Changes

We've been going through a lot of changes around here. Mostly Caden just growing up. Back in January Caden started climbing out of his crib. It was nearly impossible to keep him in his bed and get him to go to sleep since he now had new freedom. Finally we had to just start locking the door or else he would come out all night long. Then we moved him to bunk beds a few weeks ago. I think he's finally starting to get used to them but he still comes out a lot and it takes him forever to go to sleep at nap time and at night. One night he was up from 2:30am to 6:00am! We finally got him to sleep in our bed that morning which he has NEVER done. He usually just wants to play so it doesn't ever work. He's also given up his pacifier at bed time. He started chewing and breaking them with his teeth so we told him there wasn't going to be anymore after he got down to his last one. This didn't help much with his sleeping, but I think he's gotten used to it now and isn't really asking for them anymore. His teeth are already straighter after only a week!

Another big change...potty training! Yikes! I probably shouldn't admit that I'm doing this incase of failure, but we are working on potty training. I tried it back in January for a week or two then stopped for a month and picked it back up just recently. He has made some great progress but we still have a ways to go. Every time he goes on the potty he jumps up and claps his hands and says "yay!" and "big boy!" immitating me and Clint. He has become a master at saying he needs to go potty in order to stall bedtime. I think it's going to take a long long time before he's fully trained, but I'm going to keep at it and hopefully he'll make big strides by the time the baby comes.

Caden has finally acknowledged that there is a baby in my tummy. If I ask him to he'll put his hands on my stomach and say "baby". I know he doesn't fully understand but at least he'll talk about it now! Before he would just completely ignore us if we ever tried to tell him that he's going to be a big brother.

Other happenings/pictures...

This is how I feel with Caden sometimes. This kid can run fast and keeps getting harder to catch. He must have inherited Clint's fast twitch muscles because I certainly am no sprinter.

Going down the slide at the park

Clint ordering "ice cones" (ice cream cones) and hot dogs and Caden getting his order

Handing Clint the "ice cones" and hot dogs

Clint's 27th birthday. Things can't get much more exciting than this!! We didn't even have a birthday cake. Clint wanted to go out for ice cream which was just fine with me.