Keeping Up With Cade

Hello everyone! I know, it has been awhile and I'm very sorry that I haven't updated the blog. Things have been busy & hectic and it has really been the last thing on my mind. Between my work-at-home job, being a mommy to a VERY active (and cute) toddler, and now getting my digital scrap store going, I've been finding myself with very little "free time"... so now it's 7 a.m. and I'm sipping on some coffee, hoping that Cade will sleep for at least another 20 minutes. He tried to get up at 3 a.m. today, and almost tricked me into thinking it WAS in fact morning. I heard him laughing & playing and actually sat up, getting ready to get up, and then realized that it was so early.

I guess the hardest part of the past few weeks has been that we lost our kitty cat, Josie this week. She was hit by a car on the road sometime Sunday night. It absolutely crushed us and I still can't believe she's gone. We went & rescued Josie at the animal shelter in Winchester when we were first married... got her around Thanksgiving 2003. She was our baby, probably the most quirky cat that I had ever met, and I miss her more than I ever imagined I would. We never expected her to live 20 years because she had so many health problems, but this was unexpected and has been so hard.

So in memory of Josie...

This is probably my favorite pic of her... as a tiny kitten:

She was fat & happy... at least we can say we gave her a good life.

Now for some pics of Cade. He has been doing great. Still not talking but he jabbers all day long and has been saying a few more words. He will just say a word once and that's it though. No need to repeat words, right? He has been saying "mom mom" lately though and I am almost certain I heard him say "car"... and we're pretty sure that he says "fishes" on a pretty regular basis (for goldfish - his fav snack!)

At his first Sorghum Festival...

Picking Papaw Bentley's flowers, LOL

Doesn't he look rotten here? LOL

He is such a little boy now... no baby here!

Where he plays ALL. DAY.

And as you can see... our little climber.

Thanks for looking & I'll try to update more often! Have a great weekend!!