August

In no particular order...here's some of our recent happenings throughout our August (and probably come from other months...)

There were many cute pictures of Caden and the bears...but what's better than Caden and bears? His parents photo bombing the two so they can capture a family zoo picture!

 

Wishing our sweet little nephew, Alex, happy birthday via facetime. Alex turned one this year and he's getting so big! He's the cutest thing ever. Little man has looks that can kill and dimples that tug at the heart. Love this little guy.

 

Some cousin time with my sisters kids. Caden loves his cousins and loves getting time in with them. He loves them all, but in particular grew very fond of the youngest, Shepherd, and now tends to call all of his cousins Shepherd. It's cute, but also can be kind of frustrating to the one non-Sheps in the group. 

 

And little ol' Dangy, watching the kids with jealousy from the deck.

 

Who doesn't take their clothes hamper in the car with them? We wanted to take Caden to the zoo, he loves the place, but he was in a short stage of refusing to leave when we wanted to and wanted to continue to play with his clothes hamper. So, the clothes hamper got a little car ride that day. And he got to show off his exceptional 'cheese' face, too!

 

Helpy McHelperson. He'll help with the dishes, the laundry, 'dinner', 'cleaning'...any more I list will require a lot of quotes because at this point I'm not sure you can either call it help or the actual task because neither seem to really get accomplished that well the further we go. But, it's cute, he's cute and he's learning so all is well.

 

A little water, cornstarch and food coloring and you have yourself some sidewalk paint. He loved it, and as soon as it gets a little cooler outside we'll have to do it again. So simple, but so entertaining.

When daddy does push-ups at home, he gets an extra 23 lbs added on. This is blurry, but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. It's cute, and funny-Caden loves it.

 

This was back around 20 weeks, 5 months. In less than a week I'll be 24 weeks, 6 months. This pregnancy has been different, but as is life at this point anyways. I was constantly fighting headaches and had one for three straight days so got in for a 30 minute massage to help relieve the pain. I think I could almost be just as happy sitting in their spa waiting room in this crazy comfortable robe just having some peace and quiet with their yummy cucumber water. It's so peaceful and amazing there, some days I am tempted to just move on in.

 

Baby bump saying 'sit on the couch and be lazy' and a toddler needing a snack. I got this. Have to remind myself some days, but I've got this... 

 

Gary's aunt and uncle have a black lab named Leonard that we've watched a few times. Leonard is older and doesn't really do much, which makes him the easiest dog to watch. This time around Caden noticed Leonard much more and thought it was so fun to have him around. The way he says 'wweonard' is priceless and so cute. Leonard has lost his hearing this time around and taken on some pretty heavy breathing, so that came with some humorous moments. Caden has been mocking a lot of things lately, some of which have been the dogs. MJ will let out a big sigh when she lays down, and she did one day right by Caden as we were playing and Caden just looked at her, sighed real loud back at her and said 'Sissy..go away!' It was funny, but we're also working on that 'go away!' part, doesn't really come off that nice..

 

So along with the mocking Caden picked up on mocking Leonards panting a lot by the end of his stay. The two were cute together and Leonard was very good with Caden. It's a little bit harder at night navigating your way to the bathroom in the dark with two big dogs in the room, but Leonards well worth it and always welcome to come party at our house.

 I had some pumping supplies returned recently and Caden continued to find them funny and attempted to use them as a phone. It was very funny and I just kept telling Gary that once this baby comes, if he sees mommy using them as they are meant to be, he's going to be one very confused child!

 

Last, but not least, before bed book time. He's gotten really good at following the routine of books before bed, a just this past week is insistent on daddy reading the books. It's adorable to watch these two. Cutest thing ever.