I think I have mentioned this before, but Caleb’s first sentence was “I need a puppy.” Well, while we were in St. Louis for Mother’s Day we found the puppy we had been looking for. His name is Buster and he is a soft coated wheaten terrier. Take a look at the boy and his dog below (click the picture to see the full size image).
Caleb and Buster at the Park
I know it has been a long time since I posted and I have a bunch of great Caleb pictures to show you as well as a little surprise for those of you who haven’t been paying attention to us on Facebook or MySpace…Mandy is pregnant again. She is currently due on 10/7/2009 (1 day before her 30th birthday)…
The last few weeks have been crazy…Mandy figured it out, she has been in the car for over 60 hours in the last 2.5 weeks. First was a friend’s wedding in Virginia that we drove to from Madison, second was Penny’s cancer visit last week for Mandy, then another friend got married in Iowa so we drove there, and finally Penny’s funeral this week. We are ready to stick around the house for awhile.
The funny thing is that it is our anniversary today and when I asked Mandy what she wanted to do for our anniversary, she said “sleep!” I don’t blame her…poor woman, during her first trimester she usually has to go to bed around 8 or 9, the last 2 weeks she has been going to bed after midnight most nights. I don’t care if she sleeps for the next week…she deserves it.
Anyway, on to the pictures, the first ones are random pictures. In May Caleb and I are in a friend’s wedding and we got Caleb’s suit the other day so we decided to have him try it on…Hopefully you enjoy the pictures…have a great week…
Mommy's little helper
Caleb decided to try on one of his hats...he likes wearing it the way daddy does sometimes...
Caleb acting cute in the car
Caleb loved clapping for the wedding party as they entered the reception hall at Erica's wedding...
Caleb in his suit
This one looks like it should be part of a catalog or something...
Caleb decided to start posing...
He was done with pictures by this point...
I love stories like this, when people just get it.
I really don’t have time to be blogging right now, but I ran across one of those moments today where I asked myself, did they really need to say it? I read something along the lines of “be careful, the cup of hot coffee you are about to enjoy is hot.” today so I have to share it with you but first a little background.
For those of you who know me, you know that since about my sophmore year of college I have been battling the bulge. I put on a little extra weight while training for college football and it has stuck around ever since. I gained even more weight after college when I started driving a desk every day as a computer programmer, but I digress. I have made it a goal this year to lose some weight and I am actually serious about it this year. To that end, I used some of the money that I received for Christmas this year to purchase some workout stuff for home for those days when I just can’t make it to the gym.
One such piece of equipment was a medicine ball for doing core work and for use with some yoga/pilates type stuff I want to start trying to help with my flexibility and lean muscle strength.
After I got done eating my delicious picante chicken from The Biggest Loser Cookbook and washing the dishes I began to unpack my new treasures. When I opened the ball I thought to myself, this is pretty cool, this looks like a pretty well constructed medicine ball. Then, I found the paper insert in the box and decided to humor them and read it. Then I found this:
SET-UP
Really? What scares me though is that they wouldn’t have had to put the 2 step wonder instructions if they didn’t think that someone needed them.
Jim: Hey Bob, that’s a fancy lookin box you got there.
Bob: Don’t I know it, that is a great looking box, it really helps me with that Pilates (pronounced Pilots) stuff that my wife got me into.
Jim: Aren’t you supposed to take the ball out of the box though
Bob: Shoot, I don’t know, it doesn’t say to on the outside of the box…they said it came with a workout video, but the box doesn’t fit in my DVD player.
Here’s the kicker…the directions were in the box underneath the ball. So by the time you got to the directions, you had already accomplished them…
I don’t know what I would have done if I had gotten to the directions and they said:
SET-UP
If you don’t hear from me after 24 hours then you know what happened to me, call my wife…but wait, I got her a ball too…
I hope you are having a great new year…I have to get back to work…
We received this picture of Caleb from last Christmas, he has grown quite a bit since then…
2 Year olds can say the funniest things.
I didn not witness this exchange in person because I was flat on my back sick on New Years Day, but when Mandy recounted this conversation to me I laughed really, really hard.
Caleb (looking at the nativity scene in our kitchen): It’s a baby!
Mandy: Yes, Caleb it is a baby.
Caleb: It’s a BABY!
Mandy: Yes, Caleb, it’s a baby.
Caleb: baby sleeping.
Mandy: Yes, Caleb the baby is sleeping.
Caleb: Wake up baby.
Mandy: That’s baby Jesus.
Caleb (at the top of his lungs): WAKE UP JESUS!!!!!!!!
Mandy: No, no, we don’t yell at baby Jesus.
Caleb (very quietly): wake up Jesus.
Maybe you don’t find that as funny as I do, but I hope you do, Caleb is so stinking cute.
For those of you who keep up…my son is following in my footsteps…you know how I have the potato head gang…
Well for Christmas, my son got a pirate spud and a winter spud…take a look…
I’m so proud…
I hope your new year is off to a great start. I hope to be blogging more this year. Things have been pretty hectic lately but hopefully they will slow down sometime soon.
Jeff
Welcome to 2009 from the Miles family. We hope you have a great year!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We are doing one of our usual holiday marathons and in Indiana right now. Eat some turkey for us.
Well, the snow stuck so it looks like the Madison winter is upon us. According to the almanac, we’re supposed to get 180+ inches this winter. I got my snowblower fixed last spring…so don’t sing it mother nature…bring it.
For those of you who have never met Caleb he is a great little helper, he is always trying to lend a hand.
Take for instance that last sock in the dryer…
What can I say, the kid is thorough and really tries to finish the job that he starts. Have a great week.
