Babe Magnet

Cade just loves entertaining guests!

Especially when it's Peggy!

Peggy brought Cade the CUTEST gift ever! This book comes complete with tickling gloves...genius.

Matt is the tickling expert around here...although Cade says he won't even crack a smile...

He's wearing down a little...

He surrenders...

Okay, Dad, too much...


Thanks for coming to visit us, Peggy! We had a great time and LOVE our tickle book!

New Discoveries...

...like, you know, the dining room. Cade has been crawling up a storm and now loves to play underneath the kitchen table and...in the curtains.

It's a little bit gross, but he likes to lick the window too. (This was prior to the snow..)

Now the deck looks like this.



The fridge can be a fun place to play too.

Cade, meet The Nibbler. (This little net thing that you put food in for kids to suck on). Cade seems to think it's a little sketchy.

I put some juicy apple bits in and thought he'd really like it...

Except it took awhile for him to figure out what end to be nibbling. I really am a control freak. I for some reason had issues with him chewing on the wrong end. It just bothered me. That's not how it works, Cade. I kept trying to demonstrate and instruct that he should suck on the net part. I think he was messing with me.

Umm, ew.

Well, not much else to do but sit around and take pics of my kid. Snow days have kept us safely at home! Cade and I haven't left the house in about 48 hours now. We're trying for a record. :)

Oh, and an update from yesterday's post...I got an email from Amazon saying they would be refunding my money this week. Good work, Amazon. My grudge is over.

Totally Scammed

I am angry with you Amazon.com. Very angry.

We draw names on the Keeley side for Christmas. This year I drew Cindy's name which is great because I know she's trying to build up her Disney DVD collection. Disney, being the marketing geniuses that they are, only releases the classics "out of the vault" at certain times. I tried to out-smart them by purchasing from Amazon.com. Bad idea. You cannot out-smart Disney apparently. I ordered the Lion King and The Little Mermaid from two different sellers through Amazon on December 12th. They said they'd arrive sometime between December 17 and January 4th. Should have been my first clue, I know.

Well now it's January 9th and I'm a little suspicious. I log back into Amazon to see that I can't reach EITHER seller because they both have left the Amazon network and they both have all negative feedback saying people didn't get their items. Scammed.

To cut Amazon some slack I will say that it was very easy to file a claim and ALLEGEDLY I'll have my money back by January 22nd. Also, I've purchased probably close to 100 items on Amazon and NEVER had a problem before. I used to order all my textbooks and many, many other items from them/their sellers. So I guess this was bound to happen. But now what do I do for Christmas presents?! I feel like such a bad Santa as now the classics are pretty much impossible to find for $30 each like I previously had thought. I'm sorry Cindy...I promise I'll get something!

I have several other books I've been meaning to order...but I'm very hesitant now to trust anyone on Amazon. I'm holding a grudge...at least for a little while.

More upbeat news, Cade and I got our first snow day today! Wow! It was so unexpected it took me a little while to figure out what was going on this morning at 5:15 when we were being informed. We're staying in our pjs all day just out of principle.

Note: This pic was not taken today and these are not my everyday pjs...but I thought it still seemed appropriate to share. Yea for snow days!

8 Months

We tried for an evening photo shoot on his actual 8 month birthday...but PM hours just aren't great for his photo shoots.

I felt as if it was getting dangerous...

So we put it off until Saturday morning so technically it's an 8 month & 3 days photo shoot. :)

Always have to start by convincing him to have a seat...

And turn around...

And not to eat the paper...

What a handsome little man.

I tried to coax him to put on his mask from Los Cabos...not happening.

Cheesy smile

He is smiling here because I am wearing the mask now.

Here he's showing you his teeth. 4 on top and 4 on bottom. Sharp too.

He's crawling all over now, not just the army crawl (which is technically called "creeping") like before. We've been taking a lot of video footage...that I guess we'll really care about 20 years from now?

Loves to pull himself up to stand too...

Investigating his new "Bullseye" horse from Grandma Jan & Grandpa Mike

Sometimes he just needs a hand

Getting it to play music...and holding on for dear life

Oh wait, no hands now

He also is really into this from G-Mom and G-Dad too. It's like he discovers something new about it everyday! I like to open those doors you see on the front side and he's very OCD about closing them. I hope that means he's going to be a neat and clean person. :)

He's really on the move and just so curious! You can see him learning and figuring out how things work. He's getting more fun all the time. Constantly on the go...but still fun.
No idea what he weighs...still super-skinny but seems like he's putting on the pounds. It's getting harder and harder to carry him around in the baby carrier. I try not to use it out of the car but now that it's getting colder it's just easier to leave him all bundled up in it. NOT looking forward to this upcoming weather...unless it brings a snow day? :)

Happy New Year!

I vote that the first post of the new year should contain at least 20 pictures of just Cade...anyone opposed speak up now. Nothing? Just as I thought. :)


Seems dangerous on many levels, I know Mom. Don't worry, I was monitoring closely.





Cade has recently discovered the stairs. Project of the day is to get some sort of massive gate system. I'm not sure how this will turn out. Our stairs are pretty complicated. It is time though.


Is this not ok?


Um, no. Now that I've taken the pictures...it's not ok to play on the stairs.


We've been trying to feed him solids on a more regular basis. By that I mean about 2 tablespoons, once a day. We still rely mostly on breast milk. Hey, it's the perfect food.
This week is carrots. Which are actually going over better than bananas.





We had a very low-key New Year's Eve. But I really enjoyed it. I feel like I've spent most of 2010 very insecure about how to handle this phase of life. So many changes, and I always want everything to be effortlessly perfect. Talk about crazy expectations. But this break has been very refreshing and I look to enter 2011 with confidence!
Whatever you say, Mom!

Grrr!


Matt tries to entertain Cade...


Nice try, Dad.

Happy New Year! Take some time to reflect on the past year and set some goals for the new year!