Kayden's first Christmas

Well, I can't believe how quickly this holiday season has come and gone. Kayden really enjoyed Christmas this year! Okay, he didn't have a clue what was going on at all. He started opening gifts on Christmas morning (with a lot of help from mom and dad) and then had to take a nap halfway through. Something tells me that this might be the last year he naps through christmas morning.

Getting closer...

Kayden has decided that life might be more fun if he gets himself to the things he wants to play with. I wouldn't call these moves crawling quite yet but I think he might be moving by Christmas. He now can put himself in the crawl position so trouble is on the horizon. Caught a little video of his current little worm dance.

And him attempting the crawl position (this video is a little long, thought I'd catch a crawl!).

Bogey's doing great!

I just wanted to let everyone know how everything went with Bogey! He went in for surgery last Friday and the Vet. was quite pleased with how things went. He ended up getting all 5 bone fragments out of his toe and was also able to save most of his toe and pad. I haven't seen it yet as it is always under wraps but Chad says it looks good, he's just missing a toe nail really. We thought it might have been infected yesterday so we got it checked out today and it was a false alarm, all is well. Phew! Now we just wait until he decides chewing the bandage is a good idea... He hates the cone on his head so that should be an adventure.

Molly and KD

Last weekend Molly and Kayden had the chance to hang out a bit. They sure are growing up fast. Despite Kayden being a month younger, he definitely caught up and passed Molly with the whole growing bit. Must be the Stager genes kicking in...

up close

And this was Molly's scrunchy face she was trying out that night.

And Molly sans scrunchy face...

Nana and Grandpa K's visit

Nana and Grandpa K came for a visit. It was short but sweet. I wasn't feeling so good and Chad hurt his neck so we must have been a joy to be around! Ahhh, we know who they really wanted to spend time with anyways...

Me and my pups

Some cute photos of the dogs and Kayden

Bogey sniffing things out.

Lorelei's favorite pillow.

Lorelei was using Elmo as a pillow.

Stager family update

It has been an eventful couple of weeks for us here at the Stager household. I hope to give you a quick idea in this little update. Some is bad, some is good, some is ugly but mostly, all of it has helped me appreciate once again, how lucky we are.

Firstly, as it is very much on my mind today, I just wanted to mention that sadly, a co-worker I knew at Canadian Pacific passed away last week at the young age of 39 years old. I was not a close friend of his but he was very close to a lot of people near and dear to my heart. He died of a heart attack on his way home one night. I felt it was important to write this so that we can all take a moment and appreciate all we've been blessed with. It saddens me that he had to leave us so suddenly. This has definitely made me stop and appreciate our life, friends and family and, it reminds me why I tell Chad and Kayden I love them both, each day.

Enough of the sad news, onto the ugly news.
Bogey broke his toe! Today he is in surgery where the veterinarian is going to amputate the toe and Bogey will just have to adapt. That means 6 weeks of healing ahead of us but luckily, I'm still at home and can take care of the poor puppy. I must say, Lorelei is loving being an only puppy today.

And the good! Ofcourse that's Kayden. He is doing great and making us smile each day. He is definitely moving out of the baby cuteness stage to the toddler cuteness. I can't believe he is 9 months old. No crawling, no walking, just a lot of sitting back and watching the world go by. He's a little too laid back to venture into crawling just yet. I'll do another post today to show you new photos.

Santa!

Kayden got to meet Santa for the very first time! Both Chad and I had our doubts that he would even let us put him on Santa's lap. He surprised us both with actually lasting a whole 5 to 7 seconds before realizing he had no idea who this was.

Who are you?

What is that shiny thing you're holding?

And then it was, wait a second where are my parents? I was going to videotape the lengthy visit (yes a whole 7 second video) but, it was quite noisy in there with all the kids so, no video of Santa.

I did get a video of Kayden opening his first gift.

This is why we nickname him Bam Bam.

He got a cute little Orange Monkey that has a little buddy he can use as a teething toy.