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My apologies for becoming such a lazy blogger! Honestly, my excuse is so lame: it’s warm here in San Jose, and our computer is in our room where it’s even warmer, so I haven’t wanted to sit down for the hour it takes to blog.  But let me delay no longer – here is Caleb in his new habitat!

His room is my old room.  My uncle painted it when I was 13 or so; I was really into clouds, can you tell?

 This is the crib that we bought for Caleb when he was born and that he has slept in maybe 20 times in his life.  The intent was to put him back in here after the move, but alas… there is something about sleeping in a closet (maybe how dark it gets?) that Caleb really prefers.  He’s back to the porta-crib!  He does get into this crib daily to play with the stuffed animals, though.  He calls them all “bee-uh!” which translates to “bear!” and is often followed by “rawwwwwh!” which correlates to “roar!”

Here’s Caleb zooming his car around the hope chest.  He likes to lift the lid and peek at even more stuffed animals inside.  You can tell he’s starting to eye the closet door… this photo shoot came shortly before nap time.

A better view of his really cool world map rug, the waterfall in the corner, the window, and his closet sleep-room.  Just after I took this he turned to me and asked, “Nigh-nigh?” while pointing at the porta-crib. Hey, who am I to say no to a kid who wants a nap?

The space under the stairs was our domain when my brother and I were kids.  Now it belongs to Caleb!  He loves his little world o’ toys.  It continues behind the couch here with a bookshelf filled with more of his toys and tons of books.  When he’s old enough, he’ll see the value of hiding under the stairs and grabbing his dad’s ankle to startle him…

And finally, this video.  We’ve been working on some fun animal sounds (+ Sesame Street’s the Count) with Buddy and he is now a pro at them.  I’m just glad he did them for the camera today!  (Sorry it’s so dark.)

Yep, a bee says “thhhhh.”  It’s his best version of “zzzzz” and we love it.  He has just started the next step in language (two word sentences) and one of them involved this sound yesterday.  He was watching a fly on some flowers in our backyard – this boy LOVES all bugs – and it flew away.  He turned to me with his brows furrowed and his palms up, and with a careful pause between words asked, “Thhhh go?”  Genius child.

I didn’t take any pictures of our adventure to Monterey Bay Aquarium, but Heidi took a couple so I’ll ask for those and post them soon! And this time when I say soon, I mean it.

 

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