haircut...

You would think Caden was taking the prenatal vitamins. Seriously, look at all this hair! I just cut his hair a few days before Christmas. I just cannot keep up. I will be attempting another trim this weekend.

my boy loves his "top-cose"

christmas 2009

was unbelievably busy this year, but was also LOTS and LOTS of fun! Ryan and I had some time off together, which just completed how nice it really was this year. We were on the go visiting family and friends for the last five days.

I took over 100 pictures in two days and as much as I want to post them all, it's obviously not going to happen. We did manage to catch a Caden with Mommy and Daddy shot before we left for Ryan's aunt's house on Christmas Eve.

and a few other cute moments....

I felt like a kid again Christmas Eve and Christmas morning for that matter. I couldn't wait to get home and put all of the Christmas gifts under the tree.

I was the first one up on Christmas morning around 6:30am. The rest of the house (including the animals) slept until almost 8am. That is almost unheard of for Caden. I do think he was pretty wiped out from the evening before.

He didn't even notice the presents under the tree. He was more interested in the ornaments and lights on the tree as usual. I am going to miss that. Every morning once he came out of his room he would stand by the tree saying "please" for me to turn on the lights.

Overall, Caden did pretty well opening his gifts. He was so interested in the first toy that we had a hard time getting him to open the next gift. I ended up opening his last gift because he had no interest whatsoever.

He was a tad bit cranky Christmas morning too - can you tell by the look on his face?

He took apart EVERY little piece of his kitchen and tossed it all on the ground.

Soon after we opened gifts at home we headed over to my sister-in-laws house for breakfast and more presents. Caden sure was spoiled over there too!

and for my favorite shot of the day.... over at Grandma Lori's for dinner Christmas night. Could he get any cuter?!

Christmas Eve

I really thought I would have updated more seeing how I've been off work for a week now, but I seriously have not had much time available. Between shopping, wrapping, visiting family and the normal routines there has not been a whole lot of time. I've been off work since last Thursday and it doesn't even feel like it. I sure could get used to being a stay at home mom though. I am actually really looking forward to my 8 week maternity leave!

It's been a great week so far and it's only Christmas Eve. We still have lots more visiting with family and of course Santa is coming! I am so giddy about Christmas this year for Caden -- I feel like a kid again myself. He doesn't understand the whole concept yet, but I'm sure by next year he will. I cannot wait for tomorrow morning to see his cute little smile when he opens all his gifts.

Since I've been off work, Caden has learned a few new words. It's almost every day he is saying something new -- I just love it. So far this week he has said: cheese, please, blue, balloon, green, and my chair. Cheese and please sound the same and so does blue, balloon, and boom for that matter.

I've been having a really hard time capturing a good picture of this non stop moving little boy. However, I did capture one cute picture as he happened to be running past the camera with his famous smile.



A friend of mine stopped over for a morning visit the other day with her 9 month old, Nina. I can't believe she is already 9 months old. Caden was 10 months old when she was born and Nina will be 10 months old when Adisyn arrives. Crazy. Caden and baby Nina had a good time playing together as you can see.



Our son loves Dora. LOVES Dora. He is a Dora addict.
Sometimes he goes into a trance watching his girlfriend on TV.



Will be back to post all about Christmas Day! Hope everyone a very blessed and Merry Christmas!