Caleb turned 2!

 I've been such a slacker with my updates. Now that he's getting older. I'll be doing updates when I can, because lets face it if he sees me on the computer, he pulls my hands off the keyboard. Like hes doing right now!

Caleb is obsessed with a few things right now. Trains, bubbles, and Cookies. Now trains and bubbles are normal, cookies however is just the word not the snack. He has named his blocks "Cookies" and he must go to bed with cookies and his train book! Then he reads until he gets sleepy.

Caleb still loves his books. We read about 8, several times everyday before he goes to bed. He just loves them and can't get enough.

So many things have changed since he turned 18 months. His speech is improving everyday. He's always saying things I had no idea he was able to. The icecream truck drove by and he looked at me and said "Here come=]
= icecream truck!", he said it twice! Shocked me and my Mother in law, who was sitting right here with us!

He changes every week, its really amazing to see. We've been doing more crafts lately because he seems to enjoy it. 

For his birthday we gave people the option to contribute to his college fund. So I started him a journal so when he gets older he'll know exactly who gave him what. 

This was his birthday present from us, Tim's brother, and Tim's parents. He loves the swings and he's not too sure about the twisty slide he'll like it as he gets older.

Okay, guess I better wrap this up because he's getting impatient.  I'll end with a video.

Enjoy!

Caleb is 18 months old!

Caleb is 18 months old! Where has the time gone?  He is growing by leaps and bounds. I swear every day he learns something new or teaches me he knows way more than I've been lead to believe. :) Our newest feat is talking. It started out slow with On, Up, then out of no where "Applesauce", Yup thats right "Applesauce", he loves the stuff for dinner and I was making dinner while he was eating some pasta. He looked at me and said "Babblesauce" I'm like what in the world is that. He said it a few more times than I was like OH You mean Applesauce. He began to shake his head yes very fast. LOL Since then it has open his vocabulary up drastically. He can say Applesauce, Apple Juice, Apple, on, up, huh, hmmmm, "ody", which eventually turned into Rhody, Bird, Ice, Momma, and few more I'm sure i'm not thinking of.  When I'm working with a word and he tries to say it at first he will say "Apple". LOL it's so funny!

    He still is a goat, Thats what I call him. He climbs EVERYTHING. It's insane. I didn't know children could have such amazing balance. He will stand right on the seat to his 4 wheeler like its nothing.

 He still loves books. His new favorite is, The little blue truck who led the way. He seriously loves this book series. Tim and I have them both memorized!

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Blue-Truck-Leads-board/dp/0547575742/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y


We are all just waiting for spring to arrive. It has been a very very cold snowy winter. Which I've enjoyed. However, enough is enough! Bring on parks, ice cream, snow cones, and bubbles!!

Caleb is 17 months old!

 Caleb is 17 months old and he has just gotten so big. His favorite things are reading book after book. He is learning pictures by sight and the only one he gets right every time is Cheese. His favorite food! He has become quite picky. He only likes to eat spaghetti or alfredo with applesauce for dinner we continue to try new foods and end up having to toss them. He still loves turkey sticks for lunch and he loves cheese and crackers and chocolate chip muffins for snack. Lucky he still likes to eat fruits and veggies (in a pouch) for a snack and he still loves yogurt.

       He is pretty much into everything and climbs on everything! I call him my little goat! He loves playing with us and reading books with us. He dances all the time and loves to run.  We've have had quite a few snow storms so he hasn't been able to go and play much. This picture to the left is only the second time he's gotten to play in the snow. He loved just walking around in it and letting it crunch under his feet. We also built his first snowman and he didn't really care for it. Although, he did think it was funny.

  We did go to the library and he hated it. He freaked out and started crying until I took him out into the library where he could just play. He LOVES the kitchen and even played with a few other kids. But for some reason singing and story time he screams. I have no idea. It is every wednesday so we'll try again.  Either way I so love my time with this sweet boy. He is so funny because he will copy what you do. He also knows hes funny and will laugh with you. I just love this kid.  Below is Caleb trying to say "Grandma" When you say her name he runs to her picture. It is so adorable.  

Caleb is 16 months old!

Caleb is 16 months old and I can not believe it. We celebrated it around family at Christmas time which was wonderful. He is growing by leaps and bounds.

He is trying to talk now. Mainly a lot of babble but its pretty constant like he know exactly what he is talking about. Its very cute. We just reply back to him like we know what hes talking about. 

He says yes by shaking his head to tell us yes he does want something. 

He is also now completely off his bottle too. He is the one to tell us this. So at bedtime I rock him then lay him down. 

His favorite foods now are Chocolate milk in the morning. Pear oatmeal but now he is obsessed with Muffins thanks to his cousin Katelyn :) Also, crackers, applesauce, alfredo, spagetti and cheese.

He no longer likes a lot of things. Like carrots and oatmeal. I still constantly reintroduce it however, he still won't eat it. Maybe one day :)

His Molars are coming in now so he has had a fever the last 2 1/2 days. Poor guy. The left one is almost completely in and the right one is trying to break through. He's been running a fever and had a runny nose finally this afternoon it broke so I'm hopeful that it won't come back tonight. He also just got his to teeth beside his bottom front teeth so he now has 8 1/2 teeth. 

Caleb is 15 months old!

Boy am I behind on posting this one! Considering we're going on 16 months, but thats okay, right?

 
 So here we are right in to December and its been a very busy few weeks. We visited family for Thanksgiving and Caleb is our great little traveler.  We went to my sisters in WV and my brother in laws house in PA.  Above is Caleb meeting his Great Grandfather Pappy for the first time and he just LOVED him! We've also been baking cookies and Caleb is the perfect little helper! He's happy as long as he is holding the spatula or putting things into the mixer! He didnt even mind wearing the apron :).    
         
                                                  This is Caleb enjoying cookies with Poppy after thanksgiving dinner. He didnt take a nap all day and fell asleep in his arms while eating the cookies. It was soo sweet :).  
Lets see. Some new things Caleb has been doing.......He makes this sweet little talking voice and makes a sound like (Blahablahbal) but its like he's talking. Its adorable. He also is likes to be any where and everywhere I am, always!  It snowed yesterday and he really liked it, although he was not a fan of falling in it!  He is kinda going through a faze where he doesn't really want to play with his toys, he still loves to be read too but when it comes to his toys. He rather be playing with me. So I've been trying to get him to do his own play time.  He has been sleeping amazingly! You just lay him down and he goes to sleep!  That goes for naps and bedtime. Its been a blessing.

    Now we are gearing up for Santa to come and he sat on his lap this past weekend and he did really good. Didn't get upset or anything. We also picked out our Christmas tree and Caleb thought it was pretty cool that we put a tree in the house! He loves the train and the village under the tree.  He is just getting so big!

 His favorite foods right now are still Cheerios, Turkey sticks, Strawberry puffs, and he likes roasted chicken and sweet potatoes.
He is unsure of Apple juice still, I'll attach the video its so funny!

Caleb is 14 Months old!

        Caleb is so big now! He can clap and give me high five.  He is running around everywhere now and I mean literally running! He quietly will sing but not that loud and it melts your heart.

        He loves to play outside it's  his favorite thing to do. He pointed to his Poppy's chest then to outside during the Halloween party. It was adorable. His new game is pointing at all the things he wants. He doesn't say really any words yet except for "Hi" and the occasional, Mamma or Dadda.  Although, he does "Ah, AH" to discipline Rhody. Its the cutest thing ever.

Caleb was a frog for Halloween and I was his Princess. He was the cutest thing ever! Of course he won first place for kids at our Halloween party!

His favorite foods are still Turkey sticks and cheerios. He also usually eats a yogurt everyday he loves raspberry and strawberry.

          His favorite toys right now are his Garage still and he figured out how to turn the cars to go down the ramp then he claps! He loves that thing and he loves the popper push toy.

        We went to Asheville, NC for our 4 year anniversary to a little cabin in the woods and Caleb LOVED the cabin, he woke up every morning dancing, he liked it so much!  He also still loves to dance, all the time! 

  Everyday I am amazed at the things he learns and how smart he is. I am so very blessed.

Caleb is 13 months old!

  Caleb is 13 Months! He is such a toddler these days! He LOVES books, all you have to do is say, "Caleb, want me to read you a book?" and he goes and runs for one. Its adorable! He will sit through the entire book, most of the time.

 His cousins all came to see him this past weekend too. Which of course he showed them all of his toys and how fast he can run.  His favorite foods are still Cheerios, Turkey sticks, and Yogurt.  He tried spaghetti and meatballs and mac and cheese. He didn't like either, at all. They were the gerber graduates so maybe the real thing would be better to him. He needs to get more teeth to eat more things because he still only has 2 1/2 teeth. He loves to eat anything I'm eating, I cant eat anything in his presents without wanting it.  Still waiting for some more to come in!

We are having a Halloween party at the end of the month and Caleb is going to be a frog. He looks so cute in his costume!  Hopefully he'll wear it at the party.


His new favorite thing to do in the store is if he can reach anything in the cart, he throws it out. One after another, right out of the cart. Its enough to drive you crazy! Good thing he's so darn cute!

 

Just Caleb and I went to the Zoo and this was him laughing at the Goats! Too cute :) <3

Caleb LOVES to dance! You can catch him dancing several time a day :)

He just rediscovered the keyboard today and has had so much fun playing it today. Also, hes been going for a walk in his wagon daily around the neighborhood. He loves it outside, loves seeing all the animals as we walk through the neighborhood. He also just discovered birds in the sky and if you say..."Look a bird" He'll look in the sky for them. He is so smart!  His favorite shows right now are Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Sid the Science Kid, and Daniel the Tiger.

Caleb is ONE! Where has the time gone?!

 So my baby boy is One now! <3 What a blessing he is in our lives! He is so smart too. The things he can do stuns us daily.  He started walking about a week before his birthday and he hasnt stopped since! He loves to run and get where he wants to go fast!

He has been doing excellent with the reintroduction of dairy. So far no symptoms at all. Which is wonderful!

He had 2 birthday parties one with my family and the other with Tim's family. They both went great and Caleb at both parties fell asleep right before them so he was a little out of it for the begining of them. He got so many great gifts too. His favorite are his Go! Go! Smart track from his Aunt Ella, His Car from Aunt Libby, His Leap Pad laptop from Cousin Kylie and the Wagon Mommy and Daddy got him. Oh, and I can not forget his books. Thats what we asked for was books, because he loves them so much! His new favorite books is called "Little Blue Truck, by  Alice Schertle". Seriously his favorite, he even turns the page for you.   He loves to go for walks around the neighborhood in it.

He finally got both of his bottom teeth all the way in. So we are up to 2 1/2 teeth in the 1/2 is his top right tooth that is coming through.

Some of his favorite foods right now are Turkey sticks, he loves them! Yogurt (Strawberry to be specific) Mum Mums, and Cheerios! He is a CHEERIOS FEEN! He can't get enough of them!
If it were up to him he would Only eat cheerios.

He didn't mind when everyone sang happy birthday to him, it was the clapping and cheering afterward. He cried and was not to happy until I put some of that frosting in his mouth and that dried up those tears QUICK!

This post is a little late and he is now a week away from turning 13 months. My oh my how time flies by! I'll update all of his amazing new talents!

 

Caleb is 11 months and 5 days!

We just got back from the beach and wanted to share his pictures :) Today he got to try yogurt for the first time! So far so good!!!! Will post after his birthday party!!!!

Caleb is 11 months old!!!

How is my baby growing so quickly! Today Caleb turned 11 months old! He got his second hair cut today. His hair was so thick in the back and getting in his eyes.

In two weeks we'll be having his first birthday party! I couldn't be happier/shocked that its already that time! This picture is of Caleb on our new deck playing in his pool. He loves to splash!!

So Wednesday we got the go ahead to reintroduce dairy into his diet. So the schedule is as follows.
Week 1- cooked milk
Week 2- yogurt/cheese
Week 3 & 4- Alimentum
1 year- Day 1- 2oz whole milk, rest formula
            Day 2-1 bottle whole milk, rest formula
            Day 3-2 bottles whole milk, rest formula
            Day 4- all whole milk

13 months- Test Stool for blood
So far he has taken really well to it. As of now we've had no side effects at all. I've been giving him pear/oatmeal with cinnamon for breakfast with milk mixed in (that I cooked) and he loves it. For dinner he's been having Creamy chicken dinner with apples and Milk and vanilla cookies for a snack. Which he loves but they are SO Messy!

Monday we are going to the beach for a few days so I hope he likes it! I'll post a blog for his birthday party!!