Well, Yesterday Sept. 10th we were blessed with the happiest, giggliest, and joyful little guy you could ever ask for! Caleb was born at 8am, in Sept (9) on the 10th in 2011 (8, 9,10,11) I remember feeling a little overwhelmed to have a little boy, since our family and all my experience with babies has been with girls. What was I to do with a little boy?! But Caleb made everything easy. With that smile he can give, makes everything OK in a second. Some things about our Mr. Caleb...He is our little eater. Quite the opposite of his big sister. He is our little vacuum. It doesn't matter how much you vacuum, he will find some speck to pick up and try and eat, so he must be watched carefully! He is also our little bulldozer. I have yet to see an object that he will not attempt to climb over. There is no going around something...he just plows through and over. It's pretty funny, since Maddie is our little cautious one, and doesn't do anything that could inflict harm. Some of Caleb's favorite things, are Food, Balls ( oh, he loves balls!) he will chase balls all day along around the house! Loves cars that he can push and see fly around the kitchen. He crawls but does the classic army crawl. He is a turbo when he sees something he wants badly. Which typically would be his sister's hair. I think being a pesty little brother is born into him. He will drop whatever he is doing and if Maddie is on the floor, rush over to grab her hair. Which he thinks is hilarious! He has started to jabber like Maddie, the unrecognizable language that she does. By why wouldn't he, he hears it all day from her. ( O :
We celebrated his birthday a day early, with family. We were happy that Terryl's parents were able to be here to celebrate, it was a treat for us. Since Caleb is our little eater, we were excited to see him dig into the cake and have the "real" first birthday cake experience that we never had with Maddie. So we placed the cake in front of him...AND....nothing. He wanted nothing to do with it. Pulled some faces like it was the most terrible thing he has ever seen, and eventually started crying. For some reason.. my children do not like cake, it seems to terrify them!
We are so grateful to have this little man in our family. He has brought so much joy into our home. We feel we have been blessed with the best children ever! They have the ability to love everyone and to make those they meet so happy and that is a gift I pray they never lose. I think it's a special gift that most don't have. They have personalities all of their own. I like to think of myself as somewhat social and friendly, but these kids are so full of personality we just don't know where it all came from! It is such a privilege to have a wonderful son to raise, and I feel so grateful to be his mom.
Happy Birthday Caleb!!!
This is Caleb's happiest face during the Birthday Cake Process
