Hello 2013!

Where has the time gone!?
Jace is now 8 months and thinks he wants to crawl and pull himself up on everything! He LOVES to watch Cade and wants to try to keep up, but can't, so he just kicks his little legs like crazy.  Cade can make Jace laugh so hard, it is so cute.  Jace is so smiley and happy.....MOST the time!  Lately he has found his little bratty side and knows how to get his big brother in trouble already!  He is a stinker, but a dang cute one! He does this little click thing with his thumb and pointer finger only on his right hand.  He also does this little short scream thing to get your attention....his little personality is coming right out!  He's got 2 bottom teeth and one snaggle-tooth fang on top.  He rolls, army crawls, scoots, just about whatever he has to do to reach whatever he's got his sights on! He can say: mama, dada, baba, and sometimes it sounds like he can say hi and ya....he is super ticklish and has the cutest little laugh.  I can't believe he is already 8 months and mobile!

Cade is just as hilarious and wild as usual! He is a great big brother and is learning how to be a big helper whether he likes it or not :) With Cade LISTENING is our biggest challenge! I just always pray that he will learn how to listen someday! HA! He is such a creative, active, goofy, caring, smart little 3 year old! Some funny things about Cade lately:
"I sure am...."
 He uses the word SURE in a good amount of his comments.
MOM: Wow Cade! You are such a great builder!
Cade: I sure am mom
Mom: Did you pick up your farm stuff?
Cade: I sure did mom
You get the idea.....

He's getting more creative and aware with his prayers....
 We don't have to "cue" him as much with his prayers and it's cute to listen to the things he comes up with....grandparents and his friends are a popular prayer topic.
The other night he says "mom, I want to bless the 3 little pigs so they will be brave and not scared of that big bad wolf" I said "wow Cade that would be a great idea!"
He's been having nightmares lately so we tell him that if he gets scared he can say a prayer and Heavenly Father and Jesus will help him to be brave and not scared.....a little while ago he woke up screaming but calmed himself down quickly so I ended up not having to go in and help him.  The next morning I asked him what happened last night? Did you get scared? He says: "ya, I got scared from the mean queen....but Jesus was there and he helped me"
Talk about proud parent moment! SO CUTE!!

Cade is in a gymnastics class and he loves it.  On all 3 "report cards" we've received so far we've had the same comments: needs to work on listening (wow what a surprise) and has ability to do everything just needs to stand still and concentrate! I just laughed and thought: "welcome to my everyday struggles"! He'll get it someday....right? :)


We also go to the library once a week for reading time and he is getting better at actually staying on his little pillow thing and listening to the story.  He has always liked reading books so I think that helps. 

I feel like we haven't done anything too exciting around here, but every week seems to get filled in and we have plenty to do! Can't wait for nice weather to come and STAY so we can get outside! Hopefully I can get caught up here and be ready for all the SUMMER pictures! We shall see!