Random Life Stories

Where to start!  (almost 3 months without a post makes a lot to talk about!)

Tonight Caedon (20 months) was busy stacking pop cans into a pyramid, practicing jump shots for the first time, and howling like a wolf.  He loves to howl!  Last Sunday I brought out the Halloween/Fall decorations and along with that came all the Halloween kids books.  I read a book to him that had a wolf in it, showed him how to howl at the moon, and then we never heard the end of it!  ALL day he howled!  And here we are a week later, and he still loves it :)

We have been skyping quite a bit with my mom.  Now Caedon points at the computer and says "mawmaw!" even when Skype isn't turned on.  A few weeks ago, Mom and Caedon had fun yelling back and forth at one another.  Mostly, Caedon likes pointing out Grandma's eyes, nose, etc.

Chase took a video on his phone of Caedon eating a hot dog the other night.  He was also eating mixed fruit.  First he would take a piece of mixed fruit, then put it on his hot dog, then eat the fruit off the hot dog with ketchup on it.  Repeat.  When there was no more fruit and no more hot dog, Caedon thought the hot dog bun looked like a phone. He proceeded to put it, ketchup and all, to his ear and say "Hello?"....so adorable!  We have enjoyed sharing this video with family.

When we ask Caedon, "What color is this?" he always replies either green or blue.  He is also getting really good about saying the word yellow, which was harder for him before.  Tonight Chase and Caedon were working on learning numbers.  The question, "How old are you?" is always answered with, "Two."  Even though we are not there yet!  For the longest time when we would say, "Say One" Caedon would always reply with "Two"...but this week he has been saying "One, Two, Three, Four"...with some help of course!

The other day we were out on a walk/wagon ride and saw a sign on a fence.  I asked Caedon, "Where is the letter O?" And he pointed to it!  Thinking it might be a fluke, I said, "Where is the other O?" And he took a moment, looked the whole sign over, and pointed to the second letter O!  I tried it again with our daycare provider Heidi, and he did it again :)  He makes me proud!  The other letters he does well with are C, D, and P.  They still need some work, though.

Speaking of daycare, I love having Heidi around!  It allows me to get work done around the house while still hanging out with Caedon.  Right now there is a 4 month old Reagan (daughter of a first year resident) here too...until December when they will go someplace else since Heidi is going back to school next year.  This week, a 1 month old will start here - Jack Kane, son of our good friends/neighbors Megan and James. Then in October, Phillip Motorney will start here, 11 month old son of our good friends/neighbors Sarah and Sergey Motorney.   Three little boys hanging out!

Caedon and I have been visiting the garden every day.  He now walks by the garden and points and says "Tomatoes"...in his own language that only Chase and I understand (more like "mato")!  He also knows peppers and pumpkin.

Caedon also has a best friend - our friend and neighbor's son Mason Kopp.  Caedon squeals in delight anytime he sees Mason outside.  He also knows how to say the name of two more friends - Kenna and Lyon.     He gets to play with them a lot when Chase and I play Sunday night volleyball with their parents.  We played Ben and Bre Vogel's team this week and lost 1-2...I'll blame it on me not being there as I had to work.  Haha NOT!  It is hard for me to make any good hits in the sand on a men's net!  Megan did take my spot this weekend though, thanks sis!

Chase and I have been training for a marathon to honor our little girl, Sydney.  It takes a lot of time!  Last Monday I ran 18 miles (about 3.5 hours...12 minutes a mile)...and then limped for two days.  It is hard to fit running in our busy life.  For example, I took Tuesday off running since I had my long run on Monday and couldn't move.  Wednesday, Chase was on call so he couldn't run, and I had to watch Caedon by myself all night = no running.  Thursday night we had a Tour of Homes here at the Broadlawns complex that took all night, and I honestly can't even remember what I did on Friday night!  I worked all weekend, then we went out with friends for sushi last night.  Surprisingly I loved it!  Thanks to my parents for babysitting :)

Right now we are looking forward to having Chase's grandparents, Aunt, cousins, and parents visit us this weekend.  Chase is excited about the Cyclones starting out 3-0, but very disappointed in the KC Chiefs.   I am going to try not to get sick this week, although it is probably not going to happen.  All my co-workers are sick, Chase is starting to get sick and says his co-workers are sick, and I am starting to sneeze a lot and have a sore throat!  Ugh!  Nothing bad yet, I just hope it stays that way.

I guess that is enough for now.  I hope to get back in the groove of writing!