The Little Things

I was thinking this weekend how the little things make it all worth while. Caleb is at a challenging stage and Luke is wanting to nurse often, and all of this leaves me tired a lot of the time. However, there are so many precious moments I treasure.

When Luke was a few weeks old I was holding him while he was crying and his head was near my lips. Caleb suggested that maybe Luke was crying because he thought I was going to eat his hair. Too funny! - Friday night we got home and I was trying to get cereal ready for Luke in an unsuccessful attempt to help him sleep through the night. While I was preparing the cereal Caleb started entertaining Luke with a game of peek-a-boo. All of a sudden I hear the sweetest sound in the world - Caleb making Luke laugh for the first time. I went out to the van to get the video camera and was still able to get a couple minutes on video of Luke cracking up over Caleb. This was Luke's 4 month birthday so it was fun to mark it with his first laugh and first cereal, along with the first time he ever had a blow out diaper on Mommy. Unfortunately for Aunt Peg, Luke's first blow out was with her on her last visit...sorry Aunt Peg! - This weekend Caleb told Jeff he wanted Daddy to build him a tree house. When Jeff said he didn't have any trees to make a tree house Caleb suggested that he had a pair of scissors he could use to cut down trees. - Yesterday I was getting Caleb ready for Sunday School. I reached in his underwear drawer and felt a couple underwear were soaking wet. I was talking out loud to myself trying to figure out what happened, and then Caleb told me that the day before when he soaked through his diaper at nap time that he had used the underwear in an attempt to clean his bed. Gross, I know, but after I confirmed that was the only thing Caleb used for clean up then I told Caleb how good it was that he tried to clean up the mess and that next time he could just tell Mommy and Daddy so we could help. It is interesting to get a glimpse of how a young mind works. - Caleb overheard me talking to my mom on the phone this weekend saying that we could all share one hotel room next weekend when we meet my parents. When I got off the phone Caleb expressed his concern that all of us could not sleep in the same bed because we can't sleep with Granna and Granpa on top of Mommy and Daddy in one bed.

There are so many funny things and the sad thing is that I am too tired to remember most of them! I am going to start documenting the comments so I can look back and smile at my sweet and funny boys.

GG & Aunt Peg & Cereal

Caleb is such a big helper these days. This morning I said we needed paper towels and toilet paper so I was going up to the laundry room to get some more. Caleb immediately said he wanted to go with me so he could carry down the paper towels, and this is a fairly typical routine. However, today he took the paper towels and then asked me if the toilet paper was really heavy. I told him it was just really big and not heavy. He took the toilet paper right out of my hands, told me he could handle really big, and then he proceeded to carry both items all the way downstairs for me. What a wonderful son!

We decided to make an extra special treat for Trevor today - Caleb and Aunt Peg filled a kong with peanut butter and put it in the freezer. Caleb was really curious how Trevor was going to get the peanut butter out of the toy.
I guess Caleb's curiosity explains this next picture. By the way, Trevor thoroughly enjoyed the treat!
Trevor is not the only one in our family who enjoys treats. This is a picture of GG treating us to some good burgers and fries when we picked up Jeff from work for lunch.

We had lots of fun times with GG and Aunt Peg this week. I am not sure who was having more fun...GG or Luke????
This afternoon while Caleb was sleeping I came to the realization that Luke is just too hung to withhold cereal from him any longer. This is his first time in the high chair and I am telling him about the meal of cereal that he is about to experience for the first time. He really liked the sound of it all.
This is my sweet little Punker just trying to get the cereal in a little faster. As you might imagine and determine from this picture...he did just great!
Here is precious Luke, satisfied after his first cereal meal. I guess I'll keep it coming his way and hope for more sweet moments like this one!
My mom and I were just talking today on Luke's 4 month birthday day about how "hungry" is one of the main adjectives we would use to describe Luke these first few months of life. He started off on day 1 as a hungry little boy and nothing has changed! We love you Luke! Happy 4 months!

4th of July Weekend

The other Sunday Caleb and I had a lot of fun making a pizza, and Jeff was able to capture our creation!
My best friend from Baylor, Gracie, came up to visit with her husband, Paul, and daughter, Isabela, for the 4th of July holiday weekend. Isabela and Caleb had fun playing on our playground while the guys were grilling.

They had not seen each other since Thanksgiving, but quickly became good friends again!

On Friday we all went to the Farmers Market and picked out lots of fruit and veggies to eat over the weekend. We made a festive fruit pizza with all the berries.
At the market, Caleb and Isabela loved eating watermelon, and it was so much fun watching them!
Then we loaded up and walked to the park.
Caleb quickly showed Isabela how things go at the fountains.
Caleb does not hold back at all!
Isabela enjoyed "baby Uke".We went to Arrington Vineyards on Friday and it was a beautiful evening to enjoy being outdoors. The kids were big helpers pulling all our picnic gear in their wagon.

We found a nice spot on the hill to set up for a picnic.
Luke enjoyed the cool temperature.
Caleb and Isabela played on the hill with their ball toys.

Bubles are always fun no matter when or where!
It was such a peaceful night listening to the live music while visiting and watching the kids play.

After dinner we walked down into the Vineyards.

Caleb and Isabela had fun exploring and finding grapes.
On the 4th we spent the morning at the Monkey's Treehouse, and Caleb knew he liked Isabela when she went straight to the trains to play!
After grilling out a fabulous meal while the kids were napping, we all went to our neighborhood pool. It was raining off and on so we had the pool to ourselves and visited on the covered patio when it rained.

Gracie and Paul had brought us Texas dirt before Caleb was born so his first step on soil could be Texas soil. It took us a little longer with Luke, but Luke had his first steps on that same Texas soil while Gracie, Paul, and Isabela were visiting.
Our friends made it back to Texas today, but we already miss them a lot!!!!