Getting Ready for Santa

We are SO EXCITED about Kaden's first Christmas! We have been very busy getting prepared for this special occasion.





Not to mention the fact that Kaden has kept us severely BUSY the last few weeks. I thought the sleep situation was supposed to get better as they got older? (Like right now, it's 2:15 a.m. and I am typing this and Kaden is groaning over the baby monitor because it's like he has this sensor that tells him I am trying to get something done right now. ha!) Lance & I are exhausted from chasing this little boy around, playing with him, feeding him, changing him (which is getting to be quite the challenge all by itself), and bathing him. He is a MESS! We are enjoying every minute of it, don't get me wrong, but it is exhausting at the same time.

(Don't worry, this is NOT my tree he is attacking in these pictures, this was a tree at a hotel we stayed in last weekend. Kaden LOVED it, and it was fun to let him play with someone else's tree!)


Kaden, you are so funny these days and there are SO many new things you do each day now. For example, Friday night you learned to do "THE WAVE". You will through your hands over your head and yell, "WWHHHHEEEEEEWWWWW!" It's the funniest thing EVER!






You are also calling the donkeys, "EEEE-HAW, EEEE-HAW!" the cows, "MMMMMMOOO!", and you say "Momma" all the time. ( I love that! ) :)


You are still crawling at record speeds, and cruising on furniture. Today you took about 3-4 steps with your J.J. (She was holding one hand and walking with you) I think you will be walking soon.

This is Kaden crawling up the aisle at Hilary's Rehearsal for her wedding!


You are starting to eat LOTS of new things, and you DEMAND what ever we are eating/drinking. You make a funny sound every time you demand a drink/bite, it sounds something like this, "Iiiggght!" YOU ARE TOO FUNNY!


You have tried mashed up beans this week, some tiny pieces of turkey, ham, roast beef sandwich meats, cheese chunks, tomato, baked plain potato, mashed potato and gravy (with Daddy, of course!), orange pieces, orange juice, adult yogurt, and breads. YOU LOVE IT ALL! You have not rejected a single bite of anything! So far, so good. I keep waiting for you to get more teeth to really start feeding you more table food. You still only have the bottom two teeth.


I have SO much to catch up on! The last two weekends I have spent with my best friend, Hilary. We went to see the Rockette's weekend before last and stayed in a hotel and shopped and ate out and just had a great girl's night out in preparation for her wedding the next weekend.

This is Hilary at the Rockette show!


All of us bridesmaids after the show! Angela, Sheila, Hilary, and me...







This weekwnd was the wedding. It was WONDERFUL! We are all worn out from a whole weekend of WEDDING, but it was all worth it to see how beautiful Hilary looked and how wonderful it all turned out.

This is Hilary and her Daddy, Gus, coming down the aisle!!! (Auuuwww!)



I was Matron-of-Honor, sounds funny, doesn't it?





























Dancing with Momma....

















This is at the end of the night, Daddy, Kaden, blue bear, crashed in a chair....



Lance, Kaden and I stayed in a hotel two nights with Kaden, it was Kaden's first stay at a hotel. We wish we would have had more time to just relax at the hotel. We were go, go, go the whole two days and nights. One of these days, maybe...








We have family Christmas Parties starting on Wed and wrapping up on Sunday. Five total. CRAZINESS!!!




But, we are so excited to share our Christmas TOGETHER this year, if you recall last year here, and with our precious gift of joy, Kaden Angus. We have received the BEST gift of all this year, our baby boy. This is a flash back to Christmas last year, this is Kaden and I at Christmas last year.He makes our life so happy and full of joy. I just can't imagine life without him now. He has truly changed our lives.