He's a CUTIE!!

ENJOY!







"O", says Kaiden. Boy do we play "telephone" a lot!

Here's Kaiden doing what he does best...he rarely sits down anymore. He loves to stand behind his toy box.





Kaiden in his awesome PJ's from Aunt Heather and Uncle Samuel. They are so cute!


And he is rarely a stinker, but we wanted to take a full-body shot and he wouldn't cooperate...he wanted to get Ari's toy instead. But the pj's say "I Dig Trucks".


I caught Kaiden "reading" his Book of Mormon. Luckily I caught him before he ripped out the pages. But it is his favorite book to read/play with.


Here's the outfit we got for Kaiden while Nick and I had our day in Newport. It is such a cute lil' pirate shirt...


And on the bottom it says this! ha ha!

Christmas Cards

Sorry everything is on its side...it isn't like that in "my pictures"...I just can't figure it out!

Anyway...
So I am spoiled. My father-in-law loves the homemade cards I make him for his birthday, Father's Day, etc. So...
I made Grandpa Cliff's Christmas cards this year as one of his Christmas presents. I am pretty sure it was more of a gift for me to have something so fun to make. ;)

Lots of people have been wanting to see what they look like, so here they are!



I made 100 cards, an assortment of the ones above.


Inside, I had several different greetings. I really liked adding the blue to the Christmas colors.


And I stamped the back of the envelopes with different Christmas stamps, to add a creative touch to plain and simple envelopes.


Finally, I decorated the card box with fabric and felt, wrapped the envelopes in a ribbon and stuck it all in the mail so that he'd have them in time to send them out this year.
They were a definite hit! Cliff loved them! Merry Christmas Grandpa Cliff!

Oh the things Kaiden can do...

So my sister has a blog "Oh the Things I Can Make". Well, I will title this post:

OH THE THINGS KAIDEN CAN DO!

Hope you enjoy!

Kaiden now:
1. Says Mama and Dada, usually discriminately!
2. Gives "5"
3. Waves bye-bye
4. Pulls himself onto EVERYTHING! -- even things that are only 6 inches tall...
5. Can crawl on his hands and knees - although he prefers the "army crawl"
6. Gives kisses - well, with his mouth WIDE open
7. Plays "phone"...as you saw in the video. Only now anytime he hears you say "Hi" or "Hello", he puts his hand up to his ear, or close to his ear. CUTE!

Kaiden CRAWLING!

OK...so the Friday before we left for Oregon, so Oct. 23rd, we were at my Grandmother's house with my family. My brother Mark had been playing with Kaiden on the floor. Now, Kaiden had been really close to crawling for some time now, but never actually made it anywhere but BACKWARDS. So as Mark was playing with him, Mark kept moving the toys further and further away from him, making Kaiden work to get the toys. In just a short time, Kaiden was CRAWLING!! Thanks Mark!! He does sort of an army crawl...and still does!
He has been crawling for almost a month and can go pretty fast, but still is not on his hands and knees. His favorite thing to do is chase Ari from one end of the house to the other. I think Ari actually likes it. ha ha. Kaiden likes Ari's pelican, which used to be Kaiden's, LONG STORY. But Kaiden will chase Ari for that toy and then will take the toy and put it in Ari's mouth. They play like that for a while, but I am pretty sure that Ari is just ready for Kaiden to learn how to throw it ALREADY!!
But I don't get to let Kaiden out of my sight...not yet, anyway. We haven't totally baby-proofed our house yet. Our entertainment center is what scares me the most, since we have the big TV. So I spend my days chasing Kaiden who's chasing Ari.
Anyway, ENJOY the VIDEO!

Cathy's Visit

So Nick's Mom, Cathy, came and visited us for a weekend about 3 weeks ago (*it took me this long to post about it because of our busy life)

For some reason, we didn't get any pictures of Cathy, but here are a few of Kaiden wearing his hat that she bought him. How cute!!

Kaiden had fun with his Grandma. They seem to speak the same language...she sings to him, plays peek-a-boo, and will laugh over and over again! Also, she let me sleep in and took care of him bright and early in the morning. THANKS!
We look forward to having you back down here soon...or maybe we'll make it to Prescott soon! We love you! Thanks for coming to see us!!!

The beginning of Oregon

We had a 7:40am flight leaving AZ...so we woke up at 5. No bueno!


Thankfully my mom drove us to the airport. Thanks!


Kaiden entertained on the plane. If you look closely, his binkie is in the cup. He is trying to drink his binkie! ha ha

And then he fell asleep. He slept during take-off and landing. He was only awake for about an hour of the flight. Then on the second flight, which was a little plane with propellers, he was awake. It was too noisy to sleep!


And we got there successfully. Here he is at the restaurant right after we got into Oregon. And this was the start of the funnest vacation in Oregon!!

Oregon...

The first afternoon there, we went and walked right outside Grammie and Granddaddy's house




Isn't it gorgeous?



This picture I took from the guest room. I thoroughly enjoyed sitting/lying in the house and watching the ocean.





One of my favorite pictures.


Kaiden and I sitting outside the house...



Grammie kissing Kaiden goodnight. "How many kisses Kaiden?"


Grammie and Granddaddy had made Kaiden this really neat bed. He slept well! Thank goodness!!


What an awesome picture!


Kaiden loved bath time. Granddaddy had the tub fixed just for Kaiden to be able to bathe in it!



And some other ancient toys. Kaiden's bath toys were the same that Nick and his sister and cousins played with. They are still quite entertaining!


Grammie loved feeding Kaiden. It was so cute to watch. Kaiden had a chair made out of pillows and the seat belt was a strap from a laptop case. Quite inventive!


Kaiden loves his great-Granddaddy. Kaiden would reach up for him and watch him no matter where he was. I think he grew attached.


Cute jammies from Grammie and Granddaddy


Cute clothes. I only wish I could have clothes as cute as Kaiden!