Trip to VA

We are having a good time in VA right now. We have been going to Once Upon a Child and buying clothes for the new baby. Buying for a girl is so much fun! Boys clothes are so boring. We are doing her room in pink and brown and I bought the bedding off Ebay and had it shipped here. 

Cade has been keeping us very busy during the day. It is like he came out of his shell while being out here. He is still so picky on food, but he talks and runs around all the time now. At home he is quieter. He is back to taking morning naps again because he is wearing himself out so much!

While we were here, they decided to do "Easter" for Cade. So Cade got to hunt for eggs one morning. At first he had no clue what to do. He saw them on the floor, but after we opened one and showed him it had m and m's in it, he was all for finding more. 

First Time to Chuck E.

Last Friday my mom and Troy and I took Cade to good ole Chuck for the first time. We went during lunch time and were hoping for a some what quiet time. It wasn't too bad. Until the bus load of kids showed up. Luckily they had a toddler section, so we sat in there. They had a little play climber, two rides and a few games. 

I made a mistake of of letting him out of his chair before he ate lunch. So that didn't happen for him. But he was very excited to play on the climber. Although he tried to climb up the slide, so we have to work on that. He liked to climb the stairs, but hasn't learned that coming down you can just hope someone will be there to catch you. 

He had a blast though. We got some tokens with our meal so he was able to ride some rides. He really liked the ones in the toddler area. He would get up when the ride was over and stomp to get it to go again. Typical kid! 

But he loved it! He was running around and trying everything. Troy followed him around and helped him ride the bigger rides. It was so much fun. 

Vacation Day 3

We didn't do much today because of the SNOW! That's right, it snowed today and since Richmond is afraid of snow it caused a few issues. It didn't do hardly anything. Then it rained afterwards. So we didn't really go anywhere. Mom had a bakers rack delivered today as well, so we needed to stay home for that. Tomorrow we are going to Wal-Mart, Ben Franklin's (a craft store) and Chili's for lunch. Then home for Cade take a nap.

Cade decided he wanted to help Grandma while she was cooking dinner. So his favorite activity to do right now is to help with the pots and pans. Then after dinner last night he got a cookie. He REALLY liked that. As you can tell from the photo.

John is doing good and I talk to him everyday. Today he had another test and got an 100%! He is doing soo good. He didn't get to fly today because of weather. So hopefully tomorrow. He does have a pre-solo test tomorrow of 20 questions. So we are hoping he does well on that too. 

Vacation Day 1

Well it's not really vacation yet. We are in a hotel in Gaffney, SC. We left at 10:30 this morning. I did good. Cade on the other hand, didn't want to take but a hour nap and when he wakes up from naps in the car, you better be ready to get out. So he started screaming after 4 hours, right around Atlanta. He was crabby the rest of the day. We stopped in Strafenburg (sp?) and had dinner at Olive Garden. Then we drove a bit down the road and stopped. He was getting tired and more crabby and I couldn't take it anymore. At least with John and me in the car one of us can play or entertain Cade. I did while we were stuck in a 45 min traffic jam, but after that all bets were off.

Right now Cade is playing with any and all objects in the hotel room that isn't glued down. He is putting it all in his crib, maybe hoping he wont have to go to bed soon? Anyways, I hope to go to bed shortly and then get up early so we can be to my mom's before/at lunch. 

Eye Doctor

Today John wasn't able to fly. They didn't have enough aircraft for every one too. The only good thing was him and his stick body had .2 more hours than they need at this point. So they wont get a DONSA day Friday, but they still get Monday off.

As for Cade's eye appt. It went well. He needs glasses now, but because of his age there is no point because he wouldn't wear them. So he will get them when he is 2. He has a high astigmatism, just like mama. Otherwise we are all doing great. 

John's First flight

Today was John's Nickel flight. Is it the first flight they take and they give their IP a nickel from their birth year as a tradition. Hence, the nickel flight. 

He was so happy when he came home today. Said he only almost crashed a few times, guess I should be thankful for that one! Luckily his IP is always there to correct a few mistakes. John said that he was hovering for a few seconds, before he realized he was and preceded to make the helio take a nose dive. It went like this - IP "John, your hoover" John" I am?" EHHHHEHEHR nose dive into the ground. 

He has a test tomorrow as well. He has done so great on the other two, but I am a little worried about how he will do on this one since he has to get up at 330AM now. Every other week he will be on mornings, so he will have to get up at that time. Which is why he is already in bed. He went to bed at 9 tonight. 

Tomorrow, Cade goes to the eye doctor in Dothan to see how his eye sight is doing. He seems to be tripping over ants right now. I can't tell if its his age, or he isn't seeing things clearly. So we will find out tomorrow afternoon. 

Other than that nothing much else is going on. I am driving to VA a week from tomorrow to spend some time with family out there. I am trying to find someone to make me a diaper bag I like, and trying to find a good double stroller, which is stressing me out! I am still sick every day. It sucks! But what ya gonna do? 

Random thoughts

So I woke up this morning before Cade and had all these ideas going through my mind. So I thought I would sit down and take a moment while John and Cade are at the shoppett to write them all out. Always helps me see things better.

First, Cade is suppose to get the captain's bed that I used while growing up. We like the idea of not having to shell out another $100 or so for a toddler bed, then getting a twin bed. Although it is a bit harder to find cute toddler bedding because of this. But then John reminded me that when we moved here, the movers broke a slat on the bed, so in order for John to fix it he had to nail the removeable slats to the bed. So in order to get it out of that room and into Cade's he will have to rebreak the bed and renail it. He is not sure it will survive a 18 month old for long. So our other option is to buy a bed frame (about $30) then a headboard or me make one. I have seen it done tons of time on tv (tv is good for something right?). No matter what we have to buy a dresser. Cade never had one. We bought those awesome shelfs from IKEA, that fits in his closet. Right now John is storing his stuff in the drawers under the bed, so we have to get another dresser. Just trying to see what would be cheapest. And I want a used dresser, because it has to last a toddler. Once the next kid needs a bed, we will get rid of the captian's bed and buy matching twin beds for the kids that way if because of a housing situation they need to share a room at least their furniture matches. Which leads me back to I should just make a headboard for now or keep the captian's bed if possible, so we can buy the two beds together to match and then buy a nice dresser set to match the beds a that time also.

As for Cade's new bedding, since he likes something for 5 minutes at a time I am picking it out this time. I have chosen to go with Eric Carle's bedding. Target used to carry it, but no longer does. So I have to order this offline on Ebay. We are going with the hungry catipiller theme.

I thought of today a way to decorate it. I am going to buy some hungry catipiller books off line cheap used ones and cut out the pictures in them to frame. I want to spell Cade's name and use some of the art to do this. 

I have been thinking about painting the bed rooms as we will have to move the furniture around anyways. I got the kitchen down and it looks GREAT! We had a friend stop by last night, a guy, and he walked in and was like "did you paint this?" John piped up "yea! doesn't it look great". Gee thanks. The guy was really impressed that just changing the color slightly made such a big difference. My goal is painting the hallway this week. I would love to paint the entry way, but the entry way shares a wall with the living room and the china hutch happens to be parked on that wall. So until I figure out how i am going to fix that issue, I am holding off on the living room. I could paint the other two walls, but it might be months before that china hutch gets moved. So I could start of John's room. Right now I took all his pictures down and hung them in the entry hall. The desk in now in the office, and the quilt rack we sold. So there is the bed, mom's old school desk and a hutch still in there. So that wouldn't be too hard to knock out of the way. 

I am getting anxious about this baby. I have been so patient. We find out in a week from tomorrow what it is. I keep having dreams it is a girl. I did post a poll at the top for every one to take their guess. I put girl. So sad! But mom's family is really pulling for one. We are screwed if it is. We have no girl clothes. As much as I tried to get neutral clothes for Cade, we didn't. But I do have the bedding picked out if it is a girl. 

Alright, well John and Cade are back and I need to dry my hair.