There is no need for us to buy Caleb toys; he is happier playing with household items: plastic cups, grocery bags (I know they are a choking hazard, so I watch closely), and our toothbrushes. He started playing with our tube of toothpaste while I was getting dressed for our run and wouldn't let me take it away. He was completely entertained by it for the first twenty minutes of our run! Caleb gets mad when I won't let him play with the toilet cleaning brush... it is no longer stored on the floor by the toilet.
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| Dad letting Caleb lick his jellybeans |
Caleb likes the baby swing at the park but really likes swinging on my lap. I think I was in second grade the last time I did the spider (I think that's what we called it when one person sits on your lap and faces you on the swing).
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| Caleb LOVES watching us brush our teeth and chewing on our toothbrushes so we got him one of his own. |
Caleb will crawl to me to be picked up unless he wants something that is near him that he can't reach (like by the toilet paper roll in the bathroom). Then he will stay in the same spot and do his "pick me up" move and as soon as I pick him up, he lunges for whatever it was that he wanted. He has started pulling things off of our bookshelves. In some ways I guess I am very lucky that he is such a momma's boy. While I sometimes wish he would play by himself (with me in the same room) so I could get things done without holding him, it does keep him from getting in trouble because he almost always wants to be right where I am.
For example, if I am looking at the newspaper ads to see what's on sale at the grocery store, I am sitting on the floor next to him and give him a different ad. That's not good enough, he scoots until he is in my lap, holding the ad that I am holding. Or, sometimes I want to sit facing him so we can roll a ball back and forth... he won't do that for longer than two seconds. He immediately crawls back over until he is in my lap. Once he's in my lap he won't just sit there and do what I'm doing though. It is pretty cute!
He loves the dresser drawer handles and crawls to them whenever he's on the floor in our bedroom. He will lift one up and drop it down to make the loud noise and after doing that a few times will move to the next handle, until he has played with all four and then will turn around and repeat. Whenever he's on our bed, he immediately crawls to Mom's side of the bed and tries to climb off the edge to get the baby monitor on the floor below.
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| He liked the doorstop the day he found it for the first time but obviously wasn't that enthralled by it because he hasn't gone back to it since. |
Caleb keeps getting bumps on his forehead. He doesn't face plant as much when going from sitting to crawling, it's a little more controlled. But he starts crawling fast and crawls into door jams. His poor little knees get all rugburned from crawling. His belly got all red when I had him in just his diaper one afternoon after the pool. Speaking of the pool, he also thinks he can crawl in the pool.
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| Caleb is now more interested in reading books than eating them (most of the time). He loves turning the pages! |
When Caleb rocks his bumbo while eating, I put my hand on it to steady it. He has realized that I'm stopping him from rocking and tries to pull my hand off. He also pushes back across the table and I have to pull him back to me but he digs his heels in and is surprisingly strong! I think it's time for a high chair. He also thinks he needs to feed himself and takes the spoon away from me. He loses interest and drops the spoon after chewing on it for a while and no new food appears on it. Then I pick it back up and feed him a bite or two until he takes it away again.
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| Awww! I love them! |
Thursday I had a pool party with the activity day girls, which was fun despite the rain. Saturday night Lizzi flew in (on her 19th birthday!) but I was so tired that I slept while Allen went to pick her up from the airport. I meant to get up to say hi but couldn't keep my eyes open to even talk to Allen, let alone get up. We celebrated her birthday with some cake bites the next day with our Primary class and then had cake with candles on Monday.
Funny story about the cake... I was going to make a double layer cake, which isn't hard and I have done hundreds of times (slight exaggeration). But I got new round cake pans and they were non-stick so I didn't spray them before putting the cake batter in. Bad decision. When trying to get the first cake out and onto the plate, it stuck... I could have pieced it back together with lots of frosting but it didn't seem worth it. So I just frosted the other half of the cake in the pan. I didn't want to waste the other half so I put it back in the mixer and added too much frosting to it and made balls out of it and stuck them in the freezer. They looked ugly and were super sticky by the time the kids in our church class ate them but they tasted alright. Two of the kids asked if I could teach their moms how to do it.
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