Christmas and 9 months

Cade Christmas morning.

Loving his new chair.

So happy for his present from Santa.

Riding his new walk'n'ride. He loves it.

We also took him to the doctor this month for his 9 month wellness check up. Here are his stats.

Height: 25 inches (.16 percentile on the growth charts) His doctor isn't worried about his height, he said someone has to be the last kid on the charts and it's probably going to be Cade.

Weight: 19 pounds(23rd percentile)

He is a very physical child and loves to be on the move. He climbs, crawls, and walks along the furniture. He eats like a champ and gets upset when his meal is done. He is still sleeping through the night, usually from 8pm to 8am. But no teeth yet. And he babbles all the time, but mostly to get our attention. He is adorable.

Climbing

Cade loves to climb. Here is an example of one of his adventures.
He figured out how to open the door.

Getting inside...

And success. He was very proud of himself.

Thanksgiving and 8 months

These are old pictures, but better late than never!

This is our family on Thanksgiving. We went to my parents house and had some great food. Cade enjoyed sitting in his highchair and being able to see everyone and all the food. He tried a few things, but mostly ate a few bites of corn.

Cade at 8 months old. (even though he is 9 months old now) I had just gotten his haircut a few days before. I think he looks much older and like a little man with short hair. Very cute. He is always sticking his tongue out.

And just because I thought this picture was cute. He is very good at crawling around(mostly in the army crawl fashion)and tries to pull himself up on furniture-but he isn't always tall enough to reach.

Happy Halloween!

We carved pumpkins this year! We got a big one for me and Brian and a little baby one for Cade. Brian did a great job cleaning and carving each pumpkin.
Cade wasn't so sure what to think about the "guts" of the pumpkin, but he was happy to play with them for a few minutes.

This was Cade's pumpkin. It's a block U.

All of the pumpkins together. Our's on the left, Cade's in the middle, and Heather's on the right.

6 month old photos

I went up to Logan to visit my friend Tiara and while I was there she took some pictures of Cade for his 6 month mark. Here are a few of my favorites. I have all of them on Facebook if you're interested.

This is his halloween costume.

My friend Heather made these letters for his room.

This is the perfect picture of his sad face. Brian this the caption should say "I hate it when the Broncos lose."

7 months and a dog

I'm 7 months old! My how time flies! I love to play and stay in my pjs all day! I am now wearing 3-6 month size clothes. I am a very happy boy and am looking forward to learning how to crawl(I am very good at creeping around with my arms like a snake)and can't wait until I have some teeth so I can eat what mom and dad are eating!

We also got a dog! Hooray! His nam is Shoku(it means friend in Albanian) we adopted him from the Humane Society. He's 8 months old and is a Chow chow/Australian Shepard mix. He is very well behaved and came to us house trained! It's been great. Cade and I feel much safer at night with him around when Brian goes to work.

6 months

Cade turned 6 months old in September. He is very talented at this age. He can sit up all on his own. Scream and make all kinds of noises. And eat food like a champ. He also sleeps through the night now. He'll go down at 7:30pm and sleep until around 8am, he might wake up once or twice but usually just talks himself back to sleep. He loves his binki and any toy you give him. He really likes animals(especially dogs) and will giggle anytime they get within reach. Cade is great and we love him lots.

6 month old stats: Weight-17 lbs (42nd percent, up from the 5th) Height-23 inches (.26 percent, down from the 2nd)
His doctor said that if he hasn't gone up past the 5th percent for height at his 9 month check up then he'll probably run some test on his thyroid and growth hormone level. We aren't too worried about it-it's not like Brian and I are giants, he's probably just small like us!