happy new year!

As we wrapped up 2012 and rung in 2013, Caden turned 23 weeks old. That Monday was our 7th anniversary, and the boys had a half day of daycare that morning, so we went to brunch to celebrate. Oh how things have changed! :). Afterward, we finally got a few of the shades installed. Getting window coverings for the new house turned out to be quite the ordeal, so it was nice to only be in a partial fishbowl.


On New Years Day, we invited a bunch of friends over to see the new house and watch the most epic football game of our relationship - South Carolina v. Michigan at the Outback Bowl. Needless to say, the Gamecocks totally dominated. :) The boys had fun and added an extra layer of chaos. We even had a few of their friends over too. One of Caden's buddies reminded us to try putting his sleep sack on with his arms zipped inside. I had tried it unsuccessfully a while back, but when we tried it again, it worked! No more swaddle, sort of.


Caden started out 2013 by moving (bursting) into 6-9 month size clothes and trying rice cereal for the first time! He made a funny face at first, but then seemed to really like it. He even got most of it in, despite halfway pushing the spoon out every bite. He had been trying to swipe food off of our plates for several weeks, but we kept holding off because of his never ending string of colds.





Zane made the transition to big kid toothpaste, the kind you have to spit out. He also talked about going to the playground with the yellow swing all week long, so I finally took him and Caden over the weekend. After playing in the sandbox for a long time, he did get in the yellow swing for a little bit after all.











Zane also was cracking us up talking about "hanitizer," aka hand sanitizer. We definitely were washing hands and using hanitizer an awful lot to try to chase the cold germs away.