Author Archives: Samantha
🙁
Cadence told me she’s embarrassed to be wearing toddler shoes. I told her she doesn’t have to tell people but she said she tells everyone.
She also told me people don’t like to play with her. She asks everyone & they say no. 🙁🙁🙁
Another good Cadence quote.
Adam doesn’t believe Cadence when she complains of her maladies. She was asking me if I believe her and she goes, “he doesn’t know my body.” I asked her where she heard that and she said she made it up.
Blakey @ 8 months
Blakey can crawl & stand up. He understands kisses and gives me slobbery, long ones with tongue. Bleh. He’s very curious and independent; he’ll crawl around the first floor unaccompanied. He likes pens and markers.
Sounding out
Wow, can’t believe cadences progress in reading and writing. She mostly knew her letters and numbers before school started and is now able to write them. She still gets confused on a couple of letters and numbers but knows them well, for the most part.
Here is a sentence she said she sounded out! On grandma, she said Lesley taught her how to spell family names.

Blakey crawling
Blake has been able to crawl across the living room and now goes from room to room unaccompanied. I think Cadence would stick to where we were but Blake is into exploring. He’d even rather play than have me hold him.
So far, he kind of hobbles on one leg and doesn’t get on both knees to crawl. He’s already quite fast. Blake crawling
Blakey 7 months
He’s definitely scooting! He hasn’t quite figured out how to use his legs but can move pretty fast. He loves cadence’s bins and can be found digging through them.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Vm8AyVXUTwBhHc6I2
He likes carbs (potatoes, breads), eggs, avocados, smoothies/yogurts. He eats and enjoys more people food than Cadence did & is less obsessed with breast milk.
He loves kisses (sometimes lays a slobbery one on me), playing with bags and paper. Started drinking water and enjoys it out of a deli container.
Waste of my time

So proud of my girl
Cadence is such a sweet girl. She has great empathy and always looks out for other people. She’s creative. San got her writing stories and she’s really taken to that. her art skills have grown immensely. She’s an inventor. Nicole and I were talking about how Matt is a vampire and Cadence decided that Nicole should do a lie detector test. And she created one for San. She used her colon pillow to make sure she was comfortable and could tell the truth.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FkEXinlycp5IBRSi2
Blake – 6 months
Blake is pretty good at sitting up, lunging for toys, and talking nowadays. He loves kisses (neck ones make him laugh) and his sister. His lower tooth is starting to emerge.
Doc says all is good and he should try more food. Blake and Cadence were pretty much the same size!
While Cadence was more even tempered and would be happy being held, sleep anywhere, Blake is more extreme (has a mercurial disposition: very happy to very sad). He’s more physical (always grabbing at things and lunging).
| date | checkup | weight (lbs) | height (inches) | head (inches) |
| Monday, August 14, 2017 | birth | 5.93 | 19.1 | 13.4 |
| Sunday, September 3, 2017 | day after release from hospital | 7.43 | 19 | 13.4 |
| Monday, September 11, 2017 | 1 month | 8.29 | 20.5 | 14 |
| Tuesday, October 10, 2017 | 2 months | 11.52 | 22 | 15 |
| Friday, December 15, 2017 | 4 months | 16.83 | 25.5 | 16.1 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2018 | 6 months | 19.83 | 27.25 | 17.3 |