Post that I wrote almost two months ago and am finally posting...

Ok ok, I know that we suck. I'm not going to try to catch up because that would be insane. I have been putting this off for SOO long, but Darren brought up a good point the other night. He said we haven't even posted about Cade walking. Which happened FOREVER ago! And so I feel terrible! He is so cute and fun to be with and I probably should be documenting all the adorable things that he does, but I don't. I will, however, mention a few things and post a few pictures of what has been going on in our lives.

I am obviously still in school. Yes, even right now during the Summer. I go Monday through Thursday so that keeps me fairly busy. And when I get home I either have a headache (from my photoshop class) or I can't move my arms (from my furniture design and construction class) so all I want to do is relax. I try to spend my free time (once Cade is asleep) watching a movie, reading, or doing nothing. I'm just doing it while I can before real school starts again in September :)

Now that you have read about my really exciting life, I will inform you all about or cute little boy! He took a while to start walking, but made up for it in the language area. He says lots of words and has been for a very long time. Here is a list of things to make reading this long post a little easier:

Things Cade does:
Walks
Runs
Spins around in circles
Plays with rocks and dirt
Blows bubbles (with a little help from me)
TICKLES - probably his favorite thing to do. He even started tickling Darren the other night while he was half asleep and with his eyes closed :)
Plays T-ball and our pop-a-shot
Climbs and goes down our little plastic slide with no help from us
Waits at the top of the stairs to hold our hand
Sniffs flowers
Grabs and looks at books on the couch by himself

There are tons more but I think I'll spare you :)

Words he says:
Ball (I'm fairly sure this was his first real word and his absolute favorite thing in the world - any kind of ball. Seriously, he spots them from a mile away and points them out to us)
Balloon
Bubbles
Doggie
Crackers
Hot dog
Apple
Up and down
All done
Hi
Bye
Peek-a-boo (which he pronounces picky-boo)
Basketball (When asked "What's your favorite sport?" he replies with this)
Chicken
Milk
So these are some of the words he says on his own. He will also repeat (or try to) almost any word we say. Cade also makes animal noises. The ones he can do currently are moo, neigh, baa, meow, rar, ooo-ahh ooo-ahh (which is his version of a monkey), woof-woof, tweet-tweet, and my two favorites are fishy (popping his lips) and bunny (scrunching his nose and sniffing in and out).

So now that you know more about my child than you probably wanted to, here are some pictures. Hopefully we'll be at least a LITTLE better about posting... fat chance :)

Fourth of July - Kids fireworks :)

Cade loves flowers and loves his Aunt Amelia

Birthday Dinner... yeah... this was June... I said we were behind!

Cade falls and hits his head a lot. This particular incident was with the corner of a wall

Cade and his cousin Brooklyn love to play together

Oh I just love this little boy!