It's time for a post...

Sorry it's been a while, I really have no excuses other than it has been so crappy and cold outside I feel like we haven't done anything. But, it was really nice on Sunday so we took Caden down to Camel's Back Park and played on the playground for about an hour. We met some friends of our there who's daughter Spencer's birthday was that day. She loved the swings.

Caden is doing great. He is 28 pounds and talking up a storm. Some of the funniest things he says is, "Mommy, not funny", and "I toot" and when we are at the stop lights he yells at the other cars to "Go" and "turn green". He must get that from his father and I both, we are both pretty impatient when it comes to green lights and cars not going. He has really gotten into "pretend playing" lately. Last week he married the little girl at daycare and then had 4 babies "all resembling footballs" and even fought over where there furniture was going to be. He likes to drive his car to the pretend bank and brings me back suckers. He has learned to count to 3 and then goes to 7,8. He can say his ABC, sometimes he leaves out DEF but for the most part can say it all with me. He knows the colors, orange, blue, yellow, red, black and white. He has trouble with green and purple. His all time favorite color that he likes to pick out is pink, daddy doesn't really like that!! We happen to think that he is very smart and so does he. He got a haircut on Friday and when I came home from work he looked and me and said "Mommy, I look good" daddy had been teaching him that. All in all we are doing great and are just ready for some nice weather to be able to play outside. We are heading up to Post Falls this weekend for a wedding and to see my sister and her boys, I will post pics when we get back, Finn has gotten so big and is rolling all over the place, I can't wait to see them. Here are some pics from the weekend at the park.

Happy Birthday Lukas!

I just wanted to send out a Happy Birthday to my newphew Lukas who turns 2 today, you are such a big boy now. We can't wait to come over on Saturday and have cake with you!!! We love you. This morning Cade was saying "Happy Birthday Cake Lukas", it was so cute!

Rafiki

Last Friday while Rod's dad was in town, Rod, Caden, Amy, Lukas and Ralph & Sandy all went over to a play are in Boise called Rafiki. Caden and Lukas loved it. They had big slides for the boys to go down and fun play areas such as arts and crafts. I totally missed out since I had to work but Rod took some fun pictures for me.

Rod's dad and Sandy were here from Thursday the 1st until Saturday the 3rd. The kids had a great time playing with their Grandpa and of coarse got totally spoiled.

Caden had a wonderful Christmas and is exploring new things all the time. He now says his name "Caden Werner" when asked what his name is and he can also count 7 & 8! and can say ABC and W, Such a big boy. We have started working on the potty training a little bit more. Since I was able to stay at home with him yesterday he put on his big boy underwear "just like daddy" he says and got to walk around in them until nap time. He did really well. He went pee about 5 times and he even pooped on the potty, I was so proud of him and he was totally disgusted by what was in the potty, I was laughing hysterically. But he enjoyed the M&M's I have him for being such a big boy!

Caden is back to daycare today after almost 2 weeks off and he was so excited to see Pam today, he missed her and missed playing with her boys Matt and Sam. It will be good to get back into routine, although it was hard getting up early today and not sleeping in.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Uncle Brad playing catch with Caden

Pappa Werner & Lukas on the slide

Caden enjoying the slide

A Late Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

We had a great Christmas in the Werner household. It started off with Christmas Eve Mass and then when we got home Santa had come to our house so Caden was very excited. He got a new tool chest set and some new motorcycles that he loves. On Thursday we headed out to Parma so spend Christmas night with Rod's parents and then on Friday morning we headed up for Cottonwood to see my family. On Saturday we had my Grandpa Wassmuth's 90th birthday party and despite all the snow that was accumulated he had a pretty good turnout. We headed back for home on Sunday for some much needed rest and relaxation, unfortunately I got the flu on Monday so that didn't finish up my Christmas very well. Caden got totally spoiled and some of his favorite gifts are his basketball hoop, farmer set (or as he calls it "sarmer") he can't quite get the "f" out! and his magna doodle. Cole and Caden got to go sledding and they loved it. Finn is growing like crazy and is so much fun to be around. He is started to roll over more and likes to scream at you when you are not paying attention to him. Hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year tonight.

Caden and his new basketball hoop

First snowfall in Boise!

So Saturday afternoon it started getting really cold and then the snow started falling. We took Caden to the Botanical Gardens where they have over 200,000 lights on display, it was really neat - unfortunately I forgot my camera for that even. Sunday morning we woke up to even more snow so Rod and Caden decided they would try and build a snowman...mamma was a party pooper and stayed inside where it was nice and warm! Unfortunately the snow wasn't sticking so they couldn't build their snowman but Caden had a good time walking around in the snow.

Meeting Santa Claus

On Friday night we took Caden to meet Santa Claus - all day long he hyped up the fact that he was going to go and see him and that he was going to sit on his lap - well, when we got there of course there was no way that he was about to sit on the big man's red lap:) He did get 2 candy canes out of the ordeal though. On Saturday we went out to Pat and Steve's for Steve's 60th birthday party and played some poker - we all had a grat time. On Sunday we went Christmas tree hunting with Tyler, Ryan, Spencer, TJ, Heather and their two kids Payton and Hadley. We found a really nice Charlie Brown tree and it looks great in our living room, I will take pictures once I get presents wrapped and under the tree, it will make the tree look better.