All grown up

I laughed when I saw this picture! I think Ty took it of our boys but today was my first time seeing it. They are so grown up looking. Paycen finally has a cute smile with all his teeth and Kaden is doing his upside down spiderman sprayer. I love this age. They are best buds.

The last 2 months Kaden has been begging me to be Dora for Halloween. He thinks Diego is boring and doesn't even want to be Boots or Baby Jaguar, just Dora. I've been tempted to just let him be Dora and we would just laugh about it in years to come, but deep down this is my little boy. My very boyish little boy.

So at Walmart I was looking for a cat woman mask for myself when Kaden again asked me to buy him a Dora costume. I was trying the "distraction" method and showed him Batman and was like "Batman is so much cooler!"

Nope.

With a frown Kaden said, "Mom, I know you don't like Dora but I do. Please can I be Dora?"

What am I supposed to say? Until Kaden's eyes got big and he pulled a costume off the rack. With big eyes and an even bigger grin he said, "Mom! Can I be IRON MAN!!"

I immediatly put it in the cart and walked away. No more discussion, no more arguing, and no more Dora. Kaden is going to be Iron Man! And to make the story better, today is day 3 of wearing his costume. He has worn it to the park, to the grocery store and he wants to wear it at gymnastics. Love it!! Thank you Iron Man for being so cool!