I Just Love These Two Hams

Two Digits!

In months, that is. Caleb is 10 months old! Things are pretty much the same with him, except for a few things:

• He decided he does not like applesauce and peaches, afterall. But, we tried squash again and he ate a whole jar!


• He can play peek-a-boo by himself! Last night he was pulling a blanket in front of his face and when I said, "where's Caleb?" he pulled it down quickly and had a big grin on his face. I got a video of it, but it's on the video camera, not the digital. I'm not sure if I can get it on the computer.


• We think he may have an allergy to vinegar, or whatever else is in salt and vinegar potato chips. A couple weeks ago we let him lick on a chip and a short while afterwards, his top lip started to puff up. It kept puffing up for a while and he was really uncomfortable, but after an hour or so it started to go down. Weird!
• Good news, though: his eczema looks better than ever. He still has itchiness sometimes, but the rash itself is the best it has looked since he first developed it when he was 3 months old. Yay!


• He can sign "more" and "eat" and he knows what we mean when we say and sign "drink" to him. He also recognizes all of our names. Every time, when I say "where's Laura Anne?" he looks right at her. He does the same for Daddy and Mommy as well!

A Barbie Party

We promised Laura Anne she'd get her Barbie birthday party and January 24th was the earliest we could manage to schedule it. We had it at Chick-fil-A (did you expect anything else??). Everything turned out really nice and Laura Anne had a great time with 7 of her friends!

Sofie and Jessalyn:

Pile-up in the slide. I think there ended up being six kids that came out of the slide at the same time! Jessalyn, Sofie and Laura Anne were at the beginning of the pile-up:

Four of the girls (Sofie, Laura Anne, Blakely and Kaitlyn):

Mmmm, cupcake time!

She was pretty excited to get a Webkinz! Later, I told her it was a hippo and she said, "no Mommy. It's a hippo-come-a-mus". I stand corrected! Laura Anne and Sofia: Best Friends!

Rachel, Blakely and Laura Anne: (Rachel was painting Laura Anne's fingernails)

More Snow Pictures

We couldn't build a snowman, so a snow mountain was the next best thing:

Here's our flag with a view of the neighborhood:

Snow Day!

How exciting! We got somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-6 inches of snow today! This is the most snow we've seen in the 4 1/2 years we've lived here.

Laura Anne just loved being outside. She kept asking if we could make a snowman, but the snow was too soft. It wouldn't stay packed together.

Caleb handled it very well. He just chilled out in Daddy's arms.

I think icycles are so beautiful. These were hanging from our roof.

____ on my mind:

Yes, we went to Chick-fil-A for lunch on our snow day. We are the faithful customers! We met Jerry and Ellen there.

A family shot outside of Chick-fil-A:

Laughter Lives! Tuesday

This post is part of "Laughter Lives! Tuesday" on the Riggs Family Blog. Check our their blog to read everyone else's "Laughter Lives!" posts.


So I was going to post this story anyway, then I came across MckMama's blog (I am addicted to her blog!) and she did this Laughter Lives! thing, so I thought, "what the heck? I'll give it a shot." So here you go, for your own enjoyment, my first Laughter Lives! Tuesday story:

My daughter has this fascination with people's names. She always wants to know everyone's name. She's always asking me, "Mommy, what's her name?" when we're out and about. We were at the Olive Garden a few nights ago and a group of people were seated at a table near us. Laura Anne points her finger in their direction and says, "Mommy, what's her name?" and I said "Sweetie, don't point. It's not polite to point at people." She then points her fist in the direction of the woman in question and says, "Mommy, what's her name?"

Snack Time

Caleb tried a biter biscuit last week. He really seemed to enjoy it...the first day. He will not have another one. So we tried Puffs. He's had those several days now, so I think he likes them.