Birthday Boy...

To my sweet and spunky 4 year old...
I cannot believe that 4 years ago today I held you in my arms for the first time and you became a part of our family. Today you are the joy in in my days, the laughter in my afternoons, the sweet kiss just when I need it, and the soft "love you Mama" for no apparent reason at all. It melts my heart. I need it, and I needed you and the Lord knew.




You are growing into such a sweet little boy, and you are curious, inquisitive, adventurous, and tough! You love to tell jokes that you make up and we always laugh because you are sooooo cute! You love to read books and especially love Bible Stories and you hang on every word of each story. You still love to dress up and pretend to be someone or something else-I love it and love your BIG imagination. You are content to play alone and do a great job of making up games, but you and your sister have a ball playing together and when she is gone to school you ask me when we are leaving to pick her up many times throughout the day. You are into sports! Do you have a choice? You love to play with balls-footballs, basketballs, baseballs and golfballs, and you enjoy riding your tricycle in circles chasing your sister. You are left-handed but use both hands when playing sports-just like your mama. You know your alphabet and can count to 20. You are learning to write your name. You love to play on my computer and try to play games on my phone as well. I am always surprised at how well you do with both of these activities. We have started Preschool at home two mornings a week and you seem to love it! You asked me last week if you could just call me mom and not teacher-too cute! I love it too and cannot wait to spend more time with you playing, creating and watching you learn all kinds of new things. Love you sweet Caleb! Happy Birthday!

Love,

Momma
Did I mention that you insist on wearing your hat backwards whenever you have one on-funny kid!

3 and 7....

Apparently when you are 3 you like to dress up in any available costume and run around for hours pretending to be something else. Everyday is like that around here.

Also, did you know that at 7 you know just about everything there is to know...like 100 + 100 = 200 and how to spell independent and so many other useful things. I apparently did not know but was informed today. You almost know enough that you really don't have to go to school but maybe you want more for your life and you decide that making friends, learning new things, and even doing the dreaded mad minutes in Math can be fun! Cannot believe that school is officially underway and I have a second grader in the house, which reminds me that I have a lunch to pack and some laundry to fold before tomorrow...Oh the un-scheduled days of summer are over! BOO!



The good news is that the first words at lunch that came from the aforementioned 7 year old were "Mom, I can't wait for tomorrow because I get to go to school again!"

funny conversation

Our conversation at dinner went something like this:

3 year old boy currently obsessed with animals and all of their behaviors:
(shaking his head while saying this)
"Mom, dinasaurs don't drive (pause)
they don't wear socks (pause)
they don't wear shoes either (pause)
Mom, they don't have tires"

6 year old sister who knows much more than her younger brother(at least in her eyes:
"They are also extinct!"

Daddy: "Do you know what extinct means?"

Sister: "Yes, of course, it means they are no longer living on the earth"

Daddy: "Okay that is right"

Brother: "Mom, Elephants don't wear socks, and they don't wear shoes.

Mom: "you're right, do elephants drive?"

Brother: "Mom, elephants don't have tires!"

You at 3.....

interested in tools and building projects. Carefully studies the directions on putting things together and says "Step 1 build a car, step 1 build a choo choo train, step 1 build a hawicopter" Watches the men closely that have done work on the homes we are fixing.

in love with your big sister...just prayed today at lunch for Jesus to bring home "his Halle" soon so they could play. They really do play together and most of the time are best of friends. You really are missing her now that she is in school 5full days a week.

loves cars and all that goes along with them...especially Lightning McQueen and Mater.

loves to read books and some of his favorites right now are Daniel and the Lion's Den, Lift the Flap Bible-especially the stories that include animals. Brown bear, Brown Bear what do you see? and Polar bear, Polar Bear what do you hear? Watch out for Mater, Pajama Time.

Is "ALL BOY" and full speed ahead at all times.

Is inconsistent lately with his afternoon napping. Some days he will still take a 3 hour nap and others he just talks and lays in his crib for 2 hours. Will be moving to a toddler bed soon! (I am in the process of painting it)

Seems to always have a terrific smile on his face...but does not hide his emotions and if he is upset he will definitely let you know. You have a great disposition!

Still enamored with trains and we have been doing lots of setting up and taking down of your train tracks lately.

Favorite animal is the elephant and you have been playing with any toy related to that for months. You and Halle and I always play like we are elephants around the house and march to the Jungle Book elephant song.

Loves to pray anytime of the day and always starts with Thank You Lord Jesus for....and then you list all that you are concerned about or thankful for. PRECIOUS!

Mommy is still your favorite person and that is just fine with me!

You are quite tall and thin now....with size 8ish feet EXTRA WIDE and wearing 3T clothes for about the last 6 months. You are very healthy and have not had one trip to the doctor or hospital in your little life other than for your well-child checkups.

Caleb, you are a wonderful blessing and the sweetest little person! It is fun watching you change and grow and develop into a little boy....although I wish it could slow up just a bit...it is happening so fast.

Bubbles are so fun....

We had so much fun with the bubble shooters that I bought for the kids the other night. They did very well until the end. I had bought two so they would not fight and then realized after opening them that I only had enough batteries for 1 and a half.....OH no....they shared and took turns and then at the very end the fighting began. They are siblings but we are still trying to teach them to share and that can be very hard to do at times. Needless to say, I am headed out today to buy some more batteries, bubbles, check Father's Day off the list, and some Sunday School craft items for my lesson tomorrow.






Here is a quick scrapbook page I made from the June Freehand Scraps kit....it is a favorite picture of mine from Halle's one year shoot and it is for the baby book that is slowly taking shape and the end is in sight!! Hurray!


I plan to stitch my journaling onto the page with the sun and cloud....should be finished soon, I hope.

Halle sabotaged my camera this week and took some of the funniest photos....this one is Caleb's current obsession with "wittle Tato head" as he calls him. He has been playing and playing with this and the big Tato head and now Halle is asking for a Mrs. Potato Head.


Have a great weekend!

Conversations

I have to jot these down so I can remember them....While driving down the road the other day...
Daddy: Halle, do you want to stop at Lamar's and get a doughnut?
Mommy: Does a bear live in the woods?
Halle: Yes of course bears live in the woods and this bear wants a doughnut!!

While doing the bible story in Caleb's nursery class with Nana at church:
Caleb: HAPPY BIRTHDAY you you! (translation-to you) while looking at the picture of the men at Pentecost with the tongues of fire on their heads. (We have celebrated too many birthdays over the last 3 months)

This afternoon, while I was working at my desk and Halle was coloring...
Halle: Mom, I think I need to have a bath again tonight.
Mom: Why?
Halle: My hair just fell into my hot chocolate while I was coloring.
I look over to see one ponytail drenched in hot chocolate and a very apologetic face on Halle. I had to laugh!