OK, there is a major problem in our household.  Its been getting steadily worse over the past few years, and has begun to increase exponentially just in the last few months.  It has gotten to the point where no visitors can emerge unscathed, and we aren't sure how we are managing to muddle on with daily life.  (We must have built up a tolerance while it was building up.)  The symptoms aren't pretty, and can include high pitched shrieking, euphoric wiggling, and in severe cases, it can cause the victim's brain to actually soften to the point of liquidation, often leaking out the ears to form an unpleasant puddle on the floor.  There has even been one reported death.  There is no known remedy, and frankly the area hospitals are beginning to complain that we're overloading their ERs.  The culprit:  Too.  Much.  Cute.

UPDATE:  this post was never finished.  I just found it in drafts, so I figured I'd post what was here, at least. It was meant to be a much larger post with full retrospective on Cadence's life and all the best pics.  then life happened and i didn't get to it...oops...sorry...and worse yet, then the other computer crashed. Which other computer, you ask?  Surely not the one with the newest pictures on it, the ones not backed up? >_<