Janelle's birthday weekend!

We went for a winter adventure this last weekend for Janelle's birthday with our new and improved family. Going to a new place with an infant is quite the experience. Some of you may not know but the Lord has been faithful and has helped us help Caleb to sleep through the night! We were a bit scared about testing his abilities in a new environment, but again, He was faithful.
Our adventure took place at John's families cabin up in Shaver Lake. The night we went up there, snow came! There hadn't been snow for quite a while, so this was a wonderful surprise. In the morning, we woke up to a beautiful, new blanket of snow. We bundled Caleb up in his Super Duper warm outfit and went on a walk. Oh yeah, and don't forget Addie, she LOVES the snow!

BTW, that isn't a muzzle on Addie's nose, just a super training collar that makes it impossible for her to pull, a necessity when trying to manage her and a stroller simultaneously!
Matt falling down - good thing he didn't wake up Caleb!
Addie continually loses sticks in the snow since they would just fall through the super soft, fresh powder. We eventually landed ourselves this great stick and she never lost it:)
A Winter Wonderland!
Addie had snow all over her, including her belly hair. She ended up getting snowballs attached to all of her underside and it took a bit to get them off (see next pic).
We had to massage the snowballs while we had heat flowing on them. Needless to say, she had a bit of an impromptu hair cut before the next walk.Our sweet little boy! The red cheeks after his walk were just too much!
We decided that we all could go cross country skiing while Caleb napped. However we didn't want to stay in the cabin for that, so he just napped on Uncle John's back while we skiied. Uncle John is the best skiier, hence his safe back. And any guesses on Addie's occupation in the background? haha
She had 1/3 cup of butter the day before, oops!
We had sooo much fun skiing! This is Matt bombing down the hill:)
Then me of course!
Afterwards....Caleb is a bit grumpy since waking up from his nice schnooze. I wanted to put this picture in to show that he doesn't ALWAYS smile.
The other one was a great stick, this one however was great AND mighty! She never got this one thrown for her.
And, Matt falling down:)
The birthday girl!

Caleb and friends

So aparently Caleb is now old enough to notice and interact a bit with other babies. This is kind of fun to see him discover other babies the same way he discovers new objects..usually by grabbing and putting them in his mouth. There is a great example of this down the blog a bit. This picture was taken at our Mommy group. The two other babies are Brandon (Bekah and Darrin Beady's boy - the one with the great expresssion!) and Micky (Lauren and Cory Raferty's boy). They kept taking toys away from eachother and every so often one would tip over, attempt to crawl, freak out cause they can't crawl yet and then get propped back up by mom again:)

Hang out time in the park with Ethan (Janel and Rick Armet's boy). This is what I was talking about.
Reaching....
Grabbing....
Trying to put in mouth (Darn it! He won't fit!)
Reassessing.....
Goin in! (Janel and I plan to use this as blackmail in the future - it should work we think)
He wanted my camera so badly that I just took advantage of the situation and took a self-portrait
I asked the pediatrician last week if he could eat some dirt yet and he said it was fine. So when Caleb picked up a dirty leaf, I just grabbed my camera
His first dirty boy face!
Thanks for lookin!

6 Months Old and ALL SMILES!

Daddy and Caleb
Caleb playing with his friend Bree. Well, maybe not "playing" exactly:) Discovering together may be a better term.
Caleb and Auntie Jessica - Caleb will have many aunties - many beautiful ladies that will love him for his lifetime.
Caleb is sporting a new smile, notice his two bottom teeth:)
Some lovely naked walking time with Grammi

Enjoying the view....

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!