Painting Day

Here's Caleb flexing some of his artistic ability. He made quite the mess and seemed to enjoy every minute of it...

Christmas

Here are some pictures taken on Christmas with us and our Christmas gifts. My sister has become quite the domesticated seamstress and made us both reversable aprons (a back up plan in case her PhD gig starts to bore her :)) And of course, thanks to Daddy, Caleb made out like a bandit with his collection of tonka trucks, kitchen set, Doodle Pro and various other toys.

More Pictures from the Santa Brunch

Just some random pictures of us at the Santa's brunch. Here we're waiting for the line to Santa to die down so that we could get in some good pictures. Afterwards we went to through the museum of life and science and Caleb had a ball looking at everything.

Caleb's 2nd Birthday

Caleb's 2nd birthday party was Sunday and we had a sesame street theme since his new favourite friend is 'Ernie'. We kept it small with some neighbors and a handful of friends and I think it was a success. We had cake, opened presents and did a quick arts and crafts project where we had everybody put their hand print down so that Caleb can see who was all at his party later.

Ahh...this string is itchy!!!

Hey look! It's Ernie in my seat!!!

Talking to Auntie

First Santa Visit

Here's Caleb's first visit with Santa....He seemed a little confused as to why we had just put him in Santa's lap but we got a great picture out of it!

Chillin' with Daddy

Just some random pics of Caleb chillin' with Daddy on Saturday when we were at Tara's house for a cookie exchange.

I know that I keep saying this, but doesn't he look so grown up now???

Dancing Caleb

I love it when Caleb dances. It makes me smile every time....he LOVES that Alicia Keyes song. He has me playing it on repeat all night long until he goes to bed and then he cries and points to the CD player when I finally turn it off so that he can wind down.

Of course I'm biased, but he's so precious. He's getting so big now! I can't believe that he'll be turning 2 in 5 days!!!

Caleb & Dana Makes Cookies

Caleb has found a new favorite pal. Our neighbor Tara and her daughter Dana (and we can't forget her son Justin even though he's not in this pic) have become Caleb's new favorite people to hang out with. Dana loves to 'babysit' and Caleb just runs around chasing after her screaming. During breaks, Tara flexes her culinary muscles and enlists them to help bake oatmeal cookies as snacks. Caleb has a ball 'helping' mix the cookies (even after an incident with Tara's fingers getting caught in a blender) and it seems to be the highlight of his day.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

A Park!!

Our neighbor (Tara) showed us this hidden gem of a park which had a huge playground, sand area and a huge set of swings (half of them which were built to accomadate toddlers). It was Caleb's first time in a real swing and he almost couldn't contain himself! He was just as happy as he could be swinging away.

The playground also had these big and little slides. Caleb skipped over the little slides and headed straight up to the top for the big slide. He slid down without any hesitation (to my surprise) and even after doing a face plant and eating some playground dirt, he jumped right back up to go down the slide again. He certainly didn't get that fearlessness from me. That trait must have come from Daddy's side.