6 Month Pictures

P.S. All of these pictures were taken on the same "sit up session"! He is up to almost 1 min of sitting by himself !

These are the moments

I usually don't rock Cade to sleep, I think it is important for him to be able to fall asleep on his own. However last night he was in such a cuddly mood I just couldn't resist. He was practicly falling asleep while I nursed and burped him, so when he was finished I snuggled him tight and wrapped a blanket around us both. I began humming and singing him lulaby songs very softly in his ear. He absolutly loved it, if I paused or stopped he would start doing this sad little whimper until I started again! Talk about melt your heart!

Nursing has been such a blessing to me in many ways. One, being the ability to take off my baby weight really fast :), but more importantly it has been such an amazing time for me to pray over Cade and daily give him back to the Lord. Through my prayers and quite time I have been reminded that Cade is my son but ultimately he is the Lords, Cade was given and entrusted to Tyler and I, so I want to make sure that we take every opportunity to seek the Lord for wisdom and dirrection for every part of Cade's life, the big things like developement, health, salvation, and also the little things like sleep and bowl movements (or in Cade's situation, lack of bowl movements).

These are the moments that will forever be etched in my memory.

My 2 Front Teeth

Time Flies when you have a little one

Today marks Cade's sixth month in our family. Six months, I can not even believe it has been 1/2 a year already! I can honestly say that these six months have been absolutly amazing and I couldn't have wished or asked for a cutter, happier, or more precious baby.

Here are some of Cade's favorite things:
Eating his solid food. So far he has tried sweet potatoes, squash, pears, bananas & avocado. Of those foods he prefers sweet potatoes, pears and bananas.
Jumping in his jumperoo while screeching really loud.
Reading and eating books, he has a fascination with paper.
Playing peek-a-boo.
Sitting up by himself, only for about 10 seconds though :).
Chewing on his tongue, he loves the feel of his 2 bottom teeth!
Getting lost of attention for the kids at the Preschool I work at. (Hey I get paid to have little kids entertain my son, who could ask for a better job)
Shadows, Cade is fascinated with shadows, when I change his diaper and he sees our shadow on the wall he scratches and claws trying to get it.
Bubble Baths.

I will post 6mo pictures of Cade soon, I haven't uploaded them from my camera quite yet.

Snowy Day

On days like today it is so nice to be able to stay inside and just hang out.
When I was working full time I would wish so bad that when it was rainy, cold, snowing or even a beautiful sunny day, that I could stay home and not go into work. Now as a stay at home mom I have that freedom! It is the best. Today with the wind blowing and the snow flurrying down, the crock pot was calling my name. I had a roast that I have been meaning to make forever, so I chopped up some garlic added a few basil leaves and left the roast in the crock pot all day long. What an amazing smell that is! Along with our roast I made mashed potatoes, gravy and corn.
Yummy!

If I was on top of it I would have taken a picture of the beautiful meal like Megan Caston does, but I always think of things like that when it is too late.

Wordless Wednesday

Tackle-It Tuesday: Get up before Cade

LOL!
I know, I know I'm laughing at myself. Hey I have to start somewhere. Even though I didn't physically "tackle" anything around the house I felt accomplished to have eaten breakfast and had some "me" time before cade woke up.
Next week I will set my goal a little higher!

Gerber

I want to know what is up with the brand Gerber's sizing?
Cade is almost 6 months and he is wearing 18 month plain white onezies from them.
Could there sizing be any more off....
weird!

Peak-a-boo

No I'm not talking about the fun game of peak-a-boo, I'm talking about what Cade's tooth is doing. He has been teething since he was 3 months but finally has something to show for all of his pain. His first tooth decided to cut through the gum yesterday and oh how painfull it looked, and was! He was so fussy and just a slobbery mess! Hopefully it stays up and doesn't deside to go back down.
The days of his gummy smile are almost over :(

Joining Mindi.. Wordless Wednesday

So one of my friends has started doing a fun thing on her blog.
She does "Tackle it Tuesdays" and "Wordless Wednesdays".
I thought it would be fun to join in, so here it goes....

Super Cade

Cade and I had a great time the other night just playing and giggiling. Here is a glimpse at what makes him giggle the most. For some reason he likes really high pitched talking! It was so fun to listen to his little giggle!
It is these priceless moments I thank God for.

Reading Rainbow

Cade loves books. 1 book imparticular; Barnyard Dance.
We could read that book to him 20 times in a row and it would never get old to him.
He has become really good at reading the book himself and turning the pages. Just prop him up on the bobby and he can be satisfied for quite a while.
He is going to be very smart I can see it now!

Cade's 1st Food

Today was Cade's first taste of "solid" food.

Whenever we would eat he would grab for our food and smack his lips. It was making me think he may be ready to give it a try. Our pediatrician recommended waiting until 6 months but as a mom I decided to use my best judgment.
We started him out with sweet potatoes, he really seemed to like them! He didn't make any funny faces or weird noises he just eat them like he knew exactly what he was doing.
He was very interested in the spoon and kept trying to grab it out of my hand so I did have to use my had to restrain him down :)

Hawaii pictures

Maui

Tyler, Cade and I got to take an amazing tip to Maui last week.
We had a blast! The weather was perfect for our time on the island. It only rained the first day which was ok because we used that day to check out the Maui Ocean Center. All the other days was sunshine and high 70's low 80's.
Some highlights of our trip:

- Seeing Cade's little feet
- Swimming in the clear blue 76 degree ocean
- Taking Cade swimming for the 1st time. He LOVED it!
- Snorkeling with the turtles
- Going to the Old Lahina Lu'au
- Laying on the beach reading a good book
- 1 week of non stop time with both of my men
- Dinner with Jeff & Megan at The Melting Pot
- Coming home with a tan

Lots of pictures to follow
:)

Cade's Dedication

So I am officially a blog slacker.
Cade was dedicated on January 11th and I am just not getting around to blogging about it.
Anyways, it was a great Sunday. Both sets of Cade's grandparents were able to make it over for the celebration. Cade got all dressed up in his button down shirt and sweater vest, he looked so cute.
Tyler and I are so blessed to have such an amazing church family here in Bend. We would be lost without it.

Cursed!!

I swear we are cursed when it comes to ordering/getting items online.
It all started when we made our baby registry at Babies r us. Some of my girlfriends ordered us the jogger we registered for. They conveniently had it shipped to our house and I was so excited to come home from work to a package waiting at the door. I immediately opened it and to my disappointment found a bent up stroller frame that couldn't even be fully opened. So needless to say we sent it back and ordered a new one. That was item #1. Item #2 was the portable swing we got as a gift off of our Babies r us registry. It worked for about 2 weeks then the motor went out. Item #3, our pack-n-play, also off of our Babies r us registry came with missing/wrong pieces to assemble the changing table feature. Now item #4; just yesterday Cade's Jumperoo finallycame. I got it all put together, went to attach the last toy and what do you know.... it was broken!! Seriously people is there some hidden thing attached to my name, address, or credit card number that says "send me the broken one"? I was so irritatted and annoyed yesterday after finding the jumperoo broken I had Tyler deal with taking it back because I didn't even want to think about it.
All of these experiences make me never want to order something again!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Cade on the Move

This past weekend my sister called to say that her son Jace who is 3 weeks younger than Cade, is already rolling over from his tummy to his back. Well Cade must have his dads competitive side because this morning he was rolling over himself. He couldn't let his cousin get to far ahead of him. Check it out!

Quilts

Jace & his quilt

Cade & his quilt

Pictures from Christmas

Cade's new cowboy boots

The best Christmas present!

Checking out the new toys w/ Grandma Shireen

Laura and I

All bright eyed on Christmas morning

Christmas 2008

This year Tyler, Cade and I were able to spend time with both of our families. Christmas Eve was spent with my mom, dad and grandpa. We had a nice relaxing evening at my parents house with a yummy ham dinner. Christmas morning my sister came over with her 2 boys Jaxon (2) and Jace 2.5 months) (her husband had to work... sad I know) for breakfast and "prizes"; as my nephew Jaxon calls them.
Unfortinatly my brother Brett was not able to make it down from Seattle. The weather was too crazy for him to make the trip.
We missed you Brett!!
Cade and Jace got to celebrate there 1st Christmas together. Grammy made them both amazing quilts. Cade's is a camping theme and Jace's is trains and airplanes. Thank you grammy June for the great cozy quilts!!
Something new we did with some family from my dads side was a Progressive Dinner. We did each course of our meal at different house. We didn't go with your typical Christmas meal, instead we went Itallian.

Christmas Menu:
Appetizers: Calazone Rolls @ Colby & Laura's (AMAZING!)
Salads: Green Garden Salad @ Amy & Jay's
Main dish: Red Sauce Spaghettie, Chicken Fettuccine & bread @ Aunt Sandie & Uncle Darren's
Dessert: Mint Brownie Cake & Cookies @ Allie & Tad's (so sad we weren't able to make it to dessert)
This is such a fun was to celebrate with friends and family. My favorite is to see everyones houses all decorated for Christmas.

After the Progressive Dinner Tyler, Cade and I ventured off to the Mackesons to celebrate Christmas with them. We had a great time hanging out with Tyers parents, brother and both sets of grandparents. With all these people it is inevitable that Cade was not lacking attention.

I hope all of you had as blessed a Holiday as we did.

Grandpa & Cade

On Christmas Eve My dad got Cade giggling so hard!! Nobody has been able to get him laughing like Grandpa did. Luckily Tyler was able to capture part of it on video.

Winter Wonderland

Winter in Central Oregon is so amazing. While the Willamette Valley is freaking out because of there snow, trapped inside scared to drive, we here in Central Oregon take it as just another day. I love how the snow doesn't stop us from living our normal lives. Tyler and I took Cade out for a walk in the snow for the first time the other day he loved it and was totally just mesmerized by the fluffy white stuff.
It is always hard to leave our Bend winter wonderland and head to the valley for Christmas, I hope this year the snow in the valley will stick around long enough to give us a white Christmas.

All Smiles

Tyler and I have been blessed with such a happy boy.

Cade is always smiling and it is by far the cutest smile I have ever seen! When he was about 5-6 weeks I was starting to worry that we were going to have a grumpy baby on our hands but it just turns out that he hadn't quite developed his smile yet. Now he is unstopable. It is hillarious when he wants to be upset and cry but happy at the same time, he is fussing but with a smile on his face. Quite funny to watch.

December

It is so amazing to me that December is already 1/2 way over.

Time sure does fly when your having fun and being a mom! So far this month Cade has experienced a lot of 1st's.

First time going to chop down a Christmas tree
First Snow
First time sleeping entirely through the night 8pm-7am!!
First signs of teething

Those are just a few of his firsts. Tyler and I are so excited to spend our first Christmas with our little man.

So frusterating

Be warned... this post is going to be a little bit disgusting, but that is my life as a mom.
So Cade only poops about once every 9 to 10 days, which to me seems so crazy but according to his doctor is nothing to worry about. He isn't fussy with a stomach ache or constipated so he is just taking in all the nutrients from my milk (or so the dr. says).
Well the really frustrating part is, when he goes HE GOES and it is everywhere. Today was his day to go, we just got home from having lunch with Keri and Jonah and I could tell he was working on something. When I took him out of his car seat it I knew immediately it was not going to be pretty. It was so bad, it had come up out of the back of his diaper, all over the back of his onezie, out the leg of his diaper on his pants and onto his car seat. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! To clean him up I had to throw him in the bathtub.

This can't be considered normal can it?

Thanksgiving

So I'm finally getting around to blogging about our Thanksgiving. We spent the weekend at Tylers parents in West Linn. Cade enjoyed his first Thanksgiving and even sported a great Indian headdress that I made for the occasion :)

I was in charge of making pies for dessert, I had only made one other pie in my life so I was a little nervous about how they would turn out, but I have to admit they were tasty and beautiful.

On Saturday Tyler and I went to the Civil War game in Corvallis... it was so sad that the Beavers lost but we still had a good time with my cousin Gena and her husband Bryce.

My weakness

So those of you who have been following my blog since last year may remember this post; New Years Resolution.... well my resolution to stop drinking coffee only last a whopping 3 months, which is pretty good for me I think. But with being a stay at home mom, being at home most of the day and not to mention the time of year, my coffee addiction has become worse than ever!! There is nothing better than on a cold day drinking a warm cup of coffee with French Vanilla creamer or even better a pumpkin pie latte from DB or Bellatazza.

So to give you an idea of how bad my coffee addiction has become let me just tell you this... on Tuesday I made a 5 cup pot of coffee in the morning and by about 3:00 I had drank the entire thing by myself! For the rest of the day/evening I could not sit still. I was pacing back and forth, going from upstairs to downstairs and fitiling with everything. It was bad. Since that day I have limited myself to 1 maybe 2 cups a day and I have doubled my H2O intake to help me feel better about all the coffee I drink.

I guess I could be addicted to worse right....

Scrap booking

Scrap booking is one of my favorite hobbies. I haven't been good at keeping up on it since Cade was born. So the past couple weeks I have been diligently working on getting caught up. Here are some of the layouts I have completed...

Cade & I

So as the mom I feel like I am always the one behind the camera. I was looking through all of our pictures of Cade so far and realized there are none with me and Cade together! That is something my mom talks about all the time, how she is never in any pictures because she is the one taking the pictures. So last night as I was getting Cade ready for bed I called Tyler in to get a few shots of my boy and I. Even though he was stubborn and wouldn't give us any of his adorable smiles, he is still the cutest baby boy I have ever seen!

Look what I found!

Oh yes Cade has found his hands and fingers. I haven't decided if it a blessing or a curse quite yet. Blessing- he is weening himself off his pacifier, curse- the pacifier we could control but the thumb sucking we can't, and he hasn't mastered the art of thumb sucking fully yet. He tries to shove both fists in his mouth, after slurping and slobbering for a couple minutes he gets frustrated and erupts into an immediate cry. It really is sad to watch because I want to help him place his thumb but it just doesn't work like that. I just hope he doesn't end up sucking his thumb as long as I did.....

Chit Chat w/ Cade

Cade has found his voice and it is the cutest thing I have ever listened to. Check it out.
P.S don't mind the annoying "mother" in the background. Why is it that your own voice sounds so retarded on camera?

Bumbo Baby

Cade's neck is getting so strong I thought it was time to try out the Bumbo seat. He did surprisingly well. He especially liked facing the mirror and checking himself out. I know I'm a horrible mom for having him up on the counter, but give me a break, it's not like I'm going to walk away and leave him unattended.

Fall

It always amazes me how perfectly God has set up the seasons in Oregon. Just when I start to get tired of one season it is time to start the next. Fall is by far my favorite of them all. The leaves changing colors, falling off the trees, and eventually ending up on the ground to be munched by our feet, the cooler days, the sun setting earlier, hot coffee, yummy food like apple crisp and pumpkin flavored anything, and last but not least the pumpkin patch!!

I always get so excited to go even though I'm really to old to do any of the activities. For me it's the atmosphere and the all around mood of the pumpkin patch that makes me so happy. Since moving to Bend about 3.5 years ago, Tyler and I have been going to The Central Oregon Pumpkin CO. This place has it all... horse drawn wagon rides, a zoo train, petting zoo, face paining, pumpkin cannon, harvest market, corn maze, hay fort and much more. This year was an all around different experience because we got to bring Cade along. He was obviously too little to enjoy or partake in the experience but it was so fun for Tyler and I to take him along. I already can't wait for next year when Cade is old enough to really enjoy and get into it all.