Happy 1st Birthday Cade! - My How They Grow!

It is still hard to believe that we are parents, and even harder to believe that we now have a 1 year-old! It has been so fun to watch him grow and develop into a little (more like large) child. He is just over 30" and about 24lbs.

He jabbers non-stop, started squealing like a little girl again when he wants something, is everywhere and into everything, off the formula and eating everything under the sun, doing double back flips on the trampoline, and slam dunking on a 10' basketball hoop. Ok, the last 2 might just be dad's dreams. So far he has had fun with jaundice, fevers, colds, the croup, Swine Flu, rashes, viruses, etc. The best was when he got the swine flu, the croup, and started teething all at the same time. But we consider ourselves very lucky because he has been sleeping through the night since the day he turned 6 weeks old.

Overall, he has probably been the easiest baby, and thank goodness with mom's school schedule. Hopefully our next one will be the same...we can hope can't we?

Well here is an idea we had a few weeks after he was born. As you can tell, the older he got, the harder it was to keep him still for a picture. I can't believe how much he changed in 1 year!

1 Month

2 Months
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9 Months

10 Months

11 Months

1 Year Old!!!

WARNING: 6 New Posts Below (Our Quarterly Blogging Session)

Disclaimer: I (Darren) am a bonehead. Made the slide shows too big and they cropped off parts of the pictures. I am too lazy to fix them. I'll do better next time.

Faces of Cade

Much to the disapproval of my beautiful wife, I am going to post some faces Cade has made that I think are really funny. Just to appease Brandi, I have included some pictures of Cade how he normally looks so she can sleep at night, not worrying that everyone thinks our child always looks goofy!

The Knights Cabin

The Knights, our friends from church, invited our family and another couple from the church (the Knights - no immediate relation) to their cabin/house on Lake Wenatchee. We had a blast trying to put together impossible puzzles, some more possible puzzles, playing games (Mexican Train Dominos and Quarters), snowmobiling, and just hanging out. The latter was probably the best part, much needed.

Thank you so much Dick and Karen!

Brooklyn at her best!

Classic "What, what did I do?" look!

New Years Football, a Family Tradition

Our family (Litchfield) has been playing football every Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day since my dad (Ryan) was about 17 yrs old. A few years ago we added 4th of July. Always a blast

Christmas 2009

Just a few pictures from Christmas this year.

Trip to Dallas

As many of you know, Brandi's sister Brooke was pregnant with twins and on bed rest in the hospital starting around 20 weeks. So we went down for a week to help out with her 2.5 and 5 year old daughters while Brent was at work. We had a blast; here are some of the highlights!

As many of you also know, unfortunately the day after we left, one of the twins, Nathan, past away. A few weeks later at 25 weeks, Spencer was born, weighing in at 1lb 13 oz. He is doing better and better every day. Thanks for the continued prayers!

Spencer Brian Peterson

I realize I'm a slacker and you all hate me because I haven't been blogging. But I quickly wanted to let everyone know my sister Brooke had her baby. She's had a rough pregnancy. Started out with identical twins, got put on bed rest, then put on bed rest in the hospital and has been there for over a month. Just before Christmas they lost one of the twins. Tonight at 25 weeks (I think...?) Spencer Brian Peterson was born. The delivery went well and he is stable. Please keep him and their family in your prayers.

1 lb 13 oz and 13 inches long

The hands help you see how big he actually is

We love you Peterson family! Congratulations on the new addition to your family!

Thanksgiving = Boredom at Work

Ok, so right before Thanksgiving things get slow around the office since everyone we want to talk to is on vacation. I don't really remember how this came about but we obviously got very bored. Some explanation: In High School, I knew some guys who were self-proclaimed "breakdancers". I am obviously waaaaay too white to have rhythm enough to do anything, but there was one thing that I thought was cool and I was bound and determined to learn it. So I did. And that was the extent of my "breakdancing" experience.