Mom's Milestones

I know that these should be Caleb's milestones, but I think they're more mine this time because I have had the hardest time with both of these things...


First off, I just wanted to show you what happens when I'm away. I had to go to a meeting for church last night and Caleb got to spend some quality time with his dad. What I came home to was not very pretty! There were toys scattered EVERYWHERE!!! I swear Caleb found every toy he owned and threw it on the floor somewhere...i'm also sure that Adam had a big hand in this one too!!! I'm glad they had fun! We're going to start calling our home Caleb Fun Zone!


For those of you who don't know Caleb has 1 pair of shoes that unfortunately he has started to grow out of! I have been everywhere trying to find Caleb some shoes that will fit him. This kid has the weirdest feet. Lengthwise they are fine, but they are extra thick width wise, so I have a hard time squeezing his foot into any type of shoe!


I finally found a pair that fit at Target after trying on all the shoes they had there...


They do look a little silly with his church outfit, but we are working on the church shoes now!


HOORAY...we have FINALLY weaned Caleb off of the bottle!!! I am the one that has been keeping him on the bottle because it is has been so convenient, but we quit cold turkey after the nurse at his last wellness appt. told Ad that we needed to do it! So, we started giving him the sippy cup and of course he wasn't happy at first, but of course he finally got used to it and I am proud to say that he hasn't given the bottle a second thought! Well, maybe he has (we've had a few Texas sized tantrums that we've had to give a few time outs with) but we're making it through!!! YEA!!!!

Who says exciting things don't happen...

I guess these are the signs of the times of my son getting older and MORE stubborn. We tried to go to get our pictures taken yesterday...had the appointment set for 11:40 in the morning and finally got in at 12:40. As soon as we tried to get started Caleb had yet another meltdown. We were all a little upset that we had to wait for so long because Caleb would've been fine if
we had gotten right in at our scheduled time. We tried to take some pics, but it just didn't happen! When we got home, I thought I would take a few extra pics of my boy. I followed him around and this is what I got!
By the way, Caleb had his 18 month wellness appointment this week. Here are the stats:
29 lbs 5 oz
35 inches tall
He is doing a little more talking and can say mama, daddy and baby. That's about it for the moment. He is starting to throw a lot more tantrums so we are having to start little time outs with him. Like I said, this kid is pretty stubborn and if he doesn 't want to do it, he WON'T!! That's only every now and then though, because he is such a cute little boy with such a fun personality. He loves Elmo, giving us hugs and blowing kisses! We LOVE our boy.
I also had another great experience to add to his scrapbook with me locking him in the car with the keys after I had gone to dinner with my girls from school...i didn't bring my camera, but one of the other gals did and took some pics. She is forwarding them to me and I'll post them as soon as I can! It's really a great story and I know you're looking forward to hearing all about it!!!!


The cheesy smile...


At least he's not squinting his eyes!


I got a new pair of jeans for him for his pics...yes mom...he is still in his onesie!!!


Caleb is loving to brush his teeth by himself. This is him trying to put toothpaste on one of his little brushes!


Being silly in his room!


His modeling poses!


One more cute pic!


This was Saturday night when Ad and I went to check on him. We love his little booty sticking up in the air!


Caleb was a lot happier when we got back from the portrait studio...maybe we should have the photographer come to our house next time!!!!!

A little spin!

Once again we have had a busy getting back into our routines from our big trip last weekend. I just have to say how thankful I am that Caleb is such a GREAT napper! My mom says that he is going to be the only Kindergartener who will really have to stop and take his two naps a day! Anyway, this week he has his 18mo. wellness appt. and then we're going to go get his pics taken for a little update! I'll let ya know how that all turns out of course! In the meantime, these are just a few pics of Caleb in his Buc-cees gear...he still hasn't gotten used to the camera flash which is pretty funny! He tries to smile, but it comes out looking like a glare!


Here is an example of no flash...


FLASH!


He looks like a little Buc-cee beaver here right?!


Almost...we got one eye that looks pretty good!


Caleb is also starting to spin. I know that he is learning this from his friends at Janet's house, and it is HILARIOUS. The night before i took this video, he wouldn't stop and was getting so dizzy...he would stop and then just fall and laugh! This is just a video of him spinning and getting a little dizzy! He then lost interest and came to get me with the camera!! We LOVE our boy!

Sea World Vacation 2009

For our 3 day weekend we decided to go to San Antonio for the 2nd year in a row. Instead of spending it on the riverwalk downtown, we spent the weekend at Sea World. We bought year round passes so we spent both Saturday and Sunday there. Our hotel was awesome, we were just down the road from Sea World and Caleb did a great job (until the morning of Day 2 which I'll write about down the blog. We took a lot of pics and videos and I posted as many as I could before y'all got really bored! We had a lot of fun...we'll definitely go back hopefully a few more times before the year is up! Enjoy!

Day 1:

We actually took this pic on the way out today, but I thought it would be a nice opener to our vaca!


Our first stop was dolphin cove...we didn't feed the dolphins today, just looked at them!


We loved the shows at Sea World...the sea lion show was my favorite! Caleb liked looking at the animals and was very entertained!


Just a little preview of the show...


This walrus was HUGE!! They actually got him to do sit ups...it was hilarious!


This was afterward down with the sea lions...this one looked like he was sitting on his bottom...


Our favorite animals to watch...the sea otters! They were so CUTE! We probably spent the most time looking at these little fellas...


Look at that face!


A glimpse of the gator pond...


PENGUINS!




Caleb finally went to sleep right before we left for the first day...we went to the dolphin/beluga whale show and had to get him out of his stroller! He was still sleepy as you can see!






This is where we went to dinner...don't be deceived by the sign...it was DELICIOUS!! Afterwards we went swimming in the hotel pool that was FREEZING! They don't heat the pools here in Texas...we didn't get any pictures, and only stayed for about 30 minutes. Caleb hadn't taken any naps and was tired, so he was ready for bed.

Day 2:

Getting ready to go...watching a little Elmo...afterwards we went to McDonalds and Caleb had the BIGGEST meltdown! He slept really well that night, but since he didn't have his normal naps, was still tired. We ended up taking our food out to the car and eating there. It's really nice having everyone staring at you while your kid is throwing a fit (which was started because I didn't give him the salt and pepper shakers) Good times!


We decided to feed the dolphins today and it was so much fun! We got them close enough to be able to pet them! As you can hear in the video, Caleb thought we were going to throw him in the pool with the dolphins!


We went back to look at the sea lions and otters...we just couldn't get enough!


They had the funnest little area for the little kiddos to go and play...this is one of the places where Caleb got to RUN!




He had a good time playing here and it wore him out!


A little bit of Shamu...




We had this done after the show...it's Caleb's handprint turned into a giraffe...obviously! Isn't it the cutest!?! It's going to go in his new jungle room!


Again...Sea World wore him out!





Adam with his Shamu souvenir cup...he was so excited to get this!


This is where we like to stop on our way into San Antonio and on our way out!! It's the coolest place EVER!! From Katy to San Antonio there are a ton of billboards advertising, so you have to check it out! It's probably busier than Sea World!


Caleb got an awesome Buc-ees T-Shirt this time around...we have to get a souvenir from here every time we travel to San Antonio!


Caleb relaxing at home ready to go to bed! What a trip!