FINALLY AN UPDATE!!!!

My huge pile of books... makes a great stepstool!

Walking with the naughty face... and he is about to get his "NU NU" taken away
His Halloween costume (a green dragon)

Lounging

("HI!)

I was trying to ship him overseas... but was caught

Woo hoo... noise!

His new bedroom (since we moved in september) his 4th time moving since he was born

Doctor Carver

Who can resist that smile??

I don't allow this anymore... got way too messy!!

Yes I realize it has been way too long. I have been so busy with school it's not even funny. I have a break now and am hoping to catch up on stuff and then start another busy semester!! So I will be graduating with my RN (if all goes well) in May!! I am excited to almost be done and then be making a pretty decent living for Caleb and I. The big thought is that we will be hopefully moving to Eugene Oregon come next year! Most likely/realistically August... for a good job, a change in environment and just pure desire out of my part. I have always loved Oregon and feel that the lack of RN jobs here in Duluth make moving to Eugene pretty appealing being that they just built a brand new hospital and have any job I could want.

Caleb is 18 months now and so amazing. He says close to 100 words and is putting words together. He signs too... but has them so confused, I don't know what he is signing, but he is able to say the word anyway. He started walking a bit late (15-16 months), and is getting really good at it. We just found out at his appointment that his tibia turns in when he walks and that's why he has had so many problems!! They say it happens with 20-30% of clubfoot babies and often it corrects itself and if it doesn't by age 4 he will have to have a tibial tendon transfer. Anyway other than all that he is a happy little boy and brings me tons of joy=o)

Almost a big 13 month old!!

Sorry it's been so long! It's been a busy last month or so... first it was Caleb's big 1 year b-day. then my sister got married, then I worked 12 days on a paycheck for my Oregon trip, then my friend Amanda got married and then I went to Oregon for 5 days!! It was my first time leaving Caleb for that long and it was fun... but hard. I missed him soooo much!! We are happy to be re-united!
Caleb still isn't walking, just along furniture and if you hold his hands with your fingers. He is wearing the boots and bar 16 hours a day until the middle of August then he will go to only nights again. He says many words... hard to keep track if he means to or not.. mostly yes. His sentence.... "I get up". Anyway onto some pictures...

This one is so pitiful I just love it

Caleb and auntie Dawn at Amanda's wedding
His new chair that he likes

Big boy!!

He was busy watching baby einstein

Action shot

His cousin Hayden... they are twins! About 5 weeks apart

Sitting in cousin Braylan's carseat

Swimming at the hotel we stayed at when we went to Connie's wedding

Big 1 year old!!! 1st birthday and life as a 1 year old..

I have no time to edit this now but I will at a later date=0) Basically it's just Caleb and Wyatt's birthday party which was really fun and some pictures of Caleb's new play hut/tunnel and just a couple of his big 1 year old self... He got his cast off today too=o) We are off to my sister's wedding tomorrow.

OK it's about time for another update..

Wowy it's been a busy last few weeks! I have been picking up extra days at work for my upcoming Oregon trip in July.
I cannot believe that Caleb will be 1 year old on June 24th!!! My friend Katie has a baby 3 days younger than Caleb so we are going to do their 1 year birthdays together, it should be fun=o)
Caleb is working on 3 teeth right now, 2 molars and another front tooth which would make 11 teeth!!! I am still nursing him 2 times a day (morning and night), and he hasn't even thought about biting me in months (good guy=o)). He has a few words that he says now, mainly "no no", "a da"(all done), "KK KK"(kitty), "ma ma", "mo"(more) and other words that im not sure if he is intending to say or not.
As you will se in the pictures, he is re-casted, it was pretty much inevitable anyway but because of his allergic reaction to amoxi, his feet were balloons and I couldn't put his night shoes on his feet for 4 nights and his foot had turned in quite a bit. I would rather have it now instead of when it's 90 degrees out and he is walking!! so we have 3 more weeks of that then back into the night time shoes. He is SUCH A TROOPER!! he doesn't care one bit about his cast and it sure doesn't slow him down! OK OK now for the pictures=o)

End of the year pool party for ECFE ( he is such a people watcher, I think he had more fun doing that than being in the pool!)

Still my sweet little guy (a nursing picture=o))

Before he was casted he was starting to get up from standing from the floor

His first beach/sand experience, he loved the sand, first he looked at me and smiled with it in his hands...

Then he ate it....

Then he crawled on it....

Then he just took off crawling as fast as he could, it was hilarious... If you look really closely you can see how far he got.. (don't worry, the picture makes it look farther than it really was)

This picture is suppose to go before the one above it. When i called his name and clapped my hands, he crawled right back like a dog, it was really funny.Having some dinner at Hell's Kitchen

How on earth am I suppose to keep an 11 month old off of the cast??!Messy and a bit tired...

Auntie Connie and Caleb with his red cast (Nancy (caleb's care provider), took him to his casting appointment and picked red, it's actually quite cuteThis is a tunnel auntie Cindy is loaning us to try to discourage Caleb from standing on his cast.. he LOVES it, the cat and him chase each other through it

I have been working on getting him use to playing in the play pen alone, he is doing a super job! It's good for him to have the alone time, and it helps when i have to take a shower or run downstairs quick (he was caught digging in the toilet once last week and eating a raw egg I left out on accident while i was cleaning the fridge), he is starting his toddler naughty stages!