The Random Adventures of Kaden Wells

This post is all about the fun quirky little things that make Kaden the lovable little boy that he is.

What?  You don't store all of your shoes on your coffee table?

I think that this comes from watching me clean the floors...  Our shoes are usually kept under a bench in the living room, but when I sweep and mop my floors I toss them on top of the bench seat because sweeping around shoes isn't very much fun.  :)

After he very carefully placed all of the shoes on top of the coffee table he proceeded to get out the vacuum and clean my rug...

Yeah right!!!  Okay so that was wishful thinking.  Instead he hopped up on the table and tossed them all onto the floor, which is where they came from.  Only now they are in the middle of my living room instead of tucked under the bench.  

After that... he did it again... and again!

Kaden is always trying to steal Daddy's coffee, so one day he grabbed a mug that I was working on (I had some scrapbook mugs for Jeremy of the kids for Father's Day.) and when he found it empty he knew just how to fix it.  His milk cup fit just right!

What a creative mind he has already!

Hey Mom (my mom, not Kaden talking to me), does this ring any bells?  :)

My mom has a picture of me playing in a diaper box (I think it was even a Huggies one?), although my box was much bigger than this one.  So when I saw him sitting in this one I just had to have a picture.  Now I may have to find and scan the one of me.

My Dad asked me the other day why we even bother buying toys for our kids.  I told him it was for the box they came in.  :)  Kaden and all 3 of Jeni's kids were playing in large packing boxes at the time and as you can see, Kaden spends lots of time in boxes.

He is helping me unpack boxes of random stuff that seem to have escaped the initial unpacking phase.  He unpacks from the inside out though.  Either that or he is a candle...

Oh how I love the hot days and sunshine of summer!  My water dog son agrees!  Jeremy found this on clearance at the end of the summer last year.  You hook it up to a hose and it is a little fountain play mat.

He was almost too fascinated by it to enjoy it!

I just like this picture!  :) 

 It would probably be a little bit better if he wasn't wearing all green and blending in though.  

Gather Round the Fire

And now back to our regularly scheduled Milton Freewater Chronicles.

Here is a better idea of what Max's beautiful fire pit looks like.  Since we were there last he has created a gate of some sorts for it to keep crazed maniacs, aka Kaden, from falling in.  Kaden had grown ups hopping anytime we were out around the pit.  I don't think he would have gotten into the pit with the fire because I took him really close once and showed him how hot it was (He didn't like it and wanted to get away.), but as much as he runs and falls...  He attempted to give a few people a heart attack at times when he would veer too close.

Since Kaden is such a go getter he is always entertaining, but the family was excited to have another little baby around who they could just hold and cuddle with.  Kindi didn't seem to mind all the snuggles, although she did like to spend some time sitting in her bouncy chair by herself too.

So the fire pit is in front of us and behind us is the multi purpose BBQ and stuff area!  That is my technical name for it although I imagine Max has a more sophisticated name.  He has a regular propane BBQ, a Lousiana Grill/Smoker, an old fashioned Wood Cook Stove, refrigerator and tables and chairs.  I think he plans to put a sink in also.  He even made us breakfast out there a couple of times!

Big boy Kaden always so proud of himself for climbing up on something new!

The following two clips are Kaden's adventures with drinking like a big boy.  There were always lots of water bottles around and he was the master of snagging them and begging for someone to open them so he could pour them down his front.... oh, I mean, drink them!  Here Aunt Alyssa is refilling his bottle with a shot of water at a time.  He tosses it back like a pro, although I don't know if he actually consumed any.

Swimming?

Just in case you didn't know...  Kaden is possibly the world's biggest water dog!  He not only splashes in mud puddles, but he find buckets that have collected rain water and dumps them in his own face.  He turns on the shower and stands under the spray sputtering.  He plays under the water faucet at the park.  He crawls into a cooler full of ice just for a chance to splash (Jeni, is there anyway I can get that picture?).  He also plays in animal watering troughs...

Across the yard from Max's beautiful fire pit is a water trough that Maggie uses.  Now it doubles as a swimming pool.  Unfortunately I was feeding Kindi when he spotted it, but I'm told that when he realized what it was he just ran and dove in.

So here are a series of pictures from my goofy sons adventures in the watering trough!

Splashing!

This face cracks me up!

Grandma helped him out so that he could get a piece of wood...

...and take it swimming too!

Where'd it go?

Silly boy!  His facial expression is so funny, but it barely looks like him.

Slip n Slide

We gave Malaki a Slip 'n' Slide for his birthday this year, June 13th.  He didn't think it was warm enough to play with it yet, but the other kids did.

Lillie                                             Kaden

The left side of it sprinkles the slider, or in this case, the runners!

Morgan was the first one brave enough to actually slide on it.  There is a big puddle, of really cold water, to splash down into at the end.

I used to love slip n slides.  Now I think... How in the world did I used to do that?  OUCH!  I have joined the 'runner' crowd!

Kaden is such a water dog.

It came with a 'surfer' to slide down on... Maybe I will try that one someday, but probably not!  Morgan tried to get Kaden to do it, he wasn't interested in it at all.  (This was the same day as the 4 wheeler when he was sick.)  Kori thought she wanted to do it although she really wasn't too thrilled once they got going.

Then Morgan talked Zach (her boyfriend) into letting her pull him on it.  After that he showed off his surfer skills.

It also doubles as a drinking fountain!  Silly Kori girl.

Soaked and loving every minute of it!

Lillie makes a flying leap over the splash down pool.