Caden - 10 months

I cannot believe we're on the downslope to 1 year! Ahhh! We just love this sweet, sweet boy!

 

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• He has really started crawling with his tummy off the floor, rather than army crawling.
• If you hand him your phone or the remote, not a fake one, but the real thing. it will keep him entertained for a surprisingly long time (and if you take it away he gets tiiiickked!).
• The first time he tried last month he crawled all the way up the stairs, but since then he gets one or two steps up and gets scared and cries for help. Cute boy. I'm not complaining!
• He loves to be in the middle of the action, even if his big brothers are crazy wrestling all around him.

• He's into everything! Taking items out of the kitchen cabinets, taking magazines and games out of the TV stand, taking dishes out of the dishwasher, etc.

Here he is gnawing on his brothers (clean) underwear haha.

• He loves to crawl through the chairs and barstools, not around, but through. Every. Time. Most of the time he makes it all the way through, but sometimes he gets high centered, gets upset, and needs to be rescued.

• He loves his big brothers and they love him!

• He loves baths!! And is always trying to get in the bathroom, especially when he hears the water running.

• He still just has the sweetest smile and disposition. I love how he is often standing in his crib when we come to get him. It's one of my favorite stages, when they can stand up and smile to greet you, but can't get out!

• He loves food and seems to prefer 'real' food over baby food, although he eats both. We recently discovered he loves PBJs haha.

WE LOVE OUR SWEET, CUTE CADEN!

Demon Branson

These days Branson might just do us in.

We thought all the fights and stress over potty training was tough, but now we've ADDED this new extremely strong-willed Branson on top of it and it's almost unbearable. 

He'll go from being adorable and sweet and funny to a demon child in a matter of seconds.

Seriously, in the last 2 weeks he's had a full blown fit before bed at least half of the nights. I'm talking screaming, yelling, kicking, hitting, and crying uncontrollably. We've had to literally throw him in bed and leave him there. Poor Nolan, I've almost let him sleep in our room just to get away from it, but luckily Branson does still respond to threats. Ugh. 

Lately he's started throwing things, overturning chairs, and hitting when he's mad. What's he so mad about you ask? We used the wrong toothpaste, he didn't want to pick up the toys he threw, he wanted the blue fork instead of the orange one, I asked him to get his socks on, Nolan touched him, etc etc.

Thank heavens he's absolutely adorable and sweet and hilarious the rest of the time or we (or he) might now survive!

A couple cute things I don't want to forget...

• He always misses the number 14 when counting to 20. He used to also miss 16, but just in the last couple of weeks he's been getting it.
• He'll say "university" instead of "universe." Like, "this is the greatest toy in the whole university!"
• When he wants your attention he'll loudly clear his throat with an "ahhhhheeeeeemmmm." It's cute, but a little annoying, depending on the situation haha.
• When we're playing a game and tell him he's kicking butt he stands up and does a little dance with a booty shake and a "oh yeah, oh yeah!" that's hilarious.

Caden - 9 months

 Caden is 9 months old! I don't know why, but this one just feels like he's practically a year old already and I just can't handle that. He's still just the sweetest, most contented baby and we couldn't love him any more!

• Probably our favorite thing he does right now is this deep, growl. It's hilarious!
• He's starting to stand up on things on his own! He's still a little unstable, but in just one week he went from not doing it, to doing it frequently so I say give it another week and he'll be standing up on everything!
• He's a great sleeper at night and sleeps from about 8pm to 6am. We'd love it if he pushed it to 7am, but we'll take what we can get.
• A third tooth finally broke through this month! He got his two bottom teeth at 5 months old, but we haven't seen any since. 
• He still loves being outside which I love (I'm a little bit worried about the cooler weather and that we won't be able to just set him outside to calm him haha). 
• He loves laughing at his brothers antics and he watches every move his dad makes.
• He finally went to church for the first time. We didn't bring him for about 3 months after he was born because 'we heard it was going to be a bad flu season.' Enter Covid-19 and he hasn't ever been!
• He is almost always perfectly content if he's being held (unless he's crazy hungry or tired), but he also does really well when he's set down. I might be remembering wrong, but it seems like his brothers didn't ever want to be put in the pack 'n' play, but he does ok in is a majority of the time.
• He loves baby food and recently has started realllly liking our food.
• We cannot keep him from crawling under the table (where he always finds something he shouldn't be eating). He also annoyingly gravitates toward the slider door and grabs the disgusting, dirty track. Blech! Good thing he's cute!

He went with me to Marshalls and was an absolute angel! Didn't make a sound. Just looked up at me with his adorable face.

Helping me put daddy's chair together :)