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!!!

Say CHEESE!

Cal has started a new "thing" where every time the camera comes out, he stops what he's doing and gives the cheesiest smile you've ever seen. I have no idea where he learned this trick, but it is pretty funny. The above pictures were from the beach this weekend, right when we arrived. My mom and dad were cracking up and he was putting on quite a show!



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:

Patty Cake

ignore my voice....

Sunday Night Fever!

Yesterday evening, the Country Club had an event called "BBQ, Blue jeans, Beer and Blues!" It was basically a band and some BBQ. We all decided to go and ended up having a great time! The weather turned bad right before we left, but they had the band inside and there were a lot of kids and we took over the dance floor. I had a great time "dancing" with Cal-- I was holding his hands while he stood there and bounced his knees along with the beat-- it was TOO precious! Several older women were watching and had to come over to comment.

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!

Work It!

I can't imagine where he gets it from.....

Play Date

This afternoon, we had a late-in-the-day get together with some of Cal's buddies (and their awesome mommies too!). The mom's had a little wine/champagne while the kids played. I think we had 9 kids total: 7 boys and 2 sweet little girls! The kids had a great time all playing together and staring at each other and "talking" back and forth.

I tried to get some good pictures, but you know how it is when it's 6:00, the kids are worn out, and the moms walk away to get the camera..... some not happy babies!

Practicing for football season

Cal will be watching quite a bit of football this fall and I have been working with him on what to do when TCU (his Poppy's team) scores...