Look at me now!!!

Well, our Caleb is getting big. It seems like every day he learns something new and shocks us with how grown up he looks. We've had a nice week here. Lots of sun and warm weather (up to 25 degrees!!!). It's been nice to go out without a sweater on. Here's a few pictures of what Caleb's been up to this past week.

We managed to find a used exersaucer which Caleb loves. He'll sit in there for up to half an hour bouncing up and down and playing with the toys. So long as Mommy stays where he can see her, he's happy.
Here is Caleb's new highchair. It was a gift from Grandpa Jim and Grandma Lorna. Caleb is proud as a peacock sitting at the table with us during dinner. We did feed him a little bit of mashed banana... he was not nearly so pleased about that!!!
Here's a picture of my garden for those of you who might be interested. You can see that it's really getting big. When I first started the garden I had all these visions of walking down there every other day with Caleb and taking care of it. Unfortunately the bugs can be pretty bad down there so I try to do as much as I can in the evenings when I can leave Caleb with Byron... or on the weekends. Oh well.
Here was one sunny, breezy day when the bugs weren't so bad so Caleb came with me to the garden. He sat in his little Bumbo chair and was happily playing for a while. Then I realized he was taking his toy and dragging it through the dirt and then eating it. Sigh. Well, guess I'm not as great a parent as I thought :)

Caleb and I enjoying a little snuggle before bed time.

It can get pretty hot in our apartment (30+) when the sun is shining because we have south facing windows. So in these next few pictures Caleb is just in his diaper. (and yes, he has a black diaper... we call it his 'ninja' diaper... he uses it to fight bad guys). So up above is Caleb on Saturday, you can see that he's doing a nice pushup. Getting pretty strong hey!!

Then on Sunday... we caught Caleb doing this...


and this... yikes, just once or twice though. I had to sit by the camera for a long time to catch him at it. However, by Mondy night, he was a pro, as you can see on the video below.

In the space of half an hour he did this many, many times. Which means crawling is coming. Oh dear.

Yeah for Picasa!!!

Well folks, I have discovered a program that will resize pictures on our PC. Prior to this I had to transfer any pictures to a memory stick, pull out the old Mac laptop, transfer the pictures to the Mac, resize and then blog. It was a bit of a process. This is much easier. I knew there must be some way of doing it but had never bothered to investigate. I am very excited to be typing this at our normal computer.

It has been a very enjoyable past few weeks. We had a wonderful visit with Jen's parents and sister. They drove up in their trailer and stayed for a week at a local campground. Unfortunately it was pretty rainy the week before they came. This meant they had a small river running through their campground and... mosquitoes. Wow. Lots of mosquitoes. Luckily they brought their screened in dining tent.Here is Caleb in the dining tent, in his paypen, with mosquito netting over that. Despite all this they still managed to bite him a couple of times. Luckily neither the bites nor the mosquitoes bothered him at all. Unlike the rest of us.

Here is the campsite. Opa and Oma Batterink stayed there, while Auntie Kristin stayed at our house. Each day we would drive out to visit them or they would come over. It worked out really well.

Caleb meeting Oma again... he hadn't seen her since he was two weeks old. Lots has changed since then!!

Getting ready to hike the Prospector's Trail with Opa.

I managed to convince them to come help me weed and water the garden. Many hands make light work.

Kristin enjoying some Cable TV while at our apartment... a luxury since they only have 'Peasant Vision' at their house.

We managed to stop swatting mosquitoes long enough to pose for a picture.

Caleb desperately trying to reach something he thinks will be interesting. He wants to touch everything!!! He loves to grab at whatever we are eating or drinking too.

And finally some pictures of the incredibly cute Caleb. He is lucky to be so adorable, as some days, it is the only thing saving him from being sold to the funny farm... especially at 2am, when he is wide awake and wanting to play.