14 Weeks old

He has been smiling so much lately. He just loves to see us and smiles right away.

Caden was helping me fold laundry the other day!

Caden really likes the animals on his mobile. He listens to the music and watches them go round and round. I think the elephant is his favorite!

Dad reading to our little boy. Caden has taken more of an interest in the books in the past few weeks. He has also been drooling quite a bit lately, here you can see his pumpkin bib collecting all the slobber. (Thanks Andy!)

Reed's baby shower

We hosted a couple's or should I say family baby shower for Jeff and Kyley Reed. Kyley is due at the end of January and looks amazing! We had a great time and I think the kids did as well! There were 7 kids in attendance and 5 that were running around playing with the toys. Check out the pic...we were able to get them all together for a few pictures.

Front: Kelsey Francis, Collin Francis, Ross Francis, Josie Bergman and Nolan Roscoe

Top: Lukas Botkin and Caden Francis

We were lucky to find out that more of our friends are expecting child #2! There were 5 pregnant women at the party! Lukas, Josie and Nolan will all have siblings arriving next year! Liz & Brian Bertke are expecting another one as well! So next year's get togethers will be even louder and crazier! Should be fun!

Soon-to-be papa Jeff Reed watching the chaos and looking forward to cramming all the baby stuff into their house!

The adults! Guest of honor, Kyley in the orange. Mama/Papa to be Tony and Jessi Bergman are to the right of the pic. Kevin (bar stool by window) & Theresa(red sweater on left) Finnigin were in town from Baltimore. On the couch you will find Ben Botkin, Hemo (Craig) Hemmelgarn, Mya and Joel Stammen. Becca we missed you but hope you had fun at your party in MI. Chris Roscoe is in the green sweater on the carpet.
Brian Bertke playing with Nolan. Man can that kid crawl fast!

Thanks to everyone who brought food and/or decorations, we appreciate your help. We had a great time and are a little exhausted this morning.

Hiking at Charleston Falls

Caden and I enjoying the fall foliage. Last week we had 70 degree weather, so it was probably the last nice fall weekend. Mark and I thought we would take the fam out for some fresh air.

Mark and Nia looking out over railing.


Caden and I posing for another pic. Unfortunately since we haven't had much rain, the waterfall wasn't much more than a trickle. Oh well.

Caden in the car on the way home. Happy Boy!

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12 weeks old

Caden's first go at the Bumbo!

Here is our little bear cub getting ready for a walk around the neighborhood. Instead of fussing with getting him in the carseat, I decided that he could ride like a big kid today!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I didn't think that we were going to get dressed up this year, but we are going to a halloween party tonight. Even Caden is going to get dressed up. I will post a picture later. Till then have a goulishly good time this weekend. We had trick or treating yesterday and most of the kids didn't really care to much about their outfits...just wanted the candy. But, there was two kids who came dressed as the Spartan cheerleaders from Saturday Night Live...and they did cheers for me! It was the best!

Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum and the Cheshire Cat

Caden as the Cheshire Cat

(Ok, I made the costume and the left arm hole didn't quite allow his arm to fit in, hence the one arm hanging out.)

Me and Caden, Amy Winner and Isaac

The three little ones: Isaac, Caden, Kristin (she was a very cute duck)

Caden and Isaac

Caden giggling

We were getting Caden ready for his bath and Nia was curious...she came over and sniffed and licked his hand. Apparently when I talked to Caden about it, he thought it was the funniest thing! We captured some video of his first laughs/giggles, but the picture quality isn't great. I couldn't help but laugh a little bit, it was cracking me up!

Sitting on the couch at home.