Past month highlights

Has it really been over a month since my last post?! Here are some things Cade has been up to:

• sang mom "Happy Birthday" minus a few words here and there of course
• spontaneously told mom "Thank you for cooking me dinner, mom." Whoa. That one blew my mind.
• has to brush teeth by himself now
• I interrupted him praying outside the other day. We were getting ready to go somewhere, and I was packing up the car. I called to him to come over to get in, but he didn't respond. I went over to him, and his eyes were closed. I touched him, and he just kinda looked at me then closed his eyes again. Then he quickly opened them back up, and I asked "were you praying?" and he said yes! I know it was a leading question, but in the moment I just sensed that was what he was doing.
• will unprompted say 'I love you' (not regularly, but happening now!)
  
• can use the touch-pad mouse on the laptop & the hand mouse on the home pc to play computer games
• is developing 'friendships' with certain boys & girls at school
• picks up Calamity like a sack of potatoes and carries her around

There's more, I'm sure, but these are the top-of-mind awareness things.