Firsts

It was a week of firsts for Cade. On Saturday, we went to watch Grandpa Lech and the other Wausau firefighters play the Green Bay Packers in a charity softball game. Cade made it on the local sports reel for the first time. (Grandpa made the sports reel as well...)

http://www.wsaw.com/sports/headlines/48012617.html

On Monday, we had a less exciting first...Cade's first visit to the ER. Cade knocked a piece of artwork off of the wall in the master bedroom, which came crashing down on his poor little head. He had a two inch piece of glass in the top of his scalp that had to be removed. He was more scared than anything else...poor little guy. He ended up having to have three staples in his scalp and x-rays to ensure all the glass was out. The ER nurses gave Cade a teddy bear (daddy says it's the most expensive bear he'll ever have!) and his first popsicle. He was a real trooper through it all.

After everything he went through, here was the happy boy when we returned from the hospital....

Hopefully, the first "first" will be the first of many...and the second "first," not so much. Although with Cade's all boy antics, I'm fairly certain we'll be experiencing both again in the future. As far as the popsicles go, he can have as many of those as he likes!

Hiatus

I have to head to a weeklong conference tomorrow, so the blog will be on hiatus until next Saturday...unless Jon snaps pics of the little man and updates the blog while I'm gone. Anyone want to take bets on that happening?

xoxo

Story Time with Cade

As mentioned yesterday, Cade loves to read us stories. Here's a sneak peek of Cade's narration.

Reading is Fun!

When Cade first started at the YMCA, he cried every time I dropped him off. You can see from the photo below, taken this morning after I told Cade it was time to go bye-bye to school, that he is well over this fear...

When we got home from Uncle Kyle's softball game, we ate dinner and then played and read stories. Cade loves to sit in his chair from Auntie Lisa and read stories to us. Tonight's feature was "Max the Minnow" - hence, the googly eyes on the book.

All Aboard...

We enjoyed the nice evening outside with Cade's first official wagon ride. I think Cade thought he was in a parade because he waved at everyone we saw.

He then had quite a lengthy conversation with his teddy bear wagon companion until....

man overboard.

After the wagon ride, Cade and daddy played some kick ball in the yard.

Without further adieu...

...or much adieu about nothing if you came looking for pictures of the little man today. Instead, we finally have pictures of the completed master bath remodel. It was a loooong week of work, but worth it for us. Although it's safe to say I wouldn't need to see a palm sander again for quite some time. I'm sure Jon would say the same about plumbing fixtures!

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16 Months...

It's hard to believe our sweet "baby" boy is 16 months old. He exhibited his "I'm a big boy" tendencies today while on our first bike ride with the bike trailer...aka "I don't need this helmet on mama." I'm fairly certain he was trying to pull the helmet off the entire bike ride. At least things started out well...a bit tentative and unsure, but overall a success...