Short visit with Uncle Matt

The end of April Matt was in Pella for a short work trip. We were able to meet him at Smokey Row for him to see the boys for about 30 minutes. As you can see Matt has on a nice Pella shirt ready to go to a dinner...well, Caden wanted to leave his mark. Matt chose to change shirts before the dinner instead of smelling like spoiled milk!

The next day

The next day was a different story...Cody was very excited about little brother Caden!

Introducing...Caden Ronald Klein

On April 8th at 5:36am Caden Ronald was born. He weighed 7lbs. 9oz. and was 20 inches long. We drug Cody out of bed at 1:00am on the 8th to head to the hospital. We arrived at roughly 2am and Aunt Sarah met us at the hospital so her and Cody slept on the lobby couch. So big brother was very tired and not that thrilled to meet little brother at 5:30am.

Ornery boys!

Cody and Brady in their jammies at the IOA convention. It was tough getting them to settle down...they had so much fun together.

Sharing

Cody wanted to share his "cut cheese" with the baby.

Hillbillies

Not sure I would claim this bunch!

Go Cyclones!

We went to watch the Iowa State women's basketball team play during playoffs at Wells Fargo Arena. We met our good friends J and Missy Starr, Addison, and Elijah at the game. We watched our good friend Molly Parrott coach the cyclones to a victory!


Cody and Addi had their eye on Cy. Cody knew where Cy was at all times!

ARTHUR Live

Cody went with Grandma and Grandpa Klein to see Arthur Live (well, sort of). It started at 3:00 and at 3:15 they called me saying that they were in the car headed back. Cody did not like the fairy, kept saying..."That guy scary". He cried and kept pointing to the door saying "car".

LIVE IT UP

Cody's last days as an only child...

Flex those muscles Codyman!

See my toys mommy!

Crazyman...

Mom, combed my hair...don't I look ridiculous?! :)

The words of a Two year old!

Cody has been quite entertaining as he is learning more and more words...

1. One day in church he pooped his pants, so Chad leaned over and whispered, "Cody did you go poop?" and Cody says (not whispers), "No, Mommy poo". I'm sure everyone at church fights to get a seat by us because he does tend to be entertaining. As another day in church I look away for one minute and then I look down at him and he has taken his socks and shoes off and is stuffing his socks down in his shoes. Guess he was hot.

2. Many people ask if Cody seems to know what's going on with my pregnancy, if he realizes there is a baby in there, etc. It's hard to tell if he has totally grasped the concept but what he does say quite frequently is when he sits on my lap and can't seem to get comfortable he looks at my tummy and says, "Beep, beep, baby".

3. One of Cody's favorite things to do right now is hide from mommy or daddy. We always try to guess where he's hiding, "Is he under the table?" and then a little voice says "Nope"...the hiding spots are good, but still need a little work on the staying quiet.

4. During one of our big snow falls (6 inches or so), Chad had gone outside and cleared all the snow off of the van (except for the top of course) and Cody and I look out the window and Cody says, "Mommy see...car hat" and sure enough it looked like the van had a hat on.

Winter Wonderland

This is what we came back to...snow, snow, and more snow. Cody loves it though. We built three snowmen in our front yard and Chad made the middle one pregnant although as it melted it ended up looking somewhat inappropriate! :)

Trip to Arizona

I realize I have some catching up to do, so we'll start with our trip to Arizona in January. We took a "pane" to go down and see Uncle "Mott" and Aunt Kelli. Cody did very well traveling, he loved the plane ride...kept saying, "mommy, daddy, see" as he pointed out the window. The weather was great (mid-60s) so Cody loved playing outside in the sun and he didn't even have to bundle up!

One day we took a hike and before we even started, Cody needed to stop and take a snack break and the sun was bright so he thought he needed mommy's shades.

On our hike, Uncle Matt had to do most of the carrying since I was pregnant and Chad wasn't feeling too well this day.

Desert Holiday

We got to spend one day out at the park with Grammy and Papa. Cody played with new cars that Grammy and Papa had waiting for Cody. We spent most of the day outside and Grammy was very excited to show Cody off to her friends!

Cody's 2nd Birthday

Don't make me blow out the candles, dad!

Birthday Bash

I made sure everyone had a balloon and then they had to sit down and make a run way for me.


I love my new tricycle!
Cody got mad when we made him stop playing with one present so that he could continue opening presents. I think for Christmas we might spread his gifts out so he can sit and enjoy each one before moving on to the next.

More Birthday pictures

I'm a big fan of Shrek!
Choo-choo So many things to play with. My cars work pretty good on the train track too.

Cheese!

My first time sledding

I love sledding...I could do it all day!
Dad trying to hug me to make up for dumping me off my sled.

Cody Playing

Check out my tower!...I eventually kick it over, but look at it now!
What's Up?
Peek-a-boo!

Helping Mommy decorate the tree

Ornery Cody