A birthday in pictures

We started the birthday festivities on Tuesday night, by giving Caleb his presents because we knew we were going to be busy on Wednesday.



"Reading" his first birthday card.



Playing with his "push and ride" toy.



This farm wasn't actually a birthday present, but a sweet family at church was getting rid of some toys and thought of Caleb. It has become his new favorite toy. He plays with it every day. And he received it on Wednesday night at church, which was his birthday, so I guess technically, it was a birthday gift.


And now on to the big party. We had a cookout at the pool, which was alot of fun.



The boys taking a swim.



Cute Simon cooling off in the kiddie pool.



Caleb in his birthday hat, which stayed on his head for approximately 30 seconds.



Caleb's cute cake. He went straight for the goldfish first. I'm not sure he realized that the rest was edible.



But he eventually figured it out and dove right in.



We hope you had a wonderful first birthday Caleb!! We love you.

Caleb's Birthday!!

Caleb had a great 1st birthday!!  I haven't had a chance to upload any pictures yet, but it will happen before I go to bed tonight.  But for now, I'll just tell you about his birthday.

His actually birthday was June 23, so last Wednesday, and he had his doctors appointment (is it mean of me to schedule that on his actual birthday??) and then church that night.  Everything was good at the doctors office.  He's still growing well, and getting bigger and bigger.  He got his first sucker after his appointment and it took him a few minutes to figure out what he was supposed to do with it, but as soon as it hit his mouth he caught on pretty quickly.

We gave him his presents Tuesday night since we had church on Wednesday night, and he loved them all.  One of his favorites is a VeggieTales book that plays music (over and over and over and over ...which may have been a mistake).

We got his new carseat and he now gets to face forward, such a big boy.  He loves it, particularly since he can see the DVD player in the van.  He likes being about to see me and Charles too.

He is so close to walking, I feel like it will happen any day.  He has taken his first few steps, and will take 3 or 4 steps before losing his balance or just sitting down, but he's not officially a "walker" yet.

I can't believe it's already been a year and he's getting so big!!

On Saturday we had the big party, but I'll post about that later tonight, along with some pictures.

Randomness (is that a word?)

It's been very hot around here.  Like, unless you're in water, it's pretty much miserable, but that's summer, I guess.

I haven't written in a long time, I know, and I'm sorry, but I decided I'll write when I want to, have time to, and feel like it, and if I don't, then oh well. 

I'm almost 12 weeks pregnant now, and so far, so good.  It's different than it was with Caleb, not better ... not worse, just different.  I've been to 2 doctor's appointments and had 1 ultrasound so far.  The ultrasound was to figure out a due date, and it's January 9th for those who are wondering.  We haven't gotten to hear the heartbeat with the Doppler yet because it was still a little too early at my last appointment, but we did hear and see it on the ultrasound, which was fun.  I didn't get an early ultrasound with Caleb because we were pretty certain about my due date, so I enjoyed getting one this time.  I have another appointment at the beginning of July, and then at my next we should be able to find out whether it's a boy or girl. Yay!!

This pregnancy seems to be going by faster than my last, probably because I'm so busy chasing Caleb around all the time :)  Speaking of our little man, he will be 1 on Wednesday!! Can you believe that??  I certainly can't.  We're having a little party this weekend and I will make sure to take some pictures.  Our baby is growing up.

I'll leave you with a picture of our cutie pie :)