10 months! Can you believe?!

Caden is 10 months old this week. He is talking all the time, most of it we cannot understand. But among the basics are "pay" for play, "goh" for gone, "yum" after drinking juice, and our favorite "BABABABABA!" when his disagrees with anything. He loves to play with our faces, squeezing our cheeks and lips. Cade LOVES to pull the plug on the drain to let the water out before bath time is over. Also, he is becoming very courageous, trying to stand alone more often every day. Our lil' 'Caderade' is really about to take off!

Easter '09

Easter day started off slow with black skies and stormy weather. However, after church and lunch, the clouds cleared out and left a beautiful afternoon. We spent a lovely lunch with G'ma Joyce, Auntie Jen and Aunt Cathy.

We decorated eggs on Saturday evening.

Shown below is the "before" picture.

Moments later Caden pulled the pink

egg cup onto his clothes :) Oh well!

The Easter Bunny came!

He brought bubbles and

other fun goodies!!!

It turned out to be such a beautiful day,

we ventured out to the local park to hunt for eggs!

Happy Easter and love to all!

Expecting...

We are excited to announce that Baby #2 is on the way! Cade is very excited about becoming a BIG brother :) Ryan's first question was "One or two?" Of course we are only having one, Honey! We are due November 3 but with a Cesarean, Baby will arrive in late October, 2009. So fun! We cannot wait to "find out" if it is a boy or a girl. I am 10 weeks along and feel well so far, just fatigued. "They" say pregnancies are totally different - and WOW is that the truth! Yay for Baby #2!

WA State

This last weekend, we flew to WA State to visit some of Ryan's family. The circumstances were very sad and unexpected, as Grandpa John passed away last week. However, it was so wonderful to see everyone and spend time with family. Caden enjoyed meeting his many, many Thompson relatives!

Cade and Rylee playing :)

Daddy and Cade on the plane.

Family photo in the daffodils of Washington.

Ryan, Cade, Cousin Carrie, Jen

Thompson Cousins with their families :)

And below, preparing to leave for Texas... We will miss you "PaPa" Dale!

A Visit from a Cousin

Cousin Jael came to visit Houston during her Spring Break. We had so much fun during the few days we spent together. We spent some of the visit shopping for a dress for her 8th grade Graduation. Jael found a beautiful pink dress at The Galleria. So cute! Caden loved bonding with his cousin! Thanks for including us in your vacation, Jael!

9 mos.

Cade is at such a fun stage! He is into EVERYTHING and is a non-stop mover. What a work-out! We enjoy watching him interact with his environment. Babies are so smart and amazing. He is getting to be more and more confident on his feet, moving around by holding onto objects and side-stepping. He is struggling a bit right now since four upper teeth are trying to come in all at the same. It does make his behavior a bit unpredictable. But we are still in heaven! He is in the first stages of talking, too. Cade says, "pup-pup" when talking to the dogs. He also says, "boom" when he falls, "cla-cla" when he claps, and "dada" and "mama." We love our little man!

Visiting Cousins in Dallas

Last week we traveled to visit some of our family in Dallas. Caden had so much fun playing soccer with Cousin Will! Cade also took his first ride on a scooter! Check out the video below. Thanks to Aunt Sandra, Uncle Clark, Cousins Beth, Will and Lauren for such a wonderful visit :)

Scooter Video...