Harmonica video

Finally, the video uploader worked...here's the video I referred to in the last post.

January activities

Caden and I had Kindermusik last Thursday for the first time in over a month.  The musical instrument that he received in his materials for the semester is a harmonica.  He had fun playing with it after class.  I have the cutest video of him playing it that I've been trying to post for several days now.  I wish the video uploader would start working for me.

Caden and I started an 8 week art class at the Nature & Science Museum at the beginning of January, too.  It'll go right up until baby sister arrives.  It's the same class that we took last summer, so it's fun to see how much more he can do now.  I'll post some pictures from class over the next few weeks.

I've been so bad about taking pictures lately. I haven't taken a single picture with my good camera since Christmas.  Here are a few that I've taken with my iphone...

We pulled down the infant car seat to see how it snapped into our new double stroller. Caden had fun sitting in it.  He's just a tad too big for it :)

What a difference 20 months makes...here he is in that same car seat the day we brought him home from the hospital.

Two Fridays ago we had a play date at the Children's Aquarium.  He really enjoyed it.  I was telling Brian all about it when we were eating dinner that night, and after I had told him all that I remembered, I turned to Caden and said, "What else did we see?".  He quickly responded with "teeth, shark, teeth", because one of the sharks kept swimming right up next to the glass and each time we got a great view of his many teeth.  Here are all the kiddo's lined up.

He loves putting my sunglasses on.  One day last week I had left them on the table, and while he was eating lunch, I turned around and he had put them on.

Christmas Morning 2011 and Juillerat Christmas

We spent Christmas morning at our house; opening stockings and presents just the three of us.  Our big gift to Caden this Christmas was a play kitchen.  Brian spent all night Christmas Eve putting it together.  Here are a few pictures of Daddy's hard work...

7:30pm...

8:30pm...

9:30pm...

All in all, it took Brian 4 hours to put it together.  I threw in the towel around 10, so that's when the progress pictures stopped.  Brian left it in the living room with a blanket covering it over night.  The next morning when it was time to give it to him, we left him in the play room to set up our camera's.  Here he is walking out to see it for the first time...

We're keeping it in the kitchen under our counter/bar area.  It fits perfectly, and it usually keeps him out from under foot while I'm cooking dinner.



Midday on Christmas, we drove to Tyler to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family.  Nana and Papa gave Caden a vacuum for Christmas.  He loves it!  It's supposed to actually suction, but it doesn't really pick much up...too bad, since he uses it just about every day.

Here's a picture of us with all of Caden's Juillerat aunt, uncles, and cousins.

Caden had fun playing with his cousins.

Jolly Christmas 2011

Caden had so much fun during his cousin Wyatt's two week visit.  Here are a few pictures from their time here.  One day we went to the zoo, but my camera battery died, so I didn't get any pictures that day :(.

Here are Wyatt and Caden with Mimi at the Arboretum.

 A few more of Caden and Wyatt at the Arboretum.

Hanging out in Mimi and Tia's backyard.

We celebrated Wyatt's birthday while they were here. 

We visited the Museum of Nature and Science.  Caden dug for fossils.

Caden and Wyatt "drove" a fire truck.

And Caden milked a cow.

Here are Caden and Wyatt in their Christmas pj's.  Caden is so lovey...he was frequently trying to hug Wyatt; although, Wyatt was usually too busy to hug.

And here's a family pic.