This past month has been quite busy! The last weekend in January, we celebrated Christmas 2.0 with my sister, Jen and my brother-in-love, Wes! It was soo nice to spend time with them as a family! We hadn't seen them since the end of summer last year, so it was very much needed time!
We opened up some presents and enjoyed some Christmas food (Dad's Christmas Lasagna), and watched Christmas movies (see - it really was Christmas 2,0). We also went to my parents property for a bit, and Caleb enjoyed playing on G-Pa's trailer. Instead of playing "Peekaboo," Caleb says "I see yo!" And that's not a typo. He actually says "yo" instead of you. And he played that a ton with his Aunt Jen!
"I see yo!"
"I see yo!"
Caleb and Aunt Jen were buddies for sure during that time, and Caleb made everyone laugh so hard. He is really growing into this cute, funny, little boy! He has us all wrapped around his finger!
A couple of weeks later, we celebrated Valentines with our cutie pie! We got him his first Magna Doodle (which he LOVES), an Elmo book (My Fuzzy Valentine), and a yummy chocolate/peanut butter snack! Todd and I will be celebrating later this weekend our own Valentine's time. We each make our Valentines, so I look forward to seeing what Todd did for me. And I will share what I did for him after this weekend (don't want him to accidentally see).
So here's an update on our little Mister: He is hovering around 25-26 pounds, and he getting taller. He was 32.5 inches the last time we measured him (November), but I bet he has grown a little more since then. Before we know it, we will have to get him a big boy car seat! :)
What a face! He looks more and more like a little boy every single day.
He is definitely our big boy!
He has learned so many words and is using many sentences now! Some of the cute words/sayings:
- Let's Go! (when we have to leave to go outside)
- Go! Go! Go! (if the car is still, and he wants to get moving)
- He now says Elmo fully instead of Mo!
- "geh sum to eat" (Get something to eat!)
- EAT! (sometimes he just says EAT because he is hungry)
- He can say most of the Alphabet. His favorite parts of the alphabet to say is R, S, T, U, V - not sure why that is his favorite,. He can sing the ABCs and in tune as well, but he misses that middle part (L, M, N, O).
- "Puh well" - Puzzle
- "Cen Cen" is chicken. He used to only make the chicken sound, but now he tries to say chicken.
- Toes - he says this very well! He loves his toes!
- Horse - seriously he says this correctly and very well!
- He says "Yes" more when we ask him questions. And if he doesn't want to do something or have something, he will either say No, or kind of grunt "Eh"
- With his new magna doodler, he actually recites letters (like A, B, C) when he is "doodling." We think he is trying to write, even though he can't write. But we were excited he wanted to try and do that.
- We are working on his name. We go through all the letters with him and he knows most of the letters of his name. L and E trip him up sometimes.
- He can now say "Jesus" very well! I have these old pictures passed down from my great mother that have pictures of Jesus on them. He knows them!
- B-Pa - recently he called his G-Pa this!
- He will typically repeat words you ask him to say or his version. So he is learning more words all the time.
- We have worked some on the numbers, but I think he sometimes gets confused with numbers and letters. However, our sitter, Jane, has told us that he will count to six (with a little help). I haven't heard him yet, but that's encouraging. He does say "Se vay" for seven.
- "Veeyo" is video! And when he wants a "video," he means he wants us to put on Elmo. We get Elmo's World and many of his songs on YouTube. And we use Chromecast to put it on the TV so he can enjoy it!
- He will actually say as a sentence - "want a veeyo"
- If he wants to go for a walk, he will say "Wok" for walk and grab your hand!
- When he points to something, he will usually say "It's A (Fill in the blank)"
- "Want to Dah" - want to dance
- We have the Periodic table as a shower curtain, and I taught Caleb that the sign for Radioactive means "Boom!" - So when he sees it, he says "Boom!"
- He is doing really well and learning all the time! I love seeing him learn. It really makes me soo happy to see him do so well!
We have had some nicer weather more recently, and that means he gets to go outside or "Ou Side."
He is still a pretty picky eater. We are still working on that. But, green beans are his favorite veggie for sure. His favorite foods are: bacon, green beans, bananas, grapes, cookies (the nutritional bars by Plum Organics), chicken fries (shaped in the form of a fry), peanut butter to dip apples and bananas in, and apple sauce.
Here's to Caleb's 22nd month....just three more months til we have a 2 year old! Until then, I leave you with this cutie pie!
