Caleb and the Pumpkin

There once was a boy named Caleb. Caleb loved look at his pumpkin...especially when it's all lit up with candles on the inside and smells of cinnaman and nutmeg.

Mommy Dressed Up Too!!

What's extra fun about Halloween? Now that we have Caleb, I now have an excuse to dress up for Hallween too! We dressed up and opened the door for trick or treaters. The most popular costumes of choice seemed to be super heros this year. We saw a couple supermans, spider mans...even a Captain America.

And!!! I got a really good picture of Caleb's first two teeth!! He's such a ham...

Caleb's First NC State Fair

Isn't it crazy to think that this time last year, Jay & I were at the state fair while I was 7 1/2 months pregnant? I was still working in NYC and I had flown specifically to eat at the NC State Fair.

This year we got to give Caleb his first state fair experience. We had bought ride tickets but by the time we ate and walked around to find the kiddie rides, he was fast asleep. There's a picture of him holding a big green straw and that was the biggest hit of the day. He held that straw pretty much the whole time we were there until he fell asleep.

He had his first taste of: smoked turkey legs, grilled corn on the cobb and cinnamon sugar funnel cake. We're pretty sure that the best part of the fair for Caleb was the eating. That boy LOVES to eat.

We did manage to go on one ride.....we rode the merry-go-round but he started getting a very concerned look on his face when the ride started moving. Alas, I did manage to pawn our many extra tickets to my boss for an extra discounted price.

This year we did not eat the fried candy bars.....but we did see a vender that sold deep fried apple pie and other unusual fried items.....last year, the deep fried candy bars and deep fried oreos were a big culinary eye opener to a Canadian like me.

Look Ma! All Grown Up!

Doesn't Caleb look like such a little man in this picture? You can't tell, but he's got two little teeth on the bottom and his hair is starting to curl up.

He's got the sweetest face. He's now able to indicate to us what he wants without having to cry. He grunts and somehow gets his point across. Florice (at Daycare) says that he's been the best baby all last week! He doesn't cry and he's into doing his own thing. He likes to push toy cars along the ground and he crawls all over the room with it. And sometimes, he isn't even using a toy car.....if it looks like it can be pushed around, he pushes it.....so there are many times we catch him 'driving' the remote control, cell phone, shoes.....it's funny.

He's also started to giggle at us for no apparent reason. There are moments where we'll be doing chores or doing something really boring like watching TV and he'll start cracking up like we're hilarious. It in turn makes us laugh and that makes him laugh so it's pretty funny cycle.

He doesn't seem to weigh much more (since I've only got a cheap bathroom scale and I can't really tell until he's gained over a pound) but he's changing everyday.

And his new favourite food.....is.......Cheerios! He loves that stuff. He could sit in his high chair and eat for an hour if we let him. I normally try to sneak in some apple sauce or someother canned baby food in there when he's not looking. He's also getting really good at eating table food. Yesterday, he had waffles with some pan fried bologna and he gobbled it up.

Caleb as a lil' ol' Cow...

Check out the link below for bigger pictures of Caleb in his cow costume for Halloween....since his Godfather was complaining that he didn't see any pictures of his lil' cow on the blog....

We figure that Mommy gets 2 years of halloween costume choices until he gets old enough to decide for himself what he wants to be. This may be cruel and unusual punishment....but it could have been worse....the costume could have had udders!

I'm arming myself with ammo so that I'll have full munitions against his teenage angst.

Isn't he ADORABLE????!!!!


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Caleb & Gabriela

Isn't this sweet? This is Caleb and Gabriela at Gavin's 3rd birthday party....I caught them feeding each other in a quiet tucked away corner in Nicki & Luis' house.

Things will hopefully slow down now that it's past the October 15th deadline.....which hopefully will translate into more posts!

Kitsilano Blue Demons....10 year reunion....(already!)

There's nothing like a high school reunion to remind you of all the akward years of growing up. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the Kitsilano Grad '96 10 year high school reunion (Go Blue Demons!).....I would have really liked to see everybody and relive high school if only for one night.

Just reading the guest list brings back so many memories. There really isn't another period in your life where you have so many memories than those years where you're trying to figure everything out. Or maybe, it's only me. Maybe everybody else had everything figured out all along? Geez. Then I must have really stood out as the geeky awkward one. I sure did feel like one. I don't ever remember feeling as self-concious as I did when I was in Kits. It's also funny how there are different moments that flash into my memory about different people. I'll spare you all the details but there are certainly moments in high school that I dwell on for reasons unknown even to myself.

It's funny how we're now supposedly grown up but I really do feel like the same person I was when I was 16...we just now have more responsibilities. Mortgage, job, husband, kid....

What would you have done differently if you were to relive your high school years all over again?

Until October 15th is Done...

For all those who aren't in the tax world...it's busy season for us until October 15th so here's a quick blog and then I'm back to work...

The doctors still say that he's slightly underweight but we're resigning ourselves to know that he's never going to be a chubster....

Introducing...BRONWYN ELISE ADAMS

Here's the newest addition to the Sennet cousins...Bronwyn Elise Adams...

She was born on 9/14/06 at 9:19am by C-Section. She was 3lbs 15 ozs.

I'm sure that Eric and Kelly are so happily tired. Contragulations again!! We can't wait to meet her!

Look At That Face!!!

Look At These Beautiful Pictures Michelle Took...

Look at our Sweetie Pie...

Look at our sweetie pie.... his hair is just starting to curl a little and he still has a pretty big bald spot on the back of his head.

He's learning how to get what he wants and to get where he wants to go. At times you can actually see him trying to figure things out.

He's still going through a little separating anxiety and our daycare is working with him to get him through this tough phase.

Oh! And he got his first tooth yesterday!!! There'll be two teeth on the bottom soon (right now, the top of one has just broken through).

Since he can crawl to where he wants to go and pull himself up onto things, he's now starting to get into so many things and there will be little messes wherever he goes. He loves to rip up magazines and paper...and when he finds anything plastic he loves to carry it around with him wherever he goes.

And lastly,.....Congratulations to Eric & Kelly....they have a brand new baby girl born today....Bronlyn Elise (we're sorry if we've misspelled it!!)...details to follow...

The Starkey Family

The Starkey family will soon be welcoming a brand new baby girl into their lives...check out their new blog!

Auntie Michelle's Visit

This weekend was Auntie Michelle's weekend...we went shopping and shopping and then more shopping...one of our Caleb approved purchases was this walker which he LOVES. He hasn't used it for actual walking yet but he's pushed/crawled it around the living room. He seems to love the sounds and just playing with the steering wheel for many minutes at a time.

Caleb is going to be soooo sad when Auntie leaves tomorrow but they've had some good bonding time together. Auntie watched him all day today while I was at work and she flies out tomorrow morning back to good ol' Vancouver.

Auntie Michelle is coming to Visit!!!

I've been so busy with other things that I don't have a recent photo to publish. This one is from about 3 weeks ago. Isn't he sweet?

Auntie Michelle is coming to visit in 2 more sleeps! I'm soooo excited to see ma soeur!! Elle arrive le jeudi!!

Caleb is going to get his "Auntie Spoiled Me!" weekend and my sister will just eat him up. I'll have to get her to post a blog here during her visit.

Hopefully Hurricane Ernesto (tropical storm now?) won't affect her flight.

Doctor says that it's Separation Anxiety

We went to the doctors on Saturday because Caleb was still congested and I told her about Caleb's 'episodes' at daycare. She reassured me that this is normal and that it's the start of "Separation Anxiety" which varies from baby to baby.

She told me that it's a phase that will pass (although it may last a couple of months). I asked her why the other babies there aren't going through the same thing and she joked that Caleb may be smarter than them in this regard since he's starting to realize what's going on and who's who. Upon further reading onto this subject in my many reference books about babies & parenting, it says that this phase can start around 7-8 months although the majority of babies go through this at 12 months. Some babies are lucky enough to not go through this at all. I asked the Doctor how long this could last, and she laughed and said 'up to a couple of months'....in the meantime, she agreeing with the advice of my co-worker, Kathy....since I can't do anything about it, I should just stop calling daycare during the day since it stresses me out....:)

I also asked whether this could be a result of me spoiling him with too much attention in the evenings & weekends and she said "No". Besides, we are parents and we're supposed to shower our babies with attention when we're with them.

I also asked whether I could do anything to help this transition in any way and she said that there are many lessons during a baby's development where they need to learn how to deal with things on their own and this is one of them. We can't help them learn for them.

I'm starting to understand how hard it was on my parents when I was young....

How Could Our Sweetie Pie Be Bad??

How could this sweetie pie be bad at daycare? This week, he's won the 'bad baby award' which translates into him being the most fussy baby at daycare. (There's only 3 babies there so it's not hard to win this award) :)

When I'm there, he's fine. When we're home, he's fine. But while we're at work, he morphs into this demanding baby that doesn't want to play and when Florice is feeding one of the other babies, he crawls over there, pull himself up onto her knees and stands there whimpering until it's his turn.

He was doing so well for the past few weeks! Now he's regressed to his little ol' demanding self.

Hopefully, this is just a phase and maybe it's attributable to him being a little congested and possibly teething. When I call in to check and when I pick him up I feel like I'm waiting to get a bad report card. What are we doing wrong at home?

Well, it's only been this week so far....anybody have any ideas?

The Godfather Visits....

This weekend, we had a visit from Caleb's Godfather 'Toon'. He's one of Jay's oldest friends from back in the Army days and even though we don't see him often, Jay has the best time when he hangs out with Toon and his wife Heather.

Now, if only my sister Michelle were here so that Godmother and Godfather could actually meet....

Hello??? Anybody There??

Hello??? Anybody there??

Caleb has a New Toy...Thanks to Nicki & Luis

Nicki and Luis were so kind to let Caleb have this toy that Gavin used to play with. Lucky for Caleb, Gabriela isn't as interested in this toy as he is so Nicki just let Caleb take it home with us.

He plays with it constantly now and it says "hello" in English, French, Spanish and Japanese.