"Ho, ho, ho merry Christmas little boy"

The title of this post is Cades response when asked what Santa says. He is absolutely obsessed with Christmas, snow, skiing, gingerbread men, and pretty much everything else winter/Christmasish. He is totally Tylers son when it comes to outdoor adventures; the first day it snowed here in Bend, Cade was asking when he was going to go skiing. Since then he asks to go about 3-4 times a day, it's either

"I go skiing today mom?"

or

"lets play in the snow!"

The first few days of snow I thought I was going to go crazy with him asking and winter was looking to be SUPER long, luckily it has tapered off a bit, but not totally.

Now that he is all suited up with awesome bibs, boots, a sweet coat & gloves ,we have given him his fare share of playing in the snow, 2 times sledding, 3-4 mornings of playing outside, and the making of a full sized snowman! I am so glad that he likes the snow so much, I mean we live in Bend it would be pretty sad if he didn't.

I know the day is coming when we will actually take him skiing (Tyler is set on it being this year...) until then I will keep praying for his safety!

Waiting his turn to sled (sporting his new jacket)

Loved santa but did not want to sit on his lap

17 weeks

The count down to ultra sound day has begun! 2 weeks to be exact.

You will have to excuse the lame picture but I needed a picture to go along with the post or I know I would hear from some of you out there! :)

So at 17 weeks I:

* Am seeing my belly stick out

* Have been feeling the baby move. Officially felt the flutters at 16 weeks. It's really weird to feel it move and not know yet if it's a boy or a girl!

* Craving sweets like mad! Peanut butter pie to be exact

* Exhausted ALL the time! My left eye has been twitching for about a week now, so i had my mom check with an eye dr. in her office and sure enough the reason is because I am so tired. I guess I will be taking more naps, can't complain about that!

* Starting to freak out about all that needs to be done to get a room ready for another family member!

* Excited to know if we will have little boy or a girl, and finally put a name to the "baby" in my belly

Everyday Life with a 2yrd Old

We have quite the chatty Kathy on our hands!

He is pretty much talking all day long and it is so much fun to listen to his little brain work.

Yesterday he was walking around the house "talking" to Jaxon and Jace on his cell phone.

His conversation went a little like this,

"Hi Jaxon I'm watching the beavers with my dad, ya I had fish for dinner what did you have, o yummy! You going to school today? (phone drops on the floor and back flys off) "whoopsy daisy the phone just brokeded!"

Tyler and I both just cracked up!

It is conversations like this that he has with himself and other people pretty much all day long!

I love it!

We also have a little adventurest with a GREAT imagination! Cade loves snow and anything skiing. The other day he was playing with the magnets on our fridge and decided that these long rectangle mangets were his "ski boards" he took them layed them down on the floor and put his feet on them like he was skiing, pretty soon he comes running over to me asking me for his jacket and his sun glasses so he could go skiing!

It has been snowing today and all he has been talking about it how he is going skiing when daddy gets home from work. I can't wait to acutally get him up to the mountain and see what he really thinks of skiing!!