See Kaiden! See Kaiden Crawl!

I mentioned in my last blog that Kaiden had started crawling. In just a few short days, he has completely mastered it! He's now getting into EVERYTHING, and just today got himself stuck under the couch. Time to get a baby gate before he figures out those stairs!


May 2nd, his first attempts at crawling!


Yesterday, he's mastered it!

Happy 9 Months Kaiden!

Kaiden turned 9 months old today! Seems like just yesterday he was born!

It's incredible how much he's grown and changed, even in the past couple weeks. He's learned how to go from laying down/rolling to sitting up. He can pull himself up, and stands with assistance. He's started figuring out his pincer grasp, and does it all the time now. He's very proud of himself with that. He's been practicing crawling, and took his first "crawls" today! I attempted to get a video, but the batteries in that camera were dead.

Peek-a-boo is a favorite game. He loves pulling a blanket over his head, and pulling it off to "surprise" us! Too funny! He's such a funny boy, and SO happy! It's amazing how happy he is, and all the time too! I always get people asking if he's always like that, and they never believe me when I say yes.

He's understanding the world around him so much more now. He knows what we're saying most of the time, and while we've been lax teaching him new signs, he knows what up, milk, bath, kitty, grammy, daddy, mommy, diaper, and a few other words mean. "Kitty" (Oliver) is his best buddy, and he lights right up every time he sees him! Oliver loves Kaiden as well, and gets very jealous whenever you play with K and ignore him.

He really loves the outside too. This weekend is supposed to be really nice, so I'm hoping to take the twins and Kaiden down to the elementary school down the road to go play at the playground. They'll have a blast, and I'm sure Kaiden will love it too!

Happy Nine Months Kaiden!

It's time to MOVE...!

Kaiden is getting SO mobile! He's been rolling both ways for some time now, but he's now scooting all over the place, pulling himself up, and is VERY close to crawling! He's gets into position, but can't quite figure out how to move his legs. It won't be long, and I'm sure it will be quite interesting trying to keep up with him! It's quite amusing trying to get a clean prefold on him too!

We've had a week of great weather so far, it's been wonderful! It was 81 on Monday, and in the 60s all week. Friday we're supposed to get showers, but then it's nice again. It feels so great to be able to get yard work done. About half the yard is raked up, and we're hopefully doing another burn tonight to get rid of some more brush. Next on the agenda, deciding what we're going to do about planting grass! I'd love to get some plugs, but we may wind up having to do just a section at a time due to the cost. I just want an area where I can feel safe letting Kaiden play on the ground!

Here are a few more recent pics of K. He's already 22 pounds, and he's not even 9 months old yet! Makes me SO glad I have my Mei Tei, I can wear him effortlessly, it feels like nothing!

Almost there!


Mohawk boy!





He *loves* digging in the dirt!



Moo!