Curious Caden

It's been a busy fall around our house and lately I've been up to a little mischief of my own. Last week I jammed something in one of the empty phone jacks and put our phone lines out for a while. This week, I thought I'd check out the red lever by the water heater. Turns out it shuts the gas line off to the water heater and puts the pilot light out (my mom's a good plumber and fixed it). My mom blames me; I say there's a munchkin in our house.

Weekend at the farm

This weekend when dad was in Colorado springs, mom and I headed up north to the farm; and I got to see both Grandmas & Grandpas - I had lots and lots of fun. It was harvest time, so I got to see lots of tractors, trucks and the combine in action. I really liked to look at them and would walk up close, but I wasn't quite ready to take a ride in them - they were a bit too scary. (Grandpa called me a city slicker) Grandma and I went out to the field to pick some corn so I can feed and watch the squirrels out my window at home.


Uncle George and I made good supervisors as grandpa filled the grain bin.

Tuesday we got to go to my Aunt Dori & Uncle ken's organic dairy farm to see a real farm with real animals. I liked the baby calves a lot! We were even able to get some tasty cheese and play on the new fun playground at their farm! (Mom says thanks for the extra's in the bag aunt dori!)

Practicing for baby brother

Dad was teaching me how to make silly faces one night.


Practicing my peek-a-boo technique. I plan on being a very helpful big brother!

Trunk or treat

This Halloween instead of a big carnival, our church hosted Trunk-or-Treat. People in the church decked out their cars (and tractors) and we got to go "treat-treat" from one car to another. Mom and dad were in charge of it, so they didn't get any pictures of my outfit and they also forgot to feed me supper that night! After all of my tears and drama, they finally figured it out and fed me. Thank goodness! Mom says she'll still take a picture of me in my costume with my monster bucket for all of you. But here's a few pics of the fun we had.

good times

I love to play basketball with dad.

Uncle John gave me these japanese animal matching cards last year. I'm starting to get really good at matching.

sometimes the silly japanese pictures throw me for a loop.

Working on a successful alligator match-up.

Baking round 2

Baking round 2; only this time even more messy!


Mom worked late one night, so dad and I ordered pizza in. When the pizza man came and opened the bag, the smell of pizza filled the air. I raced from the living room to the entry and yelled...mmmm..DELICIOUS!

christmas at folkestad's

After supper dad thought some cookies sounded good, he was supposed to make them, but somehow mom and I ended up making cookies. We made PB chocolate kiss cookies...which for some reason only seem to show up at christmas, but we made them anyway.

It was my job to roll the dough in the sugar and put them on the cookie sheet.

They didn't always end up very round...and some had lots of sugar and some had none.

Rolling dough just like mom. I got really good at making snakes out of my dough. Mom wasn't quite as into my idea of snake cookies as I was. All said and done, they were tasty cookies: I had two after my bath tonight!