Sibling Love

Caden has been a good big brother since the day he met little Miss Aves. He was old enough to understand/be somewhat careful with her, yet young enough to find her interesting/not be affected too much by her entrance into the world. 

In the last month, he has been even more 'into' her.  He just can't get enough of her.  And he looks out for her.  I feel sorry for anyone that misses with this chic in the future :).  Caden will put up a good fight.  Love that she has a big brother to always have her back.  Might take a little stress off daddy in the future :). 

It's so cute because he repeats things we say to Avery, in his own little Caden way of course.

"Oh sweetie, you getting so growed up!"

"You gonna be a big boy!"

"Oh Presh, you sweet fing, I wuv you so much baby, I do."

"Oh honey, I will miss you, you have a good day and be a good girl, I'll see you soon" - to Avery when she was going to daycare one day and he was going to T's

The other day when I got home I started talking to Jared and CW frantically interrupted........"Mommy, tell (ask) Avery if she had a good day.  Ask she if she was a good girrow (girl) at school."  Haha.

Izzie gave Avery a -ahem- pat on the face today, and Caden chimed in (with his Caden attitude), "Izzie, this is not you big brother.  Only me and Avery are big brothers.  You cannot hit she." Haha.  I assume that was his version of, "this is my sister, you can't hit her"......or something like that, right.....

"It's a beautiful day," Caden proclaimed while spinning in the living room.  I'd have to agree son, life is grand .

Start from here and work my way back.............

I know I promised to blog better, and I failed once again.  I have so much to blog and don't know where to start.  So, I will start current and work my way back when I have a chance to.  Otherwise, I will just get further and further behind.  So, here we are, we're starting where we're at :).

Aves is 6 months and pure joy.  PURE JOY.  She is so happy and such a charmer.  I have people tell me all the time she is 'the happiest baby they've ever seen'.  Needless to say, that may or may not be a true statement from each and every person, but we'll take it!

She is full of kisses and love right now.  When I ask for kisses (and sometimes even when I don't) she grabs my face with each of her chubby little hands, opens her mouth, and goes to town.  Kisses, kisses, kisses. 1 or 2 gallons of slobber on me each time.  I love it.  Slobber away, cutie patootie!!

We did her 6 mos checkup last week and all went pretty well.  She is 75% for height and weight (26 1/2 inches, 17 lbs 4 oz).  Her head is rockin' it at 99 percentile.  Doc is a little worried about the shape of her head (ahem) and the fact that she isn't sitting up/her body is proportionately so much smaller than her head.  So anyhoo, we had to do scull xrays to see if all is still lining up okay, etc.  We haven't heard back yet but should tommorow.

Mr Caden is changing by the minute and keeping me on my toes now more than ever it seems!  We are getting the 'anger bursts' when we get frustrated, the attitude, the whole nine yards sometimes.  Where did this come from you wild man?  Haha.  It seems time outs are frequent but so are hugs and laughs, too.  Emotional rollercoaster it seems, allbeit a great one most of the time.

He just finished up another year at Dimensions, and although he'll still be in the toddler room for the summer, he will officially be a preschooler in the fall.  But we won't go there yet, or I'll have to start therapy even sooner, haha.  He is so ready for it.  Drawing circles, counting with his fingers, working on saying his 'L's' better, asking lots of questions, not missing a beat, the kid is ready to be in preschool.  So, although I'd like to tuck him in a ball and baby him forever, people tend to frown on that, so I'll work on embracing that come fall :).

He says things all the time that crack me up.  Some that come to mind right now are......"Hannitizer" (hand sanitizer).  "Adodable" (adorable).  "What size is that?" (how much does that cost?).  "Potato" (tomato).  "This is a worse idea" (when something bad happens)

Also, something coming in really handy in recent weeks, he is convinced 5 minutes is longer than 10.  So when I say we can do something for 10 minutes, he argues "No 5 PLEASE!!!!!"   Uh, deal :).

Hello, long lost blog........

Much to my dismay, it has been nearly 6 months since I actually posted to my lovely little blog.  Each month I think, I have to get caught up on that, and after a few months it frankly has become so intimidating how behind I am that I could get myself to try to get caught up.

BUT.......I want to keep the blog and keep everyone updated, so I am officially going to get y'all caught up, starting today.

Since I last wrote so much has happened.  I could go though all the excuses......but instead will just get working.

So stay tuned........big things are coming this blogs way, haha.

Em