My Little Fireman

After that Santa picture, I figured I'd better show the "real" Caleb! :-)




 

Trip to See Santa

We took Caleb to see Santa yesterday. It went something like this:
















After waiting in line for 45 minutes, Caleb was exhausted (actually I waited in line and Justin walked Caleb around the mall to keep him occupied). Santa wasn't the jolliest fellow I've ever met, and Caleb was not excited about sitting in a stranger's lap. Oh well, maybe next year.

File under: Why do we do this to ourselves?

Organizing, again

This is what Caleb was doing while I was preparing my "Christmas Tour of Homes" post.



Hubby said, "Now if we can just get him to sort by color." :-)

New list of words

Caleb goes for his 15-month check-up next Tuesday, and the doctor always asks me which words he can say. I have to write them down to remember.

A continued list of Caleb's words (ones we can understand, at least!)...

Momma. Daddy. doggie. Maggie.
Nana. Grandma (Gako). Poppa.
ball. Scott (cotty). Cheese. bowl.
Kiki. Kurt. Mimi. Josh (joch). Brush (buch).
baby. sock (sot). banana (nana). Mollie. more (mo-a).
please (pees). diaper (bipuh). cookie.

Caleb can sign...

thank you. ball. water.
milk. eat. car. hat.
baby. please.

Update on Caleb

Caleb's been pretty sick the last week. He had a virus, which turned into an ear infection. He's on meds now and is doing much better, and actually slept all the way through the night last night (yay!!). I had to wake him up at 8:45 this morning!

I went to Beth Moore's product office today to pick up some CDs for a Christmas gift and on the way in, Caleb and I passed a dentist's office in the same building. As we went by he said, "Kiki?" I looked in and the girl sitting in the waiting room did indeed look like his Aunt Kiki, blonde, curly hair and all. Luckily he didn't get too upset when I said that wasn't her and we went on our way! She was still there when we left and he noticed her again. He's started recognizing people in pictures around the house. It's pretty amazing. He even recognized his Uncle Scott from a high school picture. I tell you, that kid is smart! (And, no, I'm not biased. hehehe.)

Every time I get on the phone, Caleb says, "Poppa?" I'm not sure why he associates the phone with my dad (maybe because Dad's on the phone a lot!), so we've called him a couple of times this week so Caleb could talk to his Poppa. After a few seconds, Caleb has had enough, but Dad loves talking to his "Little Man." :-)

If you haven't heard, my sister fell down the stairs yesterday (while 31 weeks pregnant). No, she didn't call to tell me (*ahem*), but I talked to her last night and this morning. She and Ava are doing fine, but she's pretty sore today. You can read about her little escapade here. Maybe she'll call me when she goes into labor and maybe I'll hear about it after the fact from my mom. :-) Just teasing, sis. (I HOPE!!!)

Hat Photos

Here are some gratuitous Caleb photos. He's doing great! His vocabulary is really coming along...he can say just about all the names in our family (in his own way!), and learned 3 new words while Justin and I were on vacation (baby, please, and clock).

His Aunt Kiki was a little upset that he started calling her "Kooki" over the weekend. He's back to saying Kiki, sis! :-)

Since we returned, he was calling Justin "Mama" and now he's calling him "Poppa." He'll get straightened out one of these days