Learning to Crawl

Mason made some big strides on his way to becoming a fully mobile baby - up on all fours for the first time right after Caden and Sadie went to bed!

After putting him to bed, I went in to give Caden a kiss and showed him the video. His eyes lit up with pride and excitement for his little brother.

Beginning of October 2014

Target was having a Halloween costume sale a few weeks ago so I took the kids to pick out what they wanted. They went in thinking Ana, Kristoff and Olaf (the snowman) for Mason but ended up with Batman and Batgirl (I ordered Robin for Mason). This has brought on a renewed interest in super heros and Sadie is now wearing Caden's old Superman PJs at night - it's super cute.

Sadie is having a hard week, she was running in the playroom, slipped and smacked her head on one of our wood steps. She had a huge hemotoma right on her hairline within seconds. She was a trooper though and didn't cry for very long, opting to eat her frozen peas instead of holding them on her head. She's been getting up in the night a few times a month, not fully awake and crying from a bad dream. She woke up that night around 2:00am crying that her head hurt, but was doing better in the morning.

A few days later she came down with a bad cough and sore throat so she got to show off her shiner at the pediatrician's office. She was thrilled when the prescription was spoonfuls of honey for her throat. That weekend Casey asked her how she was feeling and she said, "I'm not 100%." Casey asked what percent she was and she gave him a pitiful face and said, "I'm 1%".

In other news, we went over to play at Milo's house last weekend (a friend of Caden and Sadie's from outdoor preschool). Caden zoned right in on his "LEGO Movie" set - the machine Emmett builds at the end of the movie - and Sadie was beaming with pride because she had already picked it out and had us buy it for him for his upcoming birthday. She did an impressive job of not spilling her secret too.

Later we went to the park and Caden showed off his growing football skills while Sadie kicked around the soccer ball. Her footwork and ball control was really good - we're thinking we might have to add soccer back into the schedule next year if she's still excited about it.

Also our next door neighbors just put their house up for sale. We're crossing our fingers for another family with young kids. For good measure, the whole family went outside and played football in the driveway during their open house - we were the picture of Americana :).