Well, the Royals are in the World Series and Caden turned 17 months old! Both things are hard to believe, but exciting! No doctor appointments this month and he is so busy I haven't even attempted to measure or weigh him! He learned how to click his tongue and loves to do it. One of his favorite books to read is Animal Sounds and he has recently started saying several of the sounds. He can say the sounds for dog, cat, sheep, horse and donkey, some clearer than others :) His favorite word is "uh-oh" and says it about 50 times a day usually after he has "dropped" something. He seems to be loving fall as much as me. He's a huge fan of pumpkin muffins, apples crisp, falling leaves and smelling fall candles. At least once a day he asks us to pick him up and hand him the pumpkins and candles off the mantel so he can smell them :) We spend as much time outside as we can. He loves to push his bubble mower around and play in the leaves. He is wearing 18/24 month clothes and is finally keeping some shoes on his feet. With cooler weather coming and the need for shoes so he can play outside, I decided to go to Stride Rite and have him measured and see if we could find some shoes he'd wear. His most recent sandals were size 5. They measured him at a 6 1/2 wide. No wonder he wasn't loving those shoes! So, we got him 2 new pairs of shoes and he tolerates them. He knows he has to wear them if he wants to run around, but as soon as he gets in the car or back in the house, the velcro straps are undone and shoes off in record time! He literally runs from the moment he wakes up until the moment he goes to sleep! He can identify quite a few body parts and thinks he can raise his eyebrows. I raised mine and he studied my face for a while trying to figure out how to do it. Then he started blinking really funny and he continues to do it daily. He'll look at you and blink fast and want you to raise your eyebrows. It's hilarious!
We took a quick weekend trip to Des Moines to meet up with Aunt Lesley at the end of September. It was fun to get to see her and she loved to spend time with Caden! A couple weekends ago we spent some time in Weston while my family was camping. We went to the Red Barn Farm and hung out at the Weston Bend State Park Campgrounds. It was a beautiful day and we got some fun pumpkin pictures. Caden's favorite part was getting to sample the cider doughnuts. It's hard to believe that it's coming up on the end of October and soon the holidays will be here.
Here are some of the cute pictures we took over the last month...
Watching the Basehor Homecoming Parade
Birthday dinner with friends at Stix. He did not like the fire during the Hibachi cooking!
Reading books with Aunt Lesley. His favorite thing was to ride the hotel
elevator up and down with her.
He loved the cars at Toys R Us when we shopping for his Halloween costume. He had to test drive several of them.
Celebrating birthdays for me and GiGi. Isn't Margot so sweet!
The look of excitement his first time to ride in his new forward facing car seat! He loves that he can see out and points at everything that interests him, mostly trucks.
Red Barn Farm in Weston, MO
Sitting with the pumpkins
Playing with his Ballapalooza from the consignment sale. Not only is it fun to run the balls down the
track, but it has flashing lights and dance party music. So, it's a big hit!
Fall fun at Deanna Rose Farmstead
Sitting on the little bench by the waterfall at Deanna Rose
He wasn't sure about the large blowup candy corn, so Daddy sat with him.
Playing at the park with Owen before GiGi's birthday lunch.
He loved that there was a monkey on his shirt and pointed to him and laughed all throughout the day.
Playing in the leaves He's given up on picking them all up like he was doing last week.
We need to get him a rake!
Holding the pumpkins he loves to carry around and smell. I was attempting to take some 17 month pictures, but he wasn't wanting to sit still. Big surprise!!
He would hold the sign, but only wanted to peel the letters and numbers off, hence the ornery grin!
Happy 17 months!!
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