DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!! The big 1-0!!!! I say it often and I will say it for the zillionth time, it's going sooooo fast! It's so hard for me to imagine that you were once the swaddled little bundle that seemed so fragile and delicate! Now you are a ginormous little BOY, still so delicate and vulnerable, yet stronger and more WILLFUL than I have ever known!
These past months have been awesome, and I truly LOVE watching you come into your own! This month you started talking incessantly, saying lots of babababahs, puhs, dadas and mamas though I don't think you are intentionally calling us by our names, not just yet anyway! You are such a mover and a shaker, there's just so much exploring for you to do! I would not be surprised if you are walking by the holidays, but I would like it if you waited just a wee bit longer...I want to savor Baby Kaden! Please do not grow up SO fast!!! You love exploring the kitchen cabinets, taking everything out and putting it back again, and you strive to spend all day long in the refrigerator! There is just something about that ginormous white box that you are truly smitten with...when we can hear you crawling over to it and we close the door before you get there, you let out the saddest little howl I have ever heard! You have this beautiful and silly little grunt when things don't go your way, and it melts my heart everytime I hear it.
This month I have learned to be more present with you. I struggle so much with balance, and being a working mommy is truly one of the most difficult challenges. Thankfully, being at work all day, allows me to truly cherish every second I have with you, and for that I am grateful. So many times, over the past few months, I have caught myself playing with you and have had an overwhelming sense of guilt because I am thinking about something on my to do list, or something that happened at work, when I should actually be just savoring that very moment with you! I have been conscious of this, and I notice that our indescribable bond grows even stronger when I cherish those moments and just "be" with you.
You LOVE to laugh and your giggle is something that should most definitely be bottled up and sold to millions. Your new favorite game is hide and seek, and you have this crazy love for all things DOORS! You are still a HUGE lover of books, but you prefer to turn the pages yourself, and you love the peekaboo and pop out books the best. I'm sad to say that you are kinda over Goodnite Moon...I guess that's what I get for reading it to you ever single night for the first 9 months of your life. But seeing you look up at the gorgeous full moon last night, staring at it with such wonder, lets me know you "get" the powers and beauty of the moon.
You have become a little independent eater! You will not eat anything unless it is fed to you by your own precious chubby fingers. With the exception of a huge distraction, or a new fun toy to play with while eating, mommy's homeade purees are a thing of the past. Tofu dipped in cinnamon and avocado are your favorite foods! We have yet to introduce chicken or meats, as we were deciding if you would be happier as a vegatarian, but I think we decided against it and will hopefully start chicken sometime soon...yummy won't that be a treat!
This was the month that you got your first real cold, and it was awful to watch you suffer! Even though you were congested and you could tell you were uncomfortable, your spirit always shined. You were cured by lots of snuggles and cuddles from mommy and daddy, and simon even lent himself as a pillow for you for some extra TLC.
Please don't grow up too fast little man! I love watching you grow, but you will always be my baby!!!
Happy Birthday sweet little angelboy!
I love you, your mommy
I love his little neck rolls!
We went to the park on your b-day with the Boceks!
we closed balboa park and Kaden got to enjoy one of his very first sunsets
and last but not least.....Daylight savings kind of took its toll on Kaden! It was a looooooong day, especially because he woke up way earlier than usual, and by the end of the evening, he looked a little crazed as he ate his dinner. His little 10 month sticker took QUITE the beating.
Kaden had a fun first Halloween! I was a little bummed that there were unusually ridiculously hot temps in lala land, preventing kaden from wearing his entire spider costume, but I think he was much more comfy this way! He only wore his lil spider outfit for about five minutes I actually can't believe he managed to keep the hat on for THAT long!) After we played with his friends Shyla and Dreyvin for a bit, we played at the park, our usual favorite saturday afternoon hangout! When the sun went down, we went for a stroll through our little neighborhood. Because we live in a neighborhood of movie industry people, there were some FANTASTIC Halloween set ups in so many yards! People in this neck of the woods tend to go all out for this holiday, even more so than Christmas! We took some pics of a few of them, mostly for my brother who loves Halloween more than any soul I know!!!
Kaden's buddies Shyla and Dreyvin!
high fives for daddy
and finally into cozy clothes for our walk!
it was such a beautiful night with a gorgeous full moon!
kaden and simon lookin out for trick or treaters
halloween outfit #1
attempting to do some yoga in the back of my car!
the hallowwen outfit our sweet neighbor got for him!
chad's favorite pic...I think he wishes he had a pair of these pants for himself!
handsome boy with some serious drool all over his face
a chilly morning watching his baby noah
these are some awesome shots Uncle Brian took that I stole from him....this top one is my favorite! He got to ride next to uncle bri on the way to malibu, and gave him the once over the whole ride!
We took Kaden to have some "professional" pictures done at Picture People this weekend. I know that I have been spoiled rotten having my most amazing and talented cousin Jena document the first 6 months of his world, and I already knew that no one would be able to capture the true essence of my little precious man! Picture people has gotten so many good reviews from people I know, that I guess my expectations were high. I was a little dissappointed with the way they turned out, but I plan on going back again and trying out a different photographer.I'm thinking that the one we got may have just been having a bad day! Even though I'm dissapointed at the quality, how can I NOT like a picture of this precious boy? I am posting a few, and I scanned them into my computer, which is why the quality might be a little weird. I was trying to replicate the amazing naked butt shots that Jena captured of him, but the diaper kind of got in the way...and I made the mistake of not having him wear shoes because he has not worn shoes at ALL yet in his life, I just can't bare to restrict those precious toes! So I had black socks on to kind of give the illusion of shoes! The photographer made me take them off for the stand up shot so that he wouldn't slip, and so now he is barefoot with his handsome outfit on....maybe I should try some shoes next time!
please notice the little toes sticking out of his jeans!
Chad and I caught nugget playing in his crib the other morning, and it was too cute not to post. He has such little sleepy eyes, he looks exhausted, but he's happy as can be, chattin it up and playing with his ICrib! His crib looks so sad and BARE in this video, it now is only the bare essentials since he is standing. I still sometimes think about getting him a REAL crib bumper, to give him a little privacy! But I know that once I did, he would find that he could put his little foot right on it and get a nice springboard to jump out of the crib!
