I want you to meet Caden....I fell head over heels in love with him a little over two years ago, simply from looking at his pictures.  His mom, Erin, and I are "cyber-friends".  We both belong to the same digital scrapbooking site and I've watched Caden grow up through Erin's beautiful pages.  One of my all-time favorite scrapbook pages is one that Erin did of Caden when he was eight months old.  In the picture, he was looking up at the camera and you could just see his personality shining through.  His eyes just sparkled with mischief and he had these adorable cheeks that I just wanted to kiss!  It made me smile (and still does) to look at that scrapbook page.  Last Monday, I got to meet Caden and Erin in real life and Caden is even more adorable and full of personality than I ever imagined.  Since these were his three-year-old portraits, we planned a fun play session.  We had a good time running through Fort Barrancas and then headed over to the National Musuem of Aviation to fly some planes.  It was a wonderful morning!  Thanks, Erin, for letting me take Caden's pictures and I'm so glad I finally got to meet you!

Here are the sneak peeks:




This one makes me giggle!  Erin left to go grab a bottle of water (yes, it was almost 90 degrees at 9:00 a.m. in mid-October) and Caden and I were just talking.  He was a little nervous about his mommy leaving him with the strange lady with the camera, so I started asking him about Dora.    In this picture, he was showing me "Swiper, no swiping!"  (I think it looks a little like he's saying the Pledge of Allegiance!)








and oh my goodnes....will you look at these eyelashes? 



and here's Caden, down in the halls of the fort, listening for his echo....