Christmas in San Diego

This outfit was one of Caleb's presents from his Gram. I love it!
Christmas day we had omlets for breakfast, opened presents and went over to my aunt and uncle's house for Christmas dinner. Caleb wasn't too into opening presents on Christmas morning but when we got home and had more to open from Grandma and Grandpa Isaacson he wanted to be the one to open every present (and of course we let him).

We also drove up to Huntington Beach and Caleb's favorite part was looking at the Christmas lights:

Caleb also loved playing Andrew's uklele. He kept calling it a guitar.

One day my mom and the three of us went to the San Diego Air and Space museum. Derrick was like a kid in a candy store because he loves planes and history. Caleb liked the helicopter you could climb in. I thought it was cool that they had the Red Barron's metals.


Caleb also was taken to the park a few times. He played on the playground, saw ducks and ran around like the crazy boy he is.


Derrick and I had a good time too. Our first day there we went to the temple together...our first time back to the San Diego Temple since we were married. It was very special.
We also went on a date for lunch and a movie. We saw Harry Potter and it worked out perfect because we finished reading the last three pages of the 7th book that encompassed the movie while in the theater. We loved having babysitters for Caleb!
It was a great vacation!

Sewing + Caleb Video

Here is my new Christmas present that came in the mail this last week:

I am so excited to get this because ever since we found out we are having a girl I've been constantly wanting to make things for her like dresses and headbands. I saw on a blog that you can make skirts on onesies. Here are the three I've created so far, the bottom one being my favorite:


Derrick, Caleb and I went to Chili's for dinner a few weekends ago and on one of the tiles on the table were the three colors: navy blue, white and bright yellow. I said to Derrick,"That tile would be so cute on a little girl dress. So, when I went to JoAnne's to get fabric for another onesie dress, I had my eyes out for those colors. That is where the idea for my favorite onsie dress came from.
I am thoroughly enjoying sewing and after one more onesie dress, I'm going to go for a real dress. Wish me luck!
For a Caleb fill, here's one thing he likes to do with dad because I almost never let him play at the sink:

Right now Caleb is actually sick with a runny nose, sometimes fever and we think ear infection. I'm going to try to make a doctor's appointment first thing tomorrow morning. Right now, the poor boy has been laying down for over an hour and a half and still can't fall asleep for his nap. It is so sad to see your kid sick!

Christmas Party, Treats and Presents

For a month now I've been hyping up Caleb for Santa. I got books from the library with Santa, found a video with Elmo and Santa and point out Santa pictures in all the stores. I though Caleb would be prepared for meeting him but I was wrong! Caleb was really nervous walking up to him but he would stand next to him and let Santa talk to him. See:

As soon as we tried to get Caleb close to Santa for a picture the situation turned from this:

To this:

Oh well, at least he made one friend:

That night I was a part of the entertainment. After leading the children in Jingle Bells and Silent Night I played a duet that I had played with my piano teacher in high school. My mom wanted us to film it so here's a little over a minute of the song. While Derrick was filming Caleb pointed to the screen and said, "Mom." He was excited to see his mom playing, which makes me happy.

Caleb got a nativity set in the mail from his Grandma Isaacson and he was so excited to get it open:

Caleb has also been enjoying the treats of the season. Here Caleb is sporting chocolate:

Things to Remember

1. Two weeks ago we were at the grocery store. Caleb waved and said "hi" to everyone that looked at him. In the checkout line Caleb said "hi" to the lady behind us:
Caleb: Hi
Lady: Hi, what's your name?
Caleb: Kay Kay (this is how he always says his name)
Lady: I'm Joan. Are you out shopping with your mommy?
Caleb: (pointing to my chest) mama

2. Yesterday I get a phone call around 5pm when Caleb and I are walking in the house from our last outside trip for the day. Caleb is never happy to come back home because he loves being outside so much. I turn on the lights put Caleb inside the house, close the door and I stand outside to talk on the phone because I couldn't hear over Caleb's crying protest to stay outside. After a minute Caleb is quiet but I stay outside. Then I see Caleb at the window. He looks at me, waves, and smiles really big like he was saying, "I found you."
Caleb disappears again. He comes back to the window holding the prescription hand cream box I had just picked up that day. Earlier I had told him not to get into the bag with the cream in it. When he held up the box he smiled really big again, shaking the box, it was like he was saying, "I got this even though you didn't want me to." Then he opens the box and pulls out the tube. Showing that to me too. The look on his face was priceless. That memory made me smile many times last night.

3. When Caleb wakes up, Derrick and I like to get him and bring him back into bed with us. However, Caleb is not very fond of sitting or laying still (I'm still waiting for a day when he will snuggle with me for more than 5 seconds). He will have us put him on the floor then he tells us "dow" for us to get down too. One morning when Caleb did this, Derrick sat up and turned to dangle his feet only inches from the ground. Caleb grabbed both of Derrick's feet and pushed them to the ground. Caleb means business when it comes to getting us out of bed.

4. Caleb loves this guy in our apartment complex named Doug. The things Caleb likes about him are: he makes funny faces at Caleb, plays peek-a-boo with him, does a funny dance for him that looks a little like an irish jig and says Caleb's name really deep. This morning Caleb saw Doug about 30 yards away on the other side of the parking lot. Caleb said, "Doug," then imitated Doug's dance and ran to him. It was so funny.

How in the world?

A few days ago we got a package in the mail: a beautiful painting that Derrick's grandpa Rudy did. After we took it out of the box and got the bubble wrap off we turned around and found Caleb decorating our Christmas tree with the styrofoam peanuts from the package. We didn't put any ornaments on the tree so we have no idea how he knew you were supposed to decorate a tree with more than just lights. I am always amazed at how smart he is for someone so young.