Caden Marshall Smith is One Year Old

Hey blog readers. As you probably know, Caden Marshall is now one year old. We celebrated with a low key family party that was nice. It has been one heck of a year which Melissa captured beautifully in her last post. I thought I would put quick post out there with some of my Caden observations.

Caden Marshall is doing really well right now and is very active. He is crawling all over the place and has even learned how to climb the stairs. YEAH! Some of his favorite things to do: He loves to throw down his hard plastic ball and then crawl after it. Repeat. Repeat. When he gets tired of the ball he crawls over to the cabinets and opens and closes then eventually he reaches in and pulls out the pots and pans. He is funny! Caden does not have a lot of tolerance for open doors. If the bathroom door is open, he closes it. When we are upstairs and a bedroom door is open, yep you guessed it, Caden closes it. Caden is pulling himself to a standing position on everything from a pant leg to the ottoman table. He takes steps around the ottoman table to get to what he wants on the other side. Caden Marshall loves the remote control almost as much as his dad does. The funny thing is that we have a remote that controls nothing that we gave him yet he wants nothing to do with it. I think he knows it controls nothing so he does not want to waste his time with it. When the TV is off and the remotes are put away, Caden makes his way over to the TV and turns it on. Then off. Then on. Repeat. Repeat. He knows that he should not play with the TV and gets a grin going when you catch him. Caden loves to be chased by me. I announce I am coming to get him and get on my knees and he turns and crawls away until I grab him. I roll around with him and say "I got you" while giving him kisses and he just laughs and laughs. He loves to be tickled on the legs and is tickled by kisses to the chest. He has such a wonderful laugh. All and all Caden is a wonderful boy. He wakes up happy in the morning and goes to bed for naps and the night without much of a fuss (most of the time). He loves to be read to by mom and loves the bath especially when he shares the bath with mom. Caden Marshall has 6 teeth at my last count which means there is probably 8 or so in there by now. We have a check up next Friday where we hope to receive more good news on his heart. Until then, thank you.

David