Busy week for Caleb...

Here he is making faces with Nana and Grandad
(my mom's parents). They came to eat lunch with him (and me!)
My dear Aunt Joan (my mom's sister) turned 50 this year and
had a huge party at her house! Here she is with a pretty smile!
Family photo op...eatin' cheesecake!Caleb met a girl about his age named Hayden...she was precious!
Here, they were hugging for the first time! :)
Look at those muscles!
Being silly with Uncle Ben!Playin' checkers with Nana!Hangin' out with Aunt Amanda! (she's actually my cousin)Loves to be on Papa's shoulders!Uncle Larry (Joan's hubby) and his awesome apron!My hubby and Amanda's hubby workin' so hard...Caleb sacked out after spending the night with Grandma and Papa!We installed a HUGE mirror in Caleb's room (4' x 4').
He loves to play in front of it, make faces in it, and pick up objects and "show"
them to his reflection!
Here is one of his serious faces!
Playing hide and go seek with Mommy...
I have a video of this but have problems loading it
onto the blog...if anyone has any suggestions as to
how to do this, please leave a comment on the blog!

Growin' up!

So, I finally got my pictures downloaded off my camera and thought I would post some. It's hard to believe that my little guy is over a year old (he'll actually be 13 months on Sunday!!). He no longer needs any help with walking, eats almost everything in sight, loves to help me "water" the plants outside, loves bath time (especially with bubbles!)

More grins for Mommy!
Prefers our large white fluffy towels to his smaller, thinner baby towels...go figure!
Has learned how to turn the water on and off in our sink!
This is his David Hasselhoff impersonation...
He wanted to go to church like this, but we made him button it up.
Trying to pick tomatoes...
Who knows what he is doing here!
Our lil' bookworm! Loves to read!
Do you see the spoon inside his onesie? Funny thing is, neither Eric
nor I put it there. One minute, Caleb was playing with a metal spoon. The next
minute, we see him wandering around with it inside his onesie...hmmm...
Does he not look like a baby Ghandi? Except he would never give up food.
Daddy and Caleb hangin' out!

Yikes

I might get thrown in Blogger Prison. I haven't posted anything in quite awhile...forgive me. I have a one year old.

Here are some pictures of Caleb at the July 4th celebration in downtown Hendersonville!

Caleb trying on an Indiana Jones hat in the Mast Store!
He loves to run around "naked"!
Watching the Independence parade!
He was so excited to get a balloon!
Having lunch with his friend, Aaron.

Well, he is now MOBILE!! Starting a few weeks ago, he would take a few hesitant steps, lose confidence in himself, then plop to the floor. It progressed from there, and before we knew it, he is pushing himself from a sitting to a standing position, and walking across the whole room with no problem! He really enjoys it! I need a leash though...

Funny story

and true too!

So, Uncle Ben came over tonight to play Xbox with Eric. I had just given Caleb his bath and asked the guys to keep an eye on him while I made up his cereal. I could tell that they were not really "watching" him, but rather had their eye on game. It was one of those war games, and Ben was about to kill Eric (virtually, that is), things were getting tense, Eric was crying for help, Ben was laughing maniacally, when suddenly....

the screen went blank.


Caleb had pushed the eject button on the Xbox console.


That's my boy.
:)