Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Kade celebrated his first turkey holiday with his best friend Isaac! Isaac spent much of the day in a turkey coma and Kade spent much of the day being a turkey-ha!

We were invited to spend the day with the Mosbrucker's (Devin & Amanda). Here are Kade and the beautiful Isaac (Zac) enjoying the day together. (I have a feeling they will get into a bit more mischief as the years go on!)

Here are a couple more pics of Kade and daddy and Devin with the YUMMY turkey!Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!!

My Lil' Helper!

Well we have an official little helper! Kade now likes to "do the laundry" (removing blankets and washclothes from the drawers), "help with dishes" (he loves to try and climb in the dishwasher), and other household tasks. One of his favorites is taking that pesky toilet paper off the roll while he waits for his bath water--uggh!

He has figured out how to get into every drawer and cupboard and remove whatever items lurk in them. BUT it is hilarious because...he PUTS back the stuff. Totally Chad's baby that's for sure! Chad has now baby proofed most of the cupboards and we have left some open so he can "help". Here is some footage of Kade giving mommy reorganization advise...

Maaaa! This drawer is in horrible shape, I need to reorganize this mess!

This oven mitt totally needs to be here on the floor,

way more accessible in case of an emergencyGeez, now this blue one here needs to have some space, much better!
Let me see if I can close it back up Now look at the improvement!

I would like $1 for my allowance please :-)

Video Montage

Holy cow, I did something techie! Look at the bottom of this page for my newest montage of my pumpkin! Kade Melvin from start until now...what an exciting life thus far. His Grandpa Mel would be sooo proud as we all are of him.

I don't have time right now to blog as Chad is on laundry patrol and I've been on here WAY too long figuring out this video thing. Thanks to Tabitha for the idea (copied it from her blog).

Well enjoy!!

Followers are COOL

I added a new feature on the right side of the page...Followers.
Not sure how it works, but you must just have to click on it and show Kade that you are following his exciting journey.
Thanks for reading, I have a lot of fun tracking his first year!

I'm seeing SPOTS!

My poor little guy is sick again! This one is a bit scary as he has had a temperature for a couple of days along with crying (Ok screaming fits) for the last 4 days. He won't eat and will almost jump out of his high chair if you offer him a spoon ful of ANYthing. I swore I was rocking the exorcist the other night as he screamed and flailed with green snot whipping everywhere. Just as I was about to send him off in the mailbox, he suddenly fell asleep in my arms.

Today, I noticed some red spots on his head when I dropped him off at daycare, I thought maybe it was just a heat rash (really I don't even know what that is) but he had a hat and a hood on and I thought he must have got too warm. Well a couple hours later I got a call that this mystery rash moved throughout his whole body.

I then called Chad and he picked Kade up and took him to the Dr. She didn't know what was wrong but wasn't concerned as his ears and breathing were ok. She prescribed some antibiotic since it has gotten worse not better over the last 4 days. I think it is teething as it seems he has 4 top teeth coming in at once! Plus the little bugger likes to GRIND them and the noise is mind numbing and makes my hair stand on end while my toe nails curl back and grow an inch...its an awful noise---uuuggh!

We are tying to soothe him and have teething tablets, baby orajel, frozen washclothes, frozen pacifiers, colic water, and baby tylenol (not all used at the same time-ha!) Mom and dad are on patrol as the officers in Iraq, we have plans and missions and coping tactics!

Grandma Nancy suggested a good 'ole popsicle which he calmed down for a few licks for...
As all you mommies with grown children, lay your heads down for an "uninterrupted" night of sleep, say an extra prayer for my little guy and know you are done getting up with screaming babies in the middle of the night---CALGON take me AWAY!!

More toys??

You can tell Kade is an only child as he is spoiled rotten! The sad part is that he has outgrown most of his "accessories" already and it looks like Toys R Us under my stairs!
He has grown out of:
2 swings, with all the bells and whistles
A boppy chair that will stick to his butt if he attempts to sit in it
A Johnny jumper, again will have to surgically remove from his behind
A baby bath tub equipped with the infant sling
His swaddling blankets
A bouncer with all the sparkly lights
A beautiful bassinet
Who knows what the heck else in addition to all his brand new clothes he wore maybe 3 times (mommy loves to baby shop!!)
It's funny how one minute these purchases are SOOO important and every detail counts and then before you know it, you didn't even remember having it!

So our newest addition to toy land is his "walker". Little did I know he would take to it like a pro and now runs around the house and into my walls and furniture. I outta give that kid a ticket!

I got places to go and people to see, Later Ma!

EEEEEEErrrrchhhh!, Crash right into the wallI better check under the hood and see what the damage is...Daddy just came home tonight and found these cool peddle bikes he can't wait for Kade to be able to ride. I guess they have little tractors with front loader buckets and everything.

I'll just die the day he asks for the car keys!!!

He now prefers to close doors and then cry when he is locked in, also he likes to play with the door stoppers that boing back and forth behind the dooor. He likes to disassemble humidifiers and slam toys on my tables. This is replacing "playing with toys".~Sigh!

Presents!

This is the first present that Kade opened by HIMSELF! Very exciting stuff I tell ya...
Kade's best friend Isaac got Kade a Halloween present and I let him go to town on it and find out what goodies lurked in his gift bag... (plus I started tinkering with my camera so we got some dark and light pics..sorry)

Maaa! What is this you threw in my lap? Do I stick my leg in it? It is sure a fun bag!No?? Ok, Do I chew this yarn stuff? MMMM!No??? OK, Let me grab what is in here once...A book?? Yay, Just what I wanted :-)

Thanks Isaac!