happy halloween!

I'm a little late posting Halloween pictures, but I guess it's better late then never. We had a great time on Halloween at "Auntie Cole and Uncle Matt's" house. Caden played outside in the garage for an hour before trick or treating playing with play-dough with Daddy. I swear Caden would live outside no matter how cold it is out there. I know that Daddy really enjoyed his time with him as he hasn't seen much of either kids, since he is has been working so hard on our house.

Thankfully I snapped some pictures of Adisyn in her Halloween outfit for the day since I majorly failed in getting a picture of her in pumpkin costume.

Cheesing it up for the camera as usual.

She does NOT like socks on. JUST like her brother.

and in the mouth they go like everything else....



Caden dressed up like a fire fighter. I had a very hard time getting that coat to velcro over his winter vest. He looked like the kid in the Christmas Story. In fact, he kept trying to lift his arms saying "Mama, I'm stuck". I was cracking up needless to say.

Caden and his cousins who had GREAT costumes. Caden happily followed them around the block skipping the whole way while he ate his tootie roll pop. He did go up to quite a few houses, but was more interested in running after Ethan and Christian <3

Daddy and Caden before going out.

Adisyn turned into a pink pumpkin :) She was a trooper and went all the way around the block too. Although, she was ready to pass out in my arms by the time we made half way around the block.

Happy Halloween!!!

ketchup....

I feel like there is so much catching up to do. So many things I want to record about Caden, Adisyn and life in general. It's finding the time that is hard these days. Both of them wake up anywhere between 6-7:30am and each morning is pretty much unpredictable. This morning Adisyn woke up at 5:30am and Caden slept until near 8am. For both, this is a very unusual morning. Adisyn generally naps within 2-3 hours after waking for about an hour. I take that time to get caught up on laundry, cleaning, eating, and spending some time with the little man. That one hour goes by incredibily fast.

Caden will spend most of his mornings playing with toys and watching his current favorite, Kai-Lan. Lunch time starts around 11:30-noon and both babes are sleeping by 12:30pm. I will have to say I've been very lucky at getting both of them to nap at the same time and very close to the same length of their naps. It gives me time to do chores and/or rest. I guess I could use that time to blog, but I really have not felt up to it lately. This schedule goes for only the days I'm off work. I've been off work quite a bit lately between our vacation back in June and the week before and after the 4th. I'm starting to feel like a SAHM, and I'm really enjoying it. I wish so badly that this could be permanant. Maybe in time.

In my attempts to catch up on the last month I will do so with some great photos!

The day before we left Myrtle Beach was of course the day Caden really opened up to his Grandma B. The last day we were the pool was closed as well due to someone having an accident. We were all really bummed. Caden said the whole walk back to the house "water park broken, water park broken" in his pitiful sad voice.



We fixed the water park problem by turning on the sprinklers in the backyard and Caden was in his glory.




Adisyn took a few days to open up to Grandma B, but when she did she was all smiles for her from that point forward.



Our first day at the pool Caden wanted NOTHING to do with his green arm floaties. That was until he took a jump off the step in the kiddie pool and went under. My brave boy did not shed one tear when he came up. I think he was too stunned. After I explained to him again that if he wore his floaties he wouldn't fall under water and he could in fact float. He never took them off again and had a blast floating in the big pool with mama.



We came back to reality and packed up and moved within the week of getting home. The fourth of July came and went so quickly.



We had some good laughs watching five grown men put two slip-n-slides together and acted 10 years old again. Good times!



Our little shining sparkler with her two uncles and Daddy.

Can I just take a moment to say how much I love this guy? He is so amazing. He has blessed me with the two most beautiful children. He is working so hard to make our new home perfect for his family. He is a natural with his children. Both Caden and Adisyn just adore him just as much I as do, and I'm so lucky to be his wife.

I love photo shoots with my little ones. Adisyn has more of them these days then Caden since she is not mobile. She is just so beautiful and takes my breath away every day. I see a lot of Caden in her, but I think she resembles her Daddy most of all. She is already a Daddy's girl and she has him wrapped around her sweet long fingers already.

I was pretty lucky yesterday when Caden actually let me take some "cheesy" pictures of him while he snacked on his lunch.

He cracks me up!

I could just eat this face right up. Caden is just amazing. He is too smart for his own good. He communicates so well and is talking in 4-5 word sentences. While we were driving to the new house this morning to let out Mia he said "Mama, stop the car - need help". How on earth did he know I needed to stop the car to help him? Amazing.



While he still isn't over the moon about his sister he does show some brotherly love at least once a day. (I won't mentioned that he is actually telling me the color of buttons on her shirt)

Caden had a recheck again yesterday. He has had a stubborn ear infection since May. After three rounds of antibiotics it is mostly cleared up. The doctor said it's still cloudy and wants to take another peak in three weeks when I take Adisyn for her 6 month check up. She said if it looks the same (cloudy) then she is referring him to an ENT. Good news ~ Caden gained a pound in just over a month. He is now 27lbs.

happy easter!

Our Easter weekend was full of good times spent with family and friends and beautiful weather I might add. We started off by visiting a friend and her three kids and colored eggs. What a mess! Caden wanted to keep recoloring the eggs over and over. So we let him.

"Orange egg!" Caden's favorite color.

After coloring eggs I had to swing by grandma's to pick up Ryan, but once Caden saw Papa and Charlie we had no choice, but to stay. Dinner and outside fun for all - even little Miss Adi enjoyed her time outside.

Saturday morning we colored more eggs and it was a little less messy.

The Easter bunny visited the next morning too.

The Easter bunny left eggs around the house for lil man to find. He had so much fun telling us what color eggs he found. You'll have to turn your head to the right to watch this video, though.

Last, but certainly not least our lil bunny wishes you all a Happy Easter!

Coming up next - our typical (almost) 2 year old Easter photoshoot.

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!

decorating the christmas tree...

Caden has a few ornaments that we let him play with (and a new one seems to get added to that group each day). He gets a kick out of decorating the tree his way.

See?

I think he does a fine job. Don't you?

Caden came down with a cold this weekend. He was really sneezing and had a runny nose on Saturday. He's been really nasally today, but I've seen him worse off. I'm hoping he is just fighting something off and it won't get any worse tomorrow. I really need to make to work every day this week considering I'm off for almost a week and a half. I'm also hoping I don't catch this bug either.

Fingers crossed my lil boy gets better quickly and Ryan and I stay healthy.

the tree is up!

We finally put up our Chistmas tree this past weekend, and Caden is obsessed. Aren't they all at this age? Ryan was still putting up the lights when Caden woke up from his nap. While I was changing his diaper he could see the lights and could not wait to get out in the living room. He was over the moon excited with the lights and all the ornaments.

He is doing rather well with the ornaments. There are 3 of them that he is allowed to play with it and he is getting the hang of it. He was taking them off and using them as a telephone saying "who?, who?", but now he is just takes them on and off and claps when he gets them back on the tree.

We have a stuffed Santa that Ryan's aunt bought for Caden. We asked him "who is this Caden?" and he replied with "ho, ho, ho". I cannot believe how quickly he learned this from the last two visits with my mother-in-law.

Sunday morning the lights went out on the tree. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where to even start. Caden kept saying "uh-oh, uh-oh", which then turned to "ba-byes" and then into an all out stomping fit when he realized I could not get them back on. Thankfully Ryan woke up and came to the rescue. We just need to replace the bottom strand of lights, so all lights above are now working.

Here is Caden taking it all in once we were finished.

Excuse the dog's butt in the background, but this was the only good shot of Caden saying "hi" to the lights. (on = hi and off = ba-bye)

I was working on a photoshoot for our Christmas cards this year. I'm rather disappointed in my "newish" camera I bought. All the sudden I am getting horrible glares, not to mention I still can't figure out all the darn settings.

He looks so handsome in his Christmas outfit!