Happy 8 Months Cash!

Oh, my dear sweet Cash!  Daddy and I look at you every day and wonder how you got so big!  Your smile has lit up our lives and we cannot believe that you are almost a year old.  You definitely use it to your advantage...and we have no doubt that you will continue to use it to make us smile when we want to reprimand you!

 Your newest trick the last few weeks have been pulling yourself up and standing at the couch, and anything else that you can grab onto!  You are getting stronger and stronger and are so busy that you sometimes don't pay enough attention to what you are doing...

 But you take all of your tumbles in stride and we know that you will be off and running soon...but PLEASE...take your time...mommy and daddy can barely keep up with you now!

 You are such a busy little boy.  From the moment you wake up with that sweet smile on your face, you are ready to GO!  Once you get down on the floor, you aren't staying still for long...you are off and crawling...throwing and chasing your toys and keeping yourself busy busy!

 Your giggles and belly laughs make daddy and I laugh and smile til we cry!  You are the light of our lives and we cannot remember a time that you weren't in it.  Funny how that happens...one day you will understand when you are a daddy to a sweet little boy.  Hopefully he will use all of his charms on you like you do on us!

 You are growing and learning and we have no doubt that the next few months you will be showing off new moves and will keep us very very busy! Thank you for every single smile, giggle, slobbery open mouth kiss, snuggle and amazing moment that you give us every day.  We are so lucky that you are our baby Cashew...we love you buddy!

Cash's First Christmas!

Better late than never...I really do apologize for being so late with this Christmas post!  Things have been so busy since the New Year has started and Jeff has gone back to school!  So I will stop apologizing and finally get to the post! 


This year, we spent Christmas Eve with our friends, the Laurine's.  Dawn and Moke had some family in town and were kind enough to invite us over for dinner and to hang out.  We had a great time as usual with them and Cash was excited to roam another house that had a Christmas tree.  He was especially nosy with all the presents under the tree...but Dawn and Moke made sure to have a little something special for Cash!  We had a wonderful evening and were so thankful that we were able to share our Christmas Eve with some Florida family!

Here is Cash giving some Christmas kisses to Dawn!

Cash with two of his favorite ladies, Taylor and Dawn

Taylor is SO good with Cash!  Here she is playing with Cash and his new toy, a musical penguin!  Taylor is such a good helper and wants to just love on Cash all the time!

 This year, Jeff and I were especially excited about Christmas morning with Cash.  We knew that he wouldn't remember anything about the day, but we knew that we always will!  We were sure not to go overboard with the gifts...as you can see, he was spoiled quite a bit by his grandmas, papas, aunts, uncles and cousins!  Here are all of Cash's gifts loaded up in his "chariot" that Jeff and I bought him!

 It was so much fun bringing Cash out to see all his gifts Christmas morning!  We only had a few out under the tree that were hidden since we knew that Cash would get into them so we were wondering how he would react to all of them.  Here is Cash getting a look at all his presents!

 As you can see, he was into looking at everything and he really did like ripping off the paper!  It took us quite a while to get through all of the presents since we had to stop for Cash's breakfast and a nap in between opening everything. It was a really nice day since we all staying in our PJ's and had no where else that we had to be!  We hope that all our Christmas mornings can be so nice and relaxing, although we have a feeling they will only get crazier as the years pass!

Here is Cash checking out all his presents!  He is such a BLESSED little boy!

Daddy helped Cash open his first gift Christmas morning...we think Cash was a little bummed when he realized it was pajamas from Papa David and Grandma Sandy!

Cash LOVES his Scout Leap Frog Dog from Aunt MeLynda, Uncle Dave and cousin Emily!  You plug it into the computer and program it with your child's name and favorite food, color and animal!  Right now, Cash's favorite food is bacon...can you guess who took care of entering the information?????  DADDY!

Jeff and I got the best present ever this year...our sweet Cashew!

Playing with some of his new toys from Grandma Sue and Rich and Grandma Sue's friend, Sandy.

Stinker was sleeping and as soon as we snapped his picture, he smiled!