Tuesday, May 18, 2010
mormor and morfar's visit
Recently, my parents came to spend about a week and a half with us. It had been way too long since we saw them and it was a great opportunity for them to see our new house and spend lots of time with their grandson. We didn't plan too many exciting outings since they primarily wanted to play with Caleb and help us get settled in our new home. But here are a few things we did fit in:
Caleb's first haircut in a salon (instead of at home or at a friend's house):
A trip to Boulder
Several trips to the nearby playground
A morning on the golf course
Lots of fun playing with the basketball hoop MorMor and MorFar bought for Caleb:
A Mother's Day brunch with both of Caleb's grandmothers
And a hike at the nearby state park with Jason's family
It was great seeing them and so nice for Caleb to get to spend some quality time with his MorMor and MorFar. For more photos feel free to check out this photo album.
Caleb's first haircut in a salon (instead of at home or at a friend's house):
A trip to Boulder
Several trips to the nearby playground
A morning on the golf course
Lots of fun playing with the basketball hoop MorMor and MorFar bought for Caleb:
A Mother's Day brunch with both of Caleb's grandmothers
And a hike at the nearby state park with Jason's family
It was great seeing them and so nice for Caleb to get to spend some quality time with his MorMor and MorFar. For more photos feel free to check out this photo album.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
caleb these days
Lately I've been thinking about how much Caleb has changed in the past few months and how little I've blogged about him. I've been so caught up in the move and now in making our new house "home" that I just haven't taken the time to blog. Back in January, I began a post entitled "chatterbox" that I never finished. Here's how it started:
"Caleb's vocabulary seems to be exploding these days. Lately he'll just try to repeat whatever random things we say. I think my favorite thing he says though is "tee too" (translation: thank you)."
That was the beginning of January when he was 17 months old. He's now almost 22 months old and talks like crazy. He still says "tee too" for thank you most of the time though and it's still my favorite thing he says. But he can say much more than that now. He can also put together sentences. And even if he doesn't know all the words in a sentence, he seems to realize that he's supposed to speak in complete sentences and babbles the parts he doesn't know while interspersing the words he does. It can be pretty funny sometimes.
In the midst of all of that, I have learned that it's important to be careful about the words I choose. One day a while back, Caleb and I were coloring. He grabbed a crayon out of my hand and I said, "Hey, I need that!" Ever since then, what has he said? "I need the...." "I need it!" This morning I was laying in bed listening to him babble because he woke up way too early and I refused to get him up that early. At one point he was saying over and over, "I need the tennis ball!"
Not only is he a chatterbox, but he also likes numbers and letters. When he was around 18 months old, we were staying with Jason's parents for a few days and one day I was sitting at the dining room table while Caleb was eating lunch. The grandfather clock began to chime and Caleb started counting with it. I looked at Jason's dad and said, "Those actually sounded like the numbers!" His dad said, "Yep," as though it wasn't a big deal (he'd been counting the chimes with Caleb prior to that). When Jason got home from work that day and Caleb was taking his bath, I asked him if he wanted to show Dada how he could count. He proceeded to count to 10 with me. Now he's gotten better at 1-10 and is even nearing 20. He isn't quite there with the alphabet, but he's getting pretty close!
He's not all nerd though. :-) He still loves balls like crazy and gets more excited about balls than anything else. Food, however, is probably a close second. He has slowly gained quite the collection of balls during the second year of his life. And recently, his MorMor and MorFar bought him a basketball hoop! More on that in a future post.
He loves to read books as well and often surprises me with how much of his books he knows by heart. He knows a few songs by heart too and likes to sing and be sung to. Some of his favorites are "Up Above" (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), "Itsy" (The Itsy Bitsy Spider), and "Bible Song" (Jesus Loves Me).
He is definitely a character. He likes to show off and usually wants to be the center of attention. On days like today, he'll have me about to completely lose my mind one minute and then the next he'll be singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" into a bucket in the back seat of the car and I can't help but smile at how cute he is. It's amazing how frustrated I can get with him at times and then how much my heart overflows with love for him just a moment later. I guess that's what being a parent is all about...
"Caleb's vocabulary seems to be exploding these days. Lately he'll just try to repeat whatever random things we say. I think my favorite thing he says though is "tee too" (translation: thank you)."
That was the beginning of January when he was 17 months old. He's now almost 22 months old and talks like crazy. He still says "tee too" for thank you most of the time though and it's still my favorite thing he says. But he can say much more than that now. He can also put together sentences. And even if he doesn't know all the words in a sentence, he seems to realize that he's supposed to speak in complete sentences and babbles the parts he doesn't know while interspersing the words he does. It can be pretty funny sometimes.
In the midst of all of that, I have learned that it's important to be careful about the words I choose. One day a while back, Caleb and I were coloring. He grabbed a crayon out of my hand and I said, "Hey, I need that!" Ever since then, what has he said? "I need the...." "I need it!" This morning I was laying in bed listening to him babble because he woke up way too early and I refused to get him up that early. At one point he was saying over and over, "I need the tennis ball!"
Not only is he a chatterbox, but he also likes numbers and letters. When he was around 18 months old, we were staying with Jason's parents for a few days and one day I was sitting at the dining room table while Caleb was eating lunch. The grandfather clock began to chime and Caleb started counting with it. I looked at Jason's dad and said, "Those actually sounded like the numbers!" His dad said, "Yep," as though it wasn't a big deal (he'd been counting the chimes with Caleb prior to that). When Jason got home from work that day and Caleb was taking his bath, I asked him if he wanted to show Dada how he could count. He proceeded to count to 10 with me. Now he's gotten better at 1-10 and is even nearing 20. He isn't quite there with the alphabet, but he's getting pretty close!
He's not all nerd though. :-) He still loves balls like crazy and gets more excited about balls than anything else. Food, however, is probably a close second. He has slowly gained quite the collection of balls during the second year of his life. And recently, his MorMor and MorFar bought him a basketball hoop! More on that in a future post.
He loves to read books as well and often surprises me with how much of his books he knows by heart. He knows a few songs by heart too and likes to sing and be sung to. Some of his favorites are "Up Above" (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), "Itsy" (The Itsy Bitsy Spider), and "Bible Song" (Jesus Loves Me).
He is definitely a character. He likes to show off and usually wants to be the center of attention. On days like today, he'll have me about to completely lose my mind one minute and then the next he'll be singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" into a bucket in the back seat of the car and I can't help but smile at how cute he is. It's amazing how frustrated I can get with him at times and then how much my heart overflows with love for him just a moment later. I guess that's what being a parent is all about...
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