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".

Circus Time!

We took Kade to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus tonight. It was so much fun! Kade absolutely loved it. Here he is watching the circus with Daddy.

Mommy & Kade having fun at the circus. He was so interested in what was going on, we couldn't get him to look at the camera.

Kade got a snow cone in an elephant cup. He really loved the cup. It's his "ephant"! He also got popcorn and cotton candy. You can't go to the circus without getting all that good stuff!

Kade had such a great time! His favorite things were the elephants and the motorcyle riders in the round cage. When we got home I asked him what his favorites were, and he said bubbles and sing. There was a clown who was blowing bubbles. He's obsessed with bubbles! And sing is music. I thought that was pretty funny!

I was finally able to get a picture of him with his circus hat. He hates hats and won't keep them on his head. So that was a challenge! We're so glad we got to take him to the circus. It was so fun for Mommy & Daddy too! We were on the 4th row, so our seats were amazing. We will definitely go back next year.

Kade at his first Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Notice he says "eat, eat" at the end of the video. He's already thinking about the food!

This one's a little dark, but you can hear how excited he was!

Goodbye Binky

Oh, the orneriness!

The binkie is officially gone! We had decided we were going to make Kade give it up when he turned 2. So he turned 2, and we were going to wean him off of it. We only allowed him to have it at nap time and bed time. That was going fine. So then we decided it was about time to get rid of it altogether. Well Kade had begun to bite the ends off of them, so we were down to 1 more binky left. Once they were gone we weren't buying anymore. But today Kade was supposed to be down for his nap, and he started crying and wouldn't stop. So Jake went in to check on him, and he was sitting in the floor of his room beside the vent and crying binky. He has learned how to take the vent covers off and dropped the binky down the opening. So we just told him binky was gone forever and we couldn't get it back. That answer worked for him, and now we are binky free!

Kade Blowing Out Candles

Kade had a birthday party at my dad's house tonight. It was a monkey themed party. He absolutely loves monkeys! Here he is blowing out his birthday candles. He did a really good job.

We didn't even have to tell him to blow them out. He just automatically did it!

Swinging & Sliding

We took Kade to the city park this evening to play, and he wanted to swing. Here are a few pics of him having fun swinging while Daddy was pushing him.

He kept saying "Whee" over and over again! It was so cute.

Kade's peeking at the camera around Daddy's arm.

I can't get over how big he is getting. And he looks exactly like me in this picture when I was that age!

Kade pointing at the train tracks and saying choo-choo. He wanted a train to come by so bad while we were there.

Kade loves to slide! Here is a quick video of him climbing up the slide and coming down while we were playing at the park. We almost couldn't pull him away from that slide once he started sliding. He cried when we had to go home.