11 Months Already

Our little guy is already 11 months tomorrow! Honestly, where has the time gone? I have been gearing up for his first birthday and I can't quite believe what I am doing!

Let's see...at 11 months, Caden is the happiest boy we have ever known! He is constantly smiling and giggling and even gets down with Cookie Monster when he sings, "Let's Count Cookies"! He loves to eat Cheerios and claps like crazy to tell us that he wants more! We have been working on some signing-more and all done, and he does a pretty good job and telling us what he wants! He is becoming more and more interested in what we are eating. If he sees us eating, he army crawls over and reaches for what is in our hands-this is fairly new. He is almost crawling-the fastest army crawler around! He thinks it is hilarious to army crawl to a place that he knows is off limits such as the fireplace, look back and make eye contact with us, then, as fast as he can, he scoots toward the fire! What a stinker! He smiles all of the time and loves to flirt with all of the ladies in the stores. His favorite hobby is riding in the grocery cart at any store. He's such a flirt-especially in the line while we wait to check out! So far, I think Costco is his all time favorite store. He giggles at everything, which makes my heart so happy. Pulling his socks off during every car ride is his how he enjoys passing the time. If we are in the Tahoe, he loves to "share" his toys with Sophie! Sophie now rides at the far side of the car so she doesn't get hit with flying toys. He talks up a storm-especially mamamamama and dadadadada. He loves to look and play with other babies-especially pull on their ears and touch their face...we are working on being gentle. Caden also plays like such a big boy in the bath tub-this is after he practices his dolphin kick and gets mom soaking wet and the floor looking like a lake! He loves to sit and play with his bath toys. Swimming is one of our families favorite past times! We try to go as much as we can. He loves it! He also likes to stand up and hold on to things like the back window or an ottoman. He looks so cute doing it too! One of our favorite talents of Caden is his ability to drink out of a Camelbak water bottle! The kind you have to bite and suck at the same time! Our friends Alex and Evan had this same talent and I couldn't quite believe it! Now Caden has followed in their footsteps! He does not like to drink out of a traditional sippy cup. Finally, he has 6 big teeth! Well...really it's more like 4 full teeth and his two incisors are about half way in! His grins are so darn cute!

Well...I think that about it! He is busy and keeps us on our toes but we love him more every day! Can't believe he turns one next month! Oh dear...

We love to read, he loves to eat the books! Working on this, too!

LOVE that toothy grin!

See! He is so sneaky!

Just getting him ready for his first big game of the season on March 17

Who could say "no" to this face? We are in trouble!

Working on being gentle...he just can't stay away from a pretty girl!

Fun at the Park

Caden and Daddy took advantage of the gorgeous sunny day and headed to one of the parks in Poulsbo yesterday.

He loved climbing all over the slide and going up and down like a big boy.

He LOVED the swing... "More Daddy!"

He also just loved to sit and watch all the kids running around and playing.  Soaking it all in.

My Boys...

One of my favorite things to do is to watch David and Caden interact. They have so much fun together. David has this amazing way of always getting Caden to laugh uncontrollably. They are so cute together! I am so glad that David's job allows him to be home with our son as much as it does! They have such a sweet relationship, which is so important!

Coming home on the ferry (late) from a Sounders game last fall! He was wide awake!

Being lazy on our snowy day today...

Snowed In at 10 Months

Today Caden turns 10 months old! We can't believe it! What a way to celebrate by playing in the snow! All but one Western Washington school district closed for the day and everyone made it outside to play! It was so much fun! School is already closed for tomorrow! More playing for us!

Our first snow on Monday

The big snow today! Probably 4-5 inches by the time it was done snowing!

"Le't me out!"

Caden thought Sophie was so funny!

Happy 5th Anniversary

 

I can't believe it has been five years! I remember the day we met in the parking lot of Third Place Books! We had the best date I'd ever had. I knew after just a few hours that David was someone that I could spend my life with! At the end of our date, we drove down to Alki Beach to spend the rest of our evening. David excused himself and went to his car. When he pulled out a cooler of pink lemonade, I knew he was a keeper!  We both feel so lucky to have found each other and now we have an amazingly beautiful family. We are so blessed.

For our fifth anniversary, David and I decided to get away. This was one of the reasons we decided to get married in the winter. We both love snow and snow sports. What a great reason to get away and play in the snow!

We headed to Lake Wenatchee, right outside of Leavenworth. It was beautiful! We rented a cabin, which came with about 12 inches of snow! The whole family came-David, myself, Caden and Sophie. We loved every minute of it! We spent some time in the town of Leavenworth but a lot of time just relaxing around the cabin and playing in the snow! Sophie was in heaven! She was begging us to go outside every chance she got! We went on a great hike in the snow, where I thought we might be eaten by a snow cat of some kind...thankfully we made it back!

We celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Mountain Springs Lodge. We actually thought we would get married there, but decided that having all of our loved ones attend was more important than a far away destination with tough driving conditions. We have visited many times since, snowmobiling and going on sleigh rides, but we just had dinner this trip. It was fabulous and Caden did great! He was very well behaved and enjoyed his dinner too!

We settled right in to our little cabin

The next morning, Caden touched snow for the first time!

Sophie LOVED it!

Leavenworth

Off on our fantastic hike!

Sophie could run free and scare off all of the snow cats!

He thought it was so funny to look for David over my shoulder!

Happy Anniversary!

Sophie was pooped by the last day!

Christmas With The Baileys

In the Baily family, we are very lucky! We get to celebrate Christmas for a week! With everyone's crazy schedules, we have to find a date that works for everyone to gather for The Bailey Family Christmas. With everyone living so spread out, it is best if we find a time that allows everyone to stay the night and then we celebrate the following morning...Great fun!

This year we decided to spend it at the Baily B&B-AKA David's parent's house! We love it up there because they live on a farm. Caden got to spend time with Great Grandpa and all the rest of the Bailey family. We had a great time!

Bailey Cousins

Hangin with Grandpa

"I think I can, I think I can!"...he is still thinking about it!

Trying his first banana...We don't think he really likes bananas. He always makes a sour face!

Grandpa built a snazzy manger...all they needed was a baby?

Hmmm...he does look pretty cute!

Grandpa and Grandma gave him his first bike!

He had to show Great Grandpa Bailey

Pile on Auntie Lynnsey

Just checkin out the farm...