Any Ideas?

My spoiled child :) It is so funny how a for a few days Kade will nap like a champion, and then somedays you can't even set him down with out him having a scream fest. This was one of those need to be loved on all day days...I do love that Kade loves to be held and cuddled a lot. But I may need a little advice. Do you think it's possible to have a good sleeping baby that is not on a schedule? I read all those books about sleeping habits, and they just don't really work for me because I can't get him to bed the same time every night.  I am playing soccer again. Sometimes I have games 3 times a week and we don't even get home till 11 o'clock. So the lack of schedule may be what is throwing him off? I guess I am trying to teach him to be a flexiable baby! We still have tears every night before bed the second I put him in his crib. I don't know if I am doing it wrong because I have heard that the crying gets less and less over time and eventually they stop. His crying is getting longer and louder almost every night. I do go in there like every 5 min to try to help him calm down without picking him up. I put his binki back in and somtimes it helps a little. Last night I had a late game and he was screaming so long. I tried to distract myslef in the other room by eating leftover Halloween candy. It was dumb Crunch bars and I don't even like them! Talk about emotional eating. I better get him sleeping soon or I am going to look prego forever :)!!! I felf so bad, so I gave in a picked up because he wasn't calming down at all. His poor pj's were wet with sweat from crying so hard. Kade really is such a happy baby when he is rested and full. He is smiling all the time now. He just started laughing and it melts my heart. My cheeks hurt from smiling so much at him. He cracks me up all the time....BUT we really still aren't good sleepers. Once I finally get him down (it's like an hour process every night at least) then he does do great at going back to sleep after the night feeds. Does anyone have any tips to help with naps and bedtime? Do I need to just let him cry a little longer without going in? It's so sad, but I feel I really need to teach him to sleep now because he's happier when he's rested. Also, he is a cat napper and I don't know how to get him to take better naps.

Kade plays with his friend 'Cherry Girl' every morning while I eat breakfast. :) Kade is our little mascot on my Thursday night indoor soccer Co-ed team. I love this team because other players have kids so it's like a big family. We have all played together for the 3 years I've lived here and it's fun to see their kids grow up. Sometimes Nate works Thursday nights so Kade has to sit in the little indoor dugout with the team. They are nice to hold him for me while I am in. Whoever is the sub takes care of all the babies. Last night some of the Mom's who don't play, and are nice to watch the kids,were at New Moon (I was so jealous, but didn't want to miss my game) so the subs had about 5 kids to juggle. I had Liberty and Kade on my knee trying to keep them happy. I just LOVE little Liberty but she was sad the her dad was playing and wanted to be out there with him. Last week Kade has his first header. It was VERY sad. The ball took a deflection and got him on the back of the head/sholder. Luckily it scared him more than anything and didn't get him hard. I had to come out of the game to calm him down and he was just fine. I think he was just trying to get involved in the action. 3 months is a little early for that.

This was our little family recent fishing trip.  Kade wasn't a big fan of fishing qutie yet. He doesn't like the sun in his eyes. We were smart and didn't try camping this time and just made it a day trip. Nate liked having his whole family out with him. We just need to teach Kade not to cry while we are on the boat and scare all the fish away.

Playing with one of his favorite toys. I love that he is so interested in toys now. And suprise, surprise...he can't get enough of stuffed animals. I wonder who forced that upon him :)

Wednesday Night Adventure:

Lets just say Nate told me this riviled among one of my top 10 worst ideas.

Wednesday I was on a reading kick and read my book most of the day. By 4 o'clock I felt so lazy and wanted to get out of the house. I told Nate we should take a walk to Sonic and eat ice cream, and then walk back. He told me that it would be a really long walk and I didn't believe him that it would be that bad. I pushed, and pushed the issue and he agreed to do it if I really wanted to. I got Kade dressed up into is new monkey beenie and shades... and thank goodnes I put that beenie on him because little did I know we wouldn't be back for over 3 and a half hours! It was pitch dark and cold by the time we got to sonic. The sidewalk didn't line the road the whole way there, so we had to push the stroller along the rocks and dirt. It was over 4 miles just to get there! After we ate we sat on the benches for a while because I was dreading walking all the way home. I am a dingle. I guess I need to learn that to realize that I am  not always right......NAAA! Kade got sick of being in the stroller and was starving on the way home. So I carried him in the frontpack (luckily it was under the stroller basket) and Nate pushed the empty stroller. Hopefully we burned that Ice Cream off during our 8 mile walk. We like to go on daily walks to get some fresh air and we really enjoy that time together...but let's just say we probably won't be walking to Sonic anytime soon.

Halloween!

Our chunker has a bit of a large head. Grandma Davis brought him this beenie and he wasn't a fan of us trying to squeeze it over his head!

Kade dressed up for Halloween like 4 different times, and in a different costume each time. I love dressing up more than anything! So Halloween is such a great Holiday in my book. Unfortuantly, because of the blessing we weren't to focused on Halloween for Nate and I this year. This cat outfit was acutally my little brother, Marks, when he was a baby. He got the nickname "Fat Cat" after wearing it, and we all called him that for years becasue of it. I am so glad my mom saved it. It was so funny to see Kade in it. He kinda looked like a Bat in it though :) Kade was also a Monkey and he wore that a couple times during the week (I think Halloween should be all week long) For our pumpkin carving party, he had to be a pumpkin of course!

This wasn't a Halloween pic, just thought it was cute :) And sorry to all you Facebook friends out there who have already seen some of these pics. A lot of the pictures I put on there are the same as my blog.

This is Kade's new favortie toy! I LOVE LOVE LOVE to yard sale. The other weekend they had a communtiy garage sale so tons of houses had one. One street could have six sales. I was truly in heaven. There is nothing better than getting a good deal. Kathy and Hedi found this for me because we went to differnt sales and I was on the hunt for a bouncer.  Yes, Kade has the Davis gene in him and is to short for it. But he is a storng little man and his legs are getting buff from the bouncing!

Nate likes to teese Kade and tell him he is storing nuts in his cheeks for the winter :) I can't believe how big he is getting! He seems so grown up and can do so many new things. He loves to hit and hold on to toys now. He tries to talk all the time. And giggles a lot too. Kade would rather stand than sit or lay. He loves when you hold his arms so he can stand up. He thinks he is so big and gets this proud look on his face. I think he is as competitive as his mom!


PS. Can someone explain how to change my blog list so that I can see when others update? Thanks!

Kade's Blessing

We had such a great weekend last week. We blessed Kade on Nov. 1st. I picked kind of a tough weekend it being the day after Halloween and we have 8 o'clock church. But I am glad to say that we did make it on time, barley! We had some drama getting a blessing outfit. Nate and I picked one that we liked, but it was very casual and borderline looking like pajamas. So my mom and Brandi went to look at a store in American Fork for one because we weren't having much luck here. My mom brought one down, they flew into AZ Friday night. I didn't even bother to try it on him because I thought it looked really cute..at least on the hanger. Saturday was fun...we took Kade to the park, my mom played with him on a blanket and Nate, my dad and I played some soccer and Frisbee. We went on a walk, watched some football, and got the food ready for the brunch after his blessing. Later in the evening we finally tried the outfit on him to see which shoes would look best. I was dying...he looked like a pilgrim in it! You know in second grade when you celebrate Thanksgiving and half the class dresses like a pilgrim, and the other half Indians.....well Kade really did look like a pilgrim. The collar looked funny on him and the shorts looked like old school cool'lots! My mom and I rushed to North Mesa to a Boutique. It was our last hope to find something. The place was about to close when we got there and the worker lady was floored that the blessing was tomorrow and we didn't have anything yet. I guess the lady just doesn't know the way I roll. We got the little shorts/tux outfit. It was the best choice by far. It was kinda shinny, but he looked like a little gentleman in it so we liked it. Sunday was great. Nate did an AMAZING job on the blessing. I was so proud of him. It was very emotional for me. I love both my boys more than anything in this world. I am so glad we can be a family forever. I can't believe I am so blessed to have this little spirit be my son. Yes, I am more tired than I have ever been in my life. Yes, I am in the worst shape of my life and feel like I am going to die after my soccer games. Yes, my lifestyle has changed so much and I am not able to be as carefree and active. But every bit of it is truly worth it. I love this baby Kade so much and he is my pride and joy. We were grateful that my parents were able to come to the blessing. And that Nate's could be there too. None of our brothers were able to make it, so we were also so grateful for the friends we have made down here that were able to come and support us on that day.

Competition Time

Gotta love some friendly competition. Any chance to compete in somethng is fine by me. We had a pumpkin carving contest at our house. The Green's stole the show with their carvings.

Also, a few weeks ago we got together with some friends for the 1st Annual Fishing Tournament. It was a blast! We all camped at Roosevelt Lake and woke up early to start fishing. The teams were the different couples. Every couple had a weigher to weigh the fish. The most weight of fish caught was the winner. Our friends desinged a trophey for the winning team. Nate has it sitting proudly on his desk. We had a bit of advantage because Nate was the only one with a boat. I ended up casting only one time because I was in charge of the little man. Good thing my fisher husband was able to carry the team for all of us! He caught all the fish on his own. It was fun camping but hard to feed him in the middle of the night cramped up in a tent!

Kade wasn't the biggest fan of the smoke from the fire, but he loved eating the smores :) My basketball shorts are hikin up in that pic...opps

It was kinda cold at night, and really hot in the day. After a hard day of fishing Kade really needed to kick back!

Silly Parents

Dad was naughty and was letting Kade suck on some cantaloupe. Kade loved it and every time Nate took it away he'd start whining!
Ride that horsey!

We had dinner and card night over at the Ivins...well, we didn't end up playing cards because we played with the babies instead, what's new! :)

I started taking pictures of Kade and I gradually started adding more and more stuffed animals to the pictures. Next thing we know he is covered in them. Nate put some on his head and Kade thought this was so funny!

St. George Trip

Our first family vacation was so much fun! Kade did really well and loved all the attention he got. It was SO nice to hang out with family, and see a bunch of friends that I haven't seen in a while. The drive was really long and Kade is not a big fan of his car seat...as long as he was feed, and the car didn't stop moving then he did awesome.

We did a fun little hike, my legs were sore the next day and we didn't even do much. Man 9 months really takes it out of you. This was marathon weekend in St. George. My dad has run 14 of them, so it is a tradition to have a little get away in st. g with the fam. The last few years Nate and I have run them too. This year Nate got hoaxed and didn't get drawn in the lottery. I didn't even sign up because I new I wouldn't have time to get in shape. My dad was originally planning on doing it but he hurt his foot really bad in his softball league this summer. He decided right before that it wouldn't be smart to gut it out. I am so glad my parents decided to go anyways. It was fun to have all of us in good moods instead of nervous or dying.

We missed the M and Nat a ton. The boys wore their "B Creek" shirts that Mark designed to represent.

Kade has started smiling so much. It just melts my heart every time!!! If you rub his head you can get a grin out of him for sure. Things have gotten a lot better too. I didn't look at the clock once the whole trip and I didn't care about a schedule and Kade did so much better with that. Sometimes he wants to eat every two hours.. sometimes he'll go four (rarely though, he loves his milk) sometimes he takes a long nap, sometimes he doesn't take one at all. He was so much happier. I think schedules are nice to make things predictable...but when have I ever liked predictable. Schedules stress me out and they don't work for Kade. Now I just read his cues and it's great not knowing when he is "supposed" to be hungry again. Also Brandi told me to try supplementing formula maybe once a day. This has made the world of difference. This little piggy has a few feeds a day where he wants to eat more than usual and my supply doesn't give him what he wants. If he still needs more I will top him off 1-2 more ounces with formula. This has helped him become a lot less fussy and sleep longer.

Of course Nate and Jeff were so happy to be fishing buddies. It's so funny how both of them love fishing SO MUCH! They went about every morning at 5 am. They both caught a bunch of fish and had a blast fishing together.

Grandma Davis is a crack up. She got Dylan and Kade matching outfits for everyday. In fact they had about 3 or 4 per day and we had to change them quite a few times to get their pics. We loved it and thought they looked so cute! Dylan didn't like the photo shoots as much as Kade did. I loved playing with Dylan. I couldn't believe how grown up he is! He took 13 steps to me when Brandi and I where practicing with him. It makes me tear up thinking about how far he has come this past few months. I have never seen him really want to eat so much food. He couldn't get enough of his chocolate chips and would say, "Yumm" at every bite. He is like a little parrot and echos almost every word.

We loved the BYU shirt from Grandpa. We didn't think it would fit him because it was 6 months and Kade is only 7 1/2 weeks. But his Buddha belly filled it in perfect. It was just a little long. He is my chunker munker.

Kade thinks Dylan is so funny and wants to learn all his tricks.

D kept trying to sit with Kader in his little bath holder.

Grandpa couldn't get enough of his boys. It was so funny that your vacations become so much different with babies around. All we wanted to do was take pictures of the boys and play with them. It was so much fun, I don't remember what we did before they were in our lives. My parents stayed the first 3 nights but then had to go back to work. The rest of us got another hotel to stay another 2 nights.

Best Buddies!

It was great having my Mom and Dad their to watch Kade. I was able to relax a ton. We got to do a lot of shopping and went out to eat with no stress at all from all the helping hands. Brandi and Jeff were very helpful too. I got to visit my old school that I taught at, it was great to see my old friends I taught with. We also got together with my old roommates that I love and miss, Mari Jo and Jalene and their husbands. Des and Kylee stopped by our hotel to visit and I was glad to see them too. We loved seeing Sam and Kendra and their kids. And Grandma Moore and the Behymers. Nate and I really like AZ and have met some great friends here. But St. George is one of our favorite places and hope to maybe end up there one day.

Kade Kade Bo Bade

Kade loves watching fishing shows with his daddy! You have to check out his old man hair. It's bald around the sides and right on top, but he's got hair over his ears, the bottom of his head, and his spike on top. I can't get enough of it. His belly is sure getting bigger, this boy loves his milk! A fast feed for him is 45 min. he really likes to take his time

I read back on some my older post and it makes me nervous just reading it! Wow, I really sound crazy...I am luckily calming down quite a bit. Things are a little better with the feedings so we celebrate the improvements. Kade still just loves to be held every second of the day. He sat in his swing alone for 5 min. today and I couldn't believe it! I have been given great advice from you guys so thank you so much. One thing that Megan Chase told me that has helped is to only try to do one thing a day. Maybe you make dinner and that's it...Or one day do your hair or makeup but don't worry about doing both. That has been great advice because I thought I needed to be a super mom and do it all and that was making me crazy. So now my house is messy, I don't smell to good, but I am a lot nicer to my husband :) I still don't really sleep at all, but you kinda get used to getting by off of little sleep.

I wish I could say I made this, but we all know the box of Betty Crocker is pushing it for me! Some friends from school came over to visit and bring presents. It was so nice to see them!

I LOVE stuffed animals, and so my goal is to get Kade to love them too (I really think he already does!) My mom always loves anything fluffy. I called to tell her I bought Kade this and she actually bought the exact same thing for him the same day up in Utah. Great minds think alike :) Kade is going to get made at me when he realises that I buy him the stuffed animals and then I am the one that sleeps with them! Last night I fell asleep with Gordy (that's the Gorilla's name) in my arms and I woke up freaking out screaming because I was on top of Gordy but I thought it was Kade. Nate woke up to me throwing blankets around saying, "were is he!..." Nate had to point out to me that Kade was sleeping in his bouncer.

PS...Update on the Mountain Lion I saw fishing. Gma Sager babysat one night so Nate and I could go to Lake by ourselves. When we got there a girl came running to our car and said.. "Did you just see that??!!" she showed us her camera and she had just barley taken pictures of a bobcat. I had proof!!!!!!!!! It was the same thing I saw and in the same spot! ?