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!

New Pics

Kaleb is getting so big and is really beginning to be "aware" of his surroundings. The best thing in the world is walking in from a long day at work and having Kaleb recognize me! He gets sooo excited, of course, part of this is because he knows that I mean dinner, but hey--he's happy to see me!

Fun with Poppy!

I am so blessed to be able to leave Kaleb with Gammie and Poppy while Kevin and I are at work. If there was any doubt that he would be well cared for or played with, they are definitely washed away by these pics! I called Mom yesterday on my way home and could hardly hear her over the coos from Kaleb and baby talk from Poppy. You could tell -even over the phone- that they were having a blast! I am actually not sure who was having more fun--Kaleb or Poppy!




Kaleb -who is of course the smartest 2 month old EVER-- has learned some tricks!
One of his favorite things to do is stand up! If he is sitting and you grab his hands--he's going to pull himself up. If you try to keep him from standing up and just pull him up to a sitting position--he screams! He some times stands up so much in one day that his little legs will be shaking!




His other favorite past time is blowing spit bubbles! He's actually gotten pretty good!

I cannot wait to see what other "tricks" he has in store for us!!

Big Boy!!

Well, as most of you know, Kaleb is a little piggy!! At last weigh in (last week) he weighed a whopping 13.6 lbs. He is growing soooooo fast! So fast, in fact, that his usual milk feedings just aren't cutting it! So, we have begun a little cereal! He LOVES it!

I just cannot believe that he is already eating (well sort of) from a spoon! And boy does he have an attitude! You almost cannot shovel it fast enough into his mouth. And trust me, he lets you know if you are not going fast enough! He is such a piggy that you can barely even burp him anymore. Everytime I stop feeding him to burp (which usually is only once) he screams at the top of his lungs! This is no cry-it's a scream. High pitched, mouth wide open, neck stretched, legs out straight, SCREAM!! It's really too cute! A little annoying at 5 am--but still cute!!

Our House!!

Ok, so I know that this post is a long time coming, but we've been pretty busy! We still don't have internet, so I am trying to get things posted from work!! Anyhow, here's our new house!!

This is us signing our lives away! If you've never bought a home--it's Ridiculous!! There were soooo many papers to sign and most of them said the exact same things.
I thought this looked pretty cool--our house coming down the dirt road!

This is our house in it's final resting place!

Kaleb enjoyed being outside while they set up the house!

He also had a good time playing with Poppy!

This is my FAVORITE part of the house! My BIG bathtub! It's AMAZING!

The second best room in the house! My closet (which has turned into OUR closet)

This is our kitchen from the living room!

And more kitchen!

Our view from the kitchen/dining room windows! So much better than someone else's house, backyard or a street!!! Yay for the country.

Then there's the view from the front. Not as nice ;) Just kidding! It's really great being so close to Mom and Dad--yet still in a separate house!!!

So, this is it. Our new house! There are, of course, more rooms--but I won't bore you with the pics of emptiness! We have actually finally moved in and are almost unpacked! I will get pics of that up as soon as the house is clean!! (If that point in time ever exists!!)