HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISAAC!

It's official, Isaac is now a ONE YEAR OLD! Wow, now things are getting fun as Kade and his best friend are starting to play together more. On October 14th, Ike's birthday, we got to go over and help celebrate!
The boys played with toys and this pumpkin puppy in the background, was suppose to be a hit! Ikie loves it and you can see how Kade took to it. Its little ears flap up and down and it sings a song. Well, looks like Kade needed a minute or two longer to warm up to him. (It was getting late~ha)
And of course there was plenty of CAKE! Isaac was a good mannered little boy (and a bit disappointing~ha), he neatly touched the cake just a bit and tried to lick it off his fingers.Happy Birthday Ikie! Here's Isaac at Kade's first Birthday party!! Awww, don't cry Amanda if your reading this...Alrighty then, good thing I brought along my professional cake eating piggy! He has had a whole 9 months longer than Isaac to perfect his cake face smashing ability. He takes pride in his work and seems he has some strategy that keeps me on my toes...

He basically stole Isaac's show and put one on of his own (I can tell these boys are gonna be fighting for attention already...OYE!)

Alrighty then..here's how you eat a 1st Birthday Cake...

#1...Verify Dad is turned the OTHER way...#2...OPEN WIDE, Chomp...Chomp...#3...STUFF, STUFF, SMOOSHIE...#4...Take a breather, there's lots more to eat..time for a trip down memory lane for my 1st Birthday cake eating experience...Wow, I had the STUFF, STUFF, SMOOSHIE move down perfect!Oooh, the face plant, that was PERFECTION..OK, break over, continue the STUFF, STUFF, SMOOSHIE manuver... #And Lastly, Call mommie to come clean up...

MAAAAA!

We've had so much with Isaac and Kade and are so fortunate they are so close in age. Even though they seem worlds apart at this young age, we are slowly seeing them get excited to play together and give us grown ups time to talk~Yay!

Kade gets excited to go to Ikie's ouse (doesn't pronounce the "h" for house). He sometimes just blurts out "Demin, Ikie, Weezie, Mana", all in one sentence. He's pretty funny.

As much as I get excited for Birthday's I will have a big mommy heart attack on January 16th, when my baby is 2. I love you Kade, you will always be MY BABY!

My baby's 1st B-Day

(I just want to pinch his little fat legs here!)

GAIN

GAIN!! GAIN!!...That is what Kade now cries out for Again, Again!! He is totally into the rough housing with daddy, and I need to patrol extra hard when those two are together. They are ususally up to no good and giving mommy a HEART ATTACK!

Eeehhhh he he he, tickle monster is starting

GAIN, GAIN, GAIN... SQEAL SQEAL...(he's good at that)

I normally think I need to get my hearing checked after one of their "playtimes"

YAY, this is my Favorite, DADDY...

EEEEEEEhhhhhhhhhh! Here we GO!!!

OH DEAR LORD, BE STILL MY HEART...AAAACK!!!

Kade just turned 21 months today! He is full of pep and energy and the rougher the better...that's how he likes it. He's 100% boy that is for sure! Looks like Kade and daddy have a bit too much fun for mommy's liking, but I'm always on "patrol" and trying to keep everyone in one piece.

Monkey costume coming along

The costume (minus the body of it w/tail) is going well...
Except, he seems to think he's a lion and Raaarrhs at us. Notice he has his hat AND PAWS on his feet!

RAAAWW...

WWWWRRRRH!

It looks like he casts a spell of evil on us as he jets his arms out. Pretty funny!

Now I'm a little poo pooey, as I think daycare is no longer dressing up on Halloween (sigh). They sent a note home requesting a picture of them in their Halloween costumes so their friends can see them dressed up. I suppose they don't want to mess with all the diaper changes~ha. They are having a "pajama day" the day before Halloween, maybe he can wear his "monkey" pajamas..wink wink!

My baby is growing up!

My biggest news: Today, Kade said his FIRST SENTENCE! It was "GOD IS GREAT" "AMEN"! Yes I do believe this is a complete gramatical sentence~ha! He was eating supper and while I was washing his hands, he screeches Gawg gis gate Mahmen! We called up Grandma Nancy right away and he recited it for her too, so we have a witness! He is so dang smart! I'm such a proud momma already. Kade goes to daycare at a church, so they must be teaching him table prayers...he even had his hands folded. Bad mommy never thought to teach him myself as I'm too busy making sure he eats enough and scraping his leftovers off the walls~ha! So now that I've been enlightened, we will have to practice our prayers!

Here are some misc pics of my sweet pumpkin pie, growing up before my eyes. We are nearing 21 months and I'm so in love with this guy. Every day he learns something new and just gets so excited for everything.

This is an older pic, but he sure loves his books.

Showing off at the lake...What he does in his high chair, when he's not praying...little escape artist.Dad, I think this truck needs an overhaul...
He loves to go Nighnie...my good sleeper~phew!

Rumpa pum pum...me & my DRUM

Ridin' my Hoowsie!

PEEK A BOO!

I just love his "Bam Bam" shirt...he looks so big!

Preview to Halloween

We are going to have a little monkey for Halloween! We are getting him used to wearing his hat. He also has the full blown costume, with tail and all. He is now practicing "TRICK OR TREAT" with his pumpkin to fill with candy. Wish us luck...he likes to say OFF OFF when we put the hat on...uh ooh!
But this was our practice round last year, I guess we are making improvements!

GeeePaw, GeeeMaw!

Kade has had alot of visitors lately! Grandma Nancy and Uncle Shawn and Jackie were up a week ago, and then last week we got a visit from both Grandma Penny and Grandpa LeeRoy. It is quite funny b/c Kade has a purple phone that he only talks to Grandpa and Grandma's on. Whenever you ask who he's talking to..its only GPaw or GMaw.

Great, we'll see you then! Grandma reads to me alot! See how I point out the Moowwsie...

(he's wearing his Michael Jordan outfit..thx Terri!)

Grandpa played the buckle board with me, Wow, mommy thinks I look like a really BIG BOY in this picture...
Uhh ohh, I'm being chased...YIKES!

There's nothing more PRECIOUS!!

Thanks everyone for coming to visit us! I know we are far away and love when you can make the trip, as traveling with a toddler is quite the challenge!

Once Upon A Time

We have a future scholar on our hands. Kade LOVES reading books and remembers his favorite part of EVERY book we have. There is no getting past the "Ickie Cowah", "Mooowwse", "Mowkie", "Ageegatowah", "Elmo", and many other characters that he can point out in a sea of books and get to the exact page he is obsessing over at the moment.

TRANSLATION:

Ickie Cow (A cow laying in the weeds, Chad took a weed away from him one day and said ICKIE and since he saw the cow laying in weeds, its now the icky cow)
Mouse~He has a book that he counts the number of chicks in, but is more interested in the mouse hiding in the grass...so he points and says mouse, mouse...but really drawn out more like mowwwhsse.
Monkey~He has a couple of books he like to pick monkey out of.
Alligator~He has a couple books that have these two, hilarious when he tries to pronounce it!
Elmo~He pronounces that one pretty good. Elmo has been a long time hero of his.

Hmmm, let me see if this book is to my liking...

Chickens??? Hmmm...Nope, that will not do...let me see what else I can find...

Oooooh! Now here's what I'm talking about, 5 Little Monkies Jumping on the BED! I could get used to this story, monkies and jumping..I'm liking it!

Silly Monkies! Jump Jump Jump...Aha ha they crack me up!What??? Awwwe, poor Monkies Fell off and Bumped their heads!
THE END!

It has been fun watching him discover all the animals and characters in his books. He has so many different emotions when he is reading and is really passionate about some of them. He will sit in his room by himself and carefully analyze his whole collection. He is definetly a little sponge and each day is getting more fun. Hope it stays this way and he still likes it in school!