***We put him in his big boy bed a couple months ago and it has worked out pretty well. He still calls it his "new bed" every time he refers to it and is so excited to get to sleep in it. Mostly because it is part of Cody's bed and that is so cool to him. However, he quickly picked up on some of Cody's excuses for not going to bed. It started one night with, "I will have bad dreams" and then morphed into one big long excuse as soon as we tell him its time for bed, "I'm thirsty, I need breakfast, I will have bad dreams!" and then after they are in bed and we read them a story you can count on Cade every night to pop up as soon as the story is over and say, "OH! We need say our prayers!"
***His prayers are just as adorable. He says the same prayer every time but its a good one. "Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Bless the food. Bless we will be nice and good. Bless Mommy feel better, we wont have bad dreams and sleep well. Name Jesus Christ Amen.
***Cody bought Cade his first Train a couple months ago also. That Thomas the Train has already been through multiple batteries. Cade is obsessed. One day while he was playing he brought the instruction paper to me that had pictures of all the different trains on it and pointed to the Gordon train and said, "Will you buy me Gordon?" I couldn't believe he knew any of the other train's names but he has been watching the cartoon a little too.
***Cade goes to his own little preschool twice a week. It is just a short 1 hour class and it is right here in our subdivision and Cade LOVES it. His friend Robby goes to the same school so he has a ton of fun. Last week when I picked them both up Cade rolled his window down and yelled, "Bye Ms Kwisten!!" to his teacher and then as we were driving away he said to me, "Ms Kwisten makes me sooo happy!" I about died laughing.
***I had to take Cody's bike into the bike shop to see if they could fix it since we couldn't get the chain to stay on so I asked Cade to go outside and tell Cody to come inside because we need to go to the bike shop and Cade ran outside and yelled, "Cody we need take you to the shot!!" Cody is incredibly afraid of needles so you can imagine how well that went over!
***Cade comes in my bed because he can't sleep one night:
Cade: I need watch ONE Umizoomi.
Me: no buddy you need to go to sleep.
Cade: how 'bout George?
Me: no buddy. Close your eyes.
Cade: how 'bout... I need play your phone.
Me: no buddy. It's time to go to sleep.
Cade: how 'bout I go downstairs watch the tv.
Me: no son. Go to sleep.
Cade: how 'bout ONE Umizoomi?
Seriously. I don't know what to do with this kid some days.
***Halloween left quite an impression on Cade this year. It has been about 3 weeks, the candy is long gone and he still randomly at night when its dark starts talking about going to the next house to get more candy, but he is adamant that he does not have to go to the scary house! but reminds me that Cody went to the scary house all by himself.
***I love the way Cade says Cody's name right now. He tries to say it too fast so it sounds like Coy or Co-wee.
***We have been attempting to potty train Cade for roughly 10 months. We started at age 2 and he did really well for a 2 year old boy. However, he wouldn't go poo in the potty so after getting tired of cleaning up the mess for about a week straight I went back to diapers for a month. Then we tried again. Still no poo in the potty. Then we tried again. You get the picture. Here we are 10 months later and he still won't go poo in the potty. He is fully "potty" trained but he will absolutely not go #2 in the toilet. He will hold it all day until we put a diaper on his for bed or bring us a diaper and ask if we will put it on him so he can go "hide." He is killing me. Hopefully we get it resolved before baby #3 gets here.
***We read stories to the kids at night before they go to bed which had become something that they can't go to sleep without now. It usually takes Cody a lot longer to get himself ready for bed than it does for me to get Cade ready so while we wait Cade likes to read to his animals in his room. He sees me read to them with the book facing away from my body so that is how he reads books most of the time now.
***For Christmas the boys each got a little hexbug set. Cody got one for Christmas last year but it was just the hexbug so we got them a little thing that the bugs play in. Unfortunately, Cade was scared out of his mind and wouldn't go anywhere near the things.
***Cade doesn't fully understand that there is a baby in my belly yet, but since we told him that there IS a baby in my tummy he will tell you there is baby in there if you ask him. So the other day I asked him what was in my tummy and he said, "A baby." I said, "What kind?" He said, "A baby seester." :) I thought it was so cute so while we were at Marissa and Micah's house for Scarlett's birthday party the other night I asked him in front of everyone and after I said, "What kind?" he replied, "A white baby!" I wasn't expecting it, nor was anyone else but it made for a good laugh for sure.
*** Cody and Cade have started playing lots and lots of hide and seek games, the only problem is Cade isn't the best at hiding. Cody will go hide and yell, "READY!" and then Cade goes to find him. Once he has found him he goes to hide but because he is only 2 he just hides in the exact same place he just found Cody hiding. It makes it pretty easy for Cody. They have so much fun regardless and play every single day. Cade has started to figure out that he can sort of smoke Cody out but saying, "Ready?" a few times so that when Cody says, "Yes" Cade can find him easier.
