Happy 1st Birthday

On Tuesday we celebrated Caleb's 1st birthday by enjoying a family dinner of homemade pizza, cupcakes, and opening presents.

Caleb enjoyed opening his gifts and of course Jaden was right there to help if needed

 

New bike helmet from Aunt Judy and Uncle Eric

Mommy helping to blow out the candle

He enjoyed his cake :)

Family picture, Jaden was thrilled

Compared to 1 year ago:

Luckily Caleb gained weight and I lost weight - wow what a difference a year makes!!

Caleb had his 1 year check up on Friday and he is doing well.  Here are his stats:
Weight: 20.6 lbs - 16%
Height: 29 3/4 inches - 55%

Swim lessons

Both Caleb and Jaden are currently taking swim lessons.  Jaden is now old enough to take level 1 without a parent.  He is a bit timid but still learning and becoming more comfortable in the water each class.

Here he is about to dunk his head 

And here is Caleb

Caleb enjoys splashing in the water, watching mom or dad blow bubbles, and dunk his head.  We are still working on back floats and kicking his legs.

Can you believe

That next Tuesday this handsome guy will be 1

Tonight we had spaghetti for dinner and we decided Caleb was old enough to eat it as well.  Here is the result:

 Actually not too bad considering; he did go into the bath right after dinner

Can't wait for his party which I have yet to plan, oops.  Well I know we will have a dinner celebration next Tuesday and possibly a family/friend party in later August after all of our trips are over.

Video time

Illinois - Summer 2011

I will let the pictures tell the story:

Excited for the airplane to take off; luckily both flights went 100% better than I anticipated!

Ate lunch at Miller Park

Boat ride on Lake Michigan with Amy

Milwaukee

Jacob and Anna, we were able to watch Anna perform as Liza in Peter Pan

Jaden swimming on his own

Each grandchild created stepping stones with hand and foot prints

Madison fun; visiting Jen, Rick, and Kelsey

Best picture ever! 1st motorcycle ride

Park fun

Caleb enjoying a nap

Cousin love

The last day of our visit included a hot air balloon festival

Summer - FINALLY

Photos courtesy of Jaden:

I believe Caleb was trying to attack my hair, HA

On Saturday we dug out our swim suites and went swimming at our local outdoor pool.

What a stud

Spraying everyone; sorry random people in the picture

Jaden enjoyed the 2 kid friendly water slides

Jumping in

With my boys and proof that I swam as well (oh and Caleb splashed in the water as but no picture)

And after the last picture Jaden threw the camera causing the lens to malfunction, then I tried to fix it but instead made it worse.  The camera actually does work now but the lens cover is broken.

The second best part, swimming being the first, no one got sunburned.  Mom mission accomplished!

Also this summer (so far) we have attended 2 Knights baseball games, played LOTS of baseball ourselves, accomplished some yard work, and taken many walks.  Now lets hope this 80ish degree weather continues.

Picture catch-up

I was uploading pictures from our pool adventure the other day and realized there were quite a few pictures I failed to share.

Aww....Caleb sleeping (10 months)

These 2 have a lot of fun together, if Caleb is up before Jaden he crawls all over the house looking for his brother

Watching TV in his "little green chair" with his dog

Sandbox fun

And Jaden feeding it to Caleb; oh the life with little boys :)