Wild Wilderness Safari

Today we took Kade to the Wild Wilderness Drive Through Safari in Gentry, AR. We had a lot of fun! Here Kade is in the petting zoo watching the baby pygmy goat.

We're still in the petting zoo, and Kade is "hugging" the kangaroo.

Here we are at the walk through part of the safari, and Kade and Daddy are watching the zebra. Kade really liked the zebras.

Here we are petting a baby tiger at the walk through safari. It was so neat!

Kade got to help drive while we were going through the Wilderness Safari. He really liked seeing all the different animals. They really have a lot. He especially liked all the monkeys! We definitely had a fun afternoon. We will have to go back again next year!

Bryson & Kade

This evening we went to our friends Brian & Jennifer Yeager's house. Kade and their son Bryson had so much fun playing together! Here Kade decided to jump in Bryson's pool with all his clothes still on!

Kade was having so much fun filling a cup up with water out of the pool and filling up the bubble blower with it.

Here he is enjoying the bubbles!

Kade and Bryson got to take a bath together after they played outside. Bryson was having fun putting bubbles on Kade's head!

Here they are both hanging out in their pj's watching a movie before bedtime. They had so much fun! Bryson said it was the best party ever!

Spray Bottle Fun

One of Kade's favorite things to do is play in the spray bottle water.

I guess it's easier than taking him swimming!

He squirted water until the spray bottle was empty.

He also likes to drink the water out of it too! Notice how wet he was!

Cheap entertainment! :)

Walks With Mommy

Tonight Kade and I went on one of our walks through the neighborhood while Daddy was at work. In this picture I told him to smile, and he scrunched his face all up with his eyes closed. I told him to open his eyes, and that's why his eyes are so wide and his mouth is opened!

I finally got a real smile in this one! So cute!

Here is what he was doing, with his eyes closed. He's so silly!

Then he decided to give me several good smiles in a row.

On our walk, Kade saw his first bunny rabbit. He really liked it and just kept pointing at it saying "Ohh." I got as close as I could before it ran away. We usually just see dogs and birds, so that was a treat!

Playing at the Splash Park

We spent the afternoon at the splash park playing and attending Kade's friend Araya's birthday party. He had a great time!

Since it has rained quite a bit here in the last few days, the water was a little deeper than normal. Kade loved running through it and kicking the water. I think that was his favorite part!

Here he is just running through the water again!

He didn't even mind getting water in his eyes too much!

Here he was running through the water that was coming down and was trying to fit in between the streams of water. It was so funny!

Just Like My Daddy

While Daddy was at work today, Kade decided to climb up in Jake's desk chair and pretend to play the XBox.

He's looking pretty serious about it in this picture! He loves to wear the head set.

He asked me to put the head set on him!

If the head set fell off, I'd have to put it back on him!

Now he's wearing the headphones and playing one of his computer games. He definitely already knows all about the computer.

Fun In Kade's Room

I got a few pictures of Kade playing in his room today. I realized that I hardly have any pictures of him in his room.

Here he is riding on his zebra. He loves that zebra!

Funny face again! I tried to get a real smile, but it didn't work.

And a close up funny face! He was trying to get as close to my camera as he could. Notice I only got real smiles when he had his paci in. When I asked him to take it out for the picture, this is what I got! He's so silly.

Some of his new words are ice, berries, please and baby. And he also makes monkey noises now on request! I forgot to post his newest measurements from June 27. He was 21 months old, weighed 30 lbs. 6 oz. and was 33 1/2 inches tall. He may be taller than that though, but we couldn't get him to stand very still for the height measurement. Imagine that! When I told him to put his feet back as far as he could against the wall so we could get his height, he sat down and just laughed!

SKITTLES!!

Kade has discovered Skittles! I had some yesterday and shared them with him. He absolutely loved them, and after he finished one he would look at me and say pease (please) to ask for another!

I loved his greenish, orangish, yellowish sticky beard/mustache!!

Not So Happy 4th of July

Well we had a Happy 4th of July until the fireworks started. The day started with Jake going floating with his guy friends. So Kade and I stayed home and waited for him. Then when Daddy got home we went to a cookout with Papa and Grandma Carolyn at the lake. After that cookout we went to another cookout at Chad and Noel's house. Everything was fine until the fireworks started. The Cox's and Holston's had fireworks for their bigger kids to shoot off, so we were going to all sit outside and let the littler kids watch. Kade was scared to death of the loud noise. So I got the spend the rest of the evening inside with him crying and holding his ears! He wouldn't even watch them out the front window. And he would even hold his ears inside. Poor little guy! Every once in a while he would run to the front door and cry for DaDa. So Jake had to come in too. It wasn't the ideal 4th to say the least. Hopefully he'll be over that by next year!

But once we got home and all the noise had stopped, he was back to normal! Here he is making his funny face with Daddy's sunglasses on.

Kade's Funny Face

Kade now has a funny face! Every time I tell him to make his funny face, this is what he does.

He's also started doing it when I pull out the camera too! This could be a problem. Noel will have her work cut out for her at his next photo session!

And if you tell him to say "cheese", this is what you get!

Comfortable Bed?

Kade was napping in the play pen today and decided to throw everything out of it, including the cushion. I guess it wasn't too uncomfortable! I even had a hard time waking him up. :)

Uncle Bubba's Graduation

Here are Kade and cousin Nicholas on the car ride to Georgia to watch Uncle Bryan graduate from basic training. They were tired! We left Wednesday morning at 7:45 a.m. and arrived at our hotel that night at 10:45 p.m.

Here are Mommy & Kade on the way to Georgia. Kade's favorite thing to do in the car was listen to our IPOD's. He loves music! And he loved to put the ear buds in his ears.

Here Kade is sporting his new PT uniform that Uncle Bryan got for him while he was in basic training. Isn't he cute? He will be able to wear it for a long time. As you can tell, it's a little big!

Uncle Bryan just graduated, but Kade wasn't too happy. He was scared of all the noises during the graduation. They did a demonstration with grenades and tanks firing. Kade screamed through the entire thing.

Here are Daddy & Kade in front of a striker after Bryan's graduation. We had a great time watching Bryan's Turning Blue Ceremony on Thursday and Basic Graduation on Friday! Now "Uncle Bubba", which is what Kade calls him, is an Army National Guard Soldier. We are very proud of him!

Some More Pictures

These were taken on June 7 at 20 months old.He looks so big in this picture.

Playing patty cake

Always smiling for the camera

We could not get that phone away from him!