Visit with Kellie

Here's our visit with Kellie. During our visit up to DC we got a chance to hang out with Kellie who was in VA for training. It was great to see a Vancouverite and a familiar face after all these years 'down south'.

DC

Here we are in DC on our quick sighseeing tour with a crash course on American history given by Nicki. We were up there to visit Nicki's brother and his wife and their newest addition, Wyatt Liem.

Hugs from Gabi

One day we'll look back and see the beginnings of toddler romance. Gabi was giving Caleb a hug and looking so sly while doing so.

Caleb Talking....Le Ho Mah?

Caleb Talking...I'm so excited that he's starting to really talk! From what I see, there's a lot of learning done from the ages of 2 and 3 in regards to speaking and language development.

My big boy here loves to climb right into the front seat and make himself comfortable even though I tell him that we can't go anywhere until he gets out, gets into his carseat and buckles in. I couldn't resist a picture so that I can show him on the day he goes into take his drivers permit test. :)

Before and After

My before and after pics of my haircut.

Mommy's Hair Cut

I finally got my hair cut....it was long over due...

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.

Too Cool to be (Almost) Two

Here Caleb looks just too cool to be (almost) two.

Last night he woke up around 2:30am and kept pointing towards the downstairs. When asked what he wanted, he sleepily cried..."sandwich!"...I'm a little fuzzy about what happened after that exactly since I rolled over and promptly fell back asleep since I was sure I wasn't going downstairs to give this hungry toddler a sandwich in the middle of the night.

When I woke up at 5:30, he was alseep on his own toddler mattress and Daddy was passed out next to him on the single mattress. (Both of which are on the floor since we haven't managed to get a bed in Caleb's bedroom yet ever since we diassembled the crib.) Perhaps this is a precurser of Caleb wanting to sleep in his own bed? I think that when that day comes, I'll be very sad to lose that wiggly, arm throwing, leg kicking, but extremely cuddly sleep buddy...