Magic Moments

Hi you guys! Cade here. Mama wanted me to check in and post pictures to prove she is taking a few pictures of me. I can't blame her for not taking pictures everyday. I like to be held all day and if I put up with my baby chair for a few minutes mama uses that time to get dressed or eat or take care of my brothers. I don't mind the lack of pictures though. My mama snuggles me and stares at me all day. She says I'm her last baby and so she's soaking all of me in. A photographer came to the house yesterday so I made sure to act really cute for her. Those pictures will make up for the lack my mama takes.  We're living in the moment and enjoying every minute. I'm growing really big! I still don't like to sleep for more than an hour to two at a time, but I can hold my head up really well and I smile a lot. Well, Mama says it's bedtime (what a joke!) so I better go! Time to go hang out with Mama all night!

This sweet little child is teeter tottering on the edge of toddlerhood and childhood and I just want to stop time. He sounded out his first word yesterday during school and that says a lot about whats going on in his brain. He is absorbing so much and like Aiden he is starting to learn on his own and make connections between what he already knows and new information. It's so fun to watch and at the same time I want him to slow down and stay little. He still hangs onto some of his toddler words and thinks clementines are called tinatines. :) He thinks oatmeal is called A.B.O. And yesterday when I asked him if he swallowed his gum he said, "No, I ate it!" He asks increasingly more questions about God and his own innocent faith is emerging. His interests involve anything with a motor or a button or anything that goes fast. His 4th birthday is coming up and his very own vacuum is at the top of the list. I have a feeling he'll most definitely be getting that! Sage is also ...

The little boys and I went to the cabin last weekend to see Pappy and Marme. It was a beautiful weekend and the boys loved jumping in leaves, riding and driving the John Deere, and roasting marshmallows over the fire. somersaults Sage loves anything with a motor! cart wheels Cade was content to just hang out with Marme.

There was a day last week that I had just gotten out of the shower and the days tasks were before me when Aiden came running upstairs to tell me there was water leaking from the ceiling in the basement bathroom. I ran down to check and sure enough, there were drips coming from the ceiling. It doesn't take much to send me into panic mode so immediately my head started spinning with visions of ripping out a ceiling, repairing and replacing pipes, remediating the entire basement for mold and the dollar signs kept piling up. It was then that the Holy Spirit stepped in and I shut the bathroom door and just decided to pray. Right away I was reminded of God's name, Jehovah Jire-my provider. And I prayed that God would somehow provide an easy solution. After talking to my mom who told me to just calm down and then talking to my dad and doing a little investigation I figured out that water only leaks if there is water on the floor upstairs. Tom has been preaching about not getting water...

Cade is one month old today and is still very much a newborn but each day I can see little ways that he is changing into a baby. He is still sleeping lots (during the day) but is waking up for longer stretches at a time. He is much more interested in faces and listens when I talk. He tries really hard to talk back but that translates into a bunch of baby grunts and his whole body wiggling since he hasn't quite found he can control his voice yet. He's been wanting to smile for a week or two now and just this morning I got the first honest to goodness smile during our conversation. That smile took quite a bit of work so I think they'll be few and far between until Cade gets everything figured out and the smile start to flow. Cade's head control is good and has been since he was born, but he's holding it up for longer now and looking around alot. He has also already found his feet and likes to try to stand and put his weight down! He'll be running, just like my oth...

I have lots of posts swimming in my head but this blog isn't the only thing neglected in my house and it takes a back burner to everything else. When things get easier and we find our new normal I want to log every single detail of Cade's life here (just as I did the other 2 boys) because Cade is the single most sweetest baby ever and I'm drinking him in and enjoying him (even at 4 AM) because he is our last baby and I love him so.  Cade tuned 4 weeks today and I have barely taken any pictures because I've barely put him down. He's happiest in my arms and I'm trying hard to hold him all the time but it makes picture taking difficult (along with everything else). So, this week I'm going to take pictures and I'll post them when he turns 1 month. I'm still working on his birth story and so the grandparents can look forward to that. We went to Taylors Falls on Sunday. The day was beautiful and we were itching to go and take in the fall colors. We hadn...

This post is a catch up post and I think from here on out all my posts are going to be "catch up" posts because I can't really imagine being caught up with anything with a newborn in the house. Tom  went back to work on Thursday and I was left by myself to care for 3 children.  I thought maybe Tom would go back to work and ease in gently but yesterday was a 13 hour day for him despite the fact that I started begging him to come home at 4 o'clock. I'm on my own for the next 5 nights so it's initiation by fire into the world of raising 3 boys. I'll let you know how it goes. Anyway, day 1 home alone wasn't horrible, but it was tiring and I know it'll get easier. The way it stands now is that I feel like I spend the majority of the day feeding little people. Between nursing and meals and snacks and kitchen clean up, that takes up a ton of time. The goal is to start school on Monday and I think I'm going to have to lower my expectations on start...