Of course, all that celebrating tuckered us out...
Happy dreams, everyone! Lingering, daydreams or otherwise!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Lingering Memories...
On pure chance, we found a store in Sarasota that sells "IRN BRU"! It called for a mini-celebration (complete with hob knobs too).
Of course, all that celebrating tuckered us out...
Happy dreams, everyone! Lingering, daydreams or otherwise!
Of course, all that celebrating tuckered us out...
Happy dreams, everyone! Lingering, daydreams or otherwise!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
some photos
WHO GAVE THIS BOY CHOCOLATE???
Oh, your friend shared....
"HELLO? GRANDMA? I MISS YOU!"
"HELLO? GRANDMA? I MISS YOU!"
Winding down with Nana and Bananas (el mono)
Daddy's little helper!
Daddy's little helper!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Hi Thomas Door VannaClap Monkey Amen!
Well, hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it? We've been here, and doing normal things. Except for perhaps, being awfully reticent in most communicative forms. But you're not here for an essay on our responsibility to chat with our siblings, so let's get to the little guy, shall we?
Kade's personality is SO. MUCH. FUN. He is, as aptly put in a recent motherly poem, "22 pounds of pure joy." (Except he's officially only 20.5 lbs, but you get the idea.) (and yes, I actually met that deadline!) The wee world traveller is back at home, and not really in any routine, as he thinks perhaps one nap a day is plenty, but the parental units are refusing to consider this possibility. Hence the 7pm-nap-for-an-hour-then-wake-and-bath-and-sing-and-bedtime NEW routine happening this week...
What's really a lot of fun, though, is seeing and hearing him express himself verbally. We had worked on baby signs (oh so long ago) and the only thing that stuck so far is "more". It's used mostly for food. The kid takes after Jim's dad on this account, as he does not like others to eat alone. So it doesn't matter, for instance, if he ate his dinner at 5pm and JimDad sits down to eat at 6pm, there's Kaden with his "more" sign. If Nana or Ma try to take a bite or two of a little nightly fortification (aka 8pm brownies), he's there- putting one finger in the other palm: MORE. Was this the same babe we were worried wasn't eating enough? Good lord, what will the teenage years be like?
He has also started to RESPOND. To people, to toys, to the TV, to the windows... So a soundtrack of the last week would be something like this:
Kade walks into a room "HI" and flashes a big smile
... pushes a button on a Thomas book, listens to the train noise, then puts it down on the floor and yells "some-toddler-words-his-mom-can't-translate"
...bangs on the door when someone is, ah, "occupied" and yells NA! DA! MA! until he gets an answer
...when Wheel of Fortune is on, he pauses to watch, shouts out one or two syllables (BA), then claps with the crowd
... finds his birthday monkey, Bananas, and pushes its arm to hear "we love you kaden" and a bunch of his cousins' names. sometimes he just smiles, other times he repeats a name.
... when his "prayer bear" finishes its "now I lay me down to sleep", he echos the AMEN and then nods his head yes.
All this with mostly nonstop motion, as he loves to walk around and put things (like the remote) into other things (like the toliet). Or his sippy cup into the trash.... What will the next week bring?
Kade's personality is SO. MUCH. FUN. He is, as aptly put in a recent motherly poem, "22 pounds of pure joy." (Except he's officially only 20.5 lbs, but you get the idea.) (and yes, I actually met that deadline!) The wee world traveller is back at home, and not really in any routine, as he thinks perhaps one nap a day is plenty, but the parental units are refusing to consider this possibility. Hence the 7pm-nap-for-an-hour-then-wake-and-bath-and-sing-and-bedtime NEW routine happening this week...
What's really a lot of fun, though, is seeing and hearing him express himself verbally. We had worked on baby signs (oh so long ago) and the only thing that stuck so far is "more". It's used mostly for food. The kid takes after Jim's dad on this account, as he does not like others to eat alone. So it doesn't matter, for instance, if he ate his dinner at 5pm and JimDad sits down to eat at 6pm, there's Kaden with his "more" sign. If Nana or Ma try to take a bite or two of a little nightly fortification (aka 8pm brownies), he's there- putting one finger in the other palm: MORE. Was this the same babe we were worried wasn't eating enough? Good lord, what will the teenage years be like?
He has also started to RESPOND. To people, to toys, to the TV, to the windows... So a soundtrack of the last week would be something like this:
Kade walks into a room "HI" and flashes a big smile
... pushes a button on a Thomas book, listens to the train noise, then puts it down on the floor and yells "some-toddler-words-his-mom-can't-translate"
...bangs on the door when someone is, ah, "occupied" and yells NA! DA! MA! until he gets an answer
...when Wheel of Fortune is on, he pauses to watch, shouts out one or two syllables (BA), then claps with the crowd
... finds his birthday monkey, Bananas, and pushes its arm to hear "we love you kaden" and a bunch of his cousins' names. sometimes he just smiles, other times he repeats a name.
... when his "prayer bear" finishes its "now I lay me down to sleep", he echos the AMEN and then nods his head yes.
All this with mostly nonstop motion, as he loves to walk around and put things (like the remote) into other things (like the toliet). Or his sippy cup into the trash.... What will the next week bring?
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