Been a little crazy around here, but here's a little of what we've been up to.  Jace is getting so big, he's 11 weeks and is so much fun! He is such a smiley baby and just coo's and talks to you....it's SO cute!  He's trying to sit up so I got the Bumbo out (I know they got recalled, and I know he's on the counter....I was right there :) ) He's so chubby and cute I love it!

 Yep! That's a bright green, full length cast on Cade's leg! He fractured his tibia right below the knee.  He had a splint on for 4 days and the cast was on for 3 weeks.  It was CRAZY to say the least! He did really good with it though...he called it his big green band-aid. We thought it might slow him down a bit, we were wrong! He walked, ran and jumped on it just like normal! In fact he wore the bottom of it off so we ended up having to go in and get a new one. 

 We hit the fair of course! I kept telling Cade we were going to the fair when Dad got home from work and he said he didn't want to so I pulled up the website and was showing him pictures of it and up pops a picture of "corn cogs".  He's been on a corn dog kick lately so as soon as he saw that he kept asking if dad was home yet! Now when he sees this picture he says "dere's me at the fair and my corn cog". He loved the animals of course and......

 a little bit of Rocky Road Ice Cream!! YUM!

 Jace was a trooper in my little carrier thing and slept the whole time!

This is at the Dr. office before we switched from bright green to bright hunter orange.  The doctor was so awesome and nice! Cade brought animals with him everytime and one time he had his Madagascar animals (Marty, Melman and Alex) and the Dr. came in and said, "hey is that Marty?"....lets just say Cade did so good every time we had to go in!!

 Ok, so this is a cool story....so I'm in the hospital after having Jace and I get a text from our cousin Kassie and it's a picture of Aunt Kay sitting on our retaining wall flower beds that Bry built in front of our house and it's planted full of flowers!! She says they (her, mindy and kay) were going to bring us flowers but they decided to plant them instead!! I totally got choked up and am so thankful for them! That was just about the nicest thing and it's been lovely to look at them everyday! They are beautiful, just like the gals that planted them!

 Cade LOVES his dad! He likes to wrestle with him whether dad wants to or not....in this particular case I don't think Bry was getting too into it!

 I seriously can't believe how big he is getting! He's been a lot of fun this summer too and he LOVES his baby brother...."baby jace" He always wants to give him kisses and hugs and we usually end up having to pull him away because he just smothers Jace. I'm so glad he likes him though! He's a big helper and full of WAY too much energy!

 I took this picture from the house...it made me a little nervous, but it was a perfect example of how we couldn't slow him down! He still wanted to help dad with the chores!

 HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY CADE!! Cade is such a fun, caring, helpful, smart, creative, GOOD boy! I know I'm not going to remember all the things I want to write about him but here are some things about Cade right now:

STATS: 34 lbs. (with the cast) :) 36 inches tall

 Still eats great...will try MOST things with a little coaxing. Sleeps awesome too...10-12 hours every night depending on if he takes a nap...kind of fading out of those :( and if he has nightmares....poor fella! He calls his stuffed animals and toys his friends and will play with them and entertain himself really well! He's in a pajama loving phase...if it's a stay at home day he will either want to stay in his jammies...or if I put clothes on him he ends up changing into jammies without me knowing! He's an independent little tyke! (Hmmmm....don't know where he got that) MOST things he needs to do by himself, and even potty lately has been "potty mom...I do myself".

 I love his imagination! He's got to have more than a few imaginary friends because he's always talking and playing with "his guys" is what he calls it.  Or he will pretend that Marty or Melman is at our house and they go to time out and eat lunch just like him! It's funny! He LOVES to play with his cousins and LOVES to go to Grandparents houses.  I've started showing him some things on the piano and he loves it! My mom lent me some books so I can actually teach him something instead of just making stuff up! :) Lately he's been saying things like "what's up" "how u been" "u ok mom" "mom, how u think Hayden's been". And he's really getting good with his manners...please, thanks, your welcome, excuse me! Every time he uses his manners it makes me smile!

 For Cade's birthday he asked for....a birthday cake, a party hat on his head, a castle and some trains! We just had Grandma's and Grandpa's over for cake and ice cream this year and he got everything he asked for and I think he loved it! He would keep asking "is today my birthday....is everybody coming to our house...is everybody going to sing happy birthday to me..." He was so excited when I finally told him it was his birthday!!

 Everyone wore party hats.....including Jace!

 Grandma Jeans and Grandpa Scott

 Grandma and Grandpa T

 Cade had a wonderful birthday and still talks about it! Thanks to Grandma's and Grandpa's for making it special and memorable!

 SPUD DAY, SHELLEY IDAHO! Thanks to Grandpa Scott for coming! I can always count on him to help with the babe.....he's known as "baby hog" in the family :)

 Thanks to Grandma Jeans for helping with Cade! He didn't know what to expect, being our first parade and all, but once it got going and Grandma helped collect the candy, he loved it! I told him to wave and yell "over here" and he did just that! I also think having the cast helped our odds as far as the candy went....we heard a few people say "give the kid with the cast some candy"! It was funny!

 He watches Little Einsteins and really likes music and musical instruments so when the band came by he was just quiet.  He said "yook at all those musical instruments"!

 Jace with cousin Payson and Uncle Andrew....and Gpa of course

This was funny....Cade is not a huge fan of "mascots" I guess you could call them...The SPUD came over to give him a high five and Cade FREAKED! Almost knocked Hayden and Gma down just trying to get out of the way! Besides the spud incident he really liked the parade!

Funny Cade Story!

I have so much to catch up on, but wanted to get this story in writing so we wouldn't forget it! So the other day we put Cade up in his room for a nap....and could hear him the whole time playing with his toys! About 30 minutes go by and all the sudden it's quiet! Now with Cade it's a toss up on if quiet in his room is good or bad so I went up to check on him, open the door and this is what happened....he was at the end of his bed playing, turned and saw me and quickly fell back on his pillow and shut his eyes pretending to be asleep........I laughed and waited to see what was next.........the best part!! He sits up, opens his eyes, fakes stretching out, looks at me and says "I sleep so good"! Oh my heavens! I said no you didn't and then laid on his bed with him and laughed for about 5 minutes.....long enough to bring tears to my eyes and a headache! It was so funny and so his personality! He's so much fun and brings so much joy to our house everyday!

 Here are Jace's newborn pictures....now that he's 5 weeks old! My little sister, Jen, took them when he was 1 week old and he's totally changed already!!! One thing stayed the same....he is so stinking cute! We love him so much and are so grateful he's here and healthy! 

Jace is here!

Jace Bryan Sargent

July 6th, 2012

7lbs. 4oz.

What a day!!

 

 More like.....what a day, week, month!! It kind of has been a little crazy around our house lately.  To give you an idea Bryan has nick-named me "Nesting Nancy"!  Well..........there's things to be done before this baby comes.  One of which was potty training and I never followed up on that because day 3 of the 3day potty training did me in! Cade and I were both in tears! It's funny now but believe me it was/is the hardest thing I've done as a mom..........so far! It doesn't help that Cade is super stubborn and wants to do everything on his own.  He had troubles with the #2's, still not a pro but happy to say that Cade is potty trained!!

 This was the next exciting thing for Cade, his new BIG BOY BED and NEW ROOM! Poor little man, so many changes but he LOVES his new room.  And he doesn't call it his room, it always is "tum in my NEW woom" and the old room is "yittle bruhders woom".  Those are his "dies" (guys) laying with him and below he is potty training "duttie".  FUNNY STORY: During one of the pooping sagas Cade would just scream and run to the toilet but then hold in his poops....about 20 times!  That's when we both started crying because it was ALL night long til about 3 or 4 in the morning.  I kept saying "you can do it Cade, give them a good push, PLEASE let your poo poos out....etc." Well, one day while Cade was potty training Ducky I walk by and he's sitting on the chair (like I did) and he's pleading with Ducky "pwease duttie, yet yo poo poos out, you tan do it.....pwease!" I was laughing so hard!

 This next "change" was a BIG one! About a month or so ago I took Cade to the Dr. because he had a swollen testicle.  It ended up being quite the visit! First of all I was running errands with my sis-in-law Steph so she just dropped us off. The Dr and nurses are usually very cheery and happy with Cade and this time were very serious.  The Dr came and checked him and then excused himself........this is where I got a little nervous.  He came back and said, I will tell you what I think it is, but I do need to tell you what it COULD be......starting to sweat!  He started with some testicle thing where it wraps around itself and he would lose his testicle.....ok..........then he said the big C word....Cancer! Yep I totally blanked out at that point! NO WAY! I don't remember what he said after that....but when I did come back to reality he told us what he thought it was, which was a Hydra-seal with a possible hernia.  So, Steph came and got us and off to the hospital we went for an ultrasound and sure enough that's what it was! HOORAY!! Usually they go away on their own or eventually need surgery but nothing emergency.  Next step, see the Urologist.  He found a hernia and suggested surgery, but wasn't urgent.  We decided I would probably be able to take better care of Cade BEFORE the baby than after....so that is what we did TODAY!

These pictures are actually post surgery, Bryan has the pre-surgery pics on his phone.  He did SO good! He had a few moments before the surgery where he kept saying, "I gotta go....I gotta go to the farm and get some bug juice" (frequent outing with dad)  They finally gave him a "calming" medicine and BOY! when that baby kicked in EVERYONE got a good laugh! He was a little LOOPY!! But, it did the job because when the nurses wheeled him away, pretending to go for a race car drive, he didn't even realize that Bry and I weren't with him! That made it much easier for me :)!

 Now, post surgery was a different story! We could hear him screaming down the hall! Between waking up and not knowing anyone, ripping out his IV, and the anesthetic wearing off....he was NOT a happy camper!  It took about 20-30 minutes to wear off then he was OUT! Bry had to go to work for a bit so I crawled into bed with him and we took a good 2 hour nap!

 When he woke up from that he was back to my sweet and sassy CADE! We ate crackers, had juice, watched movies, got a new teddy friend, and stole all the nurses hearts! He really did better than I had expected and I did too!

 I'm so grateful to Bryan for being such an amazing DAD! He blesses our family so much and Cade wanted DAD anytime he was there! He helps me to not freak out and make situations worse and I was very grateful for that today!

 This was what the rest of the day consisted of....NAPS! He was still a little out of it most the day, but was so cute and would try to get up and play.  I can't believe Cade is almost 3! He is such a good boy and HUGE blessing in our lives!

 We hit Ross Park yesterday actually.  I told my mom I wanted Cade to have a fun day before his surgery day.  It was tough to make it fun because he was SUPER whiney but I chanted to myself all day "I'm a good mom, we WILL have fun!"  And he did! One day he will appreciate that I was 38 weeks pregnant! :)

 If anything, me and my mom got some good laughs!

Thanks to all of our family and friends for their thoughts and prayers for Cade! 

Potty Training!!

 

It is VERY true! I am due in 5 weeks and one of my goals was to have Cade potty trained before the baby came.  I actually had given up on it because since he was 2, he wanted NOTHING to do with the potty! Anything and everything I tried didn't work.  Then I remembered this book one of my friends found online called "3day potty training" and it worked for her, so I bought it, read it, picked a weekend, prepped and here we are! Bryan is in Alaska so that helps because both me and Cade have NO distractions! These pictures are just from my phone I have more on my camera and they downloaded backwards, but oh well! I love the picture above because he looks so cute in his undies and his face with tongue out is classic!

 Day ONE went well! He probably thought I had lost my mind because I kept offering him snacks and juice all day! Ha! Jokes on him! :) He had 7 accidents (I think) and at least 12 successful potties! He would say, "potty.....RUN!" and we would make a break for the toilet!

 The first day he didn't really care for any "prizes". I offered them to him, but he wanted to just get back to what we were doing.  The 2nd day he finally pooped in the potty and I gave him this bubble thing........LOVED IT! Went potty again to get more bubbles! The first night was actually not bad either, no accidents through the night.  He wouldn't have had one the next morning if I would've been on the ball.....(not much of a morning person)

 The 2nd day was awesome! Only 3 accidents and I lost track of successes! He will be so sad on Monday when mean ol mom is back and won't let him drink bottomless water bottles of juice! It's actually been an OK experience, not as awful as I was preparing for. In fact he didn't take his nap both days, and dealing with the results of that was way worse than the potty training!

Over the last 2 days we have not left the house, changed out of PJ's, played LOTS of games on IPOD, played pretend, candyland, abc cards, play-doh, farm, trains, blocks.......you get the idea :), watched Mickey Mouse, LIttle Einsteins and Spirit many times and just LOVED on each other! I know the hormones from the pregnancy don't help, but I just love being Cade's mom and get emotional and proud every day that I get to be with him. Wish us luck tomorrow.............