Today...

Dear Caydin,

Today, little guy, you decided that your barn would make the PERFECT garage for your cars. You tried so hard to get all 15 cars into the barn and never realized that all 15 wouldn't fit - but you didn't care - you kept trying. Today, while trying to fit all your cars into the barn, you showed us your frustration! You would throw the car to the side if it didn't fit where you wanted it. All part of being an almost 2 year old! Today, Caydin, you stopped to look at me while I made crazy sounds so I could take your picture. {Sweeeeet!}

Today, Caydin, you played with play-doh for the first time. As soon as I set it on your highchair tray, you lifted it and was about to attempt to eat it! You were a good boy though and didn't try to eat it once I told you not too. I showed you how to play with it and you laughed when I would roll it into a ball. You would smack your hand down on the ball and squish it! I was so happy that you didn't cry. You didn't play for very long but hey... baby steps... baby steps!!

Today, Caydin, you also did a puzzle all by yourself. We were so impressed that I'm going to give it a post of its own tomorrow!

Love, Mommy

Our Saturday

We had a great Saturday! Caydin woke around 8 and we played, played, played. We even set up his pool on the back porch so that Caydin could play later in the day. He had some much fun playing in the empty pool! After an early nap, we headed over to a friend's 1st birthday! Caydin fell in love with the swing. I wish we had a strong enough tree in the backyard to set one up! I love this picture of Caydin, the capri sun, and the swing. The Birthday Boy

Some music class buddies!

After we got home, we tried to get Caydin to take a nap... but of course, he didn't! He was happy though so no worries! We played inside before heading out to the pool.

AHhhH, the pool!!!

Caydin figured out how to climb in and out!

We ended our afternoon with some yummy donuts! Because, you know, the best time to eat donuts is when you're outside swimming!! No messy powder to clean up! Score!

Hope your Saturday was happy!

Sneaky Boy

Yesterday morning, Caydin got into our guest bedroom (which is usually just a storage room/craft room when we don't have any guests). We had a couple really good coupons for some little Tonka cars so they were hiding in the bedroom, waiting for Caydin's birthday in a couple months. Well the sneaky little guy got in there and smelled out those cars!...and because he was just so cute and asked so nicely, I opened up a box for him (Thanks, Grandma!) He loves those cars. They went swimming with him, ate breakfast and dinner with him, and even rode in the car with him. Caydin is definitely a car boy. :)

And just for fun, here is Caydin in the pool before we filled it with water!!!

More coming!

Happy 21 months!

This month,

Caydin learned lots of new words: boat, nose, bottle, rolo, one-two-three, go-go-go (says as he watches Daddy drive down the street - I guess he doesn't want daddy to be late!)

Rode a carousel for the first time and loved it.

Has played with markers and tried so hard to get the caps on when I'd take them off!

Discovered a love for Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars.

Slowed down on the massive amounts of tantrums!

Started taking just one long nap each day instead of the two that he'd been doing for the past year or so.

Can shake his body when asked.

Can jump (almost - he hasn't figured out the feet off the ground thing but looks super cute trying!)

Loves to point and touch everyone's nose! Can find his nose when asked but will usually point to someone else's nose when asked "Where is your nose?"

Follows directions - will stop, throw things away, go and get items when asked, find his books, get shoes, close doors, etc.

Likes to eat food whole, as in - likes when you gives he a whole piece of bread or a whole strawberry as opposed to cutting everything up in little pieces.

Got a new pool and loves it - but hates the splash zone at the zoo (strange?!?)

Sleeps all night, but if he wakes up, man ---- its hard to get him back to sleep!

Is addicted to pushing his wagon (and train) around the back porch!

Loves to smell things (again - strange!?!?!)

Can make a big, big mess!

Wordless Wednesday

Just because...

Who can resist a pool-playing, bread-eating, bright blue-eyed boy???I can't! :)

New Pool

I'm trying to avoid a picture overload here, so here are a couple pictures from our afternoon on the porch yesterday!

Despite not liking the splash area at the zoo, Caydin REALLY likes his new big boy pool. Its huge, seriously huge! We have a BIG back porch and this thing takes up a good quarter of the porch. It's got 2 big sections to play in, one deeper than the other, a slide, a ring toss, 2 ramps for balls to go down, a sprinkler and a bunch more that I didn't mention. It's crazy! We filled up one section and let Caydin play with a bunch of his boats that he got for Easter. He had a blast! Caydin liked to send his boats down the ball ramp. We got this swimsuit last year. I find it funny that it still fits, in fact, I don't think he ever wore it last year!

Caydin had so much fun yesterday that this morning when we went out on the porch (the pool was still set up) he got so excited that he accidently threw his favorite lovey in the pool! Then his threw a tantrum when I pulled it out and he grabbed it only to realize that it was all wet! He was not a happy camper!