Landes Love

Much Overdue Update!!

2009-12-08T22:20:00.000-08:00

So I am obviously WAY behind on my posts. Here is a quick summary of what’s been going on in our happy little world…

We went to Utah last week to spend Thanksgiving with some of my family. Kelsey recently moved to Bountiful and since my mom was traveling from Washington to spend the holiday with her, we thought it’d be a good destination for us. It was especially fun to spend our little vacation in the cool weather with snow on the ground the entire week. Our Thanksgiving meal was low key and relaxed, but so DELICIOUS!!

The view from Grandma/Grandpa's deck... snow!

Preparing the feast!

Carving the turkey.... the only finger Ryan had to lift all day! :)

Happy Little Family getting ready to stuff our faces!

Cade's favorite entree, Cranberry sauce!

Picture time at the Bountiful Temple right up the street from our Grandparent's house.

Temple Square Christmas lights!

We ofcourse had to make a trip to The Pie for the yummiest pizza in SLC.

Ryan was sick of pictures by this point (surprise surprise) and try to sabotage my shot, well I win by positing it! :)

Since we were in the same state as family and had them as gracious babysitters, Ryan and I decided to getaway for our first overnighter since Cade was born. We snuck away to Park City for the night and stayed at a quaint Bed and Breakfast right on Main Street. The building was an old school house from the 1800s turned hotel. Since we were one of the only guests that night, we got upgraded to the biggest suite with a massive, incredibly comfortable bed and a cute little sitting area by a fireplace. We spent most of our time walking/shopping/dining around Main Street, but more than anything we the time we had together!!

The pictures don't exactly give the bed or room justice, but the bed was amazingly comfortable and the room was perfectly cute.

We went to an incredible steak house for dinner. I'm normally a chicken girl, but we both ordered steak and loved every bite. For dessert we had a cheesecake chimichanga and oh my goodness gracious, it was the most amazing dessert EVER! We left the resturant so completely satisfied and so completely happy!!

Main Street

Okay, time for a Cade Update!!

I can hardly believe Cade is 9 ½ months, he is literally growing by the second! At his 9 month appointment he weighed in at a whopping 22.7lbs (75^th percentile) and was 31 inches tall (96^th percentile). He is crawling like crazy, and FAST too, but his newest thing is standing. About a month ago he figured out how to pull himself up there was no turning back. He loves to walk himself back and forth along the couch, but his absolute favorite activity is standing up by the shelf under the TV and pulling every single DVD off, fun fun!!

An exciting milestone for us was when Cade officially starting holding his own bottle and feeding himself. In the past he would hold it for a second here and there and tease us with the thought he was ready, but it wasn’t until a month or two ago that he really got the hang of it and actually prefers to hold it himself. I LOVE this new trick and the time it saves us! We are also introducing Cade to table foods and some fun new baby snacks.

Cade is still doing amazing with his nighttime sleeping. Although he’s a bit of a night owl (we put him down 9ish) he sleeps in his bed like a champ until 6am-ish. At that point I normally grab him and we snuggle back to sleep until 8am-ish, which I love!

Other than that Cade is still just the happiest little boy on the block! He is such a chill dude and seriously making us laugh every single day!

Cade is obsessed with his Daddy! There are the absolute best buds!!

Sleepy boy!

Cade LOVES his friends and any kids or babies that he can watch and play with!

Cade and Lainey at her 1st birthday party!

Cade, Camryn, Trey, and Connor having fun while their mommies hangout at Joes Farm Grill.

The Standing Sagas...

If I am sitting on the couch, this is normally my view of Cade! :)

Cade's favorite game, pulling EVERY SINGLE DVD off the shelf.

For Halloween Cade dressed up as the cutest little mokey!!

Look at that smile, I think he knows he's cute!

And finally, back in October we traveled to Las Vegas for Ryan’s brother’s wedding. We were super excited for Brent and Jessica to get married and for the new addition to the family.

The happy couple!

(Ryan's parents)

While Ryan's family took Cade to the Rainforest Cafe, Ryan and I met up with Matt and Candee (our Az friends) to see The Lion King. Since Candee's dad works in Las Vegas, so we were able to get second row seats for a great deal. The show was AMAZING and it was a super fun date night!

Such a charactor!!

2009-10-19T21:29:00.000-07:00

So lately we have been introducing Cade to some new “big boy” foods! A few weeks ago we started giving him Cheerios. At first he just liked playing with them, but couldn’t quite figure out how to pick one up, nonetheless get one in his mouth. Well he finally figured it out! He kinda grabs a fist full of Cheerios, shoves his hand in his mouth and normally ends up getting one in there. Ryan and I were quite proud of his exciting accomplishment, as we are with everything he does!!

Also, we have started to give Cade fresh fruit! I bought him a little feeding toy, kinda like a fresh fruit popsicle. You put fruit in a little mesh bag so that they can suck the fruit through the openings, but only get small pieces at a time. Anyway, Cade LOVES this thing! We’ve tried apples and plums, but his absolute favorite is bananas! The only bad thing is that bananas make such a mess and dry like super sticky glue. Well last night we decided to let him have at it again, without a bib, and boy did he have fun.

Naturally, I grabbed the camera and as soon as he saw it, he gave me this shot…

Is that not the cutest/funniest picture you’ve ever seen!? Literally, the second he saw me about to take that picture, he dropped his toy and gave me this classic cheesier! Oh my goodness, what a character! Ryan and I were seriously cracking up. He continued to pose for a few more pictures before he got back to business…

Like I said, he LOVES this little feeding toy and will suck that fruit dry!

As I also mentioned, the banana makes such a mess!! I figured he’d need a bath afterwards so didn’t worry about a bib, well I learned my lesson. He needed a bath and a now a new onsie! Oh well, it was so worth it!

Ps: He LOVES playing in water too!!

Two teeth!

2009-10-03T21:46:00.000-07:00

Cade had his first two teeth come in about two weeks ago. We didn’t even know they had come through the gums until we felt them poking through one day. He’s been his same ol happy self for the most part, but has had a few restless nights this week. Anyway, now that you can definitely see teeth when he smiles I had to post a few pictures… (Ps: Aren’t those the cutest two teeth you’ve ever seen!? :)

Also, as I mentioned in the last post, Cade has been army crawling all over the place. Well just this week he started getting up on his knees. He will get on his knees and pump his little body back and forth, back and forth. We have the video camera ready because he is so so close to crawling! He also does this new thing where he lifts his whole body up and just rests on his toes, its pretty cute!

Cade up on his toes/in push-up postion!

On his knees, in position, ready to go!

Cade's favorite toy, Bella! He will literally (army) crawl from one side of a room to the other, just to get even alittle close to her!

Cade is really good at sitting up now, he just prefers to be on his belly and moving around.