Crawling!

Within a week of learning to scoot around at a slow pace, our little speed racer decided he needed to get around faster! He has mastered the art of crawling! Boy, he loves electronics!

When we weren't home, Kyle let Cade play with Garr's Xbox control! OH OH!

Earlier this month he even showed us that he can hold his own bottle.

Leaning on the coffee table. He can only stand and hold on, not cruise yet.

Happy eating his puffs.

We are getting ready for a trip to Florida to visit Lisa during Spring Break! We wanted to make sure this hat we bought Cade during our Christmas trip to HI still fit! It does and he loves wearing it! Doesn't he look so big! Geez...can't believe he is 8 months old already!

Cade is also starting to pop out more teeth. He was only developing his bottom teeth; 4 of them in a row! One on the top was finally starting to poke through last weekend. Today when I checked, he now has 3 more poking through! Poor guy has 4 tops trying to come out at once! Despite the trouble most babies have with teething, it doesn't bother Cade's demeanor too much.

Scooting around!

Our baby is mobile, in his own funny way. He is quickly learning better technique each day!!! You can already see from the two videos below that he's improving!His motivator is the remote control or any electronic! Typical guy, huh. Just toss it in front of him and he fetches it! Hmmm...I think we're used to entertaining a dog! :)

Cade is eating lots of different baby food: pears, applesauce, peas, green beans, sweet potato, mixed veggies. He loves both his fruits and veggies! He's also doing better at picking up cereal and putting it in his mouth.

More sweet potatoes, please!

Snowshoeing!

We had the opportunity to go snowshoeing for the first time last weekend! We went with a couple of Garrett's coworkers to the Snoqualmie area.

If you've never seen or heard of snowshoes, the really old looking ones looked like wooden tennis rackets on your feet. Now they're a little more modern!

We bundled Cade up and even found him a pair of baby goggles! Aren't they cute! He wore them the entire time!

Cade was so warm and cozy, that he fell asleep during our hike! I'll have to download the video of him later; he was snoring! Garrett says he looks like a little piggy in this picture, because his cheeks are all red!

We have been having some nice, sunny days in WA. We took advantage of one this weekend and went on a walk along the Tacoma waterfront. If you look closely, you can see Mt. Rainier in the background, on the right.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Cade has been getting much stronger and is able to sit very well on his own. He has started taking tub baths! Notice the hairy legs of Daddy sitting in the tub with him! :) I promised Garrett I wouldn't post the pictures of him, even though they're completely G-rated; he said his legs are too white!

Cade loves to play with his binkies. He takes them out and chews on both ends.


Uncle Kyle bought Aunty Trisha this stuffed turtle. They both thought it looked like Cade, so we had to compare!

crawling update...

Cade's new favorite toy is this penguin he got for Christmas, but didn't bring out until now. He loves hitting it and watching it spring back at him! What a ham!

Cade is practicing getting ready to crawl soon! Agh! We need to baby-proof the house!

Cade's 6 month pictures...

Yep, it's another update brought to you by the Yamada family! I couldn't resist posting these pics. We had been pondering whether or not to have pictures of Cade done professionally. We initially wanted to have pictures taken when he was a newborn. But, time, work and play consumed our life and before we realized it, Cade is half a year old! I am fortunate to have a very talented co-worker, who did an amazing job at capturing Cade's smile!

Don't let all the smiles above fool you! This is really how Cade felt! He was uncharacteristically fussy the day of the photo shoot, so I was a little worried we wouldn't get any cute pictures!

yamada family picture (even sporty looks like he's smiling!)

January videos...

This video is from the end of December. Cade started rolling over both ways and trying to scoot!

Cade giggling (sorry it's upside down and didn't have time to figure out how to change it)