opposites attract

caleb is very into opposites right now. we love to play games with them. we do "on-off" with light switches, musical toys, etc. we play "up-down" with toys where we raise them up high and then bring them down into our laps. actually, for caleb it looks more like raising them up and then throwing them down. our favorite, though, is "in-out" and we play this one more than any other. caleb likes to dump all his blocks out of their bin and then put them back in (only to take them out again). we say "in, in, in... the block is in the box" and then "out, out, out... the block is out of the box". he's also done this will all the clothes in his dresser... those were mainly out, though, not much "in" was happening. we've also tried this at the library with their bin of board books. fun times!

happy father's day

i love partnering with troy in this adventure that is parenting.

goodbye chopsticks

caleb's chopstick method of picking up food is no more. and i'll miss it. not that it was effective, but, boy, was it adorable! it came to a screeching halt as soon as i introduced caleb to veggie booty. i had read about it and heard about it on a few blogs i read so finally i just went out and bought it. i thought it would make a good afternoon snack. and caleb LOVES it. the first time i gave it to him he quickly figured out how to feed himself (with either hand) and would often put two to three pieces in his mouth at a time. his fingers went from chopsticks to shovels.

pregnancy...

no, i'm not pregnant. although troy would love to be (he's been ready since caleb was about 3 weeks old) i'm not ready yet. and i want a chance to have my body not sustaining life for at least a couple of months. sometimes i really want kids close together, but right now i'm just not ready.


but anyway, i digress...

now that i have a baby, i LOVE finding out that friends are pregnant (like we did last night). it's honestly one of my favorite things. i love hearing about how they're feeling and about their hopes and dreams for their labor & delivery and their baby's future. i love seeing the bedding they pick out and the maternity clothes they wear. and i love thinking about all the joy they have in store for them. it's so exciting!

tongue obsession

caleb is obsessed with sticking his tongue out. he learned awhile ago, but had to really concentrate on it. now, he does it all the time. like ALL the time. i would be willing to bet that at least 1/8 of his day (that he's not sleeping) is spent with his adorable little tongue sticking out. he especially does it when he's concentrating on crawling fast or climbing something.

celebration of friendship

the weather here is yucky. very yucky. and it's june. not just june, but june 12. give me a break. please! so i'm feeling a little yucky myself. i'm sick of not being able to go out and go swimming (especially since caleb is quickly outgrowing his swimsuit that he's only worn 2 times!)and go to the park and take walks. i'm ready for summer. or at least spring!

all that to say, i need a pick me up. and having my dear friend janell here yesterday helped. a lot! i thought it was time i did something to celebrate friendship. i'm hoping this will help bring a little sunshine into my life since obviously the sky isn't doing that for me. so i thought it would be fun to write about my two closest friends and how i met them. because when i think about them and how they came into my life, it makes me happy. and it makes me excited to think about how God is orchestrating other friendship in my life at this very moment and i might not even realize it!

ps... troy is really my closest friend... but for the sake of this celebration, i'm excluding family.

janell: i met janell in a really roundabout way. see, her sister-in-law worked at the job where i got hired. and she and i got along pretty well. so when another job opened up in my department and janell applied, we thought, "hey, let's give it a shot... at least her character is vouched for." what a great decision! janell and i hit it off right away. there are very few people that i could work with so easily. and we had so much fun. and our work definitely didn't suffer. if anything, we wanted to do better and quicker work so that we could have a chance to have even more fun together. we talked and worked and worked and talked (we were in customer service so we could do that sort of thing). it was wonderful. and one of the things i most dreaded about leaving that job was not seeing janell every day. but we're still friends. and our husbands get along great. and so do our boys. she's the type that i can just be with. what a joy she is and her friendship brings to me.

sheri: it was my freshman year of high school. and it seemed everywhere i looked, there she was. she was in mexican dance with me and drill team with me and speech class with me. and i thought, "hey, if i'm going to always be around her, i may as well be her friend." i am SO thankful for that! sheri has been a great friend through so much of life. she watched me fall in love (and i did the same for her) and we got married the same summer (even shared a veil and cake-topper). our boys are only about 6 months apart and our friendship seems to just be getting stronger. i'm so thankful to have a friend who has been there for so many seasons of my life. and i know she'll be there for so many more. which will make them all the more special.

ahh... i feel better already.

what is going on?

what is going on with caleb these days? he's having serious going-to-sleep issues. not every time, but occasionally. we'll lay him in his crib like usual and instead of just playing for a while or fussing for a little bit, he will start screaming-crying. like he's in pain.

and i don't know why.

at first i considered an ear infection and that maybe it hurt to be horizontal... but he keeps screaming even after he's sat himself up in bed or is standing up holding onto the sides. all he wants is to be in our arms. at first, we thought something was wrong, so we would go to him. but once it became evident that it was just a game for him, we thought we should just let him cry for about 5 minutes to see if he stopped. so we did. and the cried so hard he threw up. so now of course i don't want to do that again. what is going on?! i want him to go back to putting himself to sleep but i also want him to be safe.

and it's all about what i want, right? oy.

maybe God is trying to teach me something.