Caden Loves His Car

In my previous post, Caden mentioned wanting a ride on "Lightning." Well, Lightning is Caden's favorite toy. It is a hand-me-down car based on the movie Cars. Caden LOVES it! He honks the horn to play music, steers, and pushes buttons to make sounds. By far his favorite thing to do with the car is go on rides. Caroline also enjoys the car and rides but she prefers chasing Caden around while he cruises the house.
Every day, Amy and I push Caden all around the house. A couple weeks ago, Caden even roped Grandpa into giving him rides. Caden loves every second of his time with his car!

Notice in the video how Caden knows to hold his feet up so they don't touch the wheels or trip him up as we roll around. This allows daddy to push Caden much faster than mommy thinks is safe. Caroline has not mastered holding her feet up. We push her around much more slowly as she sticks her feet under the moving wheels.

While Amy and I love making Caden so happy, we wish there was a way to do so that was easier on our backs. It gets hard bending over enough to push the car around. We just can't push Caden as much as he would like. It has gotten to the point that we hide the car from Caden by keeping it in another room. Otherwise, if Caden sees the car, the only thing he will want to do is ride around.

I love how proud Caden looks when he is on top of his car. Even if he was in a horrible mood seconds earlier, getting on the car cheers him up immediately.
Maybe we'll let this toy stay out full time when Caden learns how to push himself or can convince Caroline to do so. :)