Caiden is 18 months!

Caiden turned 18 months on May 28...I know he will be 19 months tomorrow I am a little late with this post. We are loving this age! Caiden has a fantastic sense of humor, he loves to laugh and make others laugh. There is not a day that goes by that he doesn't say a new word and it always takes us by surprise. It really is amazing how much they learn and are capable of at this age. Amongst all of the good in Caiden he is a typical 18 month old and throws tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants. All around Caiden is a really mellow kid and we are so blessed to have him as our son!

Here are a few things that Caiden loves:

-Landon- He is a wonderful big brother and is always looking out for Landon. He lets me know if Landon needs me or if Landon is touching something he is not supposed to.
-Being outside
-The Zoo and Aquarium (we have memberships thanks to Grandma Sonia!)
-Fruit (especially berries and applesauce)
-Dada and Mama (also known as Bob...I will explain this more later)
-Airplanes and Trucks
-Music
-Dancing (the boy is seriously a dancing machine)
-Being the center of attention (he will do anything to make people laugh)
-Being chased and chasing others
-Bubbles
-Looking out the window
-LOVES Books and reading
-Jumping on our bed
-The Park
-His buddy Grant and Hannah
-Playing in his closet
-His hat and sunglasses
-Making animal sounds (dog, monkey, lion-grrr, horse)
-Vacuum

A few weeks ago Caiden had a bad fall that scared me to death! We were at my parents house and he ran to there back door. He thought the screen door was closed and went to lean on it and fell down 2 cement stairs, head first! Of course he was screaming and just wanted dada. Lucky for him he just got a huge scrape and lump on his forehead, it could have been a lot worse. (see pic below)

Caiden has started to call me by a new name..."Bob!" I have no idea why he calls me Bob but Hughey and I have a theory. Hughey calls me mom and babe so maybe he is putting those together some how and mom and Bob have the same mouth shape so that could be a possibility. So for now I am Bob! I must admit I miss hearing him call me mama but I know eventually I will hear it again!

I have stopped keeping track of the words Caiden says because its to hard to keep up with him but, here are a few of his most recent things he is saying...

Hand (hom)
shoe (sh-low, it actually sounds like slow)
NO!
cheese (he signs and says this word)
Yeah!
more (he has always signed this word and recently started saying it)
throw (fro)
bye bye
Basketball (baba)
Mailman ("mama," of course the mailman gets to be called mama)
train

I have been teaching Caiden animal signs here are some that he knows...

giraffe
lion
fish
tiger
elephant
bear

A few other things...
Caiden has 8 teeth and 2 molars are currently coming.
He has SUPER curly hair.
He is now wearing 2T clothing and a size 7 shoe.
Caiden only gets his binky for nap and bedtime and is surprisingly do FANTASTIC! He never asks for it during the day and never trys to steal Landons. I am really shocked he has done so well without it...he was so in LOVE with his binky!


I know this is really long but these are things that we wanted to remember!

At the zoo

Aquarium

Playing with his new train set

Having fun at Forest Park

Being silly

Playing at the Park

When he wears his glasses he loves it when we say, "cool dude!"

Here is his head after his fall. :(

Mothers Day and Baby Dedications!

Ok I know this is way late but better late then never! I had a great Mothers Day! I love being a mommy! I am blessed that my husband works so hard so I am able to stay home and care for our sons. I love to watch them learn, grow and have fun!

On Mothers Day the boys were dedicated at church. It was nice that a lot of our family was able to go see the boys be dedicated. All 4 of us went on stage and Hughey introduced us and read a scripture we chose for the boys. The scripture was Mark 12:30 "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." We chose this scripture because this is something we want the boys to live by. If you love the Lord then everything else will fall into place and you will obey him.

I was really nervous about bring the boys on stage I wasnt sure how they would handle it. It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be, Caiden kept saying down and saying Papa (which is my dad) and Landon was good as long as I kept the binky in his mouth.

I love you so much Caiden and Landon! You bring so much joy to my life!

We are finding very difficult to get family pics at the moment. The boys are never very into it but at least we are all looking at the camera. Its funny because Landon does not look happy, HA!

On stage listening to other families being introduced

I had no idea he was smiling! Apparently he liked being the center of attention!

Landon is 6 months!

Landon is now 6 month s old, we cant believe it! We had his 6 month appt and here are the stats: Weight 19.13 lbs (86%), height 27 inches (72%), and head 45.6cm (92%). It is amazing how much he has grown considering how tiny he was when he was born. He has already tripled his birth weight! :) Landon is such a wonderful addition to our family. Caiden absolutely loves him and thinks its fun to make Landon smile. Landon of course loves Caiden and watches everything he does. Landon is sitting up now and is quite the little roller. I put him down some where and leave the room, when I come back he is on the other side of the room. He started solids a few weeks ago and is doing pretty good now. It took him a while to adjust to solids. He is not a fan of rice cereal he prefers oatmeal. There really hasn't been anything that he has completely rejected but he makes it clear that he doesn't like certain foods, but will eat it any ways! :)

Other things that Landon loves:
-swinging at the park
-being outside
-Mommy (he is a mommies boy and I love it!)
-Caiden
-fruit
-he loves being thrown in the air
-he loves jumping
-chewing on EVERYTHING
-being tickled
-Patty Cake
-peek-a-boo

Landon is starting to become a lot more vocal and laughs a lot more. He has a huge smile that brightens everyones day!

I realized that i never did a post for Caiden at 6 months. I thought it would be fun to add Caidens stats to Landons so we could compare them.

Caidens stats 6 months:
weight 21.9lbs (96%)
Height 29 inches (99%)
Head 45.5cm (90%)

I remember at 6 months Caiden was sitting up and started crawling at about 7 and a half months old. Landon has so far shown no interest in crawling. It will be interesting to see when he starts.

Caiden was a whole 2 inches taller then Landon and weighed about a pound and a half more. its funny that Caiden was bigger but his head was a little smaller then Landons!

Playing with Hannah who is the same age!

Loves playing with his big brother!

Holds his own sippy cup!

Likes to eat!

Sitting up

Having fun at the park with the family!

Loves to swing!

We love them!

We love these two little boys so much! We are so blessed to have them in our lives! Their smiles and laughter light up our lives! We are so glad that God chose us to be there parents!

We love you Caiden and Landon!

Elmo towel from Papa and Nana, as you can see he is thrilled! :)

This little guy is happy about his Cookie Monster towel!

Tulip Fields 2010

We took our very first trip to the Tulip Fields in Mt Vernon on Saturday. Hugh and I have been talking about going for years and decided we should finally go and take the boys. We had so much fun! The Tulips were beautiful! The weather held up nicely for us it was cloudy and windy and no rain! Caiden had a lot of fun running around outside. I don't think he has ever walked that much before and totally crashed the whole way home. We realized that Landon had a cold by the time we got there, so he was asleep in the Ergo the entire trip. Before we arrived at the Tulip fields we went and ate at Apple Bee's this was the first time we took Caiden and allowed him to eat off the kids menu. I know it sounds silly but he eats really healthy and we thought it would be a nice treat for him! :) Caiden loved it of course!

Beautiful Tulips!

As you can see he started feeling better! This was in the car right before we headed home.

Caiden had so much fun!

Sleepy baby!

We took a ride on the Tractor Trolley! Caiden is such a boy and LOVED the tractor!

Caiden running in the tulips!

Helping Caiden so he wouldn't fall (again) and get all muddy!

Checking out the Tulips!

The best family pic we could get!

Bunny Bounce at the Zoo!

The Saturday before Easter we took the boys to the Woodland Park Zoo for there Bunny Bounce Easter egg hunt! My sister Krystle, her husband Ryan and my sister Jamie came with us. This was Caidens first Egg hunt! He had so much fun picking up eggs and putting them in his bag. He even shared his eggs and put them in another little boys basket. :) Caiden also got to ride on a Carousel for the first time. I realized that we didnt get many pics of Landon but he was bundled up alseep in the stroller most of the time, it was freezing out!

Daddy showing Caiden how to open the eggs and Caiden is wondering why there is nothing in them!

OOOHHHH!!! There are some over there!

Caidens first ride on a Carousel. He was afraid so daddy had to sit with him!

A family pic in the Zoomarium. Caiden was not happy he had to stop playing to get a pic taken!

The whole group! I love them!

Easter 2010

We had a great Easter with family! Hughey and I both got the boys Easter baskets full of fun stuff. We woke up went to church and then spent the rest of the day with family. There were parts of our day that were difficult because the boys were super cranky because of being so tired. We had a really packed weekend. Saturday we went to a Easter egg hunt (I am doing a separate post of the hunt) and Sunday was a packed day of visiting with family. It was really hard to get good pics because the boys were just not having it! So what you see is the best we could get. Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Attempting to get a pic of Caidens cute outfit.

Visiting with Hughey's side of the family!

Caiden checking out his new book. The boy seriously LOVES books!

Landon chewing on his Easter egg!

The boys baskets! Landons is on the left and Caidens on the Right.

Best pic we could get as a family. Kids were so tired. The boys looked so cute in the matching Easter outfits!