Feb Birthdays & 11 Months

Caden loves playing peek-a-boo.  He will cruise his way to the side of the couch and just wait for you to stick your head around.  He laughs so much, it is so adorable! A little fun before bed...

February is always a busy month with birthdays in my family. We had lots of fun celebrating with everyone. We celebrated my dad's and sister's birthday first.  We had them over for dinner and presents.  Grandpa and Caden...

Grandpa and his boys...

A random picture that school sent me of Caden painting...

Later in the month we had Mimi and Papa down to celebrate all of their birthdays.  Braxton helping Brett do a little baby-proofing...

Braxton helping Christie blow out the candles...

A few close-ups Mimi captured...

We ended the weekend with lunch at Cheesecake Factory, always a favorite...

Mimi and Papa with the boys...

Caden turned 11 months in February...

He loves diving into the ball pit...

The weather had been really nice so we got out the wagon to give it a try.  Thank you Aunt Christie for the wagon!! Caden loved it (especially going on the ride with his monkey!)...

January/Early February

Here is a lot of random photos of Caden from January and early February.  A lot of them are from my phone so they are not great quality. 

Loves his dinosaur that Nana and Papa gave him...

Caden had been doing the army crawl for quite a while but finally decided right after Christmas to do the full on crawling...

Enjoying the weather out at the park...

Turned 10 months in January...

He is such a happy boy...

He has figured out that the months on his shirt are stickers and is determined to get them off...

All over the place...

Finally got the sticker off...

Loves playing peek-a-boo....

Bless his heart, Caden got strep in early February...

Laying low around the house...

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Loves books...

I took a zillion pictures trying to get a cute picture of Caden to put on his first birthday invitation.  He is so hard to capture smiling AND looking at the camera.  I get so frustrated with my camera b/c it doesn't snap the picture quick enough and I end up with blurry or side view pictures.  Of the zillion pictures taken here were some of the cute ones...

 Finally mommy let's me just watch some cartoons...

Christmas Continued...

On the Friday before Christmas we headed to Kansas for the holidays.  We celebrated Christmas that evening with Mimi, Papa, Grandma Max and Christie.  Caden checking everything out.

Present time!

By this point he has gotten the hang of opening presents so he jumps right in...

Christmas PJ's, we should have put them on him for pictures instead of the ones he had on :(

Mimi and Papa opening their gifts...

Hanging out with Papa having a bottle before we got in the car to drive to Grandma Billinger's. 

The girls after church on Christmas Eve...

Christmas morning...

Aunt Christie and Caden...

Yes, that is all the pictures I have from Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.  I definitely get the awful mom award.  Caden's first Christmas and I didn't even get one of him in his Christmas outfit or one of us as a family.  Horrible :(

We headed back to Mimi & Papa's for one more night and then headed home the next day.  Leaving Monday morning....

Mimi and Papa came down a few days later for the weekend.  Since Braxton was with his dad for Christmas we did another Christmas at our house so he could open his presents from Mimi & Papa.  Caden helping out...

Mom and I were upstairs talking in Caden's room and all the sudden I look over and Caden is diving head first into the basket of stuff animals!

Just acting like he is one of them...

Such a stinker! A cute one though...

Caden loves bath time.  Thought this was such a sweet picture...

In December, Caden turned 9 months.  Every month it is getting harder and harder to get a good picture of him.  He is all over the place and doesn't have time for my picture taking.

Loves his big monkey...

Mimi and Papa babysat for us so we go out for New Year's.  We went to dinner and then headed over to Chaucer's in Allen.  We hung out for a bit but we felt so out of place and so old.  I can totally tell that I am a mother now.  I could not believe some of the outfits girls were wearing or be comfortable with the go-go dancer on the bar! We didn't make it to midnight, actually when we got home Caden was up so I went to rock him and fell asleep.  At least we tried! 

That wraps up 2011.  Only 2 1/2 more months to get caught up on!