Left the room for 3.5 seconds, and this is what I came back to....

A wild man on the coffee table.  He knows he's not supposed to do that.  I took a pic.  I'm sure that discouraged him.  Ha!

This child is non-stop....holding a fork and a pen (I think).

As I told him to get down and walked towards him, he began his mad dash off the table.  Which included kicking these candles off the table.  Ya, that helped.

Love him :).

Oh Happy Day!!

...that's what we call it around these parts when Liz comes to visit :).

Great pic - Minus the fact it looks like CW might be on drugs, haha.

I met Liz when I worked at Three Eagles, and she has been a blessing to our lives from the start :).  We have remained great friends and always have a good time!  And CW is pretty fond of her, too!  She drives from NE City every day for work, and boy are we glad God brought her to Lincoln for her job....or we would have never met our one and only Liz :)!!

Craziness

It is crazy to me that we have a 14 month old!  It's still crazy to me that I am a mom!!  Caden is working on getting (I think) 4 top teeth in, and this round has been a booger!  He is pretty clingy/whiney, and not sleeping as late as he usually does.  So, as far as this mom is concerned, those teeth can come in any time now!!

Like I said, it's crazy to me that I am a mom!!  It's what I've wanted to be since I was, oh, three years old, but it still doesn't seem real sometimes!!  And then, I think of all the ways life has changed/I know I am a mom, and it's reality :).  Let me share...

• A shower, drying my hair, AND getting makeup on all in one day??  Oh stop, it's too much :)
• You licking the pacifier off after it falls on the floor or who knows where is now as good as scrubbing it with Lysol
• Your child is dressed well, and you look lame
• Going to Target by yourself feels like an early birthday present
• You cry at pretty much anything
• The crayon artistry he added to the walls downstairs for some reason doesn't upset me too much
• You're in bed every night by the time the news is on, and if not, something is wrong
• You have thousands of pictures you've taken in the last year
• You forgot you had nailpolish and what it was for
• Shave your legs??  You can do that in the winter, too??  That's not just a summer thing?
• You can sing all the theme songs from Nick Jr.
• Your heat is set about 8 degrees higher this winter than it was when you didn't have kiddos
• You can change a diaper without gagging (if I change anyone's but Caden's I gag like mad!!)
• You go downstairs to get something, and completely forget once you get there
• You call your dogs, kids, and husband all by eachothers' names

I could go on, but you get the idea.  I just kept thinking about it the other day and kept cracking up, so thought I'd share a few thoughts I had! 

We are looking forward to having Jared home this weekend after he ski trip last weekend.  He went with the middle schoolers from Church and managed to (so far - fingers crossed :)) not get the flu that many kiddos on the trip did.  Phew! 

I'll post more pics of Wild Man McGee soon!  Happy snow!!



We LOVE this winter weather!!




First time venturing out in the snow...



Snow Buddies!!!



And he's down....



Time for the sled....

 



Loving the sled!



So cold!

They went around the yard and down the hill so many times!

Time to come in...with his sidekick Barley.

SO CUTE!!!

The Playroom!!

I decided shortly after Mr. Caden's arrival that our extra room in the basement would need to be a playroom in the near future. As he got a little older, that 'future' became closer. Once we went through his first birthday and the truckload of toys he got from everyone, that 'future' became 'NOW'!! So, early November we started cleaning out that room. So much crap was in there I can't even believe it. But finally, it got cleaned out to become "the playroom."

There are still random pics on the walls that were hanging in there as storage before, and I want to add cute little stuff to the walls for Caden. But, I don't think Caden minds if the walls are decorate for now :). He loves his playroom to pieces.....and Mommy loves that we can just shut the door to it after he demolishes it three times a day :). He will spend hours in there, it's so neat to see him play and keep himself busy. My big boy!!

We spend quite a bit of our days down in the playroom, can you tell :)??

Christmas with CW

I finally got to load our pictures from Christmas. Here's Christmastime with CW in pictures :). Enjoy!

So there's a little of what December looked like with our sweet Caden Wesley. It was a holly jolly time indeed :). And now it's snowing today as I'm (finally) posting these! Yay! I love snow! I got a new camera for Christmas and as soon as I get all it's new 'stuff' loaded on the computer, I can start posting new pics on time. Crazy, huh??

Oh what a night :)

I hope I don't have you all in shock when you see I'm posting again :). I'm trying to be good, see?? Well our computer room is still out of commission so I don't have new pics for here yet, but had to share this story :).

Caden loves the bath. I mean, would take 3 baths a day if we let him. We have to keep the bathroom door shut and never dare say "bath", or he will get so excited and run to the tub.

Well anyhoo, yesterday Caden and I had quite a day. For whatever reason, he was not in a good mood and rather crazy. He wasn't listening and was frankly being a handful. At any rate, we got home from a trip to Target for a new pair of shoes for him (suddenly his were way too small), and it was time for a bath for him. I was glad because that is his "happy place" as I call it, and after he'd ran away from me at Target and had a meltdown when I put him back in the cart, we were all ready for the "happy place :)".

Well, that happy place became not so happy for this mama! I got CW in the tub, and he was doing his usual splashing and playing with toys. I am purely there as a life guard, he is in his own land when he's in the bath and has no use for me. Fine with me :). Anyhoo, I'll spare the gross details, but there was suddenly a giant friend in the tub with CW, an un-welcomed friend floating around.

I quickly grabbed CW out of the tub and dried him off. Since we hadn't washed hair/scrubbed up yet, and had been in the tub with this unwanted friend, I knew I had to get him back in the tub to get clean. So, I stood his nakey little toosh outside the tub while I drained it, cleaned it, and cleaned the toys. About that time I wondered why our stupid tub was leaking and my socks were wet....

Turns out our tub doesn't leak. Apparently CW was taking care of all bathroom duties in those 5 minutes. And, when he realized what he'd done, preceeded to stomp his feet in it and splash it on my pants. (Ya, I was in sweatpants, nothing fancy, but still...who wants that on their pants?!?!). So, at that point I began laughing so CW did as well. So, I put him back in the tub and proceeded to clean up the mess on the outside of the tub.

And, our 20 or 30 minute bath became an hour and a half process. At which point I had to get one very tired boy to bed....and then he chattered in his crib for half an hour....go figure :)!!

Always an adventure, right mommies?!?!? What on earth did I do before CW??