The Latest on Cade

I'm a little late in getting this on my blog, but better late than never, right?  Cade had his tubes put in his ears 2 weeks ago and it has made such a difference.  He can actually hear without his aids in!  It's fantastic.  The day that he had them in I asked him a question, his aids were out, and covered my mouth so he wouldn't read my lips and he answered it!  Needless to say, I cried.  He hasn't been able to hear well for a long time and now the liquid is out of the way, he can hear so much better.  One of the best things is that the tv isn't as loud as it used to be.  We had a follow up last week with the doctor and he said that everything looks great and the tubes are in a good position.  Cade keeps asking how many more days until they come out.  His teachers all noticed a difference right away, he is so  much more focused.  He is a great little boy and we are so lucky to have him in our family.  The poor thing has been through so much in the past 2 years to try to get things figured out and hopefully now we are done.  The improvements in him are amazing, he is more social and is speaking a lot clearer.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS CASEY!!!!

I have to give you a background on this post.  Every Christmas I stress out what to give Casey for Christmas and last year I thought I did a pretty good job picking out some gifts including a watch and an ipod shuffle so he could listen to music while he rode his bike.  Christmas morning we were opening presents and Casey said, "Well, that's it!"  I said, "No, there are still some presents for you."  We looked under the tree skirt, even picked up the tree and nope, they weren't there.  I went to my closet where I was putting all of the presents after I wrapped them.  No, they weren't there either.  I was so stressed.  I looked through our whole closet, I showed him the receipts to show him that I really did buy him more then what he got.  Not that he wasn't happy with what he got or didn't believe me but for my sake.  It was driving Casey crazy because all I did the whole day was either worry about it or look aimlessly for the missing gifts.  We came to the conclusion that they were probably put in a plastic bag with garbage and thrown away.  I didn't really believe it but it was the only solution I could come up with and it took me awhile to accept it.

So....  Today I was cleaning out the closet in the toy room that holds all of my craft things, wrapping paper, bags, ribbons, toys etc.  I was going through and organizing all of the drawers and I had a big bag of ribbons on the shelf and decided to put them in the drawer.  They didn't fit in the drawer in the bag so I dumped the bag out and out fell two wrapped presents.  My first thought was, What are these presents?  I turned it over and there was the gift tag that said To Daddy.  I started screaming for Casey over and over.  He came running wondering what in the world would I be screaming like that for.  It was pretty exciting and on top of that he LOVED the watch!  It is a happy day!  Casey loved his gifts and the money I spent on him wasn't thrown in the garbage!  So... 9 months later, Merry Christmas Casey!  

Cade's new golf clubs

     

Last Saturday, Casey wanted to go get himself a new putter and asked Cade if he wanted to go.  Surprisingly, he said yes!  If Cade has a choice to go somewhere or stay home, he always stays home.  So Cade went with Casey to the golf store and ended up getting Cade a set a golf clubs instead of a putter for himself.  What a good daddy.  So of course when he got home he had to show them off and try them out.  Casey and Cade even went to the golf course that day while Claire was at a party and Chloe and I napped.  

We might have a golfer on our hands!