.Cade.

Our handsome, clever and sweet boy turned 5 last week. We had a fun little celebration and were so glad for that one perfectly happy day in a week of stress. Cade is a definate joy and I am ever so grateful to have him!

I will have to post updated pictures as soon as I find my camera cord. But here is a photo history of the delight that is our first born...
2 weeks old...

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

.Birthday.

A shout out to my wonderful man who celebrated his big 30th yesterday.
Love you honey!

.Baby Boy.

No we are not expecting...

We have a new addition in the male variety. Happy birthday to me!!!

Cade Turns 3!!

I am a little late with this, but life seemed to get busy this last week for some reason...

Our beautiful, handsome, happy boy turned 3 on Sunday the 8th November. We had a little Pirate Party for him after church with a few friends and he loved it! It all came together pretty well, which I was thankful for as we had had 2 really awful nights up with Ethan with what we now know was a head cold. So I am glad that sleep deprivation didn't affect the day for Cade. I had alot of fun this year in the preparation for his party. I always make his invitations and his cake and I kept the party decorations very simple this year. We didn't do games as I find it stressful to get the kids motivated to play games they are shy or uninterested in so we just got eye patches, made our pirate hats and handed out the 'treasure' from his cake. It was also really nice to just visit with the adults and we just let the kids do their own thing. I know Cade enjoyed the day, Cory and I had a great time and I think everyone else seemed to enjoy themselves.

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I can not post about a growing boy without letting you know what he is up to at 3 years old. Cade is just a lovely boy. We are still as smitten as ever. He is fun, loving, caring, playful and just the most lovable 3 year old ever!! (I am ever so biased I know)
- Cade talks all the time and I find him really easy to understand, but I am not sure if that is because I am mum, but his Dr said he was doing great and that she could totally understand him, which is nice.
- He is fully potty trained, has been for over a month now.
- Cade is a great sleeper and still naps a good 2 hours a day, although I do have to lay with him for a couple of minutes until he nods off.
- He has a fantastic imagination. Wants me to role play with him.
- Cade loves TV and wants to do the things the characters are doing and if emotions are expressed he expresses them too. Very perceptive boy.
- He loves to dance and will ask to dance with me daily. I love it as I have always danced with my boys. He is a little break dancer if he dances on his own... not sure where he got that one, not from Cory or I that's for sure!
- I get daily requests to make a house, a tent or to fix his train set that Ethan the Destroyer messed up or if he can see his friends, who is coming to his house or when he can go to school.
- He has shown a keen interest in learning his colors and numbers. We try but he is a stubborn little mite and likes to get it on his own.
- Cade LOVES nursery. He lives for it. Loves to see the church steeple on the way to church and makes sure we all have seen it too.
- He is so appropriately affectionate, tells us, "I wove you so much!" all the time.
- As you might be able to tell from above, he can not say L's it is funny to hear him say every L word with a W instead.
- Cade does this pose thing when he is explaining something, he bends his leg and indicates to what he talking about with a hand on his hip and so matter-of-fact. It is hilarious and I have to bite my tongue not to laugh.
- He absolutely loves his cousins. He asks for them all the time and tells people about them.
- Cade likes to go to the Dr and when we drive past it he tells me I forgot and missed the turn. Funny boy.
- He loves his daddy to bits and greets him so lovely when he comes home.
- Cade just loves his brother and for this I am so thankful. Lately he has been telling me Ethan wants to get up and play with him when he is asleep in his crib and when Ethan finally does wake up I say, "Cade, look who's awake" and he exclaims with such excitment, "Ethan did wake up mum!"
- He knows all his animals and pretends to be them all day long. When he is done playing and he says, "Mum, I not a monkey, a puppy dog, a kitty cat, a monster, a dinosaur, I just a boy. I just Cade". It is hilarious.
- He is quick to say sorry and make things right when he has upset me or hurt Ethan etc. He is very aware and I love that he loves so beautifully.

Here are a few of Cades favorite things...
SHOWS - Caillou, Max and Ruby, Little Bear, Yo Gabba Gabba, Oswald, Thomas
MOVIES - This is a funny one. He use to love everything, it was hard to narrow down what he wanted to watch and when. Now he says everything is, "Too scary" Lately he likes Thomas (which we rented and he has requested it everyday since), Brother Bear, Charlotte's Web, Ant Bully, Wall-E, Bolt.
FOODS - He still likes my cooking, especially lasagna or spaghetti but has decided to be a little more fussy lately, so we just leave his meal on table and he comes and picks at it and it all gets eaten eventually. He loves pancakes, mac and cheese, cheese, hot dogs, raisins, grapes, apples, bananas, watermelon, chicken fries, green beans and carrots.
CLOTHES - He has a certain pair of shoes he loves, but Cory hates them. He loves to wear his Jammie's and would wear them all day if he could. He likes particular shirts, ones with cars or trucks on them are his favorite or ones with 'soccer ball game' (this is anything with a ball on it).
TOYS - He LOVES trains, cars, anything with a ship or pirates, lego, balls, ropes, fishing and horses (warsies).
SONGS - Just like with the movies, he is very picky about songs. At night he likes us to sing fun songs my mum use to sing to us, 'Jimmy Monkey', 'Hydee, Hydee Ho', 'Mumma Little Baby Loves Shortening Bread' and he says, "Monkey", "Elephant" or "Bread" for those songs. He loves 'Love Is Spoken Here' and calls that "Daddy Song". Lately he loves to sing happy birthday and it is so stinking cute. He is pretty good at it too. Last Sunday at church there were some children from a family that sang a song and Cade goes, "Ohhh mumma, it's a happy song!" We all got a chuckle out of that.

We are so blessed and fortunate to have this wonderful child in our home. I have said this since the day he was born, but he truly is a delight!

Here are a couple of favorites of mine...
Cade brand new and unnamed at this stage

3 days old, first day home

10 weeks

8 months

Cade 2 years old

Happy Birthday My Boy

Cade about 2 minutes old...

Cade 1 year old

Cade 2 years old today!

Today is Cade's 2nd Birthday. This time 2 years ago, Cade was 10 hours old exactly. He was nameless and nursing and sleeping like a pro! He was most likely snuggling on my chest while I slept or having a cuddle with daddy after being passed around the number of visitors we had had. That first night was awesome. My pain medication was still in fine form so I was doing great.
I was just so in awe at how cute he was, he was perfect. I remember saying to Cory, "Man, he is cute... I mean really cute!" and Dr Keeler told me he had it on good authority (the nurses in maternity) that he was indeed the cutest little boy they had had in some time. I took it! We thought he was a little spunk! Even if they were just being nice!
Cade is the most delightful child I could have as a first born, he has made me so happy as a mother and want for more children because he is such a delight. He is a mummy's boy in alot of ways but is so boistrous with daddy that it is such a happy medium. He freely gives loves and snuggles with me each morning. He wakes around 6:15 and calls out to me to come help him with his snuggle boppy (which I sadly sacrificed to him when we moved him to a crib at 7 months), blanket, cars, teddy and whatever else he took to bed that night! I love this time, the 6am snuggle for an hour. This morning he fell right to sleep between Cory and I and laughed out loud in his sleep that it woke me but he was fast asleep. It was so cute.
He loves cars, trucks, tractors, bikes, almost anything with wheels it seems. He loves blocks and books and kids. He so enjoys company and is tender with babies. He loves to hold my hand and I will offer my hand alot to him and he holds it so sweetly which just melts my heart.
Lately, as my belly has been expanding he has been lifting his shirt to bare belly and lifting mine to reveal my bare bulge and he will lay skin to skin with his "bubba"... it is the sweetest thing. I love it. Soon I will be too big and he will teeter on it!
Cade likes to jibber and talk. He is talking so much more each day it seems. He says play, park, juice, breakfast, water, yes, no, eat, drink, keem (ice-cream), kids, go, house, car, drive, outside, up, down, dinner, thanks, thank you, please, jump, nigh nigh (night night), awake, seep (sleep), baby, bubba, mumma, mom, dadda, dad, pappa, gammie (grammie), syd (sydney mil dog), sip, some, more, shower, tubba, help, chair, what's that?, oh no!, lol lol (lollies/candy), snacks, fish, cat, cow, dog, goat, church, cold, hot, ouch, hurt me.
These are things he says daily, sometimes he comes out with things we have never thought he has heard. He just so amazes us.
I have to include that when he says "S" he really exaggerates it, like for yes, Yessss, please, Peezzzzeee, Thanks, thankssss. We love it!
Cade, I love you my boy! I have always and will always call you that. Thank you for the most wonderful experience life can offer, the blessing of a beautiful child to love and learn from. Daddy and I just love you to bits!

Here are some pics for you to enjoy...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY...

Today is Cory's birthday. I am so thankful for this wonderful man. He is such a great husband, such a wonderful, hands-on father. Truly my best friend. I consider myself blessed in every way to have such a kind, respectful, hardworking and self-sacrificing man in my life. I love you honey!! Here's to a great day and an even better year ahead!!

Birthday Girl

Well today I chock up another year. 27 years ago I was born in Launceston, Tasmania Australia. I was (and am) the youngest of 6 and completed my family by a very fast delivery of 1 hour and 20 minutes. I was 8lb 1oz and when I like at photos I look so much chubbier than an 8lb bub. I was jaundice when I was born and back then there were no bili beds so I was sunbaked by a sunny window. I was a Spring baby, (and now that I living on the other side of the world and Autumn baby too!!) Mum said she knew I was her last as it felt like I pulled every organ with me on my way out, gross I know! My poor mum!! I love birthdays. Today wasn't pretty uneventful. We has a rough night with Cade and I was up with him alot in the night. Thankfully I got a lovely sleep-in thanks to my wonderful hubby who took care of a little boy that didn't want to sleep-in!! I got some clothes, so yummy lotions and lots and lots of warm wishes from everyone and to top my day a beautiful bunch of flowers. I LOVE flowers, I personally think they are so under rated. If I was a squillionaire I would have fresh flowers in my home every week... I was spoilt growing up we almost always had fresh flowers in our home as my mum is a wonderful green thumb. Cory has a busy day today, Mondays he is at school until 10pm so tomorrow we will do something special for my birthday I am sure!!