Yay it's Christmas!

Before we left for Utah, Caleb opened his gift from us. We got him a tool set. We figured he can suck on it now and play with it later. He has been loving it!

We arrived in Utah and went straight to Target to get food for Caleb. Derrick and I ran in the store while everyone else stayed in the car. When we came back Lynne was gone and they told us she had to run in to get books for Caleb. My mom and Derrick's mom both spoil and love Caleb so much!

Here we are playing games. We played A LOT of games over the break: 500, 5 Crowns, Rich Man Poor Man, Ticket to Ride (my present from Derrick), Rummikub, Quiddler and probably some more that I can't even remember. Games are the best!

Ahh, the cat. Caleb petted her so nicely. Well, nicely the first few times then he grabbed her fur and she took off running pretty quickly.

Caleb has a new favorite song! Derrick is opposed to this but I'm sorry Derrick, it's my favorite video!

This one goes out to everyone who has ever worked on a puzzle at Grandma and Pop-pop's house in Huntington Beach. We worked on a puzzle in Utah too. That made me feel right a home.

This has got to be the most exciting news. Caleb started crawling on Christmas morning! And I got it on video. So here it is, the very fist time Caleb crawled:

Scott gave Julie a scooter for Christmas. He gave it to her the night before Christmas because she was bound to walk into the garage sometime before Christmas morning. Pretty sweet!

Alright present time:

Opening Caleb's first present on Christmas morning:

Skip the present, leave the ribbon.

I made sure not to leave anyone out. This video gets at least a second of everyone:

Other happenings on the trip that we didn't get pictures of:

-Derrick skied with his cousins

-I saw New Moon in the theaters

-Watched BYU vs. Oregon State bowl game at Julie's house. BYU wins!!!!!!!!!

-Christmas Eve morning we fed breakfast to a homeless shelter

-Visit to Grandma and Grandpa Isaacson's house

-Christmas Eve we read the Christmas story from the Bible and then shared our feelings and experiences about how we have felt the Savior in our lives the past year. That was probably my favorite part of the trip. The spirit was definitely present

-Lynne's side of the family came over for Christmas dinner

-I got a cold for 3 days

-Delivering gifts and food to people for Utah Food Bank

-Family pictures. These were taken out in the snow the day after Christmas. We were all pretty cold and Caleb cried a bit for the first two poses but on the third pose he was smiling and happy. After the pictures we went to Cafe Rio.

-Visited with some of Derrick's high school friends.

-Watched movies

-Last day there we had lunch at Olive Garden in downtown Salt Lake.

-How could I forget...we ATE, ATE, ATE, ATE and ATE some more! I literally ate enough calories to last me throughout all of January.

Overall it was a wonderful trip packed with things to do. Caleb did great. The night we traveled home was rough because he fell asleep in the car on the way to the airport, fell asleep again on the plane and again in the car on the way back home. Every time he had to fall back asleep he sounded so sad. It was like he was saying, "I'm supposed to be in bed asleep right now. Why am I being tortured like this?" Poor boy. He is fine now though, caught up on his sleep and crawling around our home. I hear him now waking up from his nap...time to go running and burn some calories!

Moving Up

Caleb has moved out of his first baby bath tub into his second.

Biggest rubber ducky I've ever seen.

He loved it!

Thanks for the nice Christmas present Gram!

Christmas time is here

This is Caleb's cute little Christmas outfit from my mom. He wore it to church on Sunday. If you click on the picture on the left you can barely see Caleb's 3rd tooth! He looks a little funny with just one tooth on the top.

Here is more of Caleb's jibber jabber.

Also, a friend from church invited us to a little get together with a few people to sing Christmas songs. So last night we went to a lady's house, who we never met before, and we had a fun filled hour of Christmas music. I actually played the piano, which was a treat for me because it was a really nice piano. The people there had amazing voices. Caleb sat on the floor for a good half hour just looking and listening to everything in awe. He never sits for that long! I told our friend to invite us again next year because it really made it feel like Christmas.

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Derrick's car is prone to anything bad. About 2 weeks ago Derrick got rear ended. We had a whole bunch of trouble with the other person's insurance and after making many trips to the mechanic we finally got our car fixed and back together again on Friday. So why wouldn't this happen two days after we got the car back?

Yesterday morning Caleb and I walked out to the car with Derrick, who was on his way to work, and that is what we found. I started balling. Do you remember a post I had a little over a year ago? Where this same thing happened? Of all the cars in the parking lot, ours was the one for this to happen to.

Well, on the bright side we knew exactly where to take the car to get it fixed and exactly how to file another police report. By 2pm that day the window was all fixed. We don't think we want to get another sound system because we are afraid this will just happen again. *sigh

On the other bright side we still have this beautiful little boy who is healthy and happy:

We have fun!!!

Caleb loves to play on the floor with toys.

Caleb loves to be spun up in the air by Daddy. I can't believe he can stick his legs straight out like this...he does it the whole time. I wish I had abs that strong!

After I got home from work today. Caleb lay in my arms while I just made him laugh. This went on for about 15 minutes. So cute!

Caleb's favorite words now are "mamama" and "bababa." He jabbs all the time like this. We love listening to him.

Thanksgiving

It was Caleb's first!

Here's his first taste of turkey. He loved it!

For dinner we went to the Lewis family Thanksgiving. There was so much yummy food. I really thought these cookies that Mary made were so adorable. It's a sugar cookie, reece's pieces and a fruit roll up. Sweetest corn I've ever had!

The three of us at the Lewis house

I love Caleb's little Thanksgiving outfit!

Thanksgiving morning:

"Ok Mom that is enough pictures. I am done for today."

New Hair

Long and frumpy to short and cute. I love it!

Lights, Camera, Action

This is my 100th post! And it's a good one. We've taught Caleb how to turn off light switches. It's hard for him to do because his fingers are so small but he can usually get it after a few tries.

So much

I realized I haven't updated a few things that need updating about Caleb.
Caleb can hold himself up on all fours

Derrick is very proud to have a picture with Caleb and tools

Bedtime fun

Picture of Caleb's 2 teeth

Caleb will always laugh when you tickle his feet with your fingernails.

Yesterday while feeding Caleb...

Right as I was putting a spoonful of oatmeal cereal in Caleb's mouth....aaachoo. Specks of oatmeal compleatly covered the black hoodie I was wearing, not to mention the little bit that somehow got in my nose. Gross! I looked pretty funny.

2nd Tooth!

On Monday I noticed Caleb's second little tooth. So both his bottom 2 are in. Also, here just an average meal time for Caleb. He likes these carrots he's eating.

Doesn't he just look like a little man?

A Tooth!!! (and videos)

Yes, Caleb officially has his first tooth! I noticed it yesterday at the park when he wanted to bite on my finger. I let him do it and to my surprise I felt a tooth. When I felt it I was actually kind of sad because it made me feel like he wasn't a baby anymore. Luckily though, Caleb doesn't seem to be in any pain which I am glad about.
Here's three cute videos. This one is from Sunday morning. Caleb is always saying this now.
Something about Derrick doing push ups near Caleb's face make him laugh hysterically.
Caleb has figured out how a slinky works! I can't believe he is smart enough to know it goes out and in. He loves to sit there doing this:

2 Halloween Parties!

We had a wonderful day before Halloween. Derrick was Dr. Pierce Payne MD, I was Anita Shott RN and Caleb was our patient--a skeleton. We got this great picture taken at Derrick's work party.

A skeleton in a graveyard. Our church Halloween party was quite the place to be too. Lots of decorations, a scavenger hunt, costume parade, potluck and trunk or treating. We left early though to get Caleb to bed.

For Derrick's work party I entered this pumpkin. If you didn't know, Microsoft makes XBox--I was catering to them. I got second place and we won a $20 gift certificate to the cafeteria on the campus. We are excited about that because the food there is amazing! Derrick and I also won a raffel so we got 2 more gift certificates to Jamba Juice and Starbucks.

These costumes were amazing! The guy on the right said he was working on them since July. Check out the back. It was really all wired up with lights and even the Ghostbusters song would play when he pressed a button.

A Happy Halloween indeed!

6 Month Photos are in!!!