I don't know how it's possible, but our sweet Caden is 4 months old! Whaaaaat?!!
What a weird time we're living in right now. With the Coronavirus we've been lucky enough to spend our days at home together, but it's weird when we think about the fact that Caden has grown so much and many of our friends haven't even met him! Justin loves that he's been able to really bond with Caden since he's been home so much which is wonderful.
Anyway, here's what's new with our sweet, wonderful Caden:
- He's sleeping pretty well and sometimes gives us a 6+ hour stretch at night, but it's a complete toss up from one night to the next. On the plus side I'm back to work and we're in quarantine so...I asked Justin for an every-other-night rotating feeding schedule rather than the me on weeknights, Justin on weekends arrangement we had before 🙂
- He's getting so big! (and heavy haha). We're supposed to get him to the doctor for a 4 month checkup and vaccines, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to work these days with the quarantine. Gotta figure that out.
- Luckily we stalked up on formula and diapers before everyone panicked and the shelves emptied. That would have been so scary to not be able to get that! It's one of the few things we really can't go without.
- He's really starting to find his voice and it's pretty funny the noises he'll make. There's an especially funny deep growling noise he makes.
- He's such a sweet, chill baby! Most of the time all he wants is to be held or part of the action, but he's also pretty content on his own.
- It's incredible how with each child your heart just grows and it feels like they've always been part of our family. We just can't imagine our household without little Caden!
- Each night the older boys play a game they call Daddy Defends Himself where they all basically just wrestle around. And Caden is the trump card. If N and B yell for Caden's help and I set him on daddy, the boys win!
- He loves baths now and is all smiles.
- His hair looks very red in some lights, but most of the time is brown. His older brothers had the same thing! So funny.
- He's wearing 6 month clothes so I guess that means he's right on track size wise, but I still can't believe I had to get out the 6 month clothes already!
- We call him C-man, Cade-man, Cutie Caden, Cader Vader and always sing "I love Ca-den. I love Ca-a-den" (like the I want Candy song :))
Also, one funny story. It's no secret that Nolan loves Caden so much and...well...struggles with Branson. We he and Branson love each other, but they fight and get on each other's nerves a lot, like all brothers do. Branson is super sweet though and in moments of calm will always say he loves Nolan. Nolan though can be a stinker and doesn't always say the nicest things about B. Anyway, we showed the boys an absolutely adorable video from 3 years ago when B was Caden's age. Nolan was holding him in the boppy and "cleaning" Branson's (imaginary) spit up and he'd say, "oh yuck! He spi' up!" Then he'd say, "Hi Branman...hi" with the sweetest little voice. Heart melting! When we finished the video Nolan smiled and said, "Maybe it would have been better if Branson stayed a baby." Indicating that he might like him better if he was a baby like Caden. So I said, "well Caden isn't going to be a baby forever." And N said, "Well it will be ok if he doesn't try to fight me all the time." haha. Anyway, we assured him that they will fight, all brothers do. What matters is that they learn how to get a long and that they love each other at the end of the day. We hope these boys will be best friends for life (and beyond!).
One of my current favorite pictures of Caden ❤
He's starting to smile and it absolutely melts our hearts. I'm expecting him to laugh any time now and I just think we're all going to lose it with excitement!
His brothers love him SO much. Nolan is super sweet and loves to "be in charge" of Caden if I ask him to watch him for a minute. He likes to touch Caden's nose and under his chin to try to get him to smile (we often have to remind him to touch him only 1-3 times, not several and for pete's sake to get his hands out of Caden's face! haha, but it's adorable how much he loves him). Branson doesn't pay quite as much attention to Caden (N is hard to top), but when he wants to hug C he hugs him HARD. It's an eyes closed, head shaking, everything he's got kind of hug. Which is super sweet, but we have to remind him all the time not to squeeze him so hard.
He's started sitting in his little chair and he looks so BIG! ðŸ˜
Skyping with Granky ❤
Starting him young! Go Cougars!
This picture reminds me that both older boys are always pulling on poor Caden's limbs haha.
Movie night!
He's really starting to be able to play and grab onto things. This was a sweet moment with B and C playing together.
For Christmas Justin got a Minky Coutour blanket from a client and let me tell you that thing is MAGIC. If Caden is not hungry or needing a change but is a little fussy because he's tired we just put that thing over him and he instantly calms down. It's worth it's weight in gold! It's incredible. Each time I think ok, this will be the time it doesn't work, all the other times were just flukes, but nope. I think it must be the weight of it or something.
He really wants to roll over, but he's not really there yet. I'm sure this month he'll figure it out!
