"Dada Pay Animals?"

So one of Cade and Dada's things they do together and Cade's favorite past time (other than crunching leaves) is playing animals. Cade has quite a collection of stuffed animal friends, which are kept in his little reading area on the floor of his room.  It is a giant pile. He loves every one of them, making it very hard to down-size the collection. Somehow we keep acquiring more animals all the time!

Dada started this "game" I guess you could call it, where he and Cade go lay down with all the animals and cover up with blankets and get "all cozers" and read books. The favorite book is No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and Cade can now recite most of it. They throw the animals in the air and laugh, Dada makes the baby doll do the "poop dance" and they giggle together. It is so sweet to see them have something of their own that does not involve me. Every once in a while if Chris is not home, Cade will ask me to play animals with him, but I don't think I cut it. He always gives up and moves on to something new very quickly. He just needs Dada and I love hearing my boys "payin' animals tooogeder".