petting zoo and new friends

On Saturday we went to Young's Dairy with Keith and Cindy.  It was so much fun. They have a petting zoo, mini-golf, driving range, lots of rides, and best of all ICE CREAM!!  The cows in the petting zoo make all the milk that is used for the ice cream and it was so yummy! 

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Sunday afternoon we went to a cookout with some of Keith and Cindy's friends. There were 5 little girls there (including Cadence) and they all had so much fun. They had a slip-n-slide and a big sprinkler. Once they got the hang of it, they had lots of fun with the slip-n-slide. The water was way cold and they all just shivered the whole time but wouldn't quit playing. It's so fun to make new friends. Cadence is great at it and just jumps in and plays with anyone who is around. 

Hanging out at Grandpa Keith and Mimi's House

Cadence woke up on Saturday morning in Ohio and wanted her picture taken. This was her pose. 
I was fixing a dessert for a cookout on Sunday and so Cindy gave Cadence her own stuff to work with to "make" a cake.

The Ice Cream Man!!!   He comes thru our neighborhood in NC every day but Cadence has had no clue of what is in his truck. Cindy wanted to get Cadence something so when we heard him coming, they ran out to the street to get an ice cream. 

Cadence picked a Dora-faced one with 2 gumballs for eyes. So, we threw away the gum balls and she just got the ice cream. 

What she looked like after finishing her ice cream. 

Fun at the Park

Keith and Cindy have a great park just down the road from their house. So, on Friday after our pedicures, we all went to the park to give Cadence some time to play. 

There were slides, 

she loved the tunnels after "Mimi" went thru it with her



Getting a little help from Grandpa Keith

And then doing it by herself. 


The swings were definitely the most fun............for everyone. 

First Pedicure

In keeping with tradition, while we were in Ohio Angie came over to give us pedicures. When we were there in November she painted Cadence's nails and this time gave her her very first pedicure. Cadence loved having her feet in the warm water and then we picked toenail polish. If you know Cadence at all you know her answer for every color is "blue" so of course when we asked her what color polish she wanted the answer was a very confident "blue"  Angie happened to have blue polish with her so Cadence now has very blue toenails. But I think they're super cute. 

Bath Time Fun

This particular bath night was also a hair-washing night and so I tried to get some pics so you can see how long her hair is when it's wet. 

EMILY!!!

This past weekend we spent in Ohio with Chris' parents. We had such a great time and I'll get all the pictures posted so you can see but this post is actually about the ride home. Cadence this weekend, had a major breakthrough with potty training. She can actually make herself pee when you put her on a potty now. Up until this point it had just been if you happened to be diligent enough to get her on the potty around a time when she might need to pee then pee would land in the potty instead of her diaper. However, this weekend all that changed and you can now see her flexing her lower abs to make her bladder contract ( I know you want to know all of this) :)    Anyway, we were driving home yesterday and she had drank a cup of milk as well as 2 juice boxes before we stopped for dinner. So we stop in Virginia and were totally surprised that her diaper was dry!  So we ran into  Wendy's to sit on the potty because she was saying that she needed to go potty. Sure enough, I get her on the potty and she peed so much (probably all the milk and apple juice). As she's finishing this is how the conversation goes

me:

 " You are such a big girl to pee pee like this but I need to know who told you you could grow up so fast because mommy wants you to stay a baby and not be a big girl. So, who said you could be a big girl?"  

She sat on the potty and thought for a minute and then a big smile came across her face and her response was "EMILY!!!"  

 I laughed so hard. so then I say

"i'm gonna beat Emily's butt for telling you you could grow up and

 be a big girl"

She got very upset by this and was like "no mommy, no beat Emily"

Cadence with her precious "Aunt"  Emily

Brandy's Shower

A couple of weekends ago we went to Raleigh because Cadence's Aunt Brandy was in town for her baby shower. It was so great to see the Palahnuks and Emily and Robby. Cadence always has so much fun with everyone. So, these are a few pictures from our fun day. The dress had come in the mail a couple days before from GiGi (the real one) and she had gotten it for Cadence from Cracker Barrel. I think it's so cute.

Cadence and Aunt Brandy looking at the baby stuff. 

 Swinging Elmo outside.