I love...

*The way your eyes light up when daddy walks in the door
*How excited you get to go for a walk in your red car
*All the little faces you make
*Your whispy little curls on the back of your head
*Your jibber jabber to Fifi
*Your unsteady little legs walking around all the furniture and pushing whatever you can find to help you walk
*The way you snuggle with me when you nurse
*How you can still find a way to fit between my curled up legs to nurse in the middle of the night
*How you are reaching for me to pick you up before I even get in your bedroom
*How happy you are to be taken out of your carseat
*How excited you get to go swimming
*The look on your face when you see me walk through a door
*How you wave to me when your playing just to let me know you are watching me
*Looking at your sweet face first thing in the morning
*Your little dancing bootie whenever your music turns on
*How proud you are to wave, clap, blow kisses, and do signs
*Everytime you say mama
*How you follow me around the house
*Watching you eat blueberries
*How you love to rip up any paper you find
*Watching you play tug of war with Fifi
*How you love to hang onto my legs and walk with me
*Watching you play with your friends
*Your hugs and kisses
*The way you splash in the bathtub and help us "clean up" your bath toys
*Rocking you to sleep
*The way you tease daddy and I and pretend your going to share and then take it back
*Your baby soft skin, your toes, your nose, your fingers and your cute belly
I love everything about you! You are perfect to me and my dream come true!

Walker

Kayden & Tula eating ice cream!

Leaving the mommies behind!

We went to Danica's bedroom to find them all playing on her cool chair (Kayden will like one of his birthday presents for sure;-)

Tula loving Dani's chair

This last pic was not them playing on their own...Adrienne thought it would be cute to put Tula's tiny bootie in the hood of the car and since the car is all of their favorite toys right now the 3 of them were all together for a pic.

At the last couple of playdates Kayden and his friends (Tula, Danica, Tatum, and sometimes Jake and Sean) have been wondering off to play without the watching eyes of the mommies. Us mommies will all be in the living room chatting and the gang will wonder into Adrienne's computer room or Danica's room to play by themselves. We have been good about letting them develop their independence and just check in on them with a peek or perk our ears up to listen. It is so cute to hear them chatting with eachother in babytalk and to walk in and see them playing with toys together or sharing snacks.

3 steps!

Today Kayden took 3 steps from the table chair to daddy! Luckily we both were there to watch it. I grabbed the video camera to try and get a duplicate of the moment but he wasn't having it with the camera on, I guess he was being camera shy. Daddy was so happy he got to see the little man take his steps! I'm trying to really cherish these crawling days because I know very soon my baby will no longer crawl and will be a walker from then on out. What a big boy he is becoming before our very eyes!

A June Celebration

On Friday we celebrated all the June babies birthdays in our play group. 7 babies turn one in June, Tula and Kayden are the last 2 babies to be one in June......so it was pretty premature for mommy to even think 1st birthday party time. BUT it was super fun to celebrate the month of June babies and their big milestone as a group. Kayden didn't enjoy the party hat so we'll see how that goes on his real birthday!

Kayden the "actor"

Yesterday I went to a photography class to learn a little about my new fancy camera, so daddy was in charge in the morning.........so that meant Kayden didn't really have a morning nap. My class started at 8:15 and lasted till about 10am, so about his whole nap time, daddy should have just had it easy but he decided to go for a walk during his nap time which messed the schedule all up...(guess it explains why mommy is the mommy and stays home and daddy goes to work...;-)Which resulted in a cranky baby. We had plans to go to lunch with Uncle Brandon who was visiting from California so we packed our cranky baby up and headed to Scottsdale for lunch, luckily he was okay in the resteraunt........not good but manageable. After lunch Brandon wanted to hang out awhile longer so daddy and Brandon headed to the Bungalow for a drink and mommy and Kayden shopped at fashion square (little did daddy know Kayden had played with his wallet that morning and dumped out his ID;-) so daddy and Brandon had to try several drink stops before one would serve Kyle....how could they possibly think Kyle was younger than 21 I do not know - sorry daddy but you definetely look older than a college boy!). So after we got home from our afternoon Kayden took a nap but it wasn't nearly enough to recover from the messed up day of sleep, so he woke up miserable. We ended up canceling our plans for the night and staying in to avoid a breakdown at our friend's house. Kyle decided to put the videos of Kayden on the TV and watch them. It was the first time that Kayden has EVER watched TV. I have put cartoons on for him before in hopes to catch a minute to make lunch or get ready for the day but he is not interested in the tv (a good thing I must say;-) but when he saw himself on the TV he couldn't take his eyes away. He was in utter amazement watching himself and hearing Kyle and I's voices on the TV. He just sat and stared and talked and laughed at himself for a good 30 minutes or more. Often times when he'd hear me say "Kayden" on the video he'd look at me. It was such a fun night as a family, it had started out being a very trying night and it turned around and made for a great evening. Mommy cried several times seeing her little round faced baby eating food for the first time, scooting around the floor, and sitting up all wobbly. I am so glad I bring out the video camera often enough to catch those moments and get to look back and watch the past. It is one thing seeing him change in pictures but hearing his little baby sounds and watching his little baby movements is so precious as I have seen what all the mommies have told me they change SO fast and time flies so quick.

The other day I went to update his first year calendar that I put little notes about our days on and write all his firsts on.......well his first year calendar stops in May. So I need to get a 2nd year calendar but havent' found one I like (and I'm pretty disapointed that I didn't check that his current one went THROUGH his first birthday, I must have had preggo brain!). But I love having that calendar and looking back and seeing all the little notes I have made so I know I will be getting one today and starting on it. But since I haven't had it in June I've been using the blog more to write those things down I don't want to forget so you all get to read a little more detail than I normally put, sorry if your bored;-) But today when Kyle and I were at Starbucks Kayden wanted more crackers and he used the sign for "more"! I was SO excited I jumped up and down and told him he was a big boy several times. He is also doing the sign for "all done" and his own sign for "no". He still doesn't do the signs for drink or eat but he definetely knows what I'm saying when I do them asking if he wants to eat or drink because he goes to his high chair if he is hungry or reaches for his sippy if he is thirsty. He is catching onto things so quickly now, it is so fun seeing the little lightbulbs come on in him and seeing his proud smile as he learns a new way to communicate and to excite his mommy! On Thursday (6/5) I had him blow kisses to daddy before bed and by Friday
(6/6) he was doing them almost every time I said to "blow kisses". Ahh little man, I love you so much and I love watching you discover your world each day!