Kaden Our Musician

Kaden loves music. Here's a shot of him making some. Sorry for the shaky camera, I was laughing too hard to hold still.

The Joys of Kaden

A few days ago I set out to clean the house and began singing "Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere . . ." Within seconds Kaden had pulled out the mop and broom and began mopping the floor. Check out his perfect form!He proceeded to help me wipe down the table.

All of the hard work must have tuckered him out.

While I continued to clean Kaden played with his blocks. It was the first time I had seen him make a tower so I got out the camera to take a picture. Once he realized what I was doing this is the smile he gave me. Last week our furnace quit working. We woke up to a 55 degree house. Burr. We bundled Kaden up and waited for the repair man. He thought it was so funny.

Kaden had fun helping Grandpa Keller make cinnamon rolls.

Kaden discovered this dremel case at the bottom of the stairs and was so determined to carry it to the top. He tried multiple ways of carrying it while he tried to climb the stairs. We may have a little tool man on our hands.

December

Christmas Break - Kaden's new favorite thing to do is go swimming. He loves to have the water hit his face.

Christmas Morning - Mark went into the living room to get the video camera while Kaden and I waited in the hall. Kaden could tell something was different and although I tried to distract him by going into the bedrooms he was focused on getting to the living room. Finally, I put him down and he ran into the living room straigt to his presents.I think Mark might get a son who loves basketball as much as he does. Kaden's first word, aside from mom and dad, was ball. Luckily some of the other toys were a success too.
Christmas afternoon at Grandma Lee's.
Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Caldwell's
Our little shepherd was more interested in clothes pins, ladders, and hitting baby Jesus with his staff than he was in performing. This is him trying knock the star (Clara) and the angle (Jenny) off of the ladder. Luckily Grandpa Woolley was there just in time.

Celebrating with Grandpa Keller.

Snow day - In between preparing breakfast for 200 and hosting a dinner for 16 we tried to have a little fun.


Kaden getting ready for Christmas with his Little People nativity set.

Sushi Party

My family enjoys getting together to make sushi. This time we made about 30 rolls and fed 14 people.

Mark - Our master chef.

Stacey

Stacey and Jeff

Brian

At work

Mark and Jeff

Me and BrianJessica

Halloween

Kaden was a lion, I was Dorothy, and Mark was a scarecrow. I sewed my dress, which actually turned out better than I thought it would, and was very proud of myself. The 52 cent shoes were pretty cool too. Kaden loved trick-or-treating! When the kids started coming, before he was dressed up, he wanted to follow them all over the neighborhood and took off down the sidewalk.
Yummy!

I told you he was excited. Had to check out our candy then carry a piece with him when we went out.

Playin' in the leaves. ]

For those of you who don't know Mark is an amazing pumpkin carver. He looks forward to Halloween to spend the day carving pumpkins. He spends the month of October deciding what he's going to carve. Here are his masterpieces.

Kaden Turned 1

The night before his birthday I took him down stairs with me to put together his present/car. I went into the laundry room first to put in some laundry and by the time I got back he had climbed into the unassembeled car and knew just what to do. He was so happy.

Out for a spin.

He loved the birthday baloons too. They kept him entertained for hours.

Opening presents. Kaden loves all of his new treasures. Thanks everyone!

Eating the cake.

Who Does Kaden Look Like?

We have people tell us all of the time that Kaden looks just like Mark. I even had a co-worker say that she didn't see an ounce of me in him. For all of you who think that Kaden looks more like Mark think again. Take a look at the Look-alike Meter below.

Caldwell Look-alike Meter

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Here Comes Trouble! But, Isn't He CUTE!

We now have child locks on all of our cupboards.