Poor Baby!

On Saturday, my sweet little boy decided he didn't want to take a nap. Fortunately, he didn't turn into a little terror! He was asleep by 8:00 Sat. night, before Chris got in from work (he got called in). So, we head to bed a little after 10, and I hear "Momma!" I go to check on him and sit with him a second and he goes back to sleep. I hear him again a minute later and go in and he's flipping back and forth saying "No, no, no!" and he wakes up crying. My poor baby was having nightmares! I sat with him some more and it happened again. I felt so bad for him. Somewhere in there, though, he must have had a good dream because he started mumbling and all I got was "hippo" out of it, so he must have been having fun with all his animals! We ended up staying awake till almost 1 that night, and it was like he was scared of his bed. He wouldn't lay down even with me. I ended up taking him to my room, and eventually Chris ended up in Caleb's bed because there's not enough room for all of us in that bed!

Last night we went out to Chris's parents' house and had a hayride. Steve pulled us behind his tractor, and Caleb had a ball! He was so excited to be riding in the trailer. It was pretty chilly, but he didn't get too cold! He wouldn't hear of letting me cuddle up with him under the blanket! When we got back, they had rigged up a screen outside, and we all watched Old Yeller. I told Caleb there was a puppy coming on, and he was all about watching the puppy show! By this time, he was starting to get a little tired, and he cuddled with me under the blanket for this one! He was so good. He kept turning around and telling me about all the animals in the show. Too cute!

smell those flowers

Caleb and I took a walk last night when I got home. We "hurried" up the sidewalk to mail a card. The chapel at the seminary has some flower beds outside, and they have some pretty pansies growing right now. Caleb wanted to go "smell flowers" and he took his daddy 2 that had fallen off their stems. It was so funny watching him "hurry" back down the sidewalk to Chris with one flower in each hand. If he'd drop one, he'd stop and pick it up. Of course, it was a big production to give Daddy his flowers, and they had to smell them again.

He turned from sweet to completely nasty while I was on the phone with my mom last night. He came in and showed me his hand that had brown all over it. I turned him around, and there was poo hanging out of his diaper! YUCK! It was such a fun time cleaning that one up! I'm sure Mom got a kick hearing me and Chris trying to clean him up and not get any on any of the furniture! He sooo needs to hurry up and get potty trained!

I have 35 more minutes till the weekend!!!!!!!!!

Momma Clothes

My sweet son decided to wake up at 6:00 yesterday morning, 20 minutes before I'm supposed to wake up. Wasn't that sweet of him? He was fussy so Chris brought him into the bedroom thinking he'd go right back to sleep. Well, he has this thing for picking at my shirt sleeve when he's tired. Much to his dismay, I had worn a tank top to bed the night before (I got these cute new pj's over the weekend), and Caleb was totally upset. He kept whining and saying, "Momma, clothes!" over and over. I got up and grabbed a t-shirt and slipped it on and got back into bed. As soon as I did that, he started fiddling with my shirt sleeve and was as happy as could be! What a little runt!

Last night I got to go to the movies with Farrah and Helen....girls night! We went to see Employee of the Month. It was pretty funny, and we had a good time. It's nice to get out with the girls every once in a while. Caleb was still wound up when I got home (his late power nap kicked his energy up a notch!), and when he saw me at the door, he came running up, smiling, and yelling, "MOMMA!!!" like he's so excited to see me home. Does it get any better than that? He was a mess last night, running around and dancing. It's so cute!

Today he's getting to stay home with Chris. Let's see if Chris gets any of his school work done!

Good Momma!

Well, the angel behavior on Friday didn't last long. Around 10:30, Caleb decided he needed me to play with him. Since it was a beautiful morning, I thought I could distract him outside. So we got our shoes on and headed out. I got in my chair with my computer, and no go. He kept coming over saying, "Momma, get up!" He tried to shut my computer too! So, we went and picked up pine cones, but if I tried to sneak back to my chair, he'd come running! I gave up and decided I'd just play a while; he needed some company! So, then he decided we needed to "hurry, hurry!" up the sidewalk. We ran into some of Chris's professors on our walk, and then Caleb ran to the playground. There's this tunnel on the playset, and Caleb calls it a bridge. Well, he was playing in it and said, "Momma, get in bridge." So I put my head in, and Caleb was pleased and said, "Good Momma!" How cute! Then he started playing goodnight in the tunnel. Don't know where he learned this one, but he'd say "goodnight!" and lay down and act like he was snoring. Then he'd jump up and hollar and say "wake up!" He's such a sweetie!

I did finally get my paper done while Caleb was napping that afternoon and got it sent in Friday evening. It wasn't even due till last night! Unfortunately, I haven't had a restful weekend because I caught a cold. I'm staying home today because I don't want to spend the day wiping my eyes and nose at the office! I think I'll be OK to go to work tomorrow, but I sure would like another day off!

I forgot another funny story. Caleb stayed at Farrah's house for a while Sat. evening while Chris and I went to dinner. When we went to get him, he wanted to sit outside with Chris and his dad. I wanted to sit out there too, but he then decided we needed to play. He'd run down their sidewalk to Steve's shop, and he discovered his shadow. He'd start dancing around and waving his hands and thought it was so exciting that his shadow did the same thing. He even had me playing with my shadow! He just laughed and laughed. It's amazing what entertains him!

For Mom

Mom has told me that I'm not blogging enough, so here's a quick update!

It's been too crazy this week to keep up with anything! Luckily, Monday was a holiday, and Chris and I were both off. We decided we wanted to go to Tyler and go to the wildlife museum. There are lots of cool animals there, which would totally entertain Caleb, and the best part is it's free! Farrah and her family joined us, and we had our Fazoli's fix and then decided to skip the museum and go for the real animals at the zoo! The kids had a blast of course! Caleb was getting tired by the end, so we had a couple of grumpy moments, but he did great overall.

I think Caleb must know that I'm stressed with school this week, and he's done a great job of increasing that stress! I don't know what's up with his sleeping schedule, but he won't sleep! He'll be exhausted by 8 but won't go to bed and throws fits when you make him! And, he's only had 2 good naps this week! SO, I have a paper due Sun. and a test that I haven't even started studying for on Mon, and I'm starting to really freak out! Today he's being an angel (so far), so I hope he'll be a good little boy and let me get some stuff done. At least he let me sleep until 8 this morning!

We don't have an exciting weekend planned; I have to do a health fair tomorrow. Yea for the comp time I'm earning! Maybe next weekend I'll get to relax!

kisses

Caleb has learned how to pucker his lips for a kiss. Usually, he just puts his lips to your cheek, or he gives those big wet ones with his mouth wide open. Last night, he came up to me and said, "Mama....I want kiss." Then he proceeded to pucker his lips and kiss me right on the mouth! He thought it was the funniest thing! He had to kiss me over and over and over, and he busted out laughing each time! Such a sweetie!

It's been a pretty uneventful week so far.....we're still recovering from the weekend! I fell asleep in Caleb's bed last night. I had gone in there to put him down and ended up laying down myself and going straight to sleep! I woke up around 11, and Chris was still up working on school stuff. I didn't think it would be that late since he was awake and had to be at work early this morning, and I was surprised to find out I'd been asleep 2 hours! It was nice, though, to get that extra sleep!

Camping trip

I went camping! It was my first camping trip ever, and I had a blast. I slept in a tent and everything! My mom thought I was crazy, but it was so much fun. All of Chris's family packed up Thurs. and went to Arkansas. We stayed by a river, and the weather was perfect. It was after dark by the time we got there (I didn't take the whole day off), and it was COLD! Since Caleb would rather run around in a diaper all the time, he wasn't happy about having to put on long sleeves! Farrah and her family were already there, so we set up camp beside them and then sat around the fire. During the day, it got warm enough to play in the river, so Caleb threw about a million rocks in the river over the course of 2 days! Between him and Nathan, they almost built a dam! They were too cute. We went hiking, too, well, as much hiking as we could stand with a 2 year-old! Chris and his brother decided to climb the "mountain" on the other side of the river on Saturday. He said that they went from dumb to incredibly ignorant about halfway up! It was straight up.....very steep! I'm sure I wouldn't be to happy to know some of the crazy things they did getting up and down that thing!

Caleb was so funny. When we first walked down to the river, he saw the huge rocks jutting up out of the water, and he yelled, "Lion King!" The rocks really looked like the rock from the Lion King where they lifted Simba in the air. After that, he always wanted to go down to the "water hole" to throw rocks. Where did he get that? All the kids had a blast. I think it was more fun just to watch them. I definitely want to go back!