Gone Visiting

This past Sunday, Cal took a little trip to Grams and Papaw's house. He spent the night and then got to hang out all day Monday. While it was planned in advance this worked out nicely as I had completely lost my voice and actually stayed home from school on Monday.

Cal heard about the free shipping both ways from Zappos and wanted to check it out for himself.

Papaw said he had to pick up all these toys before he could go to bed. Looks like it will be a late night.

Watching Grams do something on the laptop

Cal helping Grams out with the laundry. He loves putting things in and taking things out of the machines. I would have included Grams in the picture but wasn't sure she would want me to include her backside on the blog.

Picked up a little something at Costco this week - quite the bargain!

Smile!

Is it football season yet? Go ND!!!

Calvin's Favorite Word

We go to Target to get Cal a new toothbrush and somehow come home with this. He really wanted it! Ball is is favorite word (well, I guess there aren't that many to choose from) these days. He kept chasing this thing around the house and saying "ball, ball, ball!"

Let's just see if I can fit under here.

Seriously, people? Is it even possible to resist this kind of cuteness? Overwhelming!

You caught me!

Kobi, are you in that bed? I'd love to scare the heck out of you if you are.

I do fit under here but it's not as great as I expected. Weird.

Happy Easter!

Before we headed out to Brownsburg for mass, we had to check out what the Easter bunny left!

Books? Awesome!

What have we here?

I'll just rake the carpet a bit. Good idea, yes?

Hey, wait a minute, I think this is food. The Easter bunny leaves food? Sweet!

Seriously, mom?

OK, but only because there is cake. (Funny side note: We tried to give Cal a little whipped cream to go with his cake. He would not touch it! Grams even put a little on his finger and nothin' doin'. Funny.)

Check out the cool sand and water table from Grams and Papaw. Rain, rain go away, so I can get outside and play.

Check me out - Uncle Josh got me this and I'm lovin' it so far.

Mom showed me that you can carry stuff around in there. It just gets better and better.

Why not?

I forgot I had a couple of pics on my camera from before Cal got so sick and I took a few today so I decided to go ahead and put them up.

First bike ride of the season - these I took with the actual camera, rather than on my phone.

He took puppy along for the ride so that he would have music and a companion.

Let's go, Mommy!

He has just been fascinated with this old calculator recently. We are fairly certain that this means he will be a mathematical genius.

Despite the look on his face, he was having quite a good time peeking at Mommy through the bannister this morning.

Just getting a little fresh air. We've been cooped up inside a lot since he has been feeling so poorly. We even took a short walk over the the mailboxes today. We got out the bubbles from he got in his Easter basket from Grandma and Grandpa Fox, too. Good times were had by all.

Recent Pics

The other day I said we didn't have any pics from Calvin's 18 month birthday, and that is true. But, I remembered I had a few recent ones I took with my phone.

Wearing his bunny ears at Grandma and Grandpa Fox's house on Palm Sunday

Checking out his Easter basket from Grandma and Grandpa Fox

Race for the Cure on April 16th - It was a cold one this year so Cal was quite bundled up. He got his own race bib this year but elected to lay around in the stroller rather than run/walk.

Night before the race, doing his pirate impersonation at Long John Silver's

First bike ride of the season on a nice day last week

Hanging out at the neighborhood playground during the bike ride

We've been taking lots of walks lately, some on nice days that others. He was pretty bundled for this one.

Another nice recent day at the playground

18 Months Today

I will not be including any pictures with this post. Little Man has been quite sick the past couple of days. We took him to the doctor yesterday and it turns out that it is strep. Long story short, he hasn't exactly been camera ready lately.

But, I'll go ahead and do a quick update. Not sure on height but they weighed him at the doc's yesterday and he was 21 pounds, 12 ounces. He was supposed to have his well baby appointment on Friday but we had to push that back because of the strep. I'll update height then.

He's starting to talk more and more, repeating things we say more readily. He's said diaper, ball, tractor, push, circle, and more. He's also starting to pick up on the signs that they taught us in his speech therapy. Just the other day, he made the sign for more without any prompting while eating in his high chair. We're happy that his speech therapy seems to be going well and we're excited for him to say more and more.

Not a lot of changes since last month, really. We have been able to get outside a lot more because of the nice weather. We've been taking walks over to the playground here in the neighborhood. He really likes the swings and climbing around on the other equipment. He likes the see-saw, too. The other day we tried out the "big" slide and the look on his face was priceless.

He participated in his first Easter egg hunt this past Sunday at Grandma and Grandpa Fox's house. He caught on pretty quickly and really liked shaking the eggs to hear the sound they made. He picked them up and put them in a bag we had ready for him. We'll celebrate with Grams and Papaw on Easter Day this Sunday. I'm hoping that he'll be feeling much more like himself by then.