Stack 'em Up!

I know every parent thinks their child is way smarter than everyone else's, and I am no exception :) Yesterday I was sitting on the floor with Cade and started stacking his little wooden blocks, one on top of another. He would knock my tower over and I would build it up again, everytime he watched intently. I kept stacking and when I looked over at Cade, he was stacking blocks!! He was adding the third block to his own tower and I was shocked. The little guy can't pick up a cheerio, but he can stack very small blocks? Amazing. We have 2 year olds at work who can barely do that...so it has to be said. My child is a genius.

Tooth Number Two

The second tooth on the bottom is starting to poke it's way through :) Such a sweet little smile! Can't believe his first birthday its less than a week away....

Here Comes Peter Cottontail!

Cade's first Easter! The Easter bunny came to visit and brought lots of goodies. Happy Easter!!

Kitty, Kitty!

There is a black cat who comes to visit us ever afternoon. He/she comes up on the porch and right up to the screen door at around the same time each day. Cade loves this cat. The first time the cat came, chris and I were sitting on the couch and Cade was looking out the screen door like he always does. The cat walked up the stairs like he owned the place and Cade just stopped what he was doing, looked at the cat and turned to look at us with the cutest look of shock, "ummmmm mama, there is something on the porch is that ok?"  It cracked me up. Now the cat comes almost everyday to visit and cade gets excited, crawls over to the door and says hi. I can't wait until he is older and we can get a cat.

Ring Stacker!

Cade has one of those colored ring stackers which he got for christmas and loves. He plays with it all the time, but up until now could only get the rings off of the post. He has been working really hard to be able to put them back on the post this week and today, he did! I know it may seem like a silly thing to get excited about but it takes great fine motor skills to be able to do that! It is a huge accomplishment for him and I am a proud mama :)

Snot-Be-Gone

Im so sick of snot. Therefore, I have dedicated an entire post to it.

I'm not sure if it is due to teething, or if he has a cold or if it is allergies, but he is a fountain of snot. And I'm over it.

There is snot all over the couch (I'm cleaning it, don't freak out), in his hair and eye lashes, all over my shirt and who knows where else.

Gross.

Tooth Update

I can feel the tooth!! Can barely see it, but I can feel it!

Missing Update

I was just reading through old blogs and couldn't remember cade at those stages of life so I just felt like I should jot down my favorite things about life right now so I can remember later.

My most recent nickname for cade is
"little bug", comes from love bug and will probably change soon. He is a speed crawler and pulls himself up on everything now. Just this week he figured out how to move his legs to cruise down the couch. Yesterday he was holding on to his music table with a toy in one hand. I watched him let go of the table to switch the toy to the other hand and stood up without holding on to anything for a couple seconds! So amazing.

Still doesn't have any teeth, but there is one working its way in on the bottom. I hope they take their time and don't come in all at once. I love his little toothless grin :)

Food is much more interesting now, but more my food than his. I have been sharing little tiny bites of certain foods with him such as my oatmeal, yogurt and banana and even a tiny taste of shuberts ice cream :) I would love to share more with him, but he doesn't chew. Everything that goes in, gets swallowed right away. The other day I gave him half a cheerio to see if he learned how to chew, but nope! He swallowed it and choked. Also, still no pincer grasp. Oh well, some day!

Cade is my little explorer and gets into everything. The other night we were on the couch and I looked down and he was behind the couch.
It was so stinking cute! He likes to bang on things with whatever toy he has in his hand, including the tv!

He loves to read books and gets excited if I say the word "book". He takes a bath every night and loves it. I love how much he knows and that he understands what we are saying. I have not been as committed to signing with him as I would like to, but I really want to do it because I know it will help tremendously in the next year as he tries to communicate.

I love that he adores his papa and waits at the door when chris gets home. He has a hard time if he sees me leave so when I go, we say goodbye in another room and he plays with papa while I walk out the door. I'm happy because I don't like sneaking out and he is happy because he is busy playing.

Bedtime comes and goes by the day. Some nights it is, sleeping and on the bed by 9:00, other nights he is up until I can't stay awake any longer and we go to bed together. It seems to depend somewhat on the naps he took that day. Naps are less consistent now and he can stay awake much longer between them. He went 6 hours without sleeping the other day, which is a long time for him. I think we may be headed toward one nap a day already, but we shall see!

We are moving back to San Diego next month and though I am happy and excited, I know I will be a little sad because this was his first home. Details of the move to come soon!