Changing

I'm so behind uploading pictures, but I'm realizing if I don't blog these cute little stories as they happen, I'll be even more behind :).  So, post now, pics later.  I know, I know....like his birthday parties, thanksigivng, etc.......I'll get there, I promise. 

Anyhoo, cute story numero uno.  November 30th.  I also posted this on facebook, but here it is again: 

We've been talking lots about when T's (what CW calls my sis) baby comes. The other day we were talking about it, and Caden said, "T's Beebee Bowday". Yes, it will be T's baby's birthday when we meet her :), you're right. Well, after lunch today, he went and got 1 of my dishes, put his sippie in the middle of it, and sang the Happy Birthday song. The whole thing. He's NEVER done that before. He walked it over to me and at the end of the song said "T's Baby". So cute. He wants to sing it to the baby! Love that kid.

Numero Dos.  Also on facebook, so sorry if this is double dipping for you :).....

I was feeding Caden quick last night before we ran some errands, and Jared and I were going to eat later.  I sat his food on the table and got him on his chair before going down the hall to get Jared.  As we came around the corner back into the dining room, sweet little Caden had his hands folded, eyes closed saying a 'prayer' before he ate.  It was so precious. 

Glad to know we are getting through to him on SOME things, SOME times. Haha.

Another cute one, then I'll stop for now :).  He thinks it's such an accomplishment to find something, that he'll hide something just to find it.  Make sense??  He had his toy Buzz the other day (shock...usually has 1 or 2 Toy Story toys with him), and I was sitting with him on his bed.  He lifted the sheet and put Buzz under it.  Then he held his sweet little hands in the air and said, "Momma, Buzz go??"  "You see?" 

I played along and said, "Oh no!!  I wonder where he went."

Then he figured he'd really tricked me, laughing, he said "Buzz where ARE you??" (minus the 'r's when he says it.....).  Then he pulled Buzz from under his sheet, "Momma!!!  I find!!!"

So cute.  Mmmm.....he's delicous.

He is talking MORE and MORE and MORE.  He is saying phrases now.  It blows my mind.  Every day he is saying more.  He is now officially at the stage where if we say, "Caden say _____", he will say it.  It may not be clear, it may be a mush of words, but he attempts it.  It's unreal.  Sensory alert to his mom and dad, haha.

Things he started saying in the last couple weeks.........

"Where ARE you??"
"I sorry you" (saying sorry when he's, you know, hit or whatever)
"Ya, k guys."
"I k" (I'm okay)
"I silly"
"I funny" (he's pretty sure of himself, haha)
"Talking piggy" (When asking to watch Charlotte's Web)
"Froggy boots" (what he always wants to wear :))
"I runnin'" (usually he is)
"Me feece it" (I'll fix it)

Remember when you said you'd never.....

I remember before I was a mom (well, barely remember it :)), how I'd think "I'd never do that" when I saw a mom doing something, or hearing a story of a mom's and think, "that won't be me!!".  HA!  HA, HA, HA!!!!!!!  Can no longer say I'd never..........

Just dab my kid's leg off with a paper towel before letting him go back to play for a while after sticking one leg in a public toilet.

Rinse a just-purchased sippie off in the drinking fountain at the store & filling it up with water, giving it to your child.  I would assume that sort of public rinsing follows the 'wash before use' guidelines.

Quickly pick child's nose for them before you walk into a store, you know, so as not to be embarassed by the boogs they have in their nose.

Have a full-body wet wipes session on him in the morning before leaving for daycare when you realize you didn't give him his bath the night before. 

Lick his binkie off and give it right back to him after it falls on the floor.

Literally tiptoe down the hall for fear of waking him after he's gone to bed at night.  Falling just short of forbidding your husband from breathing in fear he will wake him.

Give him an M&M before 8:00 am just to avoid a tantrum.  Hey, it just seemed too early for a meltdown, and we'd been up for 2 1/2 hours, so why not??  It used to be lunch time when I'd been up for that long.

Let him wear his ridiculous frog rain boots that are too big to the store, since he insisted.

Open the Goldfish crackers package in the middle of Aisle 6 at Supertarget and give him a snack.  Oops, our snack didn't get in my purse somehow, and I had quite a few aisles left to go through.  Desparate times call for desparate measures.

Pretend I didn't see him eating the dog food out of Milo's bowl, because I was laughing so hard & didn't want him to see me.  And, kinda wanted to see how much he would eat, haha.

I could go on and on, but these are what is sticking out right now.  Ah, mommyland!!  No place I'd rather be. 

Baby Girl's Baby Shower

Meredith and Rebecca helped me throw the most delightful baby girl shower for my sis.  It was beautiful & so wonderful to shower my sister and baby girl in love (and presents :))!!  I can't believe how in love I am with my niece already!!  Oh sweet baby girl, you are so precious to me already!!!