I can stack blocks, can you?

When I'm not busy climbing the bunny cage, the kitchen chairs, and the couches, chances are you might find me in the play area stacking blocks. I did this one ALL BY MYSELF! Then I saw Mommy with the camera and decided to take a couple pictures with my block creation! I love stacking so much that I even got Mom to take a picture of me kissing the blocks.

How seriously cool am I?!

--Love, Caydin

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Sorry Scout!

Cute little bruised toenail. I had to get the picture because the "bruise" is growing out and soon it will be gone!! Caydin has had a bruise on both big toes for awhile now. We have no clue why and it never bothered him but definitely a Caydin trademark for the past couple of months.

Strange. I know.

{insert laugh here}

Reading

My boy loves books right now.

He always has but it used to be a two minute thing... Then he was off to the next activity. And he has always LOVED to toss the books off of his bookshelf.

But my boy loves books lately. He loves to run into his room to pick one out when someone tells him to "get a book." He loves to bring the book back and request "up" so that we can read it together. He loves to turn the pages before I finish each page. I'm hoping we are exiting the stage of "ripping" the books (though that really isn't his fault -- I should give him more hard books to look at.)

Last night, he brought me book after book after book to read to him. We probably had about 12 books on the living room floor before we stopped reading (and we only stopped because it was time for dinner.)

Here is a list of his favorites right now:

Wheels on the Go

Millie Moo

"How do Dinosaurs say Goodnight"

and

a few German books that his Oma got from Germany. I don't speak German at all but I make up words to go with the pictures!

I'll continue the list when Caydin gets up from his nap! I never wake a sleeping baby to get something as silly as the title of his favorite books!

Valentine's Shoot

Happy Valentine's Day!

Grandma came over and helped me get a few Valentine's pictures yesterday!

I only took about 200.....

Here are a few that I played with last night!

Oma's visit

Oma came for a visit at the end of January.

Caydin enjoyed having an extra person around to play with!

Rob had the WHOLE week off too so they got out of the house and did lots of things together. They went out to eat, to a couple stores, the park, to some batting cages (where Caydin stole a ball and now claims it as his favorite outside ball), and to visit a friend.

I had to work the entire week but enjoyed not having to think about dinner :)

{don't you just love how Rob is holding Caydin for this picture?!?!}

18 month doctor's visit!

We headed over to the doctor's office to get Caydin's new stats and

finish up his shots! Caydin can not even begin to tell you how happy he is to be done with shots!

In fact, he doesn't have to get another one until he gets ready for Kindergarten.

....Drum roll please....

Weight: 24 lbs 11 ozs (30th percentile)

Height: 34 3/4 inches (95th percentile)

Head: 45 3/4 cm (9th percentile)

Which basically means that he is a VERY TALL skinny kid with a small head!

...and we are totally cool with that!

**Pictures taken the middle of January :)

What to blog about when....

...your child doesn't want to be photographed.

I was reading some fancy photography website and all they talked about was lines, lines, lines... so this is my attempt at lines. Actually, the real point of this picture is to show my brown palm trees and plant-less pot! woot-woot.

Here is my neighbor's dead banana tree (at least, I think it is/was a banana tree.)
Caydin loves windchimes. Loves them! He gets really excited when you pick him up so they can touch it. I like the shadow on the tree.

Pretty blue skies.

and all the trees in our backyard!

Hopefully we will be back in the Caydin-picture-takin'-business tomorrow!