Our Family Christmas

This was our first Christmas as a family with Mr. Caleb. What a fun experience! Caleb was sitting up and playing with ribbons and even opened up a few of his own presents. He is rolling onto his tummy proficiently now and has even budded his first tooth on the day before Christmas! His second one is on the way now and it is not such a pleasant experience, especially at night time when there is nothing to distract him:(
Shellie is going to try to go back to work this month, we'll see how Caleb likes that?!

Janelle took some family pictures of us and they came out great!

Caleb helped Me bake some cookies. I keep telling him that someday he will LOVE my cookies!


The day after his 5 month birthday, he sat up all by himself and kept himself there! As you can see, we were amazed!Every year the Hermanns family gets together to decorate Christmas cookies, it is pretty fun.Matt and Aunt Harriet, I'm sure he will love that I put this lovely picture of him up on the internet:) Just don't tell him!
Caleb liked playing with the bells

Christmas morning!New Blocks!
Daddy and Caleb
He looks cute all wrapped up, eh?

Grandma Brown and Caleb

At the dinner table

and just looking darn cute!

Five Months Old!

Caleb is on the cusp of some great things right now...like rolling over to his tummy (which we have seen the result of, but not the act itself), sitting up, and getting onto his hands and knees. He is reaching and grabbing well now, so we have decided to get him his own high chair so we can all sit peacefully at the dinner table:) The booster chair in the picture below should work well in a month or so, he seems to be listing a bit in it now though:) He still super talkative, always making noise and we love it! We are all looking forward to Christmas with him, however I am sure the lights on the Christmas tree will steal the show for him. Have a Merry Christmas!
In his new jumper! He LOVES the yellow flower!

Caleb LOVES Addie! He reaches for her and just fixes her gaze on her whenever she is around. She is being very patient with him tugging on her hair whenever she gets in arms reach, this is good!The Sesnaks got us this backpack for Caleb. We tried it on a few weeks ago and it worked perfectly! We are looking forward to this summer, maybe we can get out:) He grabbed onto the handle and hung on while Matt walked around with him.
FEET! They are SOOOOO tasty!
Momma and Caleb!
Our favorite toothless smile!
Hanging out in his stroller
AWWW!

Grammi and Caleb

Hanging out in a basket

I was busy doing laundry today and didn't have any place to put Caleb, so he landed in a basket full of Clean clothes - I thought he was awfully cute, so he got his picture taken:) He is four months old now by the way.

Caleb is about to grow out of his swing. He insists on practicing his sitting-up skills, meanwhile scaring his parents cause he looks like he is going to fall out! He has a lap belt, but no shoulder strap. We are looking forward to the jumper we are about to get!

12 weeks!

It has been a bit since our last update and so much has changed! We seemed to hit a milestone at 6 weeks and then another at 10-11 weeks. He has slept through the night a few times and usually only wakes up once. He has just started taking some real naps in his cradle, which allows mom to do things like update blogs:) We are falling head-over-heels in love with him and are enjoying him completely! Now hold on while you scroll through many pictures of our little boy.

I just thought this one was funny, even though he is blurry.It was a cold morning:)
Bath time! I love that little bare butt! Now everyone can blackmail Caleb.
Standing practice continues...
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Again, he is blurry (the darn baby just won't sit still for a photo!), but his expression is priceless!
Hello
He can hold a rattle now, if manipulated into his hand:)
Post-bath sweetness
Tummy time is serious business!
His first band-aid from his first shot.
Hanging out in San Diego at Mom's house
Cousins! Cousin Cayson is in my lap and Madyson is holding Caleb - she loves to hold him!

Kristin's infant photo shoot

Troy, Kristin and Cayson Brown, Shellie's brother,sister-in-law and newphew came up to visit us when Caleb was just under 2 weeks old. Kristin is a professional photographer in San Diego and wanted to take some newborn shots of Caleb, which was wonderful for us! These are a few of the wonderful shots she took of our son and us:) Thank you Kristin!

This is my favorite! Papa and Caleb
Momma and CalebSleepy boy...
Bright Eyes
Our new family

There were a few accidents while trying to get this shot - Matt, you're my hero!

Bath time

Janelle was going to help me give Caleb a bath but got a bit distracted by how cute he was through the view finder of her camera:) Trust me, this is a VERY small sampling of the pictures she took:)

Thanks John for censoring this one!
AHHH.... My little boy!

dressed and ready to go!