mr. bright eyes

meeting Nana and Bompa

Steve's parents came to visit 3 weeks after Kaden was born. Their trip was planned for the week before, but the flight was canceled due to bad weather...talk about grandparents anxious to meet their little grandsons!!

They are now the proud grandparents of 4 boys! Steve's sister Becky is due in couple of weeks with grandbaby #5, but the gender is still unknown :) And Jess is prego with grandbaby #6 and due in January! Yay for babies and growing famblys!!

Recently...

(phone pic)

Here are a few recents. Little man is rolling over and sitting up now! He's so proud of himself. I can definitely tell he's happy about his accomplishments :) He also LOVES the water. Pool time is one of his faves. He kicks like crazy and smacks the water with his hands and giggles when it splashes him in the face. SO FUN to watch. If you're friends with me on Facebook, then you can see a video of him in the pool HERE.

this was at 4 months

almost 6 months :) love his little personality. (phone pic)

He won't take a bottle (hasn't since around 2 months old), so I'm trying to get him to drink out of a sippy cup! I tried it today for the first time and he was definitely curious about it. He chewed on it and sucked out of it a little, but mostly he just liked holding it himself :) Such a big boy. I'm just going to keep trying every day at one feeding til he gets used to it.

keeping my word..

Ok so here's a little post to back up my previous post :) Let me start back in January when we welcomed our baby boy into the world...that's something worth blogging about for sure! He was born a week past my due date (Jan. 23) on a snowy, icy blue moon, January 31, 2010 (seriously, we had a crazy snowstorm! We drove to the hospital at 4am on ice-covered roads!) After a long labor through the night and half of the next day, he finally came at 2:28 pm on Sunday afternoon. What a joyful day that was!

first bath :)

all bundled up.

oh what a kissable little face.

daddy and baby resting..I think Steve was more tired than I was after the labor ;)

going home outfit

daddy trying not to slip on the icy driveway. bringing baby home!

meeting his older (by 5 weeks) cousin Howard

meeting his 3 year old cousin Duncan

1 week old. precious!

We adore our sweet, firstborn Kaden Isaiah. These last (almost) 6 months have been so enjoyable! He has been such an easy, happy baby! I know I am a blessed momma to have such a content baby boy. We'll take a few more just like him ;) Is that too much to ask??

Having Kaden five weeks after his cousin Howie was born and 3 days after his cousin Kieran was born has been really sweet. I'm so glad he has cousins close in age. I'm sure they'll be close friends. The first few months after he was born were slow paced, happy times. It was still cold and gloomy outside, so I never really felt like I was missing out on things and stuck at home. Then by the time the weather was nice, we were well adjusted, recovered and ready to enjoy it! So far I love being a momma!! More to come later :)

..startin' fresh

Wow. Six months without posting might lead one to believe that I have given up blogging for good. In fact, I have actually thought that I should sit down and blog on multiple occasions, but was then discouraged by my long absence and overwhelmed by all that I would need to catch people up on in our life. But I've decided that I shouldn't let that stop me from resuming this blog. I recently scrolled through all of my previous posts and enjoyed being reminded of different things that have taken place in our three years of marriage, the season of being married and finishing school, working full time, holidays, vacations and lots of random memories along the way. And now that Kaden is a part of our family, and Lord willing more children in the future, I think this is a great way to record not only photos (since you can do that with facebook and other media outlets) but also write down things you don't want to let slip from memory, thoughts that accompany the daily happenings of our life as a little family. How precious it is to be able to go back and have these things brought vividly back to life through images and words and in a sequential manner. So here I go again. I might not be able to fill you in on every little detail of what's past, but that doesn't matter. Here's to startin' fresh!