February 4-10, 2013 16 Months and 35 Weeks

Monday I had another doctor's visit for 35 weeks and everything looks/sounds good. Caleb is a great sport about coming with me and being patient. He likes the fish in the waiting room and when he gets to watch Baby Einstein when the doctor comes in.

Tuesday Caleb and I went to a baby shower when he was supposed to be taking a nap. He was tired and not wanting to be there and when he did go play with the other kids without me (I'm trying to let him play a little more on his own), he got knocked over and hit his head hard. Poor baby was sobbing, so we left early and let him nap.

On cold or wet mornings we play in the car and Caleb puts the sun visor up and down, turns on the hazards, pushes all the buttons in the dash, turns music up really loud and sometimes honks the horn. We get out if he honks more than once.

Still attached to his binky and I won't try to break him of it until sometime after the baby comes.

My mom sent an exciting package: Leila's quilt! Thanks Grammy!

It's amazing! And now I have extra fabric to do even more projects with!

He loves going high in the swing and is usually content to be pushed in the swing or run laps around the park and rarely plays on the slides and other equipment.

I think we went to Pei Wei to celebrate Chinese New Year. 

Caleb loves the iPod touch

He asks for more toothpaste a lot. He brushes the mirror in addition to his teeth.

If I start eating an apple while we walk to the park when Caleb sees it he wants to gnaw on it. He will eventually eat almost the whole apple and swing contentedly for half an hour as he does so.

 Caleb loves looking for airplanes and has great ears; he usually hears them before me and finds them first sometimes too.

Combing his own hair

Caleb is now 16 months!

January 28-February 3, 2013

Based on the lack of pictures and the notes in my planner, it looks like this week was full of running errands and stuff: returning Comcast modem, Joann's for nesting-type projects I'm sure, delivering miss you cards to kids we haven't seen at Primary for a while, grocery shopping, delivering banana bread to people, cleaning the church on Saturday, preparing sharing time lesson for Sunday, cleaning bathrooms, and more fun like that.

Thursday we visited Dad for lunch! I think it was just for Allen to show off Caleb in all his cuteness before we have another baby, making it harder to go downtown to visit. And Thursday night my sister Lizzi got her mission call. She opened it with us over Skype while in the Jerusalem Center. She is going to Taiwan Taipei in June!

Caleb this week started imitating me by sticking his belly out when he walked. He even started pushing his trike up and down the street using his belly instead of his hands. He also started petting dogs for the first time instead of running away.

He loves when we dump the bucket of blocks on him.

We ran in to Cathryn and Luke at the park and Luke wanted to sit on Allen's lap too. 

He just loves playing in the car...

...and in the dirt.

Yum! Nothing like a little dirt :)

What a good helper!

 Our neighbor bought this car for their granddaughter who stays with them on the weekends. Caleb loved driving it so they let us borrow it.

We drop Dad off at carpool or the bus at 6 am every morning so when we get home it is Caleb's turn to drive.

Whenever I get in to drive the car I have to turn off the windshield wipers, turn down the music and turn off the hazard lights/blinker. 

This boy loves Ranch dressing!

January 21-27, 2013

I am 33 weeks along with Leila. Caleb and I go on walks to the park daily and are enjoying the beautiful weather. I nap when he does sometimes but am also working on making sheets for Leila's crib. I had an ultrasound at my doctor's appointment to check the fluid levels and everything looked great. It wasn't one of the fancy machines so I couldn't see Leila as well as I had hoped. (Talk about being spoiled by technology!)

On Saturday I helped throw a baby shower for my friend Marci. Caleb helped me make the sugar cookies for it. He liked the dough and frosting but not the actual cookies.

 

Dancing with Dad

 Saturday night Caleb slept in the big boy bed for the first time and did great! He stayed in it all night and just yelled when he woke up and was ready to get out.

I finished one of Leila's sheets. Now that Caleb's out of the room, time to start decorating it for her!

We watch Luke sometimes while his mom teaches harp. These boys are best buds and it's cute to see them play together!