Birthday Fun

Caleb attended his first two birthday bashes this past weekend. Both babies turned one. Just another reminder for me that Caleb's bday is less than a month away. Eek.

I was in shock that Caleb stole a huge bite of my cake right out from under my nose. Silly me for trying to hold him and the cake.
Caleb was trying to take Bear's binky from him.
Little Bear sucking on his thumb. Such a sweetie.
Birthday boy (on the left of Caleb) and his friends.

The Birthday babes.

Young Love

Caleb and his girl at her first birthday party!
Miss. C giving Caleb some love. Caleb's not sure what to make of it. haha.

11 Months

Happy 11 months Caleb Lincoln. I can't believe you will be a one year old next month.

What you have been up to this month:

crawling everywhere

cruising on everything

banging objects together

cracking yourself up

saying 'da da, ba ba, ra' still working on ma ma

FINALLY sleeping through the night consistently! 11-12 hours all by yourself! We are so proud of you

Bringing books over to us to read to you

Playing Peek-a-boo

Giving kisses, waving hi/bye, and giving high-fives

Loving bath time

Enjoying every food we give you and only wanting to feed yourself

Your favorite thing to eat is probably lentil soup, you love those noodles but there hasn't been anything we have given you that don't like

You weigh 30lbs and are 33'' long (I'm not sure if I got that right when I measured last time)

One Year Ago

We became homeowners. We spent last Labor Day painting and scrubbing and prepping our house for move-in and baby. We'll be spending this one working on our yard and continuing our house projects. Funny how so many things can change in so little time, and yet so many things remain the same.

We hope everyone has a nice and relaxing Labor Day weekend!

Cuddles and Kisses

I am all about the kisses. We've been working on this one for awhile and Caleb totally understands now when I ask him for a kiss and if he's not too distracted, he'll just dive right in, open mouth and slobbery. I love it. Caleb's kisses are almost as good as his cuddles. What a cuddle bug. He loves cuddling before a nap, after a nap, before bed, not so much in the morning, he's too excited to start exploring. We can always tell when Caleb is tired because he starts resting his head on any part of our body.

I just soak up every cuddle and kiss because before I know it he will be giving me that look that says, "mom, please" as he wipes his mouth and squirms from my hug.

I love my cuddle bug and all those slobbery kisses!

Excuse me, you have a little something right there...

Sometimes I feel as though my day resolves around cleaning up after this little man. Breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. Wipe, Wash, Sweep, Mop. Note to self, giving baby finger food= gigantic blobs of food everywhere. But if you're going to make a mess. May as well look cute doing it, right?

I ♥ my boys