New Years and Stories (christmas post scroll down)

We went to Leavenworth with some friends, Nate, Lindsay and Alyssa over New Years. We enjoyed a sleigh ride, sledding and the snow!


Praying...

They loved that fake fruit basket more than the toys we brought for them





Happy New Year!



Our View...



Funny things Caleb has done recently:
He wants to thank God for everthing and everyone (most likely his way of staying up later). He says, "Pray daddy, Pray door, pray elmo, pray etc." and names everything around him. One night he kept passing gas during praying and said, "Pray gas." I pretended to ignore the request and kept praying for other things, but he insisted we thank God for gas.

I always sing to Caleb when I'm getting him up, dressing him, changing his diaper. One day he looked at me and signed "all done" and starting saying "No like mommy sing, all done mommy sing." Am I that bad? haha.

Another morning I got him up and probably didn't look my best because he stared at me, pointed at my face, gasped and said "OOH Nooo...oooh nooo, uh oh..."

When we were at leavenworth, he looked at me and asked, "Wanna go shoppin?" I couldn't believe he just put those words together. Then he nodded his head yes and said, "Yeah, fun."

Says, "Om-Lee" for Emily and "Bwandon" for Brandon. Likes to call us by our first names right now.

Says, "DAAADDY! are are you?" (for where are you) whenever he can't see brandon.

AND is FINALLY walking on his own. At the most about 5 steps at a time, but its progress! He says he's "runnin" but he's not quite there yet.

Funny Caleb Moments

I can't post pictures right now because the blog is having problems. I'll post some later along with a video or two. For now, here's a couple funny stories:
Caleb is OBSESSED with shoes. I mean seriously obsessed. The minute he wakes up he says, "oh no..shoes!" (because he looks at his feet and sees they're bare). When we go to our friend's house, he puts the little girl's shoes on and crawls around wearing her pink shoes. So I bought him this ugly pair of slippers at Ross the other day because they were cheap and he was obsessed (they look like a dragon and the eyes light up). He even wants to wear them to bed every night. The other day he was drinking water from a cup and spilled it. The water spilled everywhere, all over him, the high chair, the carpet and a teeny tiny drip on his shoes. He didn't even care he was covered in cold water, he just gasped and said, "Oh NOOOO! My SHOES!!!" He is daddy's boy when it comes to his shoes being dirty. =)
Today, I was feeding him cereal for breakfast. He kept dipping his fingers in the bowl in the milk. I said, "no fingers" and pointed to the bowl, thinking a simple phrase would help him understand what I meant. He opened his hands, looked at each finger, and slowly folded each finger down so his whole hand was balled up in a fist. Then he dipped his fist in the milk. haha. I guess he's smarter than I think.