http://www.maniacworld.com/frozen-in-grand-central-station.html

I thought this was really cool....check out the link above if you have a minute. It's a prank where they have 200 people freeze (in time) in the middle of Grand Central Station for 5 minutes...

Elmo....again

Like I had mentioned before, as soon as Caleb gets home he wants his Elmo and/or his sesame street tape (which we let him watch one time through before he goes and takes a bath and eats his dinner)....well, I caught him and Elmo inside one of his toy bins filled with blocks and mega legos watching his tape and just thought it was so funny. What is it about small spaces that attracts little kids?

Has anybody else noticed this Elmo pattern? Seems like Elmo shoes up in every picture! He's also got an Ernie and a Big Bird but there's something about Elmo that he just loves.

Shanghai Circus

Caleb, Kristen and I all went to the Shanghai Circus last weekend and the performers there were amazing! Caleb loved it and whenever people were clapping, he'd look around and then start excitedly clapping himself. We got to take a picture with one of the performers and Caleb had the little drum thing that we bought signed by another performer.

I am SOOOO excited that he's gotten old enough to get excited about doing stuff like this. Our next outing will probably be the Universoul circus that the walnut creek amphitheatre.

Caleb and Zachary

We went to visit Zachary last week and we can't believe how big he is! Also....he's a very very GOOD baby! He's got such a nice sweet spirit about him and he just seems as content and happy as can be....which is very probably a direct reflection on the parenting skills of Heather and Brandon.

Pretty soon, Caleb will be wearing Zachary's hand me downs!

More Pictures at the Park

Here are some more pictures of Caleb at the park.

Caleb & Elmo on the Swings

Caleb takes his Elmo everywhere we go now. The first thing he says when he gets home is "Elmo?" which I take to mean either "Where's my Elmo?" or "Why isn't my Elmo tape playing?"

We purchased this particular Elmo at the kids exchange at the State Fair grounds in January and they've been inseparable ever since.

Gung Hei Fat Choi

Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! Gung Hei Fat Choi!!! May the coming year bless us all with lots of luck, laughter, joy and prosperity.

We're going to splurge and pick up some Chinese food on the way home from work and have our little New Year's celebration at home tonight.

River

We went to the park last weekend (just Caleb and me since Daddy was at work) and we found this river that Caleb just loved to sit and stare at. I think that this may become our new favourite place to be. We're thinking of hitting it again this weekend if it's not too cold. I took LOTS of pics here but I haven't had a chance to load them yet so I'll post them at a later date..

Caleb had a ball looking at everything, playing on the huge playground but I really think that the river was his favourite part.....or maybe it was just MY favourite part.

We're working on being able to take him camping later on this year when it warms up. NC's such a beautiful place and we really haven't explored it much. Now that Caleb is older (and Daddy's had a few years to forget the army field days), they are much more amendable to camping outdoors and having a chance to get Caleb really see the stars. Neither of us camped as a family when we were young. I had Girl Guides camp for a week every year....I really think that camping would be fun as a family. So....we need what?....some sleeping bags, a tent....and a ton of bug spray right?

Toon and Team Sports

Here are some pictures taken with Uncle Toon on Caleb's birthday. Since the running joke between him and Earnest is that Earnest isn't really much of a team player when it comes to sports (preferring running and swimming over football and basketball), Toon has decided that he'll try to remedy that for Caleb.

I on the other hand also wasn't much of a team sports player although I wish I was. My sister was and look how she turned out! ;) My 'sports' of choice were ballet, ice-skating, swimming....and, during high school/college, Tae Kwon Do....Not sure that cheerleading counted much as a team sport for me but that was as close as I got. I didn't do volleyball, basketball, running (ick), soccer, field hockey or even ultimate frisbee (which I kind of liked but never fully understood what exactly was going on other than throwing the frisbee around).

Hopefully Caleb will take his cues from both us AND the Godfather (Toon) & Godmother (my sister) and have a happy combination of team sports and solitary sports. Not sure if I'm ready to do the soccer mom thing but it would be SOOOO cute to see Caleb play on a team of some kind a few years from now. We shall see.