Swimming!!!

Rachel gave Mom this really cute bathtub for bathing Kaleb at her house. It is an inflatable turtle and Kaleb LOVES it. So, on the Fourth of July, we got the great idea to use it for a swimming pool!! It was a BIG hit! Kaleb LOVES swimming!

We even worked on kicking our feet!

All of this completely exhausted him!!

And even more than swimming outside--Kaleb LOVES swimming NAKED!!

All of the feet kicking practice is working!!

Cousins

I LOVE that Kaleb has cousins, and I know that his cousins are SOOO happy to have him. This picture is just one of many that proves this point! But, I think I have to give Conner the Best Big Cousin award! He can be in the middle of watching something "really interesting" on tv and he will take a break to check on Kaleb. In this picture he was telling Kaleb how much he loved him! He then proceeded to ask "is Kaleb big enough to have a belly button?" Which he then needed to inspect! It was too cute! I guess because he knows that babies start with the umbilical cord stump, he figured that they don't get their belly buttons until it falls off. Which, technically, I guess is right! Thank you Conner, Micah and Joey for being such good big cousins!

Hands!?!

Kaleb has discovered his hands!! This past week we have been VERY amused by all of our hanging toys! He can make the ball in the Zebra's mouth play music and sometimes he can even catch the butterflies!! When this happens, you would think that they had super glue on them. He will hold on to the butterfly for at least 5 minutes and is SOOO proud of himself!! Of course, finding his hands does have a downside. My earrings, glasses, necklace, hair, neck, lips, nose, eyes...all are in grave danger!

Not only can he grab things intentionally, but he can now pinch intentionally! I know, you are all thinking, oh-now he's not doing it intentionally...bull...he knows that if he pinches the back of my arm I will speed up the serving of his dinner!

On another note--we weighed Kaleb last night and he is a whopping 15.3 lbs!