Beach Fun!

We've decided that we might never see the sun in Washington so we we went to the beach despite the clouds! I wasn't to cold but it got colder later which is why Caden is wearing my coat in the last picture! Nate thought it was funny and Caden did too! Caden's favorite thing to do at the beach is to throw rocks into the water! Surprised huh? He's all boy!

Grow Drake Grow!!!

My Little boy has grown so much in the last month!!

• His first two teeth broke through when we were in AZ
• He can sit up
• He is scooting but mostly backwards
• He Can get up on all fours but no crawling yet!
• He said Dada, more accurately " Da da da da da da da" But still so cute
• He still refuses to eat from a spoon but he did pick up a cheerio all by himself and ate it. Maybe he will just skip the spoon and go strait to finger foods. He also eats a lot of fruit from his Munchie and eats toast.

Those are just a few of the things he is up to. Here is a picture of him and Caden on the chairs my sister Misty got for them! Caden loves them. He sits in them to watch tv or movies.

Here he is, so proud of himself for scooting and rolling to the basket of toys. He started under the little play gym on the car rug!

We are Home!

We had so much fun in AZ! Caden got to play with his Aunts, Uncles, and cousins and be spoiled rotten by his Grandpa. Drake absolutely adores his grandpa. Drake slept in my dads room and slept better then he does at home! Every time Grandpa looked at drake he would smile and get all excited! It was very sweet!Here Caden is with his Twin Cousins, Patricia and Leora at the mall play area.

Grandpa bought Caden a pool and he loved it! The palm tree sprayed water and he would point it at met so that I would run and scream!
He snuggled up on the couch and watched Cars, his favorite movie! Grandpa bought it for him on Blu-Ray and we watch it literally 20 times on grandpa's beautiful new TV! We were seeing the movie in our sleep!

We went to a splash park which was really fun! We went with Aunt Chanda and Caden's cousins Rayden, Aislee and Kord.
Girls night out!!! We put all of the kids to bed and and me and my three sisters went out to dinner and then back to Jante's house to play pool.

We did all kinds other fun stuff but this is all I have the energy to type right now! More updates later!

Arizona!!!

I am so excited!!!! I'm heading off to Az to see all of my family! Nate is staying behind but both of the boys are coming with me for two weeks! I will be flying out the 17th and coming back the 31st. My family hasn't met Drake Yet so I am very excited for them to meet him! We have so much fun planned with Grandpa Drake!!!!!

Here's what we've been up to.

I had a wonderful mother's day with all three of my boy's.

Drake has been enjoying playing with his monkey that his favorite Grandma made him. It sleeps in his crib and I often find him chewing on it's hand.

He's also been enjoying his feet! I don't blame him, they are deliciously adorable!

Caden has been so much fun! It finally warmed up today so we went on an hour long adventure around the apartments. He looked at ants, threw rock, climbed, jumped, balanced on a log, ran through a field and chased some older boys around. It was like he was afraid the sun wouldn't come back so he wanted to get every boyish thing he could in that day.

Nate Road his bike today and loved it. He also saved us and the environment 8 bucks in gas!

Moms: Read this before Mother's day

This is a link to my friends blog. She is incredibly insightful and I love her blog but this post really hit me!
http://icecreamdiary.blogspot.com/

Fruit Anyone?

As long I as I can remember my awesome Daddy had a bowl of fresh fruit on the table. He had one rule, "You can have as much fruit as you want as long as you don't waste it". We were pretty good at following the rule and now that I am a mom I have the same thing on my table. I would love to say that the same rule is being followed in my home today as my Dad's house when I was a kid but... Just take a look.

As I've said in previous posts, Caden loves fruit and has yet to master the fine skills it takes to peel any piece of fruit. The worst part is that sometimes I don't see him trying to eat them and I find them later all yucky! I guess my child hood memories will have to stay in the kitchen and not on the table where my little guys can get them :)

Mirrors and Melllllon!

Drake and Caden are so adorable! Drake is getting a lot more active now. He loves grabbing everything in his reach and is trying desperately to get the things that are not in his reach. He can roll from his tummy to his back but he has only gone the other way a couple of times. He loves when I sing to him! It can be anything and he will just smile and coo! I love it! He's also been loving this baby mirror that I got on clearance for 3 dollars!

Caden is so active but in a good way. He is still very much in to cars, in fact they still take up 90 percent of his playtime. He love to eat fruit especially melons. I get a new one every time we go shopping and have it cut up in the fridge. We he wants some he goes to the kitchen gate and says "Mellllon". It's adorable. In the past three weeks he has eaten and entire Honeydew, Cantaloupe and Watermelon. I'm struggling to get him to eat Veggies so if any one has tips on that PLEASE tell me. The only way I get him to eat them is if I put them in something else like peas in scrambled eggs or blended spinach in fresh apple juice. It's hard because most of what me and Nate eat are vegetables.
Caden lined up all of his cars in front of Drake and then started driving them on his head:)
I'm doing really great. I've done a couple of little projects lately that I will post about in my "DIY" post, coming soon to a blog near you. I've also been really watching what I'm eating and trying to get my body back in shape before I get pregnant again. I am now 6 pounds lighter then when I got pregnant with Caden but as all mothers know my body looks nothing like it did back then:) I'm trying to tone up so that I can at least resemble my old self. I'm also excited because in two weeks I get to go see all of my family in Az. None of them have met Drake so that will be great.

Nate is doing great. Work has it's ups and down but at the end of each pay period it all seems to work out which is a wonderful blessing. We thought he would be back to riding his bike by now but the weather is just silly! We are still waiting for warm sunny days. He's also been loving our PS3. Him and some guys from work play online together and he has a lot of fun.