New developments

The past couple months have been crazy. It's hard to believe how much Cade has changed in just a short period of time. Here are some of his current developments:

*Teething*
For the past couple months, Cade has just been acting a little more fussy than usual. Not only that, but he's been drooling like crazy, putting EVERYTHING in his mouth and gnawing really hard on whatever that may be. We thought he must be teething, but it wasn't until yesterday afternoon that his first tooth popped out! For the most part, he's been great! A little more fussy (as I mentioned), but no fever, no runny nose, no nothin! I was so excited I pulled out the camera and took a video as soon as I found out. Don't mind my annoying voice... Cade likes it.

Obviously you can't really see the tooth in the video (or any picture I tried to take)... I can barely even feel it. But it was fun anyway!

*Rolling Over*
Yep, while Darren's family came in town, Cade rolled over for the first time! He's gone both ways, but mostly just likes to go from his back to his stomach (at which point his arm gets stuck and he gets mad). I can't think of the last time I put him on his back for more than a minute and not had him roll over to his front. He just loves it.

*Eating Solids*
Right after Darren's family left, we started to feed Cade rice cereal. Here are some pictures of the first time he tried it:

Darren got to be the first to feed him since I'm always the one that feeds Cade

Getting part of it in his mouth

The rest drips down his chin

Then he sticks his hands in his mouth and we try to stop him (Sorry about the quality of this picture)

After a few bites, Darren had to get back to work. For his first time, we thought it would be easier if he could finish leaning back. It worked much better.

It's been a couple weeks since then and he's getting a lot better at eating. He's tried bananas and squash so far and seemed to love them both. Oh yeah, I let him try some watermelon yesterday too and he LOVED sucking out all the juice! Yummy!

There are also a couple things we're working on. First is sitting up. He's getting better and better every day. He can now sit by himself for 5 or 10 seconds at a time! I can't wait for him to be able to SIT and play with toys. I think he'll like playing with them a lot more once he can do that! The other thing we're working on is having him hold is own bottle. He gets a bottle about once every other day and he's getting pretty close to holding it all on his own!

He's almost got it!


Here are some random pictures from the past little while:

It really is amazing watching this little boy grow. I'm loving every minute of it. I just can't get enough of him!