Santa

Sorry this one is sideways

I forfot to post the pictures from when we took Cadence to see Santa. Let's hope she likes him a little more next year!

The Prall's

We had my friend Bobbi and her kids over the other night for dinner. The kids sat at Cadence's pretty flower table and painted some Christmas ornaments while dinner was cooking. I made some great chicken nuggets and sweet potato fries. The nuggets were delicious and came from a recipe book called Deceptively Delicious. I would put a link to the book on here but I'm not really sure how (Jen where are you?) It is all about hiding vegetables in your food so your kids will eat them. I know you're probably saying Cadence is too young to know the difference and that's what I think but she somehow knows that green things are good for you and she doesn't want to eat them. So, this book is perfect! I can't wait to try more recipes. The kids has a blast with one another.

Funny

Cadence learning how to stick out her tongue.

NeeNee

Some pictures of Cadence with her HUGE Mickey and Minnie dolls. She just loves them, even though they are bigger than her!

Dress for Nana

Cadence got this pretty dress from her Nana (Jon's mom).

Cadence has been covering herself up lately with blankets. She got this new blanket from her Uncle Adam, Aunt Holly and cousins KK and Nicole. She loves it!

Christmas

Here are some pictures of Cadence on Christmas morning. She didn't want anything to do with opening her gifts. She wanted us to open them and give her what was inside of them. We found these Mickey and Minnie dolls (about 2 feet tall each) for super cheap at Walmart and we couldn't resist. It was a Mickey Christmas this year and was a great sight to see her eyes light up with everything Mickey! I don't think she'll ever get sick of Mickey or neenee as she calls him.

So tired after all of the gifts

This is the closest we could get her to opening a gift.

We watched the Mickey Parade in the morning.

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve, the Schlinger's had us over for gifts and delicious dinner. We are so grateful to have them in our lives. We had a great night with some great people! Cadence had a blast playing with the kids also. Here's Cadence listening to Lea's new ipod with Kim

I think I broke my back with this one.

Cadence's pretty Christmas Eve outfit.

Cute Pics

Just some cute pictures taken in the last couple of days. It was really nice being home with Cadence for 5 days in a row! It makes me think really hard about not working...but for now, that dream will have to stay a dream.

Reading with Daddy SMILING

PLAYING WITH DADDY

Holiday Baking

I wasn't going to bake anything for Christmas this year but decided I should last minute. I was hard at work Christmas Eve baking yummy desserts to bring to the Schlinger's house that night. I even made some Mickey Mouse ones for Cadence. I don't do baking so I thought that I did pretty well with this project. I also made the frosting for the sugar cookies. My mom had to ask me if I felt ok. haha.
On the menu:
Sugar cookies, no bake cookies, peanut butter cup brownies, peanut butter blossoms and Russian tea cakes.

Peeing Pics

Here are some pics of Cadence trying out her new potty. Sorry, they're the ones with her diaper on, I just couldn't bring myself to post the ones of her neked. Enjoy!

Peeing

We had a pretty exciting day in the Haggerty household today. Jon and I were going to Target and contemplated buying Cadence a potty chair. We looked and looked and decided that it wasn't the right time. As we're roaming around the store, Cadence does 'the squat' and has 'the look' on her face and says 'uhgt-oh butt butt'. She has been telling us 'butt-butt' when her diaper is full but she hadn't told us as she was going or just about to go, until that moment. Jon and I looked at each other and headed back towards the potties. We figured this was a sign that we needed to get the potty chair today. We picked one out and were on our way home. When we got home Jon opened the new potty while I changed Cadence's stinky diaper. When I was done, I asked her if she wanted to try to use her new potty. Since she was already un-clothed, I figured why not! She immediately got the hang of it and sat right down. Jon ran upstairs to get some batteries (yes her potty talks and sings to her). Cadence sat down a couple times and the third time, she actually went pee-pee in the potty! I was so excited, I'm surprised you couldn't hear me from MN. We looked at the pee, we talked about the pee and we jumped for joy!
Well, a couple hours later, Cadence wanted to try to sit on her potty again. She peed again, but this time is was all over the floor! I don't think I ever thought to prepare myself for a child peeing on the floor. I laughed pretty hard! Well, not even an hour later, guess what? Yup, she wanted to try her potty chair again! This time, with success!! I can't tell you how proud of her we are. I guess we thought that she was way too young for potty training. Don't get us wrong, we know it will be a very long road ahead but we are so excited and proud of Ms. Cadence!
So, for not wanting to buy a potty chair today, I sure am glad we did!!

**I'll post some pics tomorrow night as I have to shrink them before posting them**

Some updates

So, since I have been the biggest slacker lately with the blog, I suppose it's time to post some updates about our little munchkin and Jon and I.
Things have been a bit crazy with us and are just starting to settle down. As you may or may not know, Jon went out to Jersey in November. Then, my mom came for two weeks for a visit and Thanksgiving. Jon came home and I was busy trying to study for a gymnastics judging test. I realized that there was way too much information to learn in the little bit of time I had and decided not to take the test. I was stressing out about it way too much it was a good thing that I didn't take it.
Jon is trying to work full time so that we can give Cadence the experience of daycare for half days but isn't having much luck. We found a great home daycare and now are just waiting for Jon to find a full time 'gig'. Cadence is at the age where she needs to be around other kids and adults. She does very well when she is around other kids but isn't around them enough to grasp the whole social aspect. We can't wait until it works out.
Cadence just had her 18 month dr. appt. She is in the 10th percentile for her height, and 25th for weight. She doesn't like to eat very much but the doctor isn't worried about it, so neither are we. We think that her favorite foods are mac and cheese, toast/bread, and cheese. She loves her milk and often asks for juice.
She has sooo many words, too many for me to count. She's starting to put them together to form sentences. She will repeat almost any word that we say. She continues to use her sign language on the words she knows and we try to teach her new signs every week.
She is a very mobile 18 month old. She loves climbing on anything and everything. She's constantly trying to push our buttons and trying to do things she knows she's not supposed to. She's also started having tantrums. When she hears the word 'no' and she doesn't want to, she will start by stomping her feet then she'll fall to her butt and sometimes she'll lay down on her back and kick her feet and other times she'll roll to her stomach and kick her feet and bang her hands on the floor. It's hard not to laugh when she does it because it is so cute but also a bit frustrating.
I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I forgot but I'll post it when I remember.

More Fun

Here are just some fun pictures from the last...oh month or so. Bath time with Memere

I love to my books.

"The Squat"

Bubbles, Bubbles!

My pony and cool hat.

Project

I have finished my third baby afghan...finally! Congratulations Shannon and Jason and big brother Owen! Evan Phillips is finally here. (Ok, Evan was born in September...I'm a little late).

Fun with Pudding

I made some vanilla pudding the other day for Cadence to 'finger paint' in. She had fun even though she kept saying 'all done'. The first picture is kind of cool because as she was clapping her hands together, the pudding obviously went everywhere and you can see it flying in the air. Ewwww, it's getting all over my hair.
This stuff is gooey.

Where's Cadence

A new game we have discovered...hiding behind the curtains.

Pics from my Mom's visit

Here are some pics from my mom's visit during Thanksgiving.

I think Cadence is ready to go shopping. All set with her phone in her purse! Here's my mom and Cadence doing the video cam with Papa. Cadence now says Papa when she see's Ted's picture. It's so cute.

Cadence thinking she's still an itty bitty baby. This is how we used to hold her when she was teeny tiny.

Playing with Memere