Mastering the stairs

Stairs are one of those things that babies can't do, but all in the sudden it's like they've been doing it all along. He couldn't get up more than one or two and it took a lot of encouragement. Then all in the sudden I'd turn my back and wouldn't be able to find him and he'd zoomed up the stairs. It took a little longer to learn to go down. The stairs make me have a constant mini stroke... I go back and forth between thinking "well he's gotta learn sometime" and just wanting to barcade the entire end of the house. It's a long steep staircase with stone floor at the bottom so it's a stair learning nightmare for this mommy.

Part of the problem is he refuses to go down on his stomach. He insists on standing up and walking down holding on to the railing. 

I'm convinced the whole reason he decided to learn to do stairs was to turn the light switch on and off. :)

To far gone

Whoa it's been so long since I was able to get any blogging done so it's to the point that I can't catch up.  So I'm just gonna start from now-ish and I'll just include a bunch of random recent pictures with captions

  

Kade's great grandma and Grandpa Peterson came to visit from Minnesota for the weekend in october. Kade and I went on a fun bus tour of Seattle with them, it was very interesting. I've been to seattle and or lived here for my whole life and i learned lots of stuff I didn't know. Then on saturday I went to work and they all stayed home and played with kade and hung out and watched football. On sunday they came to sacrament and got to see the Primary program... and more importantly Kade putting on his typical sunday show of shenanigans.  

At the begining of November Kade and I went over to the Ward's house to have a little birthday party for our friend Sarah (on the left) who is on the end and just recently had baby James. Paige and baby easton (about 4 months) was there and next to him is baby Jaxon and his mama Alicia were also there. He's about 8 months old. It so dang fun to see all the babies about 4 months apart so you  can really see the development and how much they change. It's also fun cause you can already see their different personalities. Kade is the oldest so he's the most mobil, but he's also a bully. He likes to sit on the other babies and take their toys. :) it's ok, he's just learning still, ... I hope. 

Clay came and starting living with us about three months ago. Him and kade have a great ol' time together. Clay has babysat him a few times so we could go out, which was super nice. Kade LOVES unkie C, he gets all excited when he comes home from work. Kade tries to be like unkie and he picks up clay's empty Mt dew cans (which he leaves out!) and pretends to drink out of them like Clay does. 

Kade and his little friend at church. His family usually sits in front of us and they like to pass their crackers back and forth over the bench and share toys. In this picture they are comparing shoes. 

The biggest problem we've had lately is Kade putting stuff in his mouth that he shouldn't be eating. He just hunts along the floor and every little piece of lint and every little piece of leaf off our shoes etc. In this picture he's searching under the couch for some snacks. He usually finds some crumbs or "treats" there. :)

Kade is gonna be a future self-pic-junkie. He loves to look at himself on the forward facing camera on my Iphone. He's got like a million "myspace pics" on my phone. haha

For Example...

 This is only three of like 15.