Cade in September/October

• Cade talks a lot but his pronunciation isn't very clear a lot of the time.  He loves to perform though.  One of his favorite things is to stand on our sprinkler box in the yard and say "hello everynone" or "Good morning brothers and sisters."
• Cade had a little obey chart and as he moved up the road he got certain rewards.  The first one was a donut.  We walked down to Albertson's one day and got him a donut and he was so excited.  He carried them all the way home and even shared a bit with Cami. 
• He likes to weed too.  He has his "weeding place" at the trails (neighborhood park).  Once on a walk we saw a weed and he said "next time we walk here I need my bag so I can put that weed in it." 

He helps me make bread!

• He likes to watch tractor movies on youtube, lately his favorite has been about a delimber.  Now he takes his golf clubs outside and whacks the bushes and tells me he is delimbing.  Sometimes he takes his scissors outside and cuts off little branches to delimb. 
• He has loved making train tracks again this month.  Pretty much every day. 
• He likes to help out the mower guys and pick up leaves and put them in plastic bags. 
• Cade started a co-op preschool this fall.  We meet on Wednesday morning for 2 hours.  He loves it.  The first time was the most exciting.  There was smoke coming from the house across the street and so one of the neighbors called the fire truck (they knew the owner wasn't home).  The kids got to see the fire truck pull up and then they went to see the fire truck up close and got a sticker.  It was pretty neat.  He slowly tells me about preschool throughout the day.  On the first day he told me he needed a backpack because all the other kids had backpacks.  I felt bad that I didn't realize this, but we've made sure he had a backpack all the rest of the times.  He isn't really social and I think he plays by himself a bit, but he is happy and the other moms say he is really good. 
• We went fishing at the Yakima river and Cade loved it!  He got to play in the water, pick up lots of sticks, climb on rocks and go on a little walk around the trails. 
• Cade loves to watch the first part of the movie "Up" because there are some tractors in it.  One of the tractors knocks over the guys mailbox.  Everytime Cade watches the movie he says "I don't want the tractor to bulldoze his mailbox"

At the park with my aunt Darlene

• Cade learned the names of all 12 apostles and the first presidency.  We cut out pictures and he memorized a fact about each one with their name and picture.  This made conference more fun.  He liked to guess who was talking next and he really liked the part where all the apostles were sustained.  I put together activities for him to do with an apostle picture on each one.  He got to do that activity when the guy was speaking and it worked pretty well. 
• Cade loves to play in the sand, mow the lawn, sweep outside and ride his bike. 
• He takes good care of his sister and when she is sad he will help her find a toy to make her happy.   

• I told Cade we were having bacon for breakfast one morning and he started singing and dancing "bacon, bacon, bacon.  I love bacon.  It is the best in the whole world."  "Mom, do you like my bacon song?"
• Cade loves to wear his blue jeans.  He likes the song "blue jeans painted on tight" and pretty much wears them everyday.  Well, the jeans got a hole in the knee and we decided he needed new blue jeans, even though he has like 5 other pair of pants he could wear.  He was pretty excited to get new pants at the store and try them on and everything.