Our boy is another month old today! It's amazing how quickly he is growing up.
One of Caden's favorite activities as of late is organizing things. He loves to line up all the shoes by the door and gets very upset if there are more shoes than fit in a line on the rug. This became quite a problem last weekend with most of the grandparents visiting and a lot of extra shoes! He also LOVES taking things out of cupboards and lining them up on the kitchen window ledge and around the table. He's mostly been doing this with my candle cupboard, though occasionally he gets into the baking cupboard and lines up that as well. It's cute how hard he concentrates on getting everything just perfect. But watch out if you think you're going to put something away while he's watching! That immediately starts a full on tantrum!
As the weather has still been nice we're trying to get outside as much as possible. The other day it was a little cooler, but we had a picnic lunch at one of the larger parks in the area. I didn't have much to pack from home so we stopped at Target for our lunch food. Caden ate almost an entire snack container of pickles for his lunch. After eating we tried to play on the playground, but Caden was extremely disturbed by the sand creeping into his sandals. He refused to walk on the ground. But he didn't want to leave either. He was happiest sitting on the giant baseball pictured above.
We haven't had much time to learn many more signs, but a few days ago I did teach him "airplane," "train," and "hear." I'm not really sure if any of the signs are technically correct, they just seemed logical to me. He's been very proud of himself practicing the sign for airplane. He's always on the lookout for them when we're outside.
Around other kids Caden has been getting a lot more possessive. He doesn't seem to be scared of anyone the same size or smaller than him anymore. Parker, the four year old next door, still worries him a little, but he's been holding his ground the last few days. I'm not sure that's a good thing, though. A few days ago I had to grab him before he physically attacked one of the daycare kids for walking near the slide. Yesterday he got right in the face of every kid when they went by the bikes he wanted to ride. This morning he ran at a kid in the park for trying to go on the swing. I'm not really sure how to teach him that not everything belongs to him. We'll just have to keep practicing the art of sharing, I guess.
Every morning when I shower Caden watches a Baby Einstein video. Yesterday I got out of the bathroom without him hearing me and I caught him dancing in front of the tv doing all the actions as the kids in the video to "If You're Happy and You Know it..." It was so adorable! I'm going to start doing more action type songs with him because it seems he's finally old enough to copy the moves.
Well, it's time to get ready to leave for our weekend trip to Beaver Dam. See most of you later!
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