few weeks ago, I stopped by Sister #3's house to hang out and commune with the Tibbles (which is a nickname Sister #2 gave to the 3 fabulous Becker boys). If you don't get a good dose of little boy goodness, you start to get a bit wonky.
Because I am always striving to be the best aunt on the planet, I went to the lair of the Tibble armed with a brand new pack of bubble gum. Cade and Nolie are obsessed with gum and the first thing they say the minute they see me or Sister #2 is "Do you got any gum?"
So when I was asked the inevitable question I nodded yes and pointed to the sweatshirt I had just taken off. They immediately ransacked the pockets and unearthed a fresh pack of Cotton-Candy-Flavored Bubblicious.
"Ohhhhh, gum," Nolie pulled the pack from my pocket.
"What kind of gum Nolie?" Cade asked.
"It's Cotton Candy," I said.
"GUM!" Nolie shouted shoving the pack towards me.
"Yes, Cotton Candy gum," I said.
"Is it pink?" cade asked.
"I don't know."
"Smell the gum," Nolie said putting the pack to his nose and inhaling dramatically.
"Let me smell," Cade said, and Nolie shoved the gum to his brother's nose. "We love gum."
We then proceeded to smell the gum, examine the packaging of the gum, and discuss the cotton-candyness of the gum like it was $100 bottle of fine red wine. Only after we exhausted all avenues of discussion did we open the gum and chew it.
At that point they took turns popping the bubbles I would blow. It was great fun.
