May Calendar

This picture cracks me up! Kori is 'backhanding' Kaden and Lillie's face is too funny. :)

In case you don't know, Jeni and I make a calendar for our parents (which has branched out to our in-laws, ourselves, and grandmas and grandpas...) every year. So yesterday I went over to Mom's (where Jeni is staying while her husband is at Basic.) and we did the pictures for the month of May. (I'll be making several trips in the next few weeks. We have to finish next years calendar before Jeni moves to who knows where.) Here are just a few of them.

Korinthia Dawn

Kaden Raymond

Malaki William

Lillie Lee

Climbing

As I was sitting at my parent's computer reviewing my latest calendar pictures, I glanced over to see my son starting up the steps. YIKES! We already had one fall this week, do we need another?

I grabbed my camera (which was right in front of me) and went to stand behind him.

He could see his cousin Kori headed up and wanted to follow.

He did so good!

I was way impressed!

He doesn't even pick his belly off the ground when he crawls yet, and here he is scooting up the stairs.

Are you watching Mom?

The only time he would stumble was when he would look back to make sure I was watching. Then he would tumble down a step or two (I helped him with a controlled fall, so no owies today.) and turn around and start right back up.

He got hung up on the corner though. The steps are too narrow next to the wall.

So proud of himself!

(Malaki and Lillie are sneaking in the picture so they can see themselves on the camera!)

Wanna Take a Bath?

Wanna take a bath?

This turtle is great for splashing!

Time for some serious splashing!

He is sitting so good now.

First I eat the turtle...

Then I use it to SMASH the crab!

Watch out ducky, you're next.

I'm sure he will hate that I posted pictures of his naked bum when he is 16!

Look at those beautiful baby blues!

He even likes to lay down in the water.

Oh, look! I have hands!

Love this crazy face!

Then, while I am snapping away, he grabs the side of the bath tub, and stands up! He had never done this before. He has only been pulling himself to a sitting position for a week maybe. Now he pulls himself up on the couches and chairs, and me. I had to lower the mattress in his crib yesterday because he was standing up in there and I wasn't taking any chances of him falling out of his crib too. My baby is going to be a toddler before I know it.

The Misadventures of Kaden Wells...

Kaden found a pen on the floor and colored on himself for the first time a couple of days ago. I wish I could say this would be the last time, but I'm sure it won't be.

It is a nice little line under his lip. As you probably guessed he was trying to eat it.

Have you ever heard a THUMP that made you sick to your stomach?

Yesterday Kaden was napping on my bed. This is a normal occurrence. It is his favorite place to take his morning nap. We go in and lay down together and talk and play until he is ready to fall asleep. Then after he is asleep I creep out of bed and surround him with pillows and blankets and things. My house is so small that while I am in the kitchen checking my email (yeah... my computer is in my kitchen...) I can easily hear him when he wakes up. He either shouts or starts talking. Yesterday he didn't do either. Instead he just decided he would use his new found abilities to crawl and come find me. This is when I heard a THUMP. I was out of my chair and half way to the bedroom before he could even start to scream. My heart was pounding and I was shaking so bad, my baby had just falling out of my bed. In normal circumstances this is bad enough, but my bed happens to be about 3 1/2, 4 feet off the ground. Not only did he crawl off the bed face first, but he landed on the step stool the my father in-law made for me to get into bed when I was pregnant. (That is how tall I am talking about, I couldn't crawl into bed with my belly without the step stool.) As best as I could tell he crawled off and landed on the edge of the stool with the bridge of his nose. He was just laying on his back next to it when I got there. Crying his eyes out with blood coming out of his nose. I held him and tried to talk reassuringly while I bit back my own tears. He cried and clung to me for awhile, but then he was fine. Other than the blood on his face and the nasty red line across his nose, which won't wash away like the blood, you would never know he had just had such a nasty spill.

His little nose is all swollen.

I talked to his pediatrician's nurse and they said that as long as he could still breathe through his nose and it stopped bleeding he didn't need to come see them. If in 4 or 5 days when the swelling has gone down his nose looks crooked or broken in anyway then they would fix it, but they couldn't do anything until the swelling goes down anyways.

I don't think it is broken, but it is hard to tell. There is a lump on the right side, but it is pretty swollen, I am hoping that is all.

He loves to chew on my watch.

What a great baby! Still smiling even with that nasty fall.

Still able to play and have a good time.

I think this was more traumatic for me than for him.

I will be sure to move my monitor back and forth to wherever he is sleeping now. He is back on my bed today, but the monitor is right next to him, and every time his breathing changes I am getting up to check on him.