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".

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.

Choo-Choo

Kade got a new Thomas the Train for his birthday. He absolutely loves trains right now! Every time we see a train he points at it and says choo-choo! Then when we get past it, he says bye choo-choo. Here he is playing with his new train.

Happy Birthday Kade!

Today Kade turned 2! We had his birthday party this afternoon at Aunt Nancy's pool house. Here he is eating cake and ice cream with Daddy.

What a happy birthday boy, playing with his balloon!

Here's a new family picture.

Mommy and Kade right before opening presents. Kade's favorite part was eating that sucker!

Kade had a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse birthday party. Here he is showing off his new birthday shirt and Daddy's mouse ears. Isn't he just too cute!!

Kade's Birthday Cake

Here are pictures of Kade's birthday cake. My friend, Amanda Shipley, made the cake. Isn't it super cute? I asked her to make a cake that went along with the theme of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and she actually made the clubhouse.

It was just the perfect cake!!

ABC's

Kade will now almost repeat everything that we say. Here he is showing off his ABC skills. He absolutely loves letters. When he sees any letters he always say "A" or "E", no matter what the letter is. So I'm glad that he is recognizing that they are the ABC's! I can't get him to be still for 5 seconds, so these videos are hard to get. Hopefully you can understand him!

Here he is showing off his new jeans and tennis shoes.

Handsome Fireman

Here Kade is showing off his new fireman hat from Aunt Holly. She works as the dispatcher for the fire department, so it's only fitting that she got Kade the fireman hat. Most of the time he won't keep a hat on his head for more than a couple seconds, but I convinced him to do it for the picture. Doesn't he look so big in this picture? He'll be 2 in less than 2 weeks!

Kade's Favorite Song

Kade's favorite song is "Please Don't Stop the Music" by Rhianna. Here he is dancing to it. He loves to dance! Sorry the video is sideways. I didn't know how to rotate it.

Our Little Acrobat

Here Kade is showing me how he can do a somersault on the floor. You'll also hear that he is really good at whining!!

Kade Can Snore

The other night Kade crawled up on the couch, layed down, and said night night. Then he started snoring. I don't know where he learned this, but here I caught a quick video of him snoring. He wasn't cooperating too well, but I think you can hear him.