Week 2 - Caden

It's 2:30 - they have both been napping for an hour and a half - woohoo! I hear Colton stirring so I'm going to make this quick. I love being a mom to these 2 boys! It's the hardest thing I've ever done, but also the most fulfilling and joyous endeavor ever! Could it be my heart is swelling with love after looking at the pictures below WHILE the 2 rugrats are sleeping peacefully :) Ha! Life is definitely "full speed ahead" when they are both awake! Well, I digress and the nap clock is ticking...

** I will post this today and then eventually change the date so it's around his actual 2 week date = July 6. 2 weeks down, only 7 more til we're up to date... **


Colton and Caden - Watch out Colton - Caden will catch to you in length soon!

Mommy & Daddy's sweet friends, Dana and Laine brought dinner over during Caden's 2nd week and Colton loved playing with Jackson!

Caden all swaddled up...

This picture of Caden is eerily similar to one we have of Colton - I'll have to find and post later.

Caden's first full bath! Not too thrilled about it, but loves them now!

The "Little Slugger" doing his tummy time.

2 week pictures

I love this face - he often sucks on his lower lip and wrinkles up his face - we call it his "old man" look.

Just chillin' on the Fourth of July. We celebrated with my dad, Karen and Brooke at their house.

He seems to be a pretty relaxed little boy! Life is good when you're little and cute :)

Big Brother holding Caden.

I think Caden likes his big brother!

This is from Papaw's house on the Fourth. Colton really enjoyed the pool once he got in. He spent a lot of time exploring the waterfall and playing water balloons with Uncle Zach and Aunt April...

25 months

Wow! Two posts in one week :) Just had to jot a couple things down that I don't want to forget. Colton is at a very sweet, precocious, curious and the beginnings of a slight rebellious stage. He keeps me on my toes! This morning he woke up happy and I heard him jabbering in his crib. Usually he is calling out "I wanna get out! I wanna get out!"... But this morning he was yelling, "I want french fr-ies! I want french fr-ies!" It made me laugh - he must have dreamed about them or something. Then as I walked in to greet him good morning, he also informed me that he would like a corny dog, too! He has begun saying too after every sentence... Example: I want milk, too. I want to play with cars, too. Mommy play too.

He says his fair share of no, but just in the last few months has begun sweetly saying, Ye-s (I don't know how to write it with the way he draws it out - but it's a combination of Texas twang and a sing-songy lilt). Beginning to be a bit manipulative at nap time - stalling and asking for more water, a song, books, medicine, you name it. For some reason since he turned two, it has also taken him longer to fall asleep at night. Thankfully he is still sleeping 11-12 hours at night and takes a blessed 2-3 hour nap during the day!!! Before the summer he was 1.5 hours or less. I guess we've been wearing him out.

He's got quite a sense of humor and loves to talk in a "Cookie Monster" voice taught to him by Bunny. He says "I like cookies, I'm a cookie monster" all day long and changes the object to fit the context... Ex: "I like chicken, I'm a chicken monster!" Too funny. He also loves to fill in the blank with "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" and often blames Uncle Zach. Loves to ask "Where are we going?" in the car, "What happened?" when he hears a loud noise, and "What's that called?" all day long! It's really fun to carry on a conversation with him. He remembers a lot and will often bring up a subject that we talked about yesterday or even a few weeks ago.


I'm sure there's a ton more but that's all I can remember for now. Stay tuned for posts about our recent ranch vacation, Caden Weeks 2-8 (yikes I'm behind), Uncle Zach and Aunt April's beautiful wedding (Colton was the ring bearer), summer favorites and reflections on being a mom the second time around...Caden is growing up way too fast!

Colton at 10 weeks...

Caden at 7 weeks (at 8 weeks he can barely fit in his 3 month clothes). I thought it was cute that they almost have their arms in the same position wearing the surfer shirt. Caden looks like a baldy compared to Colton :)

Sweet Caden at 7 weeks sleeping in his Daddy's arms...

Colton loves to help me "make something" - his words for cooking with Mommy. Here he is licking the muffin batter off the spatula - hopefully it won't hurt him - he loves it for some reason!

My Boys!

Sweet Brothers!

I know I know --- I am terribly behind on blogging but I will catch up someday... my motto right now is "baby steps" and blogging often falls to the wayside. I couldn't resist putting up this pic though. We go Monday for Caden's 2 month appt. so I will let you know his stats soon. At 1 month he was 10 lbs. so I'm guessing close to 12 - he loves to eat! We are doing well...just enjoying these last few weeks of summer. I start back to work around the middle of Sept.

Caden is a great baby -- goes to sleep easily usually by 8 pm every night -- unfortunately he is only going about 5 hours at a time at night and doesn't do well with a dream feed so unless I go to bed at 8 with him I miss out on that long stretch. Mommy is tired. Could it be that I also have a tenacious toddler to keep me on my toes during the daytime hours! :) Colton is doing great but I can definitely see some extra clingyness this week. We were on vacation last week so he had lots of grandparents and family to give him extra attention. I think he's just now realizing that he has to share Mommy with Caden and is not thrilled with it. He loves to say "Mommy all done" in regards to Caden and I am often told to put the baby down and "play play"!