Happy Halloween!

Boo! We had a great, low key, Halloween this year. We celebrated on Saturday with our playgroup friends and then later attended our neighborhood party on Liggett Avenue. Caden had a lot of fun just running around! He didn't quite get trick-or-treating this year...he kept giving the candy back to the neighbors! It was pretty cute! Auntie Jennifer was also visiting from Peru and came along with us to the parties - she was a good sport! Caden was a "Dragonsaurus" - the cutest little guy ever! And his baby sister was a pumpkin!

just being cute!

a view of the back

side view!

such a little cheese!

liking his friend Jonah's Superman costume!

Jonah, Evan, Caden, Maeve, Flora, Mitchell, Madeline, Reyne

what a cute bunch!

the three of us (almost 4!)

Caden's little pumpkin

our little pumpkin!

Goal 2, accomplished!

Caden has been going down the stairs by himself the past couple of days! I just tell him "it's time to go down the stairs" and he happily (now) gets down on all fours and schootches backwards down the stairs! Now we are just working on putting away his toys...which he will do, when I make it a fun game, so we're getting there!

Raincoat and boots

So after the wet pumkin patch, it was time to invest in some rain gear! He loves the froggy on his pocket! I have it hanging in our coat closet and just laugh everytime I see it in there. It is so little and so stinking cute!

too cute!

17 months old today!

Just our little cutie at 17 months! He's such a little love!

Pumpkin Patch

We decided to go to the pumpkin patch today in the drizzly rain. It was really raining in San Francisco, so we drove up north over the bridge to Marin and found a cute little roadside pumpkin patch. It was still raining but not too much. We let Caden explore the pumpkin patch for about 3 minutes, before we decided he was getting too wet. Looks like we need to invest in some rain gear for this little munchkin!

exploring!

"puh! puh!"

not too sure of the pumpkin goop!

checking out his pumpkin

mommy's pumpkin

Our little family of pumpkins! Chris commented that next year we'll have four!

Hair cut and throwing a ball!

Daddy has been teaching Caden how to throw a ball. Here he is in the midst of it. He loves to throw the balls into the kitchen or to anyone who is willing to throw the balls back! It was also time for a hair cut! So I gave him one this afternoon.

just about to throw

very impressive ball stacking!

new hair cut - looking good!

"Love a pumpkin"

I just thought this was incredibly sweet! We got Caden a little pumpkin for trick-or-treating and he loved it! Here he is giving it some loves. He also gets very excited every time he sees a pumpkin and enthusiastically says "Puh! Puh!" Caden is a little sweetheart!

There have been better days...

in the Harris household! This weekend, we experienced Caden throwing up for the first time ever. Poor guy! He was a champ, though. He was vomiting all of Friday night, beginning about midnight. I had heard him cough pretty loudly around midnight so went to check up on him (as mothers do) and found that he had thrown up all over himself and his crib. It was a mess. I decided that he needed a bath to make him feel better and to get the throw-up out of his hair. He was happy to be clean and with mommy and daddy. Chris stripped his crib and threw everything in the washer. After his bath, I took Caden downstairs to sleep in the guestroom with me. By 2am, he had stopped throwing up and I got him back to sleep. I just felt so sad for him. He had never experienced anything like this before and was probably scared and confused about what was going on.
Well, two days later, on Sunday night, the bug hit both Chris and I. We were both vomiting on Sunday night. It was awful! One thing I will never forget is when Chris and I threw up at the same time - me in the toilet and Chris in the kitchen sink, all the while Caden is sitting on the couch watching his Signing Time video. Getting Caden to bed was also a real challenge as we were both in the middle of feeling pretty miserable and on the verge of yakking at any second. I called the advice nurse around 2:30 am to see what I could take (since I can't take the usual medicine being pregnant) for the fever I had developed. I also asked about the contractions I was having after throwing up so many times - the good thing is they stopped when I stopped throwing up. At 3am I drove to Walgreens to get some children's tylenol, and to my surprise, wasn't the only one in the store at that hour! We survived the night and were feeling better by Monday. Chris worked from home on Monday and we just took it easy the rest of the day. We knew exactly how Caden felt, and he was a little Champ through it all.

Pure preciousness!
Caden during one of his extra long naps, recuperating from being sick.

Toddler messes!

I just wanted to capture Caden in the act of making a big mess! He's pulled out everything from his little toy/book shelf in the family room! I have decided that I have two goals for Caden before his little sister arrives...
1)being able to help clean up or put away his toys
2)being able to go down the stairs by himself
We're working on both!

oh my!

Just being cute!

Playing on the keyboard is one of Caden's favorite things to do!
Look how fast his little hands are moving!

I love my new pants! Thanks Nana!

Babymoon number two!

So Chris and I were able to get away for 3 days to Hawaii. (Thanks for watching Caden, Nana and Bapa!) We went to Oahu and stayed in the Marriott at Waikiki. It was great to have some time together just the two of us. We went out for some great dinners, a movie, and lots of walks on along the beach. Don't get me wrong, we missed our little mister a ton! It sounds like Nana and Bapa kept Caden busy while we were away, too - a trip to the zoo, a birthday party, and lots of parks! Here are some pictures of our little getaway!

Sunrise

belly at 23 weeks!

Chris after a swim in the ocean

beachside, Waikiki

Nana Arrives, Little Bugs Gymnastics, and Swimming

Today my mom came to visit us in SF! We had a great time hanging out and going to all of Caden's classes. Nana arrived to watch Caden while Chris and I went to Hawaii for a little "babymoon" before the little miss arrives! We went to Little Bugs Gymnastics class, swimming, and music! Caden loves having his Nana around and so do I! Here are some pictures and a video from Caden's classes this week.

crawling through a tunnel at gymnastics


loving the long trampoline!

after class, Nana couldn't believe how sweaty Caden got!

rockin' the flippers!

Lazy Sunday morning

We had fun just lounging after breakfast - blueberry pancakes, yum! I was doing laundry and put Caden in the laundry basket with all his balls. He thought it was great fun to throw them all out of the basket and mommy would put them back in! So fun to be a kid!

concentrating

just about to empty the basket

Loving the park again!

We love this park up in Laurel heights that has just been redone. It is amazing! I especially love the soft fake grass that Caden can run all around on, and no grass stains! And Caden loves the swings and the little bouncer!

Bouncer

smiley guy on the swings!