Gran and Gramps bring a suprise!!!

A few days ago Gran and Gramps (my parents) brought Caleb a suprise! My Grandpa was very handy and creative when I was Calebs age...a LONG time ago. He made lots of things for us as children. He made the cradle that I slept in as an infant, and that my brother and sister and Caleb and lots of other foster babies have spent their firsts nights at home in! He also made among many other things, a table and chairs just our size! I ate countless lunches at this table with my brother and sister. Caleb loves this independence of having something his size that he can sit and have lunch at, play at, color at, drive his toot toots on ect. He has really enjoyed this table and I am sure he will for a long time to come. I am thankful for the memories that I have at this table and am sure Caleb will build lots of his own memories there too!

He is so funny, he posed for me to take this picture and kept his spoon just like that in his mouth for several pictures, he is such a cutie!

Visit with someone special!

A visit with Megan, Brandon and Cayla! It was very exciting a few weeks ago for Megan and her family to come and visit us at our house!! Caleb was super excited to get to play with Cayla and Maddison (Aunt Brittany and her baby Maddison came too)! It was a full house! Caleb liked playing with the two little girls and getting into all their things...diaper bags, car seats, ect...basically anything he wasnt supposed to have, but that goes with the territory of being almost two!

Its crazy to think that two years ago at this time we were meeting Megan for the first time. We are so blessed to know her and continue a relationship with her. Caleb and Cayla look alot alike, baby pics are very similar! Here are a few more pics from that night, Caleb loved to give Cayla kisses, even though we didnt catch him in the act on camera, maybe next time! They brought Caleb a Thomas book and train, Calebs all time favorite for a while now are 'toot toots' as he calls the trains. Its a big boy book with real paper pages, he hasnt even torn it up yet which is a record! Brandon is reading it to him for the first time in one picture, he loves books and trains so its the best of both worlds!!!

All in all it was a great visit, we hope to get to see them agian soon!

Swimming lessons...

Caleb and I have been doing the parent / child swimming lessons at the local YMCA. We really enjoy it, they are twice a week and only 10 bucks a month. They don't have them in August because of school starting back, but we will most likely start again in September. It gives us something to do and wears him out for bed time!! It is really more of a water adjustment class but there are kids that are swimming unassisted by their parent with just a swim belt on, he is getting alot better about kicking to get where he wants to go. He can also 'lide' as Caleb says it, off of the big slide into the water and jump in and I catch him. Then when there is 5 minutes left of class all the kids get to play in the splash area. This would be Caleb's favorite part! Anyway hope you enjoyed the pics!

Fun times...raising a boy!

Well tonight was a fun...make that interesting evening. We were having dinner after Caleb's last swim lesson for a little while, he ate really good so I gave him some raisins. Caleb loves raisins and has been eating them for a long time. Well, we were cleaning up and he was finishing his raisins when Brandon looked at him just in time to watch him stick one up his nose! Thinking we could get it out before it got stuck we tried everything from tweezers to trying to get him to 'blow it out'. Nothing worked and he was SCREAMING!!!! Not happy about us trying to get it out. So we packed our lil man up in the car (mind you he was FILTHY, I just let him eat in his t-shirt and underwear with no bib because bath time was right after dinner) and headed to the minor emergency room. Luckily no one else was there so we only waited about 10 minutes, then we go and he gets weighed (28.9 lbs) then go into the room and visit with the nurse etc. By this time it has been about an hour since he originally stuck it up his nose. Well she leaves the room and goes to get the Dr. no sooner did the door shut and Caleb made sneezed and guess what fell out! The raisin...so we told the nurse and they were nice enough to give us our money back...SO no more raisins for a little while...or anything else small enough to fit up his nose!!

More Summer Fun!

July has been a busy month around our house! Caleb has continued his swim lessons twice a week at the YMCA, its with me and its really more of a water adjustment class, but he wears a swim belt and learns how to kick and paddle. He enjoys it and at the end of class they get to play in the indoor splash pool with lots of spray things. It wears him out for bed time too!!

We made a trip to Wewoka a few weeks ago to swim with Lala and Papa (Brandons parents). We had fun swimming and grilling hamburgers and hotdogs!

July 5th we went to Choctaw, one of my roommate's from College has a little girl who was turning one! They live in Texas currently but came 'home' to Oklahoma to have a party for Kate! Caleb was much more interested in climbing the big ladder and going down the slide than anything else but we had a good time!

Better late than never...4th of July!

Well we had a fun fourth of July, I just never got around to posting anything or any pictures of it...so here goes. We started off the day by going with my parents to watch the Edmond 4th of July parade and let me tell you that is the LONGEST parade I have EVER heard of! It was fun and we were there to watch my nephew Jared ride a horse in it so it was all good but we did get there at 10 (we thought thats when it started) turns out it started like at 8:45, we left at 11:20 after seeing my nephew and it still wasn't over!! Where I grew up it was like a 20 minute parade and you were done! Oh well, it was fun!

Next we headed home for nap time after we all ate at Ihop. Caleb took a nap and we got ready for what we thought would be a late night...well it turns out the rain canceled the fireworks that night so we just hung out at home and then went out on the front porch and watched the fireworks from there. We were actually disappointed that we didn't get to go to a big fireworks show, at Disney world when we watched them Caleb loved them and the noise didn't scare him at all. Oh well there is always next year! Here are a few pics from the front yard standing in the light rain and watching what we could see from there.

Family Adventure...

Brandon loves history and old stuff, and I am learning how neat it is to learn about history and to see old historical sites and after being on vacation and visiting old plantation homes and learning that my cousin who lives there hadn't even visited them...we decided to find out what was around Oklahoma to visit! So, a few weeks ago we went on a family adventure, Caleb is such a good traveler, we loaded him in the car and took off to Ponca City to see the Marland Mansion. It was a beautiful mansion built by an oil baron back in 1927. We both enjoyed just walking around and looking. The home was really cool to look at and the huge estate and grounds around it were very fun for Caleb to run free. We had so much fun we decided to visit somewhere every month that we hadn't been to. Anything that has some kind of historical significance or just somewhere we haven't been and would like to visit so we started making a list of future family adventures! We want Caleb to grow up and we ourselves want to visit places and learn what makes Oklahoma so great! Here are a few more pictures of the first of many adventures!