Snow/Christmas party

An unusual event happened last Saturday morning. It snowed!! Of course this was the Saturday that we were taking Caleb to get Christmas pictures made that morning so he didn't have much time to play in it. So, right before we left we went on the deck to see how he liked the snow. I had to place him on the snow in order to get some pictures. He wasn't sure he wanted to be on the snow. He walked back over to the place on the deck where there wasn't snow to stand on. I think if we had more time out in it he would have liked it. He better like it we are going to spend a week in Wisconsin where they should have lots of snow!

Walking back to the clear spot

Checking out the snow thinking "I don't want to be out here where it's wet and I can get dirty!" haha

His 2 main comfort items he rarely lets go of...his paci and "choo choo book".

Mom's Night Out Christmas party with the playgroup friends. We ate at the Acropolis restaurant and had an ornament exchange. It's always a fun time with these ladies!


Today was the last day of school for this year! So all the classes had Christmas parties and book exchange. I was able to escape my classroom for a few minutes to be with Caleb. Here is Caleb eating his hot dog since he will not eat the pizza provided. :) He did eat the Goldfish and sugar cookies that were brought.

Looks like he's trying to take a juice box

He ate the sugar cookies!! First time ever!! The teachers helped them decorate the cookies with icing and sprinkles but he did not want to eat that one. He just pointed to it and talked about it's "2 eyes". :)

I am just shocked he ate the cookies! He must not have had enough lunch so he was forced to eat them. haha

The kids got to pick out the gift they wanted. So Caleb picks out the gift bag instead of the wrapped presents. I told him to open it but instead he took it to his teacher thinking he was supposed to give it to her. He was probably remembering when I tried to get him to take his teacher her gift on Tuesday but he wouldn't do it.

Reading the 2 books he opened. He got a Tiger and Winnie the Pooh book. The Thomas book in the picture is the one from class that he didn't want to put down as usual. I finally got him to look at his new books. :)

What we've been up to

I need to post some pictures from Thanksgiving. Our Thanksgiving was just ok this year since Jim was sick and didn't get to join us at my parents for the meal. So, Caleb and I went to eat and brought Jim home some leftovers. The food was great!!
Here are the only pics I took that day of Caleb and my Dad rolling the plastic pumpkin..

The 3 year old class that I teach at preschool dressed up as Indians for the Thanksgiving program at the school. Here is my class in the costumes the kids help make with us.

Caleb got out and played in the leaves a few weeks ago. He would jump in as long as Jim would jump in first.

Tonight we walked a few blocks from our house to the Rossville Christmas Parade. Our neighbor Sydney and Misty joined us at the parade. Caleb did not enjoy the loud sirens or marching bands but other than that he seemed to like it. He even ate a sucker that was thrown to him from one of the floats. He will not eat any candy so this was a big deal that he ate a sucker. Maybe he was interested in it when he saw us pick it up off the ground or that it was thrown to him. Who knows! He might not eat another one till next year!

He is watching down the road to see what is coming

Proof that he ate the sucker! :)

Field Trip and Halloween

The preschool took a field trip to the Enchanted Maze. It was a fun time and Caleb loved leading Jim and I through the maze. He also loved the cow train and hayride.

Don't we all look so happy?? HAHA We really were having a good time!!

Halloween Day we went to my parents church Woodland Park for thier "Fall Festival". Everything was moved indoors due to the rain. That night we went to our church "Harvest Happenings" which was also indoors. It was so crowded and spread through out 3 buildings. We had a fun filled day and Caleb seemed to love being Thomas.

Trick-or-Treating at Sydney's house

Playing games at our church- he loved this baseball game. Luckily we got there before it was a long line to play.....he had a hard time waiting his turn!

So glad my parents came to help me with Caleb since Jim was busy face painting. I also had my friend Misty with me and she was busy chasing her daughter Sydney around. I could not have kept up with my child and staying close to Misty too.

It was a good Halloween but let's hope next year it can be outside!!

October 26, 2009

So here is what we did on Caleb's actual birthday this past Monday.

Monday morning I called my parents up to go with us to the Pumpkin Patch playground on Signal Mtn. I seem to only think to go here during the fall...I guess due to the name of it. I love this playground...especially the really long slide. So, I was going to go down the slide with Caleb but he sat down, turned over on his belly, and was off before I knew it! He had a look of fear as he was going down and since it makes you go so fast he fell of the end into a pile of leaves. He didn't like that at all so he would never go back down the slide again. I went down a few more times and as I would ask him to go with me Caleb would just wave at me and say "bye". :)

Of course why go to a huge playground when all the boy wants to do is swing.

Eating our lunch

This was almost exactly 1 year ago...in the same spot as the picture below.

He does not like his hands dirty so that is the reason for the expression...he's thinking I'm not playing in this dirty sand!

Monday night we took Caleb to the mall to ride the train and eat at Chick-fil-A.

Playing on the playground in the mall. At least the huge slide experience earlier in the day didn't scare him away from this tiny slide. :)

It was a Happy Birthday for Caleb!!

2nd Birthday Party

Today we had Caleb's 2nd Birthday party at our church on Germantown Rd. It was originally planned at the Rossville park but we moved it due to cooler weather/rain. It turned out to be great at the church. It was a small party with only 3 kids but it was nice. Not everyone could make it that we invited...including Jim's parents. It was strange having a party with them not here. They will be here in a few weeks so we will just celebrate again with them.

His actual birthday will be Monday so we are planning a few activities to do on that day and we will give him the rest of our presents.

Here are the pictures from the party today

Caleb and Sydney

Caleb eating with his friends- Sydney and Cody

Trying to blow out the candle

Caleb still will not eat cake!

His friends were more interested in opening presents than Caleb was

They all want this one!! Shopping cart!

Caleb loves his new automatic train...this never stops running as long as Caleb is awake. Ha!