January 14-20, 2013

I thought I had more notes about things that went on and since I'm doing this over a year later, I have very little recollection other than what my planner and these pictures remind me of! I think Allen has some stuff on his phone (my texts) that would help illuminate what went on during these couple of months . . . but he's at work and I want to just get caught up. Sorry Caleb!

He still loves to play the piano. 

Caleb stops playing, turns the page and then resumes playing. 

"Cooking" with blocks and a spatula in the "pot" that is the basket from the back of his tricycle. He loves to help me when I cook too.

Caleb helps me around the house. He really likes to help me dust.

Loves bath time!

Thanks for the cute hooded towel Grandma Sunny! He loves it!

Arbor Day was Saturday, we got a few little seedling trees to plant (never ended up planting them) and then enjoyed all of the other festivities.

I'm waiting in line for our trees while Caleb watches the show going on on-stage.

First time in a bounce house thing and he wasn't sure if he liked it. He just stood at the wall. 

Caleb liked seeing the animals in the petting zoo but wasn't sure about actually petting them.

Caleb loves helping Dad.

Building Caleb's big boy bed. We want to move him into it a few weeks before Leila comes so he doesn't feel like he's being kicked out of his crib/room. 

He likes it! We waited a couple more weeks before having him sleep in there. He just got used to going in there to read or lay down. 

Other notable things from this week include, buying a used freezer that was such a good deal, it seemed too good to be true. It was . . . Thanks Ed. so much for trying to premake meals and freeze them before having a baby.

We also took our Christmas lights down finally. We received a notice in the mail and apparently we aren't allowed to have Christmas decorations up beyond the first week in January or something like that.

Also, the weather was gorgeous this January so we went to the park almost every day and twice on some days.

January 7-13, 2013

January 7-13, 2013
Caleb got sick the last little while we were in Utah so Sunday Allen and Caleb stayed home together. Monday I had my doctor's appointment . . . everything is still looking good! Tuesday Caleb was still pretty sick and was very clingy. He wanted to be carried everywhere but he was also more cuddly.

Poor sick boy

Coloring!

It was rainy all week when we got back to Houston so we had to come up with some fun things to do inside.

My little helper likes to try to help me unload the dishwasher; everything just gets thrown on the floor though. He is pretty helpful with laundry. He will push the basket to the laundry room and load stuff into the washer and help switch it over to the dryer too!

The vacuum's a little heavy for him but he wanted to try to do it by himself.

This is his present from Aunt Amy and Uncle Blake. He loves it!

I don't have a picture of it, but he loves to throw the balls and pillows backwards over his head.

After our roadtrip back to Texas, Caleb has started crying any time we try to put him in his carseat but he loves to "drive" the car.

Saturday lunch at Wendy's

What a stud! Ready for church

New Years and the drive home

December 31 2012-January 6, 2013

New Years' Eve Allen and I thought we'd celebrate our anniversary by going out to Texas Roadhouse. It turns out that everyone wanted to celebrate with us . . . the wait was over two hours at both of them nearby and as we drove around it looked like everywhere had long lines. So, we went home to eat chicken noodle soup with the family and play games. Telestrations was probably my favorite new game.

Jenni and Mom with Amy's beautiful birthday cake

Caleb loved the little four-wheeler my parents had. He'll really love it next time we visit, when he can ride it better.

On New Years' Day Brynn came and took some family pictures, these are the only ones I took with my camera.

I forgot, when we were at the Adams' I got 7-8 inches chopped off of my hair.

30 weeks pregnant

Dancing with Grandpa

This was a couple of days before we left that I realized I had hardly taken any pictures so I started trying to take some. I didn't get any with Grandma and Grandpa Adams! We went down on Jan 2 and spent the day with them.

We left to go back to Texas early in the morning Friday, Jan 4th. The trip back was harder than on the way there. Caleb was sick and Allen and I had to start switching off driving every hour or two once we got to the night-time. Forty-five minutes from our house I had to get off at a rest stop to have Allen drive because I could not make it the rest of the way. I think I only had to pee behind one building on the way home . . . those small towns we drove through for the majority of our drive don't have any available bathrooms in the middle of the night.

Heading home

After a blow-out at Taco Bell

Back at home, eating Tootie Frooties out of his new bowl.