My Tater is two!!!

Its crazy its been two years, this boy is such a delight! Here are some of our favorite things about Kade

• He is full of zest and enthusiasm! He is intense and most of the time he is intensly happy, every so often he is intense on the other end of the scale.


• He has passion, or fixation. This will be a great thing if we can keep him fixated on good things in life. I know he will go far because he is determined to do whatever it is he wants to do.


• He loves to pray! He says a whole prayer by himself in whisper of course. He mentions random things that he says and sometimes mentions random people. But he always prays for Mommy, Daddy and Cardon probably about 8 times or so each. Before meals he reminds us to pray, sometimes we pray three or four times. I'm just glad he likes to pray!


• He is a little jabber mouth! Some of his words he says in such a funny way! For example window is foonah, ernie is eenaw, shoes - foos and thats all I can think of now. But the funny thing is if we ask him several times because we don't understand what he is saying he often says it the correct way. Silly goose!


• He knows 16 letters of the alphabet and loves to count. We didn't know he could count but one time alex counted to five and then Kade yelled "Six!" But he doesn't know how to count in order past three. Other than that its the typical six nine eight four six nine six eight...


• His immagination is really coming out, its hilarious! One day I was cleaning the kithen and he had all the pots and pans out on the floor. He was standing in one and said "Mommy, I shower!" Or another time he was riding a little pink tupperware around making horsey noises and saying "Forsee". One more ; yesterday he was eating lunch and doing wierd things with his kidney beans. Come to find out they were swimming haha! I just love that he imagines things.


• He loves to cook and to do the dishes. Meaning stir random things in a bowl and just play in the sink. He usually brings Dad a cup of "sauce".


• He LOOOOVES to dance. Always has. His favorite song is Dynamite by Taio Cruz, he sings along and knows a lot of the words. He also loves to dance along to Madagascar and Ken trying on his clothes on Toy Story 3. He calls them the "Dancing party!"


• He is not easily distracted, he remembers everything! The other day I unplugged the TV and I told him it was broken. I know i'm awful! After the millionth time of being asked to fix it I told him Daddy would fix it when he got home. Several hours later Kade heard the door opening and ran to Dad to ask him to fix the TV. It was the first thing he said to him. His memory amazes me!


• Every morning when I pull out an outfit to get him dressed he shakes his head and says "No fit you." He must have picked that up from his last growth spurt!


• He's a tease, fitting for an April fools baby I suppose. For example again; at night I go in to cover him when he's asleep. He rolled over and looked up at me and I said "I love you Kade". He got his smirk on his face and said "I love you...... chicken" then laughed. Hes so funny!


• When he does something well he says "Good boy!"


• He is a little bit OCD about being clean, sometimes. Often times he will go in his room and start singing "Nee ma, nee ma evv bodies" - the clean up song and he will just clean his room. Often times he throws a fit when there is food on his bib and asks for a new one. Often times he will wake up in the morning and ask me to wash his binki. - yes he still sleeps with his binki, but you should hear the way that kid giggles when he has it in his grubby little hands!


• Every morning when I walk in to get him he says "Ha morning!...no, GOOOOD morning!"


• Hes says "yeah" or "yup" at the end of most of his sentances or whenever Alex and I are talking. He just has to be part of our conversation its hilarious.


• Sometimes he calls his Dad Alex haha!


• Hes a little dare devil. He likes to swing with out hands, jump up and down on the slide and one time I turned around to see him swinging from the bar about 5 -6 feet off the ground. He freaks me out!


• He LOVES his little brother! He kisses him at least a thousand times a day. He likes to "cuddle Cardons tummy" by lying on it. When Cardon is lying on the floor Kade is right there on his tummy talking to him, he thinks its hilarious. Cardon usually smiles back at him and I usually cry. Its so cute to see them together already. Today Kade was playing catch with him, tossing the ball by him and picking it up again. When Kade wakes up in the morning he always asks where Cardon is. In fact I'll never forget the first night Cardon was home Kade woke up in the middle of the night and when I went in there he asked where his brother was. I thought it was so sweet. I'm excited to see them become buds!


• He makes the funniest faces! He always has his tongue out when he is running, dancing jumping or whatever.


• He has to run, jump or do his hop/skip thing everywhere he goes, he doesn't walk anywhere.

Anyways I could go on and on about how much I love this little boy! Congrats to those of you who made it through this whole thing. Now for the good part. Some amazing pictures by my little sister Dayna! She rocks! She has a facebook page if you want to see more of her stuff, its Dayna Lynn Photography.