Kissed. Then Tackled.

So I'll get to the headline in a minute -- but let me tell you about a glorious dinner out that Jason and I were finally able to accomplish. Went to Santa Fe Cattle Co Friday night around "busy time" and was pleasantly surprised that they were dead and we could just walk right in. Our waitress came up to get our drink order and Jason and I tried our new "eating out tactic" -- order everything all at once, STAT! So literally we ordered our drinks, our meals, KK's meals and the check right off the bat. Food got to us shortly there after and we fixed up Kadence's plate and began shoveling ours as fast as we could. She didn't seem to want to eat though and I thought for sure we were doomed. She kept trying to grab Jason's knife/fork, so I gave her my fork and stabbed a piece of chicken with it and placed it back in her hand. She gladly put the little bite in her mouth and handed me back the fork! EUREKA! You'd think I won the lottery! She ate her entire meal this way and thankfully we were able to slow the pace on our own chewing to actually be able to taste the food for once :)

Now for the headline. The last two weeks we've had to sit in the 'calming room' at church since we didn't want to take Kadence to the nursery, but we didn't want to miss church either. Last week we were in there by ourselves until someone came to do a diaper change at the very end. Well this week was a much different story. Worship finished and the door to the room opened and in walked another couple with their 18 month old son (who apparently has an older brother) At first he was absolutely SMITTEN with Kadence and even planted a big wet kiss on her several times. She just couldn't seem to get away from him. He had her backed into a corner so there was no where for her to go HAHA Eventually he laid off and all was quiet. 15 minutes into the sermon, Kadence took something out of the little boy's hands and he straight slapped her across the face. The mom was so embarrassed and apologized a million times. Kadence took it like a champ but was a little stunned by the moment. Another 15 minutes or so goes by and now we're joined by another mom with a 15 month old boy that isn't walking/crawling yet, so it's just still Kadence and the 18 month old running around. Well out of nowhere, Kadence starts running from the little boy and he comes up behind her, bear hugs her and tackles her to the ground. The mom and I run over and break the two up -- as the little boy grabs a chunk of KK's hair to boot. Again she is apologizing and so embarrassed. Apparently he doesn't play with little girls very often and it's what him and his brother do. Kadence is still good to go and seems unfazed. I'm half expecting her to be the next to reciprocate some roughness on him. But nope -- less than 2 minutes later, the same scenario happens but much more hardcore...haha...the dad gets involved in this one and literally picks his son up by the back of the shirt and carts him out of the room. The mom couldn't apologize enough and came over and stroked KK's hair and told her how beautiful she was. She did kind of whimper a little after that one. The experience was priceless and no one was hurt, so we found some humor in it :) Now I guess she knows how Dylan feels when bullies her during play dates.

Sickness update: Seems to be doing better. Cough is down to a minimium minimum and the snotty nose is almost gone. Wishing that the earache would vanish just as quick.

xo