9 months old!

Kaden will be 9 months old tomorrow. Our little baby is growing up so fast. He has finally figured out how crawling and has started to pull himself up on things (couches, chaise lounge, coffee tables, me). It's so cute that he crawled over to me and grabbed onto my pant leg and pulled himself up. He then put his arms in the air because he wanted to be picked up.

I tried to get Kaden to crawl over to the coffee table and pull himself up like he did a few minutes before this, but he had other plans. He saw the strap on the camera and made a bee-line for it.

Kaden's First Movie

We went to the Drive-In this past Friday. We saw Transformers and Land of the Lost. It was Kaden's first movie at a movie theater. The theater starts showing movies at 9:25 and we got there at 8:30, so we had some time to kill before the movie started. The Blazer was the perfect vehicle to take - the back end had just enough room for me to sit in and let Kaden crawl around. He had so much fun standing up and looking out the side window. Ryan got us snacks from the snack bar which went well with the cooler full of pop. As per my mom's suggestion, we brought a bottle of water and a wash cloth for Kaden. The poor little guy only made it about 30 minutes through the first movie. I ended up knodding off through Land of the Lost. Ryan made the executive decision to call it a night at 3 am only an hour through Star Trek. I think we got more than our money's worth!

Grounded

I'm sure everyone makes a mental grocery list of things they need to buy when they go to the grocery store.  Light bulbs, toilet paper, milk, eggs, etc.  I have a problem of taking things off the list after I've purchased them.  Not only do I buy them once, but I sometimes have two or three extras on hand.  Right now I'm grounded from buying Italian Dressing.  I ran to the store to get milk and "remembered" that I needed dressing only to come home and find that I now have a total of 5 bottles!  In all fairness one bottle has about a 1/4 inch of dressing left so that's just a little more than 4 bottles.

Other things I have been grounded from buying:

• Rice (Ryan found 2 or 3 opened bags and 1 unopened)
• Zip lock bags (hard to say no to a good deal when buying in bulk)
• Cereal
• Peanut butter
• Tea (I went through a tea phase and had several different flavors)

Just a quick update

We had a wonderful trip to Arkansas last week. The weather was great (most days) and we were able to see a few family members from out of town. I was able to get some sun although very pale to kind of pale isn't much of an improvement. Kaden did very well in his big boy car seat, but I have a feeling that he was bored part of the way there.

Kaden is officially crawling. We'll have to start baby proofing the house soon - plug in covers, baby gates and more. He learned to crawl literally over the course of a few days. I'm so impressed by our growing little baby.

I've also had my fourth migraine headache in two weeks. Not much fun at all. The latest one woke me up in the middle of the night with light sensitivity, vomiting, and a splitting headache. If it was just a little bit worse, I might have had Ryan take me into the ER. I did go to the doctor today, so hopefully bloodwork will show up something. That's it for now. Off to bed for a good night's sleep. I'll try to post pictures of the trip soon.