Family Camping Trip

We went camping again! Exact same place (Idyllwild), even exact same camp site #805. This time we went with my whole family. We had a great time and made lots of memories. The kids all had a great time too. Here are some pictures fom our trip. Mommy & Caleb by the horses at the campground.
Daddy & Caleb on a big rock.

The girls were much more interested in the big pine cones than Caleb was. As usual, he prefers cars.

Feeding the baby horse. So cute!

Yummy watermelon!

Our family: Papa, Leia, Great Grandma, Uncle Derek, Baby Alana, Auntie Shannon, Nema, Kaia, Daddy, Caleb & Me (Mommy)

Staring contest

On a walk with Nema and Lilo

Lounging in the hammock with Daddy. This is the life!!

Sleepy Picture

Caleb usually comes into our bed at some point during the night/early morning. On this particular day I woke up early and let Lilo out of her crate and she snuggled up in bed with her favorite boy. I couldn't resist taking their picture. They have it rough, don't they?

Little Fish

My Caleb is a little fish! He started swim lessons a week ago and is doing so well. He loves it. He scares me a little bit though because he is so unafraid of it. Here is a quick video of him swimming to the wall in my parents' pool today. He did great until he was holding a car in each hand. He can't swim very well while holding cars, I guess! But other than that he did great. The teachers in his swim class keep asking how old he is and saying that if he was a little bit older he would be in the Tiny Tots instead of Mommy & Me. He can float on his back like a pro. He jumps off the side of the pool and turns around and swims to the wall. He is my little fish! :)

Stitches!!!!

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

We celebrated by camping up in Idyllwild for the weekend with our friends Jan, Ljiljana, and Dominic. It had been quite a while since we'd gone tent camping and it was soooo fun. Caleb had an absolute blast! He loved being outdoors the whole time and had so much fun sleeping in the tent. He thought it was a "hort" (fort). :) He chased lizards, hunted for rocks, swam, ran, jumped, ate, and played in the dirt to his heart's content. He loved his froggy chair.
Family picture

Caleb found a worm in the lake and brought it to the guys to catch some fish. He was so proud to help them out. It must have worked because Uncle Jan caught a fish soon after!

Wouldn't you know it, Caleb spent all weekend camping and ended up busting his chin when we got home. Go figure. He slipped in the shower and got his first big owie. There was lots of blood. Poor baby! We rushed him to Urgent Care and the doctor gave him just one stitch and
some liquid bandaid. He was not happy but it was over pretty quickly. We were in and out of there in half an hour. Not bad for a holiday, huh? He is totally fine now though.

His first stitch! I'm sure it won't be the last! (although I would prefer that it was)

Pay Phone Conversation

Yesterday my mom and I took Caleb to the summer kiddie movie and while we were waiting in the lobby he found a pay phone. He picked up the reciever and had an entire conversation with who-knows. This was his side of the phone call:

"Hewwo?"
(pause)
"What you do-wing?"
(pause)
"I'm jumping"
(starts jumping)
(long pause)
"I wike twucks!"
(pause)
"Ok, bye!"

He made it through 3/4 of the movie (Alvin & the Chipmunks 2) before he said, "I'm done. Let's go bye-bye." He is growing up so fast. He is obsessed with "Cars". He even talks about McQueeen, Mater, Doc and "Heriff" in his sleep. He watched the move for the first time last weekend and sat there in awe with his jaw dropped. He screamed, "Mommy! McQueen's on TV!!". So cute! He is such a boy. I love it. :)

It's been a long time...

it has been a long time since i've blogged. i miss it and i feel like i have so much to say yet nothing to say at all. i have a ton of pictures on my camera that i need to upload but still haven't done it. i have the summer off from school so i will have more time to blog now. eventually i will put them on here and pretend that i posted them on time so look for back-dated posts sometime in the future....

i got an A in my microbiology class! yay. i worked hard for that A. i still have to take anatomy & physiology (fall 2010 and spring 2011) and then i can apply for the nursing program. sigh. i think i have a good chance of getting in but it's a really competitive program so it might take me a while to get accepted. i'm HOPING (darn that hope) that it will be put on hold because i'll get pregnant but you know how that goes............. sigh. not that i don't want to become a nurse, because i totally do and i think i would love it but i want another baby and we've been trying for a year and a half and that's no fun. i went to the doctor last month. he sees nothing wrong with me and no obvious reason why i'm not getting pregnant. he wants john to get tested again and i have the stupid cup for him but i just can't seem to want to have him get tested. the fertility stuff is so stressful. even thinking about going back for treatments is stressful. he was fine last time, i'm sure he's fine again. it's just a timing thing for us, i think. or maybe we're not supposed to have another baby or maybe i need to stop trying or pfffffffffftttttttt. i don't know. i'm just sooo soooo soooooooo sooooo thankful and happy that i get to be caleb's mommy and i don't want to take one second with him for granted. my prayers for him were answered and i am forever grateful for that. i love love love being his mom.

caleb is amazing. he is so smart! and so loving and funny and full of energy and i have a ton of stories that i can't think of right now because the dryer buzzer just went off and i have to get to my laundry. lol. (look for some stories in the future back-dated posts i was talking about earlier). he took himself to the potty today and went poop all by himself (he even tried to wipe!). he was so proud. he is a crazy, silly, little BOY now, no trace of baby left at all. i love him so much. i am so so so blessed to be his mommy.

Big Boy Bed

He's such a bog boy now!!
Naptime!

This post is way overdue but Caleb has moved out of his crib and into a big boy bed! He never liked his crib anyway and he's doing great in his twin bed. He started sleeping on the mattress on the floor in January and only rolled off once (lol, he didn't even wake up!). Then in February his Papa-Bear brought him the frame after he made a cool bed rail for it (he would definitely feel it if he rolled out of this one!). The frame is a hand-me-down from way back in John's family. I think it goes back to John's great-grandmother's day! Pretty cool, huh? He wakes up once during the night and yells "MOMMY!!!" and I get up and take him to go potty and then back to bed. It's awesome.

Caleb loves his bed. He takes any and all visitors to his room to check it out. Sometimes during the day we'll just lay in it together and read books or just cuddle and talk. He has such a vocabulary. He never stops talking. He gets really frustrated when I don't understand what he says. He has started being pretty demanding and I have to remind him to speak nicely to me and he says, "oooh, sowwy, Mommy" and gives me a kiss. I love it when he says, "Mommy, where are you?" and searches throughout the house. Hello, my house is on the rather small side and you just have to turn the corner to find whatever you're looking for. :) He loves my hair. LOVES, LOVES, LOVES my hair. He grabs it and buries his face in it, puts it in his mouth and sucks on it, and rubs it in his eyes. He is so funny. So weird. Guess I won't be cutting it short any time soon (not like I was going to anyway).

I love my Caleb-Caleb, yes I do!! (a line from a song I sing to him) :)