He is measuring 37 inches tall, 31 pounds, size 8 1/2 shoes and 3T clothes. The molars on the lower arch finally popped through and we're still waiting on the upper ones. So, maybe by the time he's three he'll have his two year molars :) He loves to watch basketball, play football with Daddy and pitch a baseball to anyone who will play with him. He LOVES to pitch! I'm thinking it's time for me to get a glove because my hand burns when I try to catch the balls he throws. He has quite the arm. If you mention the word April, he'll let you know that's when the Royals start playing again. Each day we work on a letter of the alphabet and that has really helped him to recognize the letters. We write words that begin with that letter and talk about it throughout the day. He loves to practice his letters and asks how to spell things all day long. He can spell several words on his own now. He loves to read books and continues to memorize them and "read" them to us for a change. We encourage his reading and go to the Basehor story time every Tuesday morning and pick new books to read. His favorites lately have been Pete the Cat, Elephant and Piggie and Bible story books. GiGi got him a number chart and he also likes to point to each number and practice saying them. He can say 1 through 20 on his own and makes it close to 40 while looking at the chart. He seems to be a visual learner :) I love teaching him things and watching him learn. He loves music and sings a lot. Aunt Lee Lee got him some new Bible CDs that go along with his Bible story books. He loves to sit by the CD player and listen to the songs and memorize them so he can sing along. Most of the time I'm not aloud to sing along! He says, "Let them sing it!" I sing anyway because I love to sing, too! He says funny things all the time and keeps us laughing. When we went to watch Upward Basketball last week as we pulled into the parking lot he wanted to know if there would be girls there. Yes, he was interested in the cheerleaders as well as the game :) He loves to go to church and be in his Sunday School class. We pray he'll always love to go to church and learn about God. He has a great teacher and lots of boys his age to play with.
Potty training is going well. I was about to give up in January. It seemed like we were going backward instead of forward. Then one day it just started getting better. He made it 10 days without an accident so we let him start wearing underwear instead of pull-ups. We still have to remind him that it's time to go potty, but he's doing better about telling us when he needs to go. Most days he goes to sleep between 9:30 and 10 and gets up about 8. I have to wake him up around 8 in order for him to be ready for a nap. He'll usually nap from 2-4, give or take 30 minutes. We have our moments, and some days he spends some quality time in time-out for not listening, but overall we have a ton of fun. Ton is one of his favorite words :)
Here are the highlights from the last 3 months.....
Thanksgiving Lunch
Looking throught the Black Friday ads with Uncle Mike
We had Thanksgiving Dinner at my aunt and uncle's house this year with my side of the family.
It was a full day of fun, family and food!
Let the countdown begin....
Mailing a letter to Santa at the Basehor Library
Family Christmas Adventure :)
Union Station, Crown Center, Plaza and dinner at O'Dowds.
Christmas Sunday at Fellowship West
Cowley/Jarratt Family Christmas
We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house and went to the Christmas Eve Service at Fellowship West. It was a fun and relaxing day with family.
Aunt Shannon thought Caden needed a drum set :) He just kinda liked it!
Cookies for Santa and new Christmas pjs
Reading Luke 2 with Daddy before bed
On Christmas morning we let Caden open his gifts from us. The tunnels were a big hit!
We spent Christmas Day at Mitch's parent's house. We had lunch and opened gifts.
Then just had a fun time with family and ate soup for dinner.
Catching snowflakes on his tongue like in Charlie Brown Christmas
Continuing our tradition of making snow donuts for the first real snow
We went to Wonderscope with Baw-Baw, GiGi and Aunt Shannon
All ready to play in the snow the 2nd time we got some snow
Rock Chalk Jayhawk
The Christmas Train at the Library
Happy New Year! We went to Cabela's and Culver's then home for Caden to go to bed.
We rang in the New Year then went to bed ourselves.
We rang in the New Year then went to bed ourselves.
On New Year's Day we celebrated Christmas with the Klein's
Helping make one of his favorites...apple pie :)
My superhero
Cutie :)
He wanted to try on Daddy's shorts
He picked this bear out at Walmart and used the gift card he got for Christmas. His GiGi helped him name her, Rosie, because he didn't like any of my name suggestions!
I love this face!
He thought it was a good idea to unload the ottoman/toy box and sit in there
to eat his snacks and work on his numbers.
Helping Aunt Aimee blow out her candles
The day before Valentine's Day we went to watch some Upward Basketball games then went to have lunch at Paulo & Bill's. He was pretty excited about making his own ordering choices.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Valentine's Day apple pie :)
The day after Valentine's Day we had dinner with my family. These 3 cuties were wearing their
Valentine outfits from Baw-Baw & GiGi.
Playing in the leaves on a nice, warm, February day! He's ready for spring!
Hard at work on his numbers
Next update...3 years old!
