Ice Storm

We finally had some snow Monday night and Tuesday. I was out of school 4 days this week, but I couldn't take Kade out to play in it since he had RSV. We were just cooped up for a week.

Our huge tree in the back yard fell down with all the ice. It barely missed the house. Thanks goodness it did!

RSV... Again.

Last night Jake and I went out to Tulsa for dinner, and while we were gone Kade spent the night with Jake's parents. They called us this morning saying that Kade hadn't slept very well and was coughing quite a bit. We decided to go ahead and go to church, because Kade seemed to be feeling fine. While at church he started running a fever, so we left early. His fever was 102.6 and his cough wasn't getting any better. Since he had RSV last winter, we decided to go ahead and take him to the ER just to make sure it wasn't RSV. The cough sounded awfully familiar. We got to the ER at 6:30. After waiting an hour, they finally called us back to get Kade's vitals. His fever was 103.0 at this time. Since he had such a high fever they wouldn't send us to the fast track clinic. We had to wait in the ER. The doctor came in and listened to Kade's chest and called for chest x-rays. After the x-rays, a nurse came in to take a sample out of Kade's nose to test for RSV. His nose was so dry that when the nurse stuck the tube in there Kade's nose started bleeding, and he was scared to death. They barely got a sample, but we told them that would have to be good enough, because we weren't letting them do that to him again. So the sample came back showing he does have RSV. The doctor said we caught it early, so it's not that bad right now. He just barely had anything in his lungs, so that was very good. They gave us one medication to bring home and prescribed another. They also made Kade take a breathing treatment before we left, and we have to go back tomorrow to pick up the breathing treatment medication. I'm so thankful that we caught it early this time, and he is doing pretty good actually. As long as he isn't running fever, he is running around playing and seems as normal as can be.

Look What I Did!

So today, my friend Rachael kept Kade while I was at school. This was the first time that she kept Kade. And while he was there, he decided to make a complete mess of Martin's room! Rachael said that she was letting Kade and Martin play together in Martin's room, and Kade came out covered in powder! She hoped that it was just on Kade, but as you can see, it was everywhere. Luckily it was just one of the small bottles of powder. When Kade did this at our house I wasn't so lucky. He found the jumbo bottle. But thankfully Rachael wasn't mad and has even agreed to keep Kade again!!

Kade's Glasses

Kade found some of Jake's old glasses from the military, put them on, and came to me saying "Kade's glasses". I couldn't help but take a few pictures. He was cracking me up!

Is he a white Steve Urkel?!?!

They even work upside down!

He looks so sweet in this one! I'm surprised I could get him to sit still and pose for my pictures. That's almost unheard of!

Just Like My Daddy

Kade decided that he needed to dress like Daddy! It's only slightly too big. :)

Pirate

So I had a few updates on Kade, but I don't have any pictures right now.

Last week Kade got his first Webkins. We were at Hastings, and he started pulling all the animals out of their bins and was carrying them all around the store. I told him he had to put them all back, and then Jake said he could pick out one animal to take home with him. So he decided on the tiger. On the way home I kept asking him what he wanted to name his tiger. He would say, "umm..." and that's all I could ever get out of him. So the next day I kept asking him again periodically throughout the day, and he finally said he wanted to name his tiger Pirate. So that's his new name! I don't know where that came from, but it just cracked me and Jake up!

Another story... Kade was carrying my phone around the house the other night, and he was pushing all the keys on the keypad. He ran up to me and said, "Texting Mommy, texting." Don't they just pick up everything?!

Kade can also count from 1 - 11 all by himself! Here's a video of him counting to 10, although he's sticking his hands up in the camera the whole time. Then at the end he says, "Hold it, Kade hold it." He was wanting my camera the whole time! He sure is hard to get videos of these days.

Family Picture Time

We have made it a tradition to get family photos every year before Christmas. I was waiting to post them until after our family received theirs on Christmas. Hope you enjoy! These were taken at Honor Heights Park by Noel Cox Photography October 28, 2008.



Here's a funny story! I had been trying to help Kade be very careful about a week before our pictures were going to be taken, since he is always getting scratches, etc. on his face. I wanted the pictures to be scratch free! So everything had gone pretty smoothly, and he just had a small scratch on his nose. Well we got to Honor Heights Park and had taken a couple pictures. Kade decided he wanted to run down the path by himself, but then he went off the path and started running through the bushes and brush. Before we could get to him he started crying. I thought, oh great! Then I jokingly said, as long as his face is okay then everything's fine. Jake got to him first and turned Kade's face towards me. He had a giant scratch on his face running from the side of his cheek all the way under his eye. It was bleeding and everything, and we had just started our pictures. They all turned out great anyway! Noel is so good! The first couple of pictures were before the scratch, and I think you can only see it slightly in the monkey picture. That's a memory we'll never forget!

Kade's 2 Year Old Pics

Here are the pictures I had taken for Kade's second birthday. I'm just posting them a little late. They were taken on September 8, 2008 by Noel Cox Photography.