He Can Count

Caleb can (sort of) count from 1 to 9...he skips from 2 to 5. :-) And sometimes when I ask him what comes after 6, he says, "green." Oh, well...not bad for 21 months old.

And just about the cutest thing Caleb says goes like this:

Caleb: want fruit nack
Me: You want a fruit snack?
Caleb: "ohhhhkaaaay," (like you were the one who brought it up in the first place!)

He usually says "please" and "thank you, mommy" but does have to be prompted most of the time.

He's a sweetie, for sure!

And, if you usually read this blog before my other one, I posted some pictures from our recent trip to San Antonio over there.

Look, An Update!

Caleb and I had our second mommy and me swim class today. Last week, he screamed his head off the ENTIRE time, but today it was only about 75% of the time. It's an improvement! I also found out why they instituted a double diaper policy (one disposable swim diaper under a reusable swim diaper) so the water is not contaminated by little baby poop.

Caleb's vocabulary is booming lately. He talks NON-STOP. Apparently he takes after his mother because my sister would be asleep before we even left the driveway and I would stay awake no matter how far away our destination and talk they WHOLE time. *sigh* We had to go to BabiesRUS earlier, and our drive there (about 20 minutes) went something like this:

Caleb: Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy!
Me: What, Caleb?
Caleb: Balloon!
Me: You see a balloon?
Caleb: Right there.
Me: Okay

Caleb: Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.
Me: Yes, Caleb?
Caleb: choo choo train
Me: You see a choo choo train?
Caleb: Right there.
Me: Okay.
Caleb: Hold the choo choo train?
Me: No, you can't hold the choo choo train.

Caleb: Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.Mommy.
Me: (growing tired of hearing the word Mommy) what, Caleb?
Caleb: chuck! (translation: truck)
Me: You see the truck right there.
Caleb: Okay.
Caleb: Heavy truck.
Me: Yes, the truck is very heavy.
Caleb: Hold the truck?
Me: No, you can't hold the truck.

Caleb: Mommy.
Me: Yes, Caleb?
Caleb: Daddy home soon?
Me: (thinking, "Oh, I wish!") No, honey, Daddy's at work.
Caleb: Daddy at work. Mommy at work.
Me: Yes, Mommy's at work, too.
Caleb: Caleb at work.
Me: Okay. Caleb's at work, too.

And on and on and on. :-)

Yesterday, my sister called and told me she was on her way to get a pedicure and manicure before their vacation next week because Kurt was home watching Ava. It was 4:00 in the afternoon! I resisted telling her how envious I was because I wasn't expecting my husband home until 8:30 last night because of a teleconference with Singapore. These are the days I wish Justin was in sales because he is NEVER home at 4 in the afternoon unless he's sick. Oh, wait. He doesn't get sick. :-) Sis, you don't know how good you've got it!!

Tuesday Night Fever

Last night before I went to bed, I went in to check on Caleb. This is what I found:

In order for his shirt to actually do that, he had to have completely taken it off and tried to put it back on. Obviously, he missed the arm holes. We couldn't stop laughing and decided this definitely warranted a picture. I'm thinking graduation/wedding slide show. :-)

And here are some more pictures to make you all happy (i.e. my Mom).

Here's Poppa and Ava at our house a few weeks ago:


Poppa trying to wrangle Caleb into taking a picture, not so successfully!


Caleb wanting the camera. While I'm typing this he's saying, "Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Hold this?" Which is probably exactly what he's saying in this picture:


And while we're on the subject of me actually updating this blog...I'm not sure I'm going to continue this one. It's hard enough trying to keep up with two blogs with one child to run after. Once the baby gets here, I'll have my hands full and I'll be lucky to even update my primary blog. And, yes, Mom, if I discontinue this one I'll still put pictures of Caleb and the baby on my other blog. Now stop calling to ask when the Easter pictures are going away! ;-)