Christmas Day

Christmas morning we got up and let Kade open his gifts from Mom and Dad and see what Santa brought him. He got a digital camera from Santa and a full stocking with goodies. From Mommy & Daddy he got a Thomas the Train bedding set, some Thomas books, a Thomas placemat, and a Take-a-Long Thomas, Percy & Toby, trains that magnetize together. Kade loves Thomas and loves his new Thomas toys! Christmas afternoon we spent at my Aunt Donna's house in Broken Arrow with my dad, my grandparents, my brother, and our cousins. We ate a big dinner, and then opened presents. Kade got money, a helicopter toy and a chicken/egg game. Then for the evening we went over to my grandma Jeanie's house to have dinner and open presents with them. My mom, Bruce, Bryan and Tom & Jeanie were there. Kade got a Curious George DVD set, Thomas the Train DVD set, some shirts my grandma made him, a new swimsuit, a couple of other shirts, and more money. One of Kade's favorite things was playing in the styrofoam that was packing for one of our gifts. He was breaking it up and saying "snowing, snowing!"

Kade opening his first present Christmas morning, right after finding his new digital camera from Santa.

Kade showing off his new Toby Train.

Kade reading his new Thomas book.

Jeanie helping Kade open his gifts.

Kade playing in the "snow".

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve afternoon we went to my dad's house. We ate lunch and opened presents there. Kade got a Radio Flyer wagon, Thomas the Train computer, Ratatouille book, Cars Magna Doodle, some money and a View Finder. Then we took Kade to get his hair cut. Tara did a really good job and cut Kade's hair into a faux hawk. It's so cute! Then for the evening we went over to Jake's parents' house to eat dinner and open presents with them & Holly. Kade got a Radio Flyer tricycle, Elmo & Cookie Monster vacuum cleaner, animal puzzle, Color Wonder book, and some money. He especially likes his tricycle! Here are a few pictures of our day.

Kade trying to open a present with his teeth!

Kade sitting in his new wagon with all his new toys.

Kade with his new hair cut.

Kade on his new tricycle from Mema & Papa.Daddy, Mommy & Kade on Christmas Eve.

Early Christmas Present

I didn't put out any of the Christmas presents under the tree until today, because I knew that Kade would be into all of them. So today while he was down for his nap, I started putting them out. As soon as he woke up, the first thing he was were the presents. He ran over to the tree and started yelling "presents"! Then he started crawling under the tree and pulling all the presents out. I told them that all those presents weren't for him. They were for our family. Then he saw the gifts wrapped in Sponge Bob paper. He started yelling "Bob, Bob"! I told him those were for him, and he'd have to ask Daddy if he could open one early. Daddy said yes, so I told Kade to pick out one of the presents to open. He studied them very hard and finally decided on one. He got Thomas the Train bath tub toys. There is a Thomas, James & Molly. Kade loves Thomas and knows all the trains by heart, so he was so excited! Here are a few pics of him and his new trains.

Kade opening his early Christmas present wrapped in Bob paper.

James the Train

Kade driving James around.

Kade proudly showing off Molly!

Kid's Christmas Party

Today all the moms had a Christmas party for our kids at Noel's house. It was so much fun! The kids got to have a picnic lunch of chicken nuggets and chips in the living room floor. Then we let the kids decorate sugar cookies with icing and sprinkles. Then each kid made a reindeer shirt. They are so cute! The reindeer's face is Kade's foot, and his ears are Kade's hands. Kade wasn't sure about putting paint on his foot and hands at first, but he let me do it. After the shirts the kids got to open gifts. We all brought dollar tree gifts for each kid to open. Kade got a basketball, car, tops, rubber stamp set & stuffed monkey. He had so much fun today! Then the kids played and watched a movie.

All the kids eating their lunch. Nikki, Kade, Kaya, Martin, Aadyn, Araya & Zach.

Still eating lunch. Martin, Aadyn, Araya, Zach, Nikki, Kade & Kaya.

Kade licking all the icing off his decorated cookie.

Kade showing me his decorated cookie.

The kids and their new reindeer shirts. Aadyn, Zach, Nikki, Martin, Kade, Kaya & Araya. Aren't they so cute!!

Friend's Christmas Party

Tonight we went over to Chad & Noel's house to have a Christmas party with our friends. Joel & Teresa, Nikki, Zach & Aadyn, Dustin, Rachael & Martin, and Chad, Noel, Araya & Kaya were all there. Teresa cooked a huge Christmas dinner, which was very good! Then we all opened gifts and had a great time. Later the guys played Rock Band while the girls played cards. Kade got a clock toy from Chad & Noel and a Build-A-Bear leopard with undies from Joel & Teresa. Thanks also to Chad & Noel, who gave Jake and me each a shirt, a coupon for pictures, and some candy, and also to Joel & Teresa, who got me a Bath & Body Works set and Jake some books.

Here is Kade with his new clock. It sings when you wind it up.

Kade and Martin playing with their new toys.

Mommy's Graduation

Today I graduated from NSU. YAY, finally!! I had tons of family come to support me, so that was great. Jake, Kade, my brother Bryan, my mom, Bruce, my dad, Tina, my grandparents Mema & Pepa, my cousin Nicholas, my grandparents Tom & Jeanie, my in-laws Ron & Carolyn, and my sister-in-law Holly were all there. I also graduated with Kara Kelley, and we got to sit together since we were in alphabetical order. So that was nice to sit by a friend. Here are a few pics. I don't have the good ones yet, because my mom took those, and I haven't gotten them from her yet. So I'll post the better pictures later.

Nicholas & Kade at Mommy's graduation

Graduation processional

Walking across the stage receiving my "diploma".

Kade sitting in Daddy's lap waiting on Mommy to get done at graduation.

Visit With Santa

Tonight was Daddy's company Christmas party with OG&E. It was held at the Civic Center in Muskogee. It was a really nice party. They catered a meal from Jasper's, which was really good. Then after the meal Santa showed up. This is what we had been waiting for for a couple weeks. We had been telling Kade that he would get to see Santa tonight, and he was all excited. I wasn't so sure though. As soon as Santa walked in the room, Kade started whining "Mommy, Mommy." Then he crawled up in my lap and started crying. Santa walked to the other side of the room, and then Kade got happy real quick. He started saying "Bye Santa." Then when Santa came back he got scared again. Santa went up and sat in his sleigh to hand out gifts to the kids. So each kid was supposed to come up, get their gift, and get their picture taken on Santa's lap. Kade was deathly afraid of sitting on his lap. I asked him if Mommy could sit on Santa's lap, and Kade could sit on Mommy's lap. He gave a definite no! So when they called his name, I took him up to get his gift while he screamed the whole time and was covering his ears, something he does when he's scared. The photographer offered to just take a picture of Kade and me together, but I couldn't even get him calmed down enough for that. Oh well, there's always next year!

Kade opening his first present of the season from Santa at Jake's company party.

He worked real hard on opening that gift.

Here was Kade playing with his new toy, a Batman car that you shake to make it go. We couldn't ever get Kade to cooperate so we could get a picture of the car. It was even lucky we got these few pictures, with the whole Santa incident!

Mommy & Kade at Daddy's company Christmas party. I couldn't get Kade to sit on Daddy's lap for a picture. After Santa made his appearance, Kade wouldn't leave my side.

Tent from Uncle Kim

Kade got a surprise in the mail today from his Uncle Kim, Jake's brother. It is a camouflage tent. It is so cute! When I opened the box and set it up, Kade was just saying "whoa". He immediately got inside. Here's a picture of him posing inside his new tent.

Kade peeking out of his tent

Here he is climbing out the window on the side of the tent. He thought that was so funny!

And then he decided to hang out inside the tent and watch TV through the window! Thanks Uncle Kim and Aunt Shari!

Tonsillitis

Kade has been sick since Thursday. He started running a fever, and it got up to 104.6 by Friday. So we took him in to the doctor to make sure it wasn't anything more than a virus. We found out he has tonsillitis. By the time we got him to the hospital Friday night, his fever had broken and was at 99.0. The fever never came back. So we were glad about that! He's feeling a lot better and just has to take some antibiotics for another week. Hope you enjoy the pictures of Kade taking his "temper". He was playing with the thermometer and told me he was taking his temperature there in his belly button!!

Oh, Kade is 2 years and almost 3 months old. He weighs 34.5 pounds and is 36 inches tall.

Happy Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving lunch we went out to eat with my family at Fin 'N Feather. Here is Kade posing for a picture at the restaurant. His Grandma Jeanie made him a turkey shirt. When I'd ask him what a turkey says, he'd say chirp chirp. We tried to teach him gobble gobble, but he thinks all birds say chirp chirp!

Here he is chowing down on his patoes (potatoes). They are his very favorite! When we got up to the buffet, I told Kade to point out the things he wanted to eat. He loudly yelled to the whole restaraunt, patoes!

More potatoes! Notice how the bite is actually bigger than his mouth. But he sure managed to get it in there! He also liked the pink cake (jello pudding).

Here's a family picture. Kade was being silly as always!

Here's a picture of Bubba, Mommy, Kade and Daddy after our lunch back at Jeanie's house.

Bath Time Fun

I hadn't taken any pictures of Kade playing in the bath tub recently, so I decided to do that tonight. He loves his baths. He will run to the bathroom door and say "bas, bas momma".

He was being really silly once I got out the camera!

He got to wear his duck towel tonight after the bath. Mema got this for Kade, and he loved it. He didn't want to take it off, so I put his diaper on him and let him wear it around for a while. He was running around the kitchen in circles saying "running, running". He's so funny!

Kade and I are having fun this week on my week off. Monday we went to my friend Rachael's house for lunch, and Kade got to play with all the kids. Then yesterday we had Mommy and Kade's Day Out. We went to the mall to see the fish, and I was going to let him ride the Christmas train, but he didn't want to. He just kept saying horse, and I figured out he wanted to ride the motorized horse. So he rode it 4 times and would have kept riding it if I would have kept putting money in it. Then we got to get Dippin' Dots. By that time Kade was worn out, so we headed home. I've been explaining to him that tomorrow is Thanksgiving and have been telling him that we're going to lunch with Mimi, Papa, Tom and Jeanie. So every time I ask him what tomorrow is he says "Mimi, Papa, Tom & Jeanie". He's so excited to eat lunch with them! He misses his Mimi and has been asking about her every day this week.

Happy Halloween!

Here is Kade dressed up in his monkey costume. It was the perfect costume, since he is such a monkey!

Here are Daddy & Kade out trick-or-treating. We thought his costume would be great since it was such a warm costume, but it was hot this year. It was actually 70 degrees while we were out. It didn't seem to bother Kade too much. He was more interested in getting candy anyway!

Here's Daddy & Kade trick-or-treating at someone's door. Kade would walk up to the door, we'd tell him to say trick-or-treat, and he'd say treat! He always had to tell everyone bye-bye too!

Kade did really well the whole time we were out trick-or-treating. He wanted to walk himself and carry his candy bucket. He's so independent now!

Mommy & Kade trick-or-treating.

We had a lot of fun this year! Kade's finally old enough to understand what's going on, and he loved it! He was so excited to go "treat".