Our Tuesday

I felt all ready for my first baby appointment now that I knew what to expect. I knew they did an ultrasound on the first appt. so this time we had Derrick come too so he could see it. I got an early morning appointment but when I got there I found out this office does it differently than my last office. A nurse sees you on the first appt and goes over info, schedules future appts. and I get lab work done. There wasn't a doctor appointment open until 11:30am. We decided Derrick would take the day off since he wanted to be there and we had the missionaries over for dinner that night...otherwise he wouldn't get 8 hours of work in. So we went home for an hour and a half and then went back to the doctor's office.

The actual ultrasound is so much better than the picture. The limbs and torso were so much clearer and its perfect little heart was beating strongly. When I saw him or her the spirit overcame me. I am, quite frankly, terrified to have another newborn baby (I wasn't at all scared with Caleb)...but now I know the horrors that very little sleep does to my head, the blackouts I experienced, the 8 weeks of healing...and it makes me scared. But when I saw this little baby, laying there quietly inside me (Caleb was active and moving around for this ultrasound), I couldn't help but feel peace. He or she was meant to come to us and I am grateful for that confirmation.
When we got home, Caleb went down for a nap and Derrick and I read Harry Potter. This is Derrick's first go around with them and he is loving them. We are on the fourth book and we always want to be reading...it is so fun.
Later that day while I was preparing dinner Derrick took Caleb out of the house and as they were coming up the stairs Derrick yells out to grab the camera. Here's what I saw:

It was a hot day so Derrick decided to take Caleb out for a play in the hose. Caleb thoroughly enjoyed himself as he always does when it comes to water.
We had the missionaries over for dinner, that night we got some chores done and we read some more Harry Potter. Later that night Derrick got an e-mail saying that everyone in his organization was getting an extra day off for good performance! We were wary of taking the day off and when we got this e-mail, it was like someone was saying, "See, you were supposed to take today off...you made the right decision!" We had a great day!

First Week of Nursery

I forgot until now that I wanted to post about Caleb's first week in nursery at church. True, he still has a few weeks to go until he is 18 months but Derrick and I both have callings in primary so we got the okay from the nursery leader to bring Caleb in early.
I took him in and brought him over to the tables where the kids could play with toys. He sat right down in the chair without me even asking him. He was just fine as I left the room. I go back to primary, go through opening exercises and then at the end of junior primary singing time I see one of the nursery leaders come in with Caleb whose face was red like he had been crying. The nursery leader handed Caleb off to a friend until I was done with singing time.
I got Caleb and headed back to nursery with Caleb to see what happened. They said when he had someone's full on attention he was fine but whenever he was with the group of kids he would slowly break into tears. I played with him and the other kids until I had to go back to do senior primary singing time. Luckily when I left they were getting to snack time and Caleb sat right down at ate with the other kids.
I did singing time then came back to nursery to see Caleb sitting in a rocking horse, happily sucking on a plastic doughnut. I heard that all of snack time and play time he did great. I watched him play until the end of church and he did really well playing with the other kids. I think he will get adjusted to nursery very quickly.

Favorite Place to Play

Caleb is always asking to get in his crib now. He just never wants to get out and has me give him his stuffed animals and books and toys. As long he's happy with that, I'm totally ok with it...keeps him out of trouble.

Also, here's the shirt Caleb wore to Utah when we broke the news to the family.

Caleb is obsessed with the camera, as seen above. It is so hard for me to get any good videos these days...same in this video. He was about to dance for me but sees the camera...bummer.

Three things

The Saturday of Labor Day Weekend we went to The Tech Museum. Derrick got us free passes for this year from work which included 4 IMAX movies. We watched "Under the Sea." Caleb sat through the full 40 minutes of the movie! It was amazing. Here's the one picture we got:

Caleb knows his face parts:

Here's me getting Caleb to say words that he uses a lot. I wanted to remember how he sounded when he said them.

Monkey See Monkey Do

Last Saturday I was preparing for singing time. I was teaching the kids the second verse of "When He Comes Again" in sign language. I had memorized it weeks before but I wanted to review it again. I pulled up the video off the church web site and started signing with the lady. Caleb watched the video the whole way through. When I played it a second time Caleb starts waving his hands in front of him the whole time I'm doing it.

This morning the first thing Caleb noticed when he got up was that the lap top was open. He goes over to it, moves his finger around the mouse pad, then puts his hands in the typing position and starts pretending to type. He really looked like he knew what he was doing.