Spring Break 2009

Kade and I had a great spring break! I'm so sad to see the week end and go back to the real world. After this week I am definitely counting the days until summer. The first part of the week we went with Tonya, Amanda, Patsy, and the kids to visit my grandma. She lives about 3 hours away. I think I packed the entire house to take with us for just one overnight trip. You just never know what you might need with a baby. We had fun at Memaw's house just hanging out and talking.
Other things we did over the week:
We rode the train last Saturday for Noah's birthday. He is Tim's brother's little boy and he turned 4 years old. I can't believe he is so big. Kade and I met Tim for lunch at the park one day and went shopping with Bradley. On Thursday, my friend since elementary school, Chelse came over to hang out with us. Chelse is a teacher and we hardly see each other during the school year since we are both so busy with school. It was fun catching up with her. On Saturday, we went to Kasey's first birthday party. I remember last spring break going to the hospital when she was born. Time goes by so fast! Kasey was so pretty in her pink dress.
Kade News:
He is growing so fast and thinks he is a big boy who can do anything. The boy is not afraid of anything! The week I was so excited when he started saying "mama," he has been saying "dada" for awhile. He also took TWO steps on Friday night! Kade turned 9 months on Saturday. His new thing he loves to do is throw himself on pillows we have on the floor and roll off of them. He will do this over and over rolling all around the living room just laughing so hard.

Kasey and Kade at Memaw's house in their St.Patrick's Day shirts.


I tried to spike his hair for Kasey's party, but it was a little too long.

Finally got him to be still for a quick picture, Amanda was trying hard to get him to look at the camera.

He loved playing with Kasey's baby doll. He is giving the doll a kiss, such a sweet boy. Daddy does not like this picture very much!

Growing, Growing!

We had a busy weekend! Tim's mom and her husband came into town for their granddaughter's first birthday. This past summer they moved to Florida. They spent the night with us on Friday night and then we headed to Plano for the party on Saturday. There were like 15 babies 1 year old and under at the party. It was crazy and Kade had so much fun! We went back over on Sunday to visit a little more since Tim's mom had to leave to fly back home today. So we had to say goodbye last night. Does anyone else cry when you have to say goodbye to someone for a long time? As soon as we are getting ready to leave I always feel the tears coming. I just hate goodbyes and I am such a cryer! It can be so embarrassing sometimes. When my brother was living in Lubbock for college and he would come home for a visit; I couldn't even say "goodbye" I would be crying to hard. I remember every time we used to go visit my grandma who lives about 3 hours away my mom would always cry when it was time to say goodbye. She was a cryer too, I guess that is where I get it from. I cry when I'm happy, sad, mad, whenever. Anyway we had a fun weekend and Kade is so exhausted. He had a bottle about 8:00 last night and then he just layed his head down on my shoulder, closed his eyes and was immediately asleep. He slept the whole way to Ms. Lynda's this morning and then she said he slept until 10:00. He played so much with the other babies!

Tonight I picked him up and then my brother was coming over to watch him until Tim got home; because I had to go back to school for open house. I said goodbye to him and he started crawling after me crying. He has never cried when I have left before. I of course was about to cry with him.
Here are some pictures of us trying to take an 8 month picture of Kade. Every month it's more of a challenge to get a good picture. He is growing so fast and just completely all boy!

Things Kids Say

When I listen to my students at school I think it is so funny that kids just say whatever they are thinking. I always say I wish I could write down every funny thing I hear during the day because I always forget when I get home and I'm trying to tell Tim the story. I have had a cough and a pretty bad cold for going on 2 weeks. When I woke up on Monday my eyes were very irritated. I thought great now I have pink eye. So I didn't put on any eye makeup just in case I did have pink eye. When I got to school I went to the nurse to have her check it out. She said it wasn't pink eye and it looked more related to my allergies and being sick. All during the day I heard comments from my students about my face with no make up. Somethings I heard were:
"What happened to your face?" "Are you going to get your old eyes back?" "Are you going to be okay?" When I explained that I just wasn't wearing make-up because I wanted my eyes to get better one kid said, "When will you be able to wear make-up again?"
So I guess my lesson is I better wear make-up everyday so that my students can actually learn and not have to worry about what is wrong with my face all day.

Valentines Weekend

We had a fun Valentines weekend. Kade is feeling much better and enjoyed his first Valentine's Day. Tim got me a plant from Kade so that I would always remember his first Valentine's Day; it was a sweet original idea. Let's just hope I can keep it alive! I love plants, but seem to have bad luck with them. My grandmother took home a fern from our wedding; she has given me two plants she grew from that plant and yes I have managed to kill both of them. So wish me luck with Kade's plant. Saturday night my brother came over to babysit while Tim and I went to the movies. We had not been to the movies since Kade was born so we were pretty excited. We went to see "Taken," but when we got there it was sold out. Since we were there we wanted to see something, so we settled for "Paul Blart: Mall Cop." It was kind of one of those stupid funny movies. We didn't mind though, it was fun just getting to go. Sunday we went to Colin's 4th birthday party. He is my cousin, Tonya's little boy and he was born on Valentine's Day. Kade enjoyed some cake with Daddy. He also liked playing with all the kids and Colin's drumsticks.

Kade and I with my Valentine plant.

Kade and Uncle B.

He loves to eat his shoe!

Looking to see if anyone is watching before he takes off!

Will this week ever end??

This has been a very long week. Last weekend we pretty much hung out around the house, none of us were feeling that well. So I started out the week going to work not feeling that great still. On Tuesday I went to a funeral for a mother of 3 young children. It was the first funeral I have attended since my mom's almost 5 years ago. I really tried to prepare myself to try to stay strong for this special child in my life that I knew needed me to be strong on this day. I tried to think of what I could say to a 6 year old who was going through this horrible time in her life. I started thinking about my mom's funeral and realized how so much of that week seems like such a blur to me. I really only remember certain parts of that week. I guess that is a good thing; because I would rather remember the good memories with my mom. My hope is that this family will remember the good times and not so much of this sad week they are going through and the sad months to come.
On Wednesday morning, Ms. Lynda called to say that she was sick and could not babysit. I stayed home with Kade. He had a very runny nose since Sunday and had been tugging a little at his ears, but he had not really had any fever. I took him to the doctor and he had an ear infection in both ears. Poor little guy! Ear infections had been one of my biggest fears. My cousin Tonya's kids had the hardest time with ear infections and I was so scared for Kade to get one. The doctor gave him an antibiotic and also checked him for the flu. No flu thank goodness!
The doctor's office was packed with so many little sick kids. Last night Kade slept off and on, he kept waking up crying and pulling his ears. I gave him some Motrin to try to help the pain. It is so sad to see him sick. I am home with him again today. He has actually been pretty tough through the whole thing playing and wild as usual. We have had some fun play times the past two days; I have to admit I love being at home with him, I just wish it wasn't because he was sick.
This has been a very long week. I am ready for the weekend and for everyone to be well.

The Boy With The Pink Hand

I decided to try a Valentine craft with Kade. I am not crafty at all, but I had this idea in my head and I really wanted to try it out. I used a red ink pad to stamp his handprint on a Valentine card. He was not thrilled by the craft at all! The worst part was when I tried to get the ink off of his hand, it would not come off. We sat at the sink forever trying to scrub the ink off. The ink pad said washable on the cover, apparently that means washable after many days of scrubbing! So the red ink faded into a nice pretty shade of pink on his little hand. You can tell by the picture that he is not very happy about going to Ms. Lynda's house with this pink hand tomorrow.

Kade's New Hobby

This week Kade started feeding the dog from his high chair. He laughs so hard everytime she jumps up and gets the cheese puffs from his hand. It is pretty funny watching him. I had to put an end to his fun though when he gave the dog a bite and then he took a bite!

Here is his 7 month picture from a few weeks ago. He is growing too fast! You can notice the wrinkled paper, his monthly pictures are getting a little harder to take each month.