Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Cadens 6th Birthday

Happy 6th Birthday Caden Bradley!  I can't believe my baby boy is 6 already.  Where have the years gone?  As usual Caden continues to amaze us.  He started off the year in a special day class.  A short time later his special day teacher and the regular kindergarten teacher unanimously agreed that Caden should be main streamed....completely!  I had my reservations but agreed to a slow transition to see how he would do.  He completely blew Don and I both away.  He has been in the regular class since the beginning of the school year and has continued to thrive and improve.  He is reading at a 1st grade level, doing addition and subtraction and making lots of new friends.  It still feels like yesterday that he was born 16 weeks early weighing 1 lb 13oz and given less than a 50% chance at surviving.  Some days I have to remind myself that he is the same kid. That this smart thriving child is the one who wasn't even supposed to be here with us.  He continues to amaze us daily.  His newest obsession is the piano.  He has always been musically inclined but he recently blew us all away by teaching himself to play the piano.  We're quite convinced this could be his calling in life.  Happy birthday to our wonderful talented little guy.  Thank you for changing our lives and changing them for the better.

For his birthday we had a Thomas the Tank Engine Party.  We played lots of games and have fun with family and friends.  Here's a glimpse of the birthday.

The Birthday Boy
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Some of the decorations.


 The kids painted their own trains.

 They also had to toss coal into the coal car.

 The kids also got to play smoke stack ring toss.

 Thomas was there with Annie and Claribel!!!




 James was there too!

 Cranky the crane.
 Harold the Helicopter


 And of course a choo choo cake.


 


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