Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving at my grandma's house in Blossom, Texas. It was about a 3 hour drive. My brother rode with us; he and Kade slept the whole way. It was fun getting to see everyone!

Kade loved his first Thanksgiving.

Kade and Daddy enjoyed watching the Cowboys win.

Kade with my cousins; Amanda and Aubrey.

Kade with his great-grandma; Memaw.

Kade had fun playing with his cousin Julia.

Sunday Afternoons At Our House

Tim is a football fanatic. During football season on Sunday afternoons he will be sitting on our couch with the remote and his laptop. The remote for flipping back and forth between games (because he watches them all) and his laptop for checking his fantasy team scores every minute. It is so funny when his friends call during the games so they can chat about their teams. But I have to say that this year Tim has really been sweet to give up some football time to spend family time with us. Tim missed a Cowboy game this year to go to the pumpkin patch; that is a huge deal for him. What a sweet dad!
Tim is already pulling Kade into the football craziness. Kade loves to sit on the couch and watch football with Daddy. He will stare at the t.v. It is so funny! Here is a picture of Kade looking just like Daddy...

Croup

Poor Kade is sick with croup. Monday when I picked him up at Ms. Lynda's she said she thought he had a cough that sounded like croup. I had heard of croup, but really did not know what it was. Because she is such a great babysitter she had already gone on the internet and printed me out a sheet all about croup. She told me not to worry; just be looking out for this.
Monday night we all went to bed at usual time and at 11:00 Kade woke up crying with this barking seal like cough. He would wake up about every hour with this same awful coughing. It was awful! None of us slept hardly at all that night. We kept checking his temperature, but he never had a fever. I had to wake up at 5:00 am to be at a conference I had been attending all week. Tim said he would see how Kade was doing when he woke up and take him to the doctor. I felt awful leaving him!!
So when I got to the conference I called Tim and he said Kade was just fine laughing and playing with no fever. Tim took him to Ms. Lynda's and said he was going to try to take a half day to take him to the doctor. About mid morning I called Ms. Lynda and she said that Kade was doing great. Around 2:00 I sent Tim a text to see if he was still planning to take Kade to the doctor. He said Ms. Lynda called and Kade has a small fever. He said my brother was taking him to the doctor! I quickly texted back; WHAT???? First of all I couldn't believe Tim had gotten my brother to take Kade to the doctor by himself and second why was my brother taking him. Of course Tim's typical guy answer was, "What? What's wrong with your brother taking him?" Now I felt even worse that I couldn't be there to take my poor sick baby to the doctor. It all worked out and my brother did great; he took good care of Kade. I'm very thankful for him.
The doctor said Kade did have croup and he had to get 2 steroid shots. I stayed home with him today and he has done so well. He is such a tough little guy. Last night he only woke up once coughing. Pray that he gets over this quickly; it is so sad to see your sweet little baby sick.

Happy Halloween/Happy Birthday Tim!

Here are some pictures from Halloween and the pumpkin patch!

I decided to start a blog to keep everyone up to date on what's going on at the Bailey house and I hope to post updated pictures of Kade! We will see how well I do at keeping up with this. The pictures ended up at the top of this post, I meant for them to be at the end. I'm still learning how to do this whole blog thing, maybe I'll figure it out next time.

We have had a fun weekend; I love the weekends!! We started Friday night by celebrating Tim's birthday. He is a Halloween baby (kind of spooky huh). We had his favorite chocolate chip with pecans cookie cake from the Nestle Cafe. Then we dressed up our little kangaroo and took him around to see a few friends. My brother came over to celebrate with us. When we got home at 9:30 Mommy and Daddy were exhausted, but not Kade he was wide awake laughing and playing. Today we went to a birthday party for my cousin's little girl. She was 1 today; she was all dressed up in a pretty pink dress. Kade enjoyed the party and Daddy even gave him a taste of icecream.