He's a sponge!

Caleb has been doing lots of fun things lately...sometimes they're fun for Mommy, sometimes they're just fun for him! But they're cute anyway. Here are a few things he's done lately:

- We stopped on the channel of Dancing with the Stars the other night. As soon as he saw the people dancing and heard the music, he started turning circles (like he was dancing). He eventually fell, just in time for the end of the dance and clapped. He loves music.

- I was getting his shoes on the other day, which most of the time doesn't mean anything because he wants to wear his shoes all day long. This particular time, though, we were all getting ready to go outside, and I guess he had figured this out. As soon as I put him down, he walked immediately to the garage door and tried to open the door.

- He happened to open the drawer in our bathroom the other day and got a hold of a couple of Q-tips. He recognized them immediately and tried to clean out his ears. Good thing Mommy was standing right there to help him.

- He loves to play with the trash can, but since he was getting in trouble, he decided to find a "reason" to go to the trash can. So, any time someone will drop a piece of paper or he'd find the tiniest piece of fuzz, or pull off a piece of tape on Mommy's guitar case, he'd go right to the trash to throw it away.

- Sometimes Ryley leaves her food somewhere around the house. we're not sure why, but we don't like it, especially when Caleb liked to pick it up and put it in his mouth. Well, lately, we've been catching Ryley as soon as she drops it and put the food back in her bowl. This morning, he caught her and picked up the food and did just what Mommy & Daddy do...walked right to her bowl and put it back.

- Oh, and one more...he was very interested in the vaccuum today. I left the vaccuum at the end of the hall to do something else really quick. When I turned around, he had figured out a way to climb onto the base and was hollaring at me. I'm not sure if he wanted a ride or just for me to see him, but he held on for a good 5 minutes.

It's just crazy all of the little things that he picks up on. He thinks he's pretty big stuff. It makes you wonder why he pretends like he doesn't understand "No, please don't touch that." But we'll get there someday! :)

Blowing Kisses

Caleb has learned how to blow kisses. At first, he would just kiss his hand and wouldn't blow, so I tried to really accent the blowing part...now we have a kiss & yell...but it's still cute. He was doing this to someone in a store the other day, very loudly.

Where to start

Caleb has changed so much in the last few weeks. He's just learning new things every day. He's really beginning to try to copy us and the older kids that I watch. He loves to try play with the bigger kids, too. He loves youth group night where he gets to go to the church and walk around the huge parking lot with all of the jr/sr high schoolers. He has also grown into a pair of Nike high-top tennis shoes that some wonderful friends of ours from St. Joseph got for him. And he LOVES them! He will try to put them on himself and will fuss until we put them on him. Then he walks around like he's big stuff!

He also thinks that it's really funny when someone sneezes (especially Ryley). But yesterday, Jonathon sneezed and Caleb giggled. When we laughed, he decided to start "sneezing" himself. He would cover his mouth and lean his head forward and try to make a sneezing sound. Jonathon & I laughed really hard, so he kept doing it....over and over for several mintues. Sneezing and looking at us and giggling. What a character...wonder where he gets it from???

I'll have to try to get some video of him blowing kisses, but until then, here's a few pictures from recent days.

Sunday Afternoon

Today we came home from Church and it was too nice outside not to take advantage of it. I had been with a neighbor the other day and we came across a garage sale that had a basketball hoop like we'd been looking for and so I quickly nabbed it. So today we let Caleb play with it for the first time, and as you can see...HE'S A NATURAL!

Then, once we took a little walk around the neighborhood, I started vacuuming while Jessica dusted. Neither one of us was watching him closely and this is what we found after only a minute of neglect.