Cadie's Corner

Merry Christmas!

michelle — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:00:48 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone! I’ll be 11 months tomorrow (December 26th). Woo-hoo! I received so manay gifts from my grandparents of course, but I actually enjoyed the packaging of many of my gifts more than the gifts themselves. Anyway, I’m beat, so off to bed!

–Cadence

P.S. Check out this picture of Santa & me up in Napa. Napa Santa’s beard totally mesmorized me.

Cadie’s squeaks

michelle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:25:33 +0000

A Busy Bee (a brief Cadie update)

michelle — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:25:17 +0000

Cadence is 8 1/2 months old and is such a joy to our lives! Cadie is crawling all over the place & she’s pretty much standing on her own. She likes Owsald, and biting technology like remotes and cords. (She’s biting my laptop cord presently…) She’s starting to say “Mam” which sort of sounds like “Mom.” It makes me smile. Speaking of smiling, she smiles all the time. What a smiler. She smiles especially when there’s a camera in her face. Her favorite books include some Dr. Seuss, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Polar Bear, and the kids Bible, of course! We’ve also picked up some way cool books of poetry. That’s fun. Randomly, Cadie will squawk really loudly – cute, but not fun when it’s right in your ear. Ha ha. Cadie’s very tall and I have a hard time keeping up with her clothes! She wears 12 month old clothes, but wears bigger shoes (the few times she has worn shoes!) Very long legs indeed, but a slender body. Her favorite things to do are crawl and play with Daddy, who can make her laugh any time of day. She’s also doing swim lessons with Mommy once a week at a local swim school. Too fun. Cadie’s always doing something – I call her my busy bee. On October 26th, she’ll be 9 months old! Holy cow!

That’s all for now! Cadie says HOLA!

What a Great First Summer!

michelle — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:10 +0000

Truth be told, it’s very, very hot here in Arizona. That’s why you try to get out of Arizona by any means possible during the summertime. Cadence had her share of traveling experiences this summer, and she survived them all! She’s a great traveler.

It all started off back in May when Cadie and Mom visited Brent’s parents and family and friends up in the Seattle area. It certainly rained, but it was so beautiful there. Cadie truly enjoyed meeting her Spore side of the family and loved jumping in the jumper that they bought for her.

June was certainly an intense month of traveling. Cadie and parents went to the Refuge youth camp up in Big Bear, CA. She did wonderfully on the road trip. She loved checking out all the big beautiful trees and of course enjoyed being held by oh so many teenagers and youth leaders. It was a blast. We were also roommates with Candace and her 7-month old (at the time) Corbin. That was great fun.

From Big Bear, we traveled up to Vallejo, CA with the teenagers to help with a kid’s sports camp at a local church along with a huge community outreach. The coolest part was that Cadie and Mom/Dad stayed with Grandma Carol Ann and got to spend some great quality moments together. Cadie also met many of her cousins and her ‘great’ Aunt and Uncle.

After spending a few weeks at home in Arizona, helping with a summer youth program (she did help!), Dad, Mom & Cadie were off to La Mision, Baja, CA. First of all the weather is PERFECT there. Secondly, it’s right on the ocean. Wow!! We took the teenagers down to help build homes and help a local childcare ministry for poor families. Yes, Cadie’s a little missionary now. Grandma Carol Ann came too, and was a huge help with the kids at the childcare center, as well as a big help hanging out with Cadence. (Did I mention that Grandma Carol Ann, Mom & Cadence got to stay in a really cool hotel, right on the ocean?)

In August, it was back on the road again. We spent a few days in Las Vegas at the New Media Expo. Cadie got to meet lots of new internet friends. It was such fun! We drove from Vegas to Southern California so that Dad to get some work done for some clients. Cadie also got to visit Disneyland for the very first time. So special. We’ve got plans to return there shortly with some family.

Cadie is 7 months now! At her 6 month check-up she was 27 1/2 ” long and 15.8 lbs. So she’s certainly bigger than that now. She’s still at the 95% for height – a tall chica indeed! Cadence is rolling around all the time, sitting up on her own, and crawling in reverse. And she’s all smiles and full of love.

Thanks for taking a moment to read up on Cadie’s adventures. Be sure to check out Daddy’s & Mommy’s videos they made for her:

http://www.viddler.com/mspore/videos

And, of course, check out all of our photos on Flickr (sporehoo & iboughtamac).

God bless you! We love you!

Lots of Cadie

Brent — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:44:32 +0000

Just uploaded a bunch of videos & pictures here:

Viddler.com/mspore

Flickr.com/sporehoo

Cadie is 4 months now! 13.6 lbs & 25 1/2 inches long. She’s tall!

Just visited Washington this past weekend and Cadie met her Grandparents and other friends and family on her father’s side. So fun!

God bless! Love you!

CadieStrikesAgain

michelle — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:23:10 +0000

For more fun videos of Cadie, go to viddler.com/mspore/videos !

First glimpse at Cadie’s Photos

Brent — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:30:28 +0000

Humongous thank you’s to Adam Nollmeyer for the fun photo shoot we had a couple weeks ago. Today, he posted the first photo of Cadie from the shoot. I’m pretty biased, but still, this is the cutest kid alive! Thank you Adam for the great pic. I can’t wait to see more!

April2nd Cadie

michelle — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:15:41 +0000

We had lots of fun tonight!

Parts Of Cadie’s Face

michelle — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:21:42 +0000

Cadence was in a smiley mood this morning, so we decided to check out parts of her face!

Cadie’s Ocean

michelle — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0000

I know this video is 2 minutes of some funky songs, but the significant part about this moment is that this is really the first time Cadence started getting into her ocean-toy-thingy.

I recorded this when she was about 6 weeks old, and Brent was away at South By Southwest. Cadie and I were having fun!