How we spent our last SUMMER days!

Summer has come to an end! I started back at work this week and next week, the kids come back!  I already have a full class so it should be a busy, fun, FAST year!  Especially since baby boy is coming in just 3 short months! Ahh! 

Here's how we spent the end of our summer vacation!

 Napping! At 3 year, 1 month - Mr. Caydin still needs his daily afternoon nap! He always takes a nap in his bed, but on this day, I tried to wake him up (we have to limit how long his naps are so he's not up ALL night!) and he continued right on sleeping when I moved him to the couch. 

 Playing with new birthday toys.  He especially loves his geotrax RC cars (annoyingly loud!) and his firestation!

 Reading, reading, reading!

 Drinking out of big boy cups!

 and eating all our meals at the table and not on the floor or highchair anymore!

But most of all, we spent this whole summer TALKING.  His vocabulary and talking skills grew so much.  He TALKS nonstop, all day.  In fact, he stayed awake in bed for an HOUR talking to himself tonight at bedtime.  The word "WHY?" has finally entered his vocabulary so EVERY sentence or command is followed by "Why??" 



Gettin' his bounce on!

Caydin and his buddies had a blast at Monkey Joe's recently.  It's a huge room filled with bounce houses and blow up slides.  Caydin L.O.V.E.D it. 

 He had no fear and ran around like a crazy man the whole time we were there!

 I'm pretty sure Uncle Josh was alittle sad that he didn't need to "assist" Caydin on any of the slides or bounce houses... Uncle Josh really wanted to go down the big slide!

We have the best conversations!!!!

7:00 am
Caydin - "Mommy, wake up. The sun came out."
Me - "Oh not yet baby, the sun is trying to come up but hes still behind some trees."
(white lies aren't bad all the time, are they??? Then we both went back to sleep!)

8:30 am
Caydin - "Mommy is the sun out?"
Me - "Yes, buddy you can wake up now."
Caydin - "I want to pet the baby." (as he is petting my chest...)
Me - "The baby is actually down here in my belly."
Cadyin - (pets my belly then puts his head on my belly) "What is baby doing?"
Me - "Well, he was sleeping because we were sleeping."
Caydin - "He is pooooping."
Me - (trying to change the subject) "Caydin do you want some breakfast?"
Caydin - "I want to see baby."
Me - "We have to wait a while longer then we will get to see him on the TV like we did last time.  We have to let him grow some more."
Caydin - "Who is the baby's mommy?"
Me - "I will be the baby's mommy."
Caydin - "Why? You are Caydin's mommy."

Oops, I guess Rob and I forgot to tell Caydin that we will be mommy and daddy to the new baby. LOL!

Caydin and I have the BEST conversations right when he wakes up.  He's usually super happy (and will let you know - "Mommy I am happy!") and will lay in bed and talk to me.

I'll miss that when I go back to school next week! :(

What's a blog without a picture?!?!

Funny story: We ran out of baby body wash the other day so I found a bar of baby soap.  Caydin made sure to clean every inch of the tub with it....  On the 2nd night of using the bar soap, Caydin left it in the water so long that it started to fall apart (its the size of your standard hotel bar soap!).  I went to grab his towel and when I came back, he was sitting there with a funny look on his face.  I asked him what he was doing and he said "Mommy, I eating soap! I like soap!" as he pointed in the water at the little flakes that broke off from the bar of soap.

GREAT!



Evening at the Zoo - July 30th

A few weeks ago (I know, I've been bad about blogging lately!) we headed over to the Brevard zoo to see some animals in the evening.  We met up with some friends and had a good time walking around, despite not seeing very many animals! Caydin thinks the world of Carter and asks about him all the time so he thought hanging out with him at the zoo was just about the greatest thing ever!

 Both boys wanted to go on the train and I'm thankful we did - its about the only bunch of animals we were able to see!!!

 Erin and I are both having our second babies (me in November, Erin in February) so we have lots to talk about! Rob and Steve were stuck in a little train seat together too but I won't post that picture on here! :)

Cloth Diapering 101

If you need assistance with cloth diapers, Caydin is the man to call!

 Just make sure you hide your kiddos after the diapering lesson is done!!!!

Random Thoughts!

Last Tuesday, I went to the doctor to check on baby boy. Everything went great! I had to wait awhile, I usually do if I schedule an appointment near the end of the workday but my doctor commented that I was the easiest patient he's seen all day and that I make being pregnant look easy! Score! Honestly, I don't even have time to think about being pregnant! Between Caydin, home, school, family/friends... my days are pretty packed (but I like it that way!).  I'm alittle over 24 weeks now! How crazy is that! Hopefully, I added up the weeks the right way! :) 
At 24 weeks, I've gained a total of 9 pounds since my first doctor's appointment. 
At 24 weeks, I'm addicted to smoothies, especially the ones from McDonalds.  I love Rob's smoothies too bit he doesn't make them often enough for me - I try to get one everytime we are out to eat! It's crazy! I also love when everyone else knows about my smoothie addiction - you can't even imagine how exciting it is when someone puts one in the freezer or brings one home for me! (THANKS DAD!) I never remember having these addictions with Caydin. 
At 24 weeks, I am wearing mostly maternity shorts/capri's/pants.  I'm wearing mostly normal tops but have added a few that are one size bigger than what I usually wear and a few maternity tops.  I'm much bigger with this baby then I was at this point with Caydin!
At 24 weeks, I'm not getting sick anymore - that stopped forever ago and I am not as tired as I was at the beginning (I'm sure that will change next week when I go back to work!)
I tell Rob this all the time, but this baby moves ALOT!!!! When Caydin was in my ol' belly, I felt him mostly at night.  This little guy is active all day long and he has very strong kicks! Rob has been able to feel him kicking a couple times now! He doesn't like me to sleep on my right side either! He's picky like that, I guess!

In other news, we finally got our computer back (Thanks Dad!) so I have a ton of blogs to catch up on! I lost a few pictures from the beginning of July when our computer crashed so I've been busy taking pictures at the end of the month! 

Caydin went to bed tonight with his underwear on instead of his diaper/pull-up.  He's been waking up dry for weeks now (or will wake up to tell me that he has to go potty).  I claimed I was just putting him in diapers/pull ups to use up the open bag we have...  But I know he's ready.  I can not believe that it only took the summer for FULLY potty-train him. 

This coming Friday, Caydin is going to preview a Preschool class.  I'm excited for him! I wasn't going to put him in any sort of preschool class because it would have been too hard to get him there everyweek.  Since my mom doesn't have Lily, the little girl that she watched in the spring, anymore, she will be able to get out and about and be more flexible with schedules.  I'm hoping that Caydin is ready for the class!  It's just a 2 hour drop-off program that he can do once or twice a week. 

We know how to splash in the pool!

From splashing to swimming...

and jumping to throwing...

It's a pretty well known fact...

That we know how to make time at the pool...

lots of FUN!