Team Campo: January 2010

Reading

I was looking back through some Christmas pictures that never got downloaded from my camera, and I came across these two gems. The boys love reading!

With Pop Pop

Both boys were getting ready to take a nap. I had Caleb in my lap and was reading to both of them when Nick decided he needed to climb on up too. Then Andrew came to the door and captured this...

I've had this post set up with pictures and notes on all the new things Caleb has been doing this month, but I just couldn't bring myself to turn it into paragraph form. So I decided to leave it in bullet form, and I think it worked quite well {in fact I may just do this every month}.

New Words: book, shark {a bath toy}, frog, car, Gold {for Goldilocks in the Three Bears book}

New phrases: big boy, bad car/bad dog

New skills: climbing into his high chair alone, running {and I thought he was running before...ha! Now he can and does actually run away when we try to put a coat on him among other times throughout the day.}

Milestones: Two new teeth {for a total of 12}, dropped down to 1 nap at the beginning of January {I am amazed at how quickly this happened...literally overnight.}

Misc: still eating like a champ, prefers vegetables over meat, now enjoys swinging on big boy swing over sliding, took his follow up flu shots {seasonal and H1N1} without even a whimper.

Getting pictures this month was a challenge, and I forgot to put the bear in the shot {same thing at 8 months, see picture on the side. I must have an issue with multiples of 8.}

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?"

Temper tantrum city! Caleb is officially a toddler.

Here are some better shots from earlier that day (Jan. 17th)

"Are you talking about THIS book?"

"See Mom, I told you this is the book with Gold {Goldilocks}"

Analytical

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I love how Caleb has started getting down on the ground like this, and just quietly analyzing something. In this picture he's checking out a locking mechanism on the bottom of the sliding glass door.

Then he discovered me taking pictures.

Caleb's New Ride

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Hello. My name is Becki, and I'm addicted to looking at strollers. I once was sitting in a doctor's office and out of the corner of my eye I saw someone pushing a frame on wheels. I immediately thought, "What a cool stroller!" I turned my head to see an old woman pushing a walker! After the new year, I decided that I really needed to start making time to get back in shape and lose a few pounds. So I started stalking Craigslist for a deal on a jogging stroller. Much to my surprise, I found the perfect one. I had been lusting after a Baby Jogger City Classic stroller ever since I first saw them in the new Buy Buy Baby that opened in our area. I found a brand new BJCC for half of the regular price. The woman selling it has three small kids and had apparently gotten a gerat deal on a double and single version of the stroller. She decided that she only needed the double, and wanted to pass her savings on to another mom.

Since we picked it up from her a few weeks ago, Caleb and I have been taking {almost} daily jogs in our neighborhood stopping about halfway through to stop at the local park. Caleb gets to run around and work off some energy, and I get to watch him grow into a little boy! Here are a few pictures from our recent trips to the park.

Ready to go down!

At the top of the spiral slide.

"Wheeeeeeeee"

Check out Caleb's hair standing on end from the static electricity build up. Click on the picture to make it larger.

Ride 'em Cowboy! Caleb loves this horse at the park. He even knows how to make it bounce back and forth.

"Whhhhooooooaaaaa"

{Notice I'm wearing jeans in this picture, so it was obviously taken during one of the weekend walks to the park with Daddy.}

New Hair Cut

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For me, not Caleb. This is the best picture that I have {taken by me while holding a squirmy toddler}. I just love Caleb's face here!

Y3W

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Yes, Caleb turned 16 months old almost a week ago. Yes, I haven't posted a real entry in nearly three weeks. Yes, I promise to get something with more than three words and some recent pictures of Caleb up this weekend.

Y3W

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Y3W

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Driving

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About a month ago it became apparent that Caleb loves everything having to do with transportation (cars, trucks, planes, you name it!). While we were in St. Louis, he thoroughly enjoyed playing with any toy that had a steering wheel. Since we really hadn't gotten him anything for Christmas, I was trying to figure out what I could buy for him that had a steering wheel. Then I remembered that my dad had gotten him this car for his birthday, and it was still sitting in the box in our guest room. Last week while Andrew was still off for the holidays, we decided to assemble it, and Caleb is having a blast with it so far.

He even knew exactly what to do with the cup holder right from the start. This video is from the second time he used it. The very first time he just popped it right in there without any prompting...crazy!

Fattening Up

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My in-laws got me this Brownie Mix Bliss cookbook for Christmas, and it is the devil! Man do they know me well, or what! We had invited another couple over for New Years Eve and were planning to go to another couple's house for New Years Day. I decided that since we'd be around so many people in the coming days that it would be a great time for me to try out a few recipes from the cookbook. Four boxes of brownie mix and a few hours later, we were surrounded by a pan each of Rum Brownies, Cookies & Cream Brownies, Gingerbread Brownies, and 3.5 dozen Triple Chocolate Oatmeal Brownies. This book is to a Chocoholic what drive-in liquor stores are to an Alcoholic...they just make it too darn easy to get your fix! All of the recipes in this book start with a prepackaged box of brownie mix. Add to that a few pantry and refrigerator staples (eggs, butter/oil, vanilla, etc.) and you end up with desserts that can be made at a moment's notice.

Sounds good, right? Ughh...no! It turns out that the guests who were coming over on NYE decided not to come for dinner and really didn't eat much while they were here. Then on New Year's Day, we ended up being the only couple at the party besides the hosts. Fortunately, we were sneaky and took a whole bunch to the party and managed to leave it there (Hi Cortney and Larry!). Unfortunately, we've still got about a pan and a half of random brownies and a dozen or so cookies sitting around. So much for New Year's Resolutions! I should have left the cookbook in St. Louis and brought my sewing machine back instead leaving me 10 pounds lighter and snuggled under a new quilt!

Christmas 2009

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I've been meaning to post about our Christmas trip to St. Louis ever since we got back on Tuesday. I tried several times to upload pictures, but it was just too frustrating to sort through the pictures and then try to organize them on the blog. I decided to create a slideshow of the images and post that instead. So here's the montage of our trip, which included a visit to the train display at the Botanical Gardens, the Butterfly House, the Magic House (This place is AWESOME and makes the Phoenix Children's Museum look about as cool as our living room. Check out the website to see what I mean.), Christmas morning and Christmas dinner, and Caleb playing in the snow (we had a white Christmas!). The pictures are all out of order and intermixed (another task I didn't feel like taking on), but if you watch, you'll catch a glimpse of everything.

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