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!

"Yellow Ball"

Lately Caleb has found a new thing to do with his yellow balls as you can see below. He has many colors of balls but he can say "yellow" and so he picks those out. During the time he is doing this he is saying "yellow ball". He gets really mad if one of the balls falls off so I usually help him put one back to make things better. Of course these do not stay in the window 24/7...when he is done he throws them everywhere. :)

Being very careful not to make them fall!

And here is another finding in our window. All the animals/people from his toys. Notice how they MUST be facing so they can see outside. When we are outside I will tell Caleb that the animals are watching him play and he thinks it is funny.

He is always playing with this ball popper lately.

Notice all the orange/white in this picture...Caleb knows the color Orange. I am training him the right way- TN fan he will be!! :)

Just being silly!