BUSY boy!

To say that Cal has been busy would be putting it mildly. You really can not take your eyes off of him for a second. We were resting the video monitor on the edge of his crib, but he managed to take that down and dismantle it completely during "nap time." Here are some other pictures of my little trouble maker:He spends so much time trying to get out of his crib...here, he thinks it's SO fun to try to climb back in to it!!!

Notice anything wrong with the above picture? Cal discovered the letters above his crib and started pulling them down (again, during "nap time"!).

There are no words..... :)

And finally, the above picture was taken when Eddie and I were trying to get ready to go out to eat (with Cal). I heard him playing with the handle on my dresser and I just let him play, like he usually does. I went over to check on him and he was standing up, throwing bathing suits over his head as fast as he could. He was so determined, he didn't even hear me come up behind him.

God, I love this kid sooooooooo much.

Memorial Day Weekend

I am LONG over due for an update! Mr. Cal moving has made my life a little more...interesting! He likes to crawl. He doesn't just crawl away from me..he crawls over to things that he shouldn't: cords, plugs, wires, etc, etc. He also will crawl over to the nearest thing he can pull up on. The kid is obsessed with standing. His balance isn't very good, or he gets cocky and tries to stand without holding on, and therefore falls over, screams, I stop what I'm doing to comfort him and then he starts the whole process over again. Makes doing anything pretty difficult! I used to be able to "park" him on the ground and put away laundry or whatever else, but now he crawls over to the dresser, pulls up, and does a face plant into the dresser, banging his face on every knob on the way down. Guess he will learn....right??

Cal and I headed down to Atlantic Beach on Thursday morning. My mom was nice enough to ride down with us. Eddie had arranged a golf game with a client and needed to come down on Friday. The beach was great. Beyond chaotic, but great. My brother and his wife came down with their two kids. So, if you are keeping track, that's 3 babies (ages 2, 8 mos, and 2 mos), 6 adults, and 3 dogs (the smallest being 70 lbs!). And our beach house is not very big. At all! But we managed just fine and had a great time together.

Because of the full house, Cal had to sleep in a pack-n-play. I was not looking forward to that, but he did really well. We've tried it in the past and it was a horrible experience, which ended with me holding him in my arms all night, but this time was much more positive.

We played in the house for the rest of Thursday, and woke up on Friday to a very pretty day. We blew up a very small baby pool and Cal had a BLAST playing in it! He splashed and splashed and flat wore himself out! Here, the weekend in pictures:

We played in the pool:

We played some great games of Patty Cake:

We played NAKED in the pool (so much more fun....):

We dumped water on our heads and loved it:

We rented a paddle board and mom LOVED it:

The WHOLE family enjoyed the board!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Summer is here!!!

I would do a new post....

but Cal is in to EVERYTHING!!!! And I haven't had a chance yet. He is moving everywhere and pulling up on everything, Hank included..... post to come :)

We have a mover!

Mr. Cal started moving today....I can't really call is crawling, because what he is doing isn't really crawling, but he is moving across the floor! He keeps one foot in front of him at all times (?), and uses his back leg to push off. When he gets frustrated, he puts both feet down and straightens his legs, with his arms on the ground too- I think in yoga it's called a downward facing dog? I have been trying to get a good video of it and I will post one tomorrow.

But today will go down as the day Cal started moving across the floor! Oh, and he moves across the floor to the nearest thing to pull up on...go figure!

Standing in the kitchen after dinner:

A little Dennis the Menace

Cal woke up with some mega bedhead yesterday, and he was wiggling all over the place when I was trying to get him dressed....reminded me a little of Dennis the Menace. :) Hope you are having a great weekend!

SO big!

Cal loves to play on the ottoman.....

ALLLLLLL BOY!

Thank Heavens for Little Boys!Let me just tell you, Cal Williamson is ALLLLL BOY! He is super curious, super squirmy, and I am starting to see some mischief develop too! Here are some "All Boy" stories from the week:

On this past Monday night, Eddie and I had a "date night" (read: we had to run to the mall and didn't want to haul Cal with us!), so my mom kept Cal for us. When we picked him up, my mom was super upset. Cal was playing on the floor and cut his nose either with one of his nails or with a toy... either way, he had a huge gash on his nose. We didn't care-- boys with be boys! But my mom felt terrible! He looks adorable with a big ol' scratch on his face and it doesn't seem to phase him at all. He didn't even cry when he did it!

Yesterday afternoon, I put Cal down for his afternoon nap. He sat up there talking for a while and then he was crying. I went into check on him, and it was really hot in his room with the afternoon sun shining in. I took off his shorts and shirt and put him in a light t-shirt and clean diaper to go back down. I went into my room and could hear him chuckling in his room. I looked on my video monitor and could see nothing but polkadots (the polkadots that are in his laundry hamper!). So, I went in to check on him, and the little munchkin had TAKEN OFF HIS DIAPER and thrown it at the video monitor and knocked it into the hamper. He then peed all over his crib... everything was soaked! He was so proud of himself when I walked in to get him and was tickled that he was naked-- he couldn't stop laughing!

(this is him right before the nap-- squirming like crazy!)

He now has TWO teeth coming in so he is a drooling mess all the time and it just cracks him up! He thinks the slobber coming out of his mouth is just the funniest thing ever and he laughs so hard as it drips down-- gross, huh?

In the top picture, I had to get creative when feeding Cal. He will take a mouth full of food and then start saying BYE BYE over and over again, spitting the food all over the place. Of course, I say no no, but Hank comes running to clean it up and Cal thinks this is the best game ever! He usually wipes the food over his cheeks and then turns his head to find the dog and wipes his face clean on the sleeve of his shirt. I tried to fix that by putting a dish towel on him under his bib. It worked! He stayed clean!

Lesson Learned....

(warning: this story is kinda gross....)

Yesterday morning, Cal and I were snuggling, and I was going to change his diaper and his clothes to start the day. I didn't smell anything, and he was so happy on my bed, so I brought a diaper and clothes into my room to just change him on the bed.

I whipped his diaper off of him, thinking it was just "wet." It wasn't. It was full. VERY full. The "content" of the diaper flew out when I did the whipping of the diaper and landed in a heap on the bed. I just stared at it thinking, "What do I do now??" Oh yes, and Cal, being the boy that he is, loves to play with his....parts...any time I change him. Well, his parts were dirty. So I was trying to hold his hands away from that area, meanwhile, the mess that was in the diaper, was also on his back and he was now squirming around trying to get his hands free so that he could grab hold of his...parts. Did I mention that he was lying in the middle of my bed?? Backside covered, now his hands were dirty too?

So, I quickly take the dirty diaper and scoop up the "pile" from the middle of the bed and set it aside. I take the clean diaper and try to put it under Cal to keep the mess from spreading any more. To do this, I had to let go of Cal's hands. As soon as I let go, he grabbed the dirty diaper filled with the mess and proceeded to wave it back and forth, slamming it on the bed over and over again on each side of him. You'd think I would have been able to stop this, but the little stinker (pun intended) was fast! I started laughing at this point, because really, what else can I do? And I put my hands on my face. Yup-- they were covered in poo too.

So, at the end of this 5 minute ordeal, Cal had poo on his hands, it was on his legs and feet, I had it on my face, and my bed was COVERED in the mess. All I could do was laugh.

The joys of being a mommy!!!

PS-- Cal slept through the night again last night! YAY!