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At 6 months:

I did not edit so if there are errors don't judge... I'll find them eventually, or you can be ever so helpful and tell me.

I'm off to eat lunch with my hubby! Happy Halloween everyone. I wasn't going to dress William up and I'm still not sure I will but I may change my mind tomorrow.

Happy 1/2 Year Birthday

My baby boy is 1/2 a year old! I just can't believe how fast time has gone by. Kaden and I feel so blessed to have William in our lives and we love him dearly. It seems like just yesterday we were talking about and dreaming about what it would be like to start our family. We've certainly learned so much from William and we look forward to learning much more.

Last week I ordered some sample scrapbook pages from a website. They came yesterday and I am so pleased with how they turned out. I can't wait until we have some extra money again (we just spent a TON on developing 4 and 5 month pictures for everyone and then paying postage. I think Kaden paid extra postage to get them to people faster.) so that we can develop all of the pages we've done so far.

I am working on a 6th month scrapbook page so once it is done I'll post it but until then enjoy the ones I've done recently. Most of these pictures I have already posted before but oh well, they are still very cute!

Here are some new pictures:



Just to show you how mean we are I've taken a video of us helping William to crawl. He has to get really mad in order to do it.



I was planning on putting up two videos but the second one will have to be another day because blogger is taking WAY too long to upload just one.

Peek-a-Boo

William's new thing is to play peek-a-boo. He will put his burp rag or any other cloth over his face and make lots of noise until someone grabs it off. If no one comes he'll take it off himself and start laughing really hard. It is the funniest thing I've ever seen a baby do. He is so smart!

I was on the computer in William's room while he took a nap. When he woke up he was just talking and stuff. When I turned around I figured out why he was talking so much. He was peeking out of his crib at me. He has learned how to pull his bumper pad down so that he can see out of his crib.

William tried green beans on Saturday, but he didn't like them too much. I made Green bean baby food about a month ago and we have tons so he will eat them whether he likes them or not. Yesterday he ate the rest of the green beans from Saturday night though. He still made weird faces but at least he ate them all gone and I didn't have to throw them away.

I've gotten a couple more scrapbook pages done. I have a lot more ideas but I still haven't transferred all of our pictures from the laptop to our desktop. Maybe I'll get to that this week or maybe not, we'll see.



I'm not sure I like the text on this one of William with his Great Grandpa. I may change it, but I'm still thinking about what to change it to.

It is football season, therefore, I can scrapbook or play on photoshop as much as I'd like and not feel guilty about it because Kaden can watch football! I don't like watching sports much at all and if I am watching TV with Kaden we rarely watch a game.

On Friday I made dinner using a recipe from Pioneer Woman called Three Cheese Stuffed Pasta (she posted it on Oct.5 and it is SUPER yummy, check it out). This is only the second recipe of hers that I have used but seriously both have been to DIE for, and they are SUPER easy. Lets just say I don't cook, I don't like to cook, and I'm not a good cook but these recipes must be fool proof because I haven't screwed them up yet. It is really helpful that she has step-by-step pictures to guide you through the process. This is my version (I put 1 lb. of sausage instead of 1/2 lb. that the recipe called for).



It made a TON!

Last night Kaden kept saying, "Are you going to do a blog post?" He asked me at least five times! He loves reading our blog. haha.

More Scrapbooking

Enjoy!!

This is what I've been doing lately. I can't seem to get any paper scrap booking done though because William doesn't allow it and when he is napping I have so many other things to do (like eat). Kaden and I really enjoy this little boy and we feel so lucky that the Lord entrusts us to be William's parents.

Kaden has been busy lately with his toe and then with his tires needing to be replaced. We knew one had a nail in it and we were just going to get a plug for that, but then when Kaden came out of the doctor's office he noticed another tire had a gash in it. He has been riding around with the spare on and luckily Billy (my Step-Dad) was able to get us two used tires for FREE! We are so blessed that right after my Mom told Billy that Kaden needed a new tire, one of Billy's customers was replacing his tires. Although we might not have needed to replace the one with a nail in it, we definitely needed to replace the other one which would have cost us at the very least $100. We have an emergency fund and could have paid for a new tire so we weren't SUPER worried but you still worry when something unexpected happens.

Yesterday Kaden went to the mall to get a shirt for family pictures. On his way home he witnessed a really bad accident. Luckily no one was hurt and more importantly Kaden wasn't involved!! He had to call 911 and explain everything, then he had to stay at the scene to give a statement for the police report. I am so grateful that his only involvement was calling 911 and witnessing the accident! On a lighter note me, Kaden, and William all have life insurance now (although Kaden and I still need to get our blood drawn and what not, which I certainly am not excited for! I detest needles!!)

All in all we are doing fantastic! Time is going by too quickly and William will be 6 months in exactly two weeks from today. I'll tell you more about his milestones in his 6 month post!

Silly me...

So I just realized yesterday that I spelled "quite" wrong on one of the scrapbook pages I posted. Don't worry, I fixed it! I suppose I'll need to edit more carefully in the future. So yesterday I finished another scrapbook page but unfortunately it didn't save correctly. When I went to go put text on it this morning it would not open because it was the "wrong kind of file", whatever that means. I know I saved it like I normally do so I'm not sure what happened there. I'm still wondering if all of the brain cells I lost while I was pregnant will ever be replaced. Anyways, here is the page I recreated this morning.

Hopefully I didn't make any dumb spelling mistakes on this one. (How embarrassing!)

Many of you know that Kaden has had a nasty in grown toe nail. He has tried to nurse his toe back to health but unfortunately it kept getting worse (gross!). So yesterday Kaden used our new insurance for the very first time to get his toe taken care of. I am so glad that our whole family has insurance now. Kaden hasn't been covered since we got married and it always scared me that something bad would happen. Next on our list is to get life insurance. We have an appointment set up this week with an agent so hopefully we'll have life insurance for relatively cheap.

New Obsession

I took some pictures of William at 5 months and I've finally had time to sit down to use photoshop on them. Seriously I have spent all morning playing with photoshop and I love it! I could spend all day trying different things on pictures. I have SOOOO much more to learn too!

I can't wait for William to let me do more. He'll be 6 months before we know it and then I'll get to practice some more.

I did these the other day too. Obviously the pictures aren't recent but I really need to catch up on scrapbooking.