"Painting" and Pool

We refinished the used swing set Derrick's parents just bought. Caleb loved to help paint. We gave him some paint in the lid as you can see in this video but he soon realized others were getting paint straight from the bucket and he wanted nothing more to do with the lid. He got pretty dirty but he had fun. The day after we did it he was showing Derrick everywhere he "painted."

We had a fun Saturday night. We went to the community pool. I stayed out of the pool with Brynn and Caleb had fun with everyone else. One of his favorite things to do was watch the kids come down the medium sized water slide. He also loved the water shooting out of the ground. I was surprised to see him jump from the edge of the water into Grandpa's arms.

Brynn is doing well. She is an allstar sleeper. I thought Caleb was good with sleeping through the night at 2 1/2 months, Brynn did that before she even hit 2 months. She loves to lay on the floor and look at lights. She is often more happy on the floor than in our arms, go figure that one out. Caleb is still so sweet with her. He will often stop when he is walking by her and say, "Hi Bwynn."

Father's Day Stitches

At 2 years and 2 months Caleb got his first stitches. He fell off Grandma and Grandpa's bed, hit the side table directly above his left eyebrow and split his head open. It didn't bleed a lot but boy was it opened up wide. I did not want to see Caleb get stitches so Derrick and his dad took Caleb to urgent care. Derrick said it was good I didn't go. They put Caleb in a straight jacket, the assistant held Caleb's head still and they put a cloth completely over his face, except where the stitches were being done. Caleb was crying like he was going to die. I'm sure I would feel the same way too in his position. Derrick talked to Caleb (not that it helped much) and watched the procedure. Derrick said when they cleaned it out it was twice as deep and when we saw it *shiver.
However, after the 3 stitches were done they gave Caleb a lollipop and he was much better. In fact, Caleb went straight from urgent care to nursery at church and he did great. I did feel a little bad though because they missed the cookies and brownies that were handed out to all the dads at church. Sorry guys!

Photo Shoot

I wanted to take some newborn pics of Brynn and 2 year pics for Caleb. Lisa has a friend from high school with a nice camera and he loves to take pictures. We set up a little make up studio in the kitchen and took some pictures there and in the backyard. I think they turned out so well! Brynn is a month and a half in these pictures so it's not brand new but it's close enough for me. I didn't show Derrick the pictures until yesterday for Father's Day. I printed out my favorites and put them in a frame for a decoration for our new home, whenever we get one.

Family Fun Day

On Saturday we had a stake activity where Caleb enjoyed the ice cream, bouncy house and playing in a sand pit.


First smile caught on camera and a video.

Jungle Jim's

Clever name isn't it? Caleb, Brynn and I headed out to Jungle Jim's. Brynn was so good, she stayed asleep in the stroller the whole time. Caleb had been there once with Grandma and he had fun but not as much fun as I thought he would have. Maybe it was because it was his second time there.

Caleb did love the rides you put tokens in. His favorite part was actually putting the tokens in the slot.

His favorite ride was the jeep:

A close second was the airplane:

Loving Life

This is now one of Caleb's favorite things to do. The neighbor has a bigger slide that he also likes to do this with. We have even started bringing a car or two to the park with us so he can do it there too.

I just though Caleb was so cute that I got out the camera and started asking him random questions.