There's A First For Everything

I know I've said it before, but this time I mean it...Caleb is sick for the first time. I thought he was sick before, but then a few hours later he'd be fine. This is different. For the past few days he's been eating a lot less than usual, but I thought that he was just taking on normal toddler eating habits finally (not that I was looking forward to this). Last night he woke up around midnight crying in his sleep. I just went in and rubbed his back and he fell right back to sleep. This morning, he slept in until 9, three hours later than his usual 6am wake up. I heard him crying as he woke up, not typical, so I headed up only to find him still sleeping but crying in his sleep again. He woke up as I stood there over him, and when I picked him up I knew instantly that he was sick. He was soooo hot! I quickly took his temperature to discover that it was 102, and being that this was the first time he was really sick, I called the doctor right away. Of course it turns out that he just has a viral infection so we're just going to be doing lots of fluids and ibuprofen to keep the fever down. It's 1:30 and all he's eaten is a few goldfish crackers. Poor little guy! Hope he's better before our vacation.

Here he is laying in our bed this morning brushing his teeth. I put him in there so I could get dressed, and he didn't move. When I brushed my teeth he demanded to brush his too (as usual), but just layed there with the toothbrush. He looks so sad here :-(

Ceek

One of Caleb's favorite things to do in PA was visit the Ceek (aka Creek) with Memaw, Pappy, Aunt Dani, and Uncle Matt. Unfortunately, we didn't go for the first time until the next to last day we were there. After seeing how much he loved it, we decided to go back a second night only to be forced to leave after 10 minutes thanks to rain. Now that we're back in Arizona where there are obviously no Creeks or other natural bodies of water safe to swim in, we have to be very careful about using the "c" word. Below are a few shots courtesy of Uncle Matt.

Getting ready to throw another rock.


Splashing!


And a nice family shot.

Trains and Tantrums

Tonight we Caleb had some fun playing with his trains.

Somewhere around the middle he starts talking about tunnel mountain. We think this comes from our trip to Pittsburgh when where we went through all kinds of tunnels that we described to Caleb as being cut through mountains. (Sidenote: We need more tunnels in Phoenix. We've had to resort to calling every bridge we go under a tunnel.) You'll also notice that he's mastered saying his own name. For a while there we were just getting, "Ca" but now we get the full, "Cay-yub" as in "Cay-yub push it."

And I can't even begin to describe how much I LOVE his train noises at the end, "Choo Choo, woo woo!"



Just before I took this video, we caught a good sample of Caleb's newly developed tantrums.

Tantrum

Certainly not the most dramatic example we've seen recently, but just as unexplainable.