Category: Caleb (Page 15 of 26)

Dear Caleb,

Happy seven months! And Happy New Year… it’s odd to think that you were born last year!

This last month was full of excitement for all of us. We celebrated your first Christmas. It was a wonderful, and busy time, and we enjoyed sharing our traditions with you and starting new ones as a new family.

You got totally spoiled by everyone. But by far, your favorite gift was wrapping paper, tissue paper and boxes. Your little face would light up everytime I open the door and the mail carrier was there with a package. You loved tearing into the boxes, and playing with all that packaging. And you are a present pro! You wanted to rip the paper off all of them – even the gifts that weren’t your’s!

Now that we have sent things to the recycling bin, you have really started to get into your toys. Your little face lights up and you laugh with joy every time you make your learning table light up, the aquarium fish turn, the dino roar, or make cookie monstor say hello. And you love reading through all your new books, and looking oh so cute in your new outfits.

The greatest gift for us has been watching your happiness. Although, if you ask daddy, his greatest gift was the fact that you learned to say dada while he has been on holidays, and you call out hi dada all the time. I appreciated the six hours of sleep you gave me Christmas night – I guess I forgot to say my Christmas wish was you’d do that everynight! Oh well… all in good time! The smile you give me everyday is better than present!

Thank goodness, you didn’t discover the joy of the Christmas tree and all those tempting dangling ornaments until last week!

And although you asked Santa for your two front teeth for Christmas, they didn’t arrive until the New Year. The last few nights you have slept horribly, and yesturday I discovered why… your two bottom teeth are poking through your gums – and they are sharp! We’ve given you lots of teething toys, but the best has been frozen applesauce in your fresh food feeder. You sure enjoy that!

In fact you enjoy alot of foods these days. Some of your favorites have been squash, sweet potatos, yams, banana, applesauce and most definately cantaloup. You don’t seem to like avacado or peas! And of course you love your rice cearal cookies!

You love to be able to sit at the big table with everyone, and to be able to eat foods with us when we eat out at resturants.

You also love to see what is going on and to be part of the action. Your curiosity has you creeping, rolling and dragging yourself across the room. You are now able to get yourself up into a sitting position or do the opposite and go from sitting to your tummy or back. And recently, you have started to pull your self up on your knees so you can reach the top of your toys, into your new toybox or try to grab things off the coffee table.

This last month, you also graduated from our Babytalk group. You were starting to roll over some of the younger ones, and stealing other babies toys, so it’s probably a good thing. But it is sad that the group we have been a part of since you were only 6 weeks old is now done. We’ll be starting some new grops soon, and it will be fun to see how you interact with older babies, and how much you’ll be moving around to keep up with them. I have no doubts that you will hold your own, as you are already a social little guy – with quite a few girlsfriends that you love to play with and kiss!

Daddy and I are really looking forward to starting the new year off with you, and being part of all the wonderous discoveries and milestones you will encounter as we head towards the end of your first year. Thanks for making 2005 the most wonderful year. Your arrival was the most fantastic part of the year, and each day keeps getting better and better. (And even better still when you learn to sleep a little bit longer at night!)

We love you little snowflake!

Love,
Mommy
xo xo xo xo xo xo xo

Dear Caleb,

You are now 6 months old… that’s a whole half a year!! Wow! Time has flown by so quickly, that I can barely remember all the days that have encompassed the last 6 months. It makes me so sad to realize you are growing up so quickly and no longer my little tiny baby. But at the same time, I’m so in love with your wonderfully bubbly and mischevious personality.

Lots of things have happened this last month that has made me realize just how much you are getting older. You have started to eat solids, and you love it. So far we have given you organic brown rice cereal, a rice cereal cookie and some carrots. You adore your rice cereal. Sometimes I can’t get it in your mouth fast enough and you try to take the spoon and bowl yourself.

You are also on the move! During a recent trip up to Nanimo and Ladysmith, you crawled backwards across your friend Emily’s floor… and you haven’t stopped moving since. I am constantly chasing you around as you roll and wiggle your way backwards and sideways. You are trying very hard to go forward, and can get up on your hands and knees, and push off with your toes… I know anyday day now you are going to just take off!

Of course with all this moving around, you also get into everything! You love going after the remote control. You also insist on joining in the conversation if I’m on the phone, and just like your daddy you love to pound away at the computer keyboard! More than once you have locked the keyboard on me, and done things to the computer that I have no idea how to do! You also love to play with boxes! And you’ll drag your toys with you to exchange them for anything that belongs to mommy and daddy!

You also roll over towards your friends, and have now kissed and been kissed by many of your baby girlfriends. You also went up Keira’s skirt. We’ll have to keep an eye on you!

And you have learned to sit quite well. You still topple over sometimes, but can sit and play with a toy for a longer period of time now… unless mommy disappears out of the room. Then nothing keeps your interest. We have to discuss this separation anxiety thing!! Daddy is fun too!

And thank you for letting mommy and daddy go on a date! You had such a good time with Auntie Amanda, and you were so good for her. We’ll definately have to do that again! And mommy is going to start having some time to go out on her own- and trust me you’ll have fun while I’m gone too!

You’ve also found your loud voice… your very loud voice. Sometimes you scream out of excitment and pleasure (like in our baby games class) and sometimes you start yelling at us when you are crying. We’ve been working on baby signing to help you communicate with us. But I think we’ll have to start praising you for using your inside voice too!

Now that it’s the holiday season, you have experienced more firsts too. You recently went for your first visit with Santa – who thought you were a very good baby. You were mesmerized by your first Santa parade, have gone Christmas shopping (and got your first Elmo from great grandpa) and recently we went for a walk in the snow! (Rare for Victoria). Like the parade, you couldn’t quite figure out what the fluffy white stuff was!

You definately have your favorite activites too. You love to play peek-a-boo and any silly songs and games are a riot to you! We definately have a lot of fun now! And the laughter and smiles you give me everyday, makes the lack of sleep all worthwhile!

We can’t wait to enjoy our first Christmas together as a family. You are about to be spoilt to death by everyone!

We love that you have been a part of lives for the last half a year. You have made mommy and daddy so very happy! We love all 16 pound and 26 inches of you!

Happy 6 months Caleb!

Love,
Mommy
XO XO XO XO XO XO