I'm trying . . . .

Mom says I look like an old man with a walker but I just love practicing to walk. Any day now everyone thinks I'm just going to take off walking . . . all in my own time though! For now I enjoy pushing my "walker" around, banging into walls, and making lots of noise.

I'm a Crafty Kid!

I LOVE doing crafts! Mandy says that I am one of the first kids to the craft table when she gets things out at daycare. I didn't much care for crafts at first but they sure are growing on me! I just love doing crafts so much that I joined the ladies craft at Thanksgiving and sat up like a big boy at the craft table. Check me out . . .

My Birthday Parties

Mom made this slide show a loooong time ago and sent it out but forgot to put it on my website. I turned ONE on October 15 . . . right after we moved to Cedar Falls. I had a great birthday party at my daycare provider's house . . . Mandy, and then we had several friends over for a small party that night at our new house. You can tell by the pictures that I had a great birthday!

Kaden's 1-Year Pictures

Yep, mom is REALLY late getting things posted on my website. I wish I knew how to run a computer and I would keep you up-to-date better! Here are my 1-year pictures that we had taken at the end of October.

My 1st (American) Halloween

Halloween isn't a holiday in Australia so this year is my first exposure to Halloween American-style. While in Australia there was some trck-or-treating and a few costumes available for sale but nothing as big as it is here in America.

I got my first dose of the pumpkin patch on Saturday when mom and dad took us to The Pride of the Wapsi. I enjoyed watching Evan run from place to place, watching other kids have fun, sitting on a pony for the first time, riding in this crazy, bumpy thing with mom (they said it was a train ride . . . hmmmmm,) scootin' across the grass whenever mom would let me out of the stroller, and riding to the pumpkin patch. Here are some great pictures of me at my first Pumpkin Patch!

I'm growing into such a big boy now. Check out some of my pictures from September . . . you won't even recognize me!

Scoot Scootin' Boogie

OK . . . so here is my latest trick that mom has been talking about . . . For some reason I haven't started crawling at all, I just do this scootin' thing. Believe me, I can get around pretty quick AND I'm getting some great leg muscles while I'm at it!!

My crazy life . . .

Mom thinks that their lives have been crazy but so has mine!! I arrived in this unfamiliar country, met alot of new people, visited with some that I had only met once before, moved into a new house, started a new daycare, AND have still been trying to keep up on those daily "baby" things that I'm supposed to do too!!

First I need to share some photos from the past month. The first few are of my first daycare providers at Kiah in Australia. Other photos include my trip to Kimball. I sure was tired! That jet lag hit me hard when I got to Kimball and I seemed to be sleeping at all the wrong times! No fear though . . . somehow I am back on track. I've now been in America for just over a month and, yes, I have a regular, normal sleeping schedule now. Mom doesn't quite know how it happened but her and dad are sure glad that I adjusted without too many problems!

I just turned 10 months old a few days ago! I still am not crawling . . . instead I scoot everywhere I want to go . . . and I'm fast!! Mom is going to try to get a video of my crazy leg scoot for you soon. I've kinda plateaued in the growing category for awhile. I went to see MaryAnn for my first pediatric 9 month check here in America so make sure to check out my big-boy stats in the right column.

That's pretty much it for now. I hear that we are moving once again so I guess I'll have another adjustment period to go through . . . oh boy! Mom promises that she will start updating my site for you more often with pictures now that the house is ready to sell!