I got this from Connie! It is WAY cute! If you are a mom you will love it. Go Fish is really a neat group. :)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
A Day in the Park
Jeremy and I have put Kaden in the stroller and walked down to the park (5 or 6 blocks) a couple of times on nice sunny weekends. He has a blast and gets braver each time.
Walking up the steps like a big boy.
Come on Mom! This way!
He is in awe!
Not sure exactly what he is doing. Maybe cheesing his Daddy, maybe just enjoying the breeze on his face.
Mommy almost didn't fit! Now he slides down all by himself.
Wow! This is so fun!
He really didn't get real into the swings. He would much rather play on the slides.
So big walking up the slide!
Then he would slide down and look for his Daddy to start over again.
Notice how he is reaching for Daddy. He still wasn't too sure about doing this by himself. But with Daddy there he can do anything!
A couple of ladies were walking their dogs around the park. Kaden got excited and went to visit.
It has been a lot of fun around our new home. There are a lot of dog walkers and Kaden loves to visit them all. He doesn't even mind when they lick his face. He kind of stumbles back and giggles, but if they try to walk away he wants to follow. :)
Here are a couple of videos of Kaden trying to walk up the slides. Turn on your sound so you can hear him working!
Sorry the first one is sideways... I don't have a program on my new computer that will rotate them yet.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
More Bits of Randomness from Our Lives
Kaden loves to eat! His cheeks are full of bagel and more waiting to get in, he's a happy boy!
Our silly little boy LOVES to play in tiny spaces. His favorite in our rental was behind the end table. He could turn the fan on, and even got strong enough to tip the table over. Luckily we were near by to catch it when he did that. Then the table got moved right up against the wall!
He probably has a dead leaf from my plant shoved in his mouth in this picture.
This picture doesn't do his disaster any justice, but you may be able to tell that he is holding ribbon and that it is running out of the left side of the picture. Well that ribbon is from my Christmas packaging stuff... down the hall, through the bedroom and in the closet.
During our Christmas trip to Milton-Freewater we took Kaden out to visit his cousins and their funny farm. He got to visit Emma's bunny.
Jacy's goat.
This goat was a little bit too friendly to Jeremy...
He even got to meet their new pot bellied pig. And steal his food.
(Well he wanted to steal his food, so the girls just gave him a few pieces of stale popcorn all his own. We may not be rich but our son doesn't have to eat out of the pig slops yet!)
Kaden loves to play IN his toy box, which means most of the toys get tossed on the floor.
Jumping in the toy box is always fun too.
Gotta love that grin!
He pushed that upside down pot (that we let him play with) into the corner, crawled up on it (while I had my back turned doing dishes) and started turning the light off and on.
Kaden reading a book after crawling up into the rocking chair all by himself.
(This totally reminded me of Jen Rouse's pictures of her girls.)
Kaden's Papa Wells built me a beautiful cabinet for my kitchen. It matches my other cabinets and you would never know that he had never built a cabinet before! It is huge and will hold all of our random kitchen appliances... or if we choose it will hold our son! He sure got a kick out of playing in it. Now it has shelves though so he is out of luck.
Well that is it for my blog of randomness today. Maybe I will do better at keeping up to date... or maybe not. :)
Hay!
Jeremy is going to be experimenting with a hay garden this year. His parents did it last year and it worked great... of course their garden is always spectacular! It makes for kind of an ugly mess in our yard for now, but if it grows well it will be worth it! Basically you spread the rotten hay out and plant in it. So Jeremy enlisted Kaden's 'help' for moving the hay bales!
Alright Dad, this one first!
They were so cute to watch together!
Kaden would stand behind the bale and push with all his might.
Grunting and groaning like you wouldn't believe!
He was cracking us both up! Jeremy could hardly stand it he was so stinking cute!
He'd get it rolled over and start all over again, but each time he rolled it over he would stop for a moment...
...and congratulate himself on a job well done!
Kaden loves to do something good and then clap for himself!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Our New Backyard
We are so excited to have a fully fenced backyard! One of the gates needs a little bit of work and it could stand some reinforcement, but it is there and it is tall, and I am so excited to be able to let my children play outside without worry of them playing in the street!
Kaden stands at the threshold wondering if it is true? Does he REALLY get to play outside?
He loves to be outside he starts 'pleasing' and pointing outside from the moment he wakes up. He is always bringing me socks (anybodies socks will work) and both my shoes and his, hoping to convince me to take him outside to play or for a walk around the neighborhood. Our neighbors across the street love to watch us walk. They get a kick out of Kaden trying to make a break for it or walking backwards trying to get me to chase him. He also has discovered a love for mud puddles, I'm sure that is a shock to all of you mothers out there!
Look Mom! We're outside!
I often sit on the step right outside the door to watch Kaden play. So he has decided that is what big people do. Only when he sits there he has a tendency to bounce up and down... hard! My backside wouldn't appreciate that at all!
He has picked up several new bruises and scraps on his face with the nice weather we were enjoying. He thinks that he is big enough to walk down the stairs like I do. He knows how to safely maneuver the stairs backwards, but decided it is much cooler to go forward while standing instead of crawling. Unfortunately he is only successful about 1 in 20 times. The rest of the time he tumbles down, usually rolling without incident, but occasionally he takes a pretty nasty spill. If I am close enough he will reach to hold my hand while he walks down.
We have very little grass in our yard. I hope to change that some day soon, but the previous owners obviously didn't like to mow. There are a couple of different kinds of rocks and bark chips like you would find at a playground.
Luckily Kaden is getting pretty good at navigating the rocks although he still falls all the time.
Kaden explores our pile of flower pots.
Guess he didn't want that one... notice it is airborne.
Just playing mom.
He loves to stack things like cups or apparently flowerpots.
Notice the irritated look on his face?
He made it this close to me and stopped in the position saying 'please, please, please'. When I went to investigate he had a stick from the cedar tree up his left pant leg. I started to pull it out and realized it was WAY up his pant leg. I brought him into the house and carefully pulled off his pants since the branch was fairly prickly and discovered that it went ALL the way up his pant leg and was folded over and stuck to his diaper in the crotch. How in the world did he manage that?
We love to get out and enjoy the sunshine! He will run and run and run (which includes falling and getting up and falling and getting up) until he can hardly stand up anymore.
I was moving some of my big flower pots with the hand truck the other day. Kaden watched with interest and when I was done he looked up at me and asked 'please'. I told him sure he could play with it. So he steps on the front grabs the bars and looks up at me with another 'please'. He wanted to go for a ride! So I pushed him around for a little bit and boy was that cool!
Such a Big Boy
Mom I noticed the floors were a little dirty, let me help you out.
He is working so hard.
I did it!
Now for the real story! My new house has mostly laminate floors which look very nice, but always feel dirty. (We put carpet over it in Kaden's room which probably will make some people gasp!) I desperately need to get a rug, and plan on checking out IKEA to see what they have, but so far haven't found the time to get up there (any great rug shops you have to recommend? Great=Inexpensive). My kitchen/dining area is linoleum, ugly linoleum at that. So I spend a lot of time sweeping, or trying to sweep! Whenever I get the broom out Kaden is there to grab it and 'help' me out. He works hard at it, bless his heart, but really is no help at all! In fact his favorite place to sweep is the pile of dust I managed to collect before he swiped the broom from me. If I don't share the broom then he just sits in my pile of dust and plays in it. So now I sweep everything under a chair or a table a little bit at a time, then all I have to do is move the table or chair and sweep it into the dustpan. :)
The instant the refrigerator is opened Kaden comes running. The boy has hawk ears! He pulls open the second drawer from the bottom, reaches in...
and starts popping grapes!
Good thing grapes are good for him! At least this keeps him from pulling everything off of the shelves as fast as he can.
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