Tatoo Boy

 

We put Caleb to bed around 9 o'clock on Tuesday night. Two minutes later the light was on and we could hear him in there messing around. But soon he was very quiet. We figured he was up to something, so I opened the door and I hear "Hi, Dad!" I couldn't see him anywhere in the room, so I looked behind the door and found this!!

Mickey Mouse Club House

So this morning I get back from lifting weights and Caleb was watching Mickey Mouse Play House. I get into the shower and when I come out to get my computer and leave for work, this is what I see. What a crazy kid!

He is so tall... and so very captivated by all things Disney.

"And the people rejoiced... YEAHHH!!"

Marble Maze

Grandma Gilbert gave Caleb this marble maze game. He loves it and we play it over and over again.

Caleb's early Christmas Present

This year we let Caleb open 1 Christmas present early. That's because it snowed this morning.



I even took him on his sled down the hill... it didn't go very far or very fast but he liked it. I threw a snowball at Mom who was standing at the outside window. She doesn't come outside because it's cold out there. Then Caleb had to do the same thing and didn't want his gloves on while he made his little snowballs. About 7 minutes later he was inside with his warm clothes off because his hands were frozen.

Thnaksgiving Day

 

We had almost all of Amy's family over for dinner last night. Both of Laurel's 2 sisters (Joanie and Clair) were here with their husbands. Also Amy's cousins Gavin and Kim were here. Gavin brought his fiancee, Brooke as well. Joanie's oldest daughter Debbie came with her husband Greg and their 4 daughters. Caleb had so much fun with all the kids.

Amy's worst fear has been realized...

That Caleb will one day have my schedule and be just fine with 5 or 6 hours of sleep. Ever since we put him in his BIG BOY BED a week and a half ago he has been waking up earlier every day. It started with 6:30am and now we're all the way down to 5:10am.

In fact, it's 5:28am right now and he's in the big room under the garage drinking his milk and watching Handy Manny.

Sad thing is that what Amy would normally do when this happened (since I would go lift weights at 6:30am) was to put on Handy Manny and then go back to bed. Well that wasn't OK with Caleb so he would go upstairs and find his buddy "Bampá" (Grandpa) and get him out of bed to watch a Handy Manny with him... but you see, "Bampá" has trouble getting to bed on time and he'd just went to sleep at 3:00am. So he wasn't much fun. Well then he would go get "Man-má" and have her get him a snack.

We finally had to put a door latch on the basement door that leads to upstairs so Caleb will still be welcome upstairs:)

Caleb's Animal Signs

This is hilarious

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Here's a second try for tonight.

We will try again another day:)

Our Halloween Cow-Boy...

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FHE - David and Goliath

We had a FHE tonight on David and Goliath.

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Caleb's Train Table

 

I bought a couple of the Costco tables a while back and instead of storing them, I decided to lower them way down and put Caleb's train set on it. Usually he dumps the thing all over the floor and then breaks it up with his body as he lays over the tracks while pushing his trains around. This usually gets him really upset and then he just whines and cries when it doesn't work the way he wants it to work. We've been working on him to show him now to actually fix the tracks and put them together when they come apart and he did a really good job of it this afternoon.

Amy's B-day

These are the beautiful flowers Caleb bought for his Momma for her Birthday.

 

Today we ate breakfast early at Mimi's Cafe. Caleb did pretty good until he wanted the Tabasco Sauce. I knew he was going to keep whining until he got some, so I put a little on his finger and he put it in his mouth. His smile eventually turned to a disgusted look. Then he took his hands and tried wiping his tongue off... that didn't work, so he started digging at his tongue. I finally shoved some of my muffin in his mouth and that did the trick. A swig of orange juice later and he was just fine.


He was OK infront of some of the animals, and he loved pointing out the birds and the fish. But as soon as we got to the Lions and Bears he got really quiet and clingy.

But his favorite part of the whole museum was the little frontier village set because it had a train in it... Choo choo!!!

He was the most scared of the Alaskan Moose...

and of the Kodiak Brown Bear. Poor little man!

Amy's office even decorated her cubicle... but she took the day off. Okay, she never goes in on Thursdays.

Visitor from Brasil

Danielle de Souza (Queroz) came to SLC for General Conference, so I took the day off of work to show her around some of the tourist-ish places that not so near down town (because she doesn't have car). She is from Boa Vista and was baptized with her family shortly before I was transferred there. She was a HUGE help to the missionaries because she'd take time out of lawschool to drive us all over the city getting legal documents for the families we were trying to help become legally married so they could be baptized. She also let me know that Luis and Valdeci had been through the temple and that their daughter Mirla was serving a mission.

First, we went to the "This is the Place State Park"

Most of the volunteer students were back in school so we couldn't go into any of the buildings. We started out just looking at the hand carts, which Caleb loved.


He acted scared of the pigs even though he wanted to be right next to them.

But he sure did love the train ride.

It's a good thing we went on the first ride because when we were done about 200 kindergarten kids all got on screaming and shouting.

From Salt Lake we went over Suncrest and up AF Canyon.

My poor wife gets car sick and those windy roads made her ready to toss her granola bars so we didn't even go all the way through. Instead we came back home, put Caleb to bed, ate some Rumbi Island Grill Hawaiian food and then went down to BYU and the MTC for a look around. By the time we got back Caleb handn't even woken up from his nap yet. Good thing Grandpa Gilbert was there keeping an eye on him, though.

Jawbone - Bluetooth ear piece

Okay, so I heard this new Jawbone ear piece worked really well so I bought one. I could hear much better, but Amy always complained that it was hard for her to hear me. Well one day, my friend Blair Hasler showed me this video and taught me how to actually activate the ear piece. Now it's amazing... check it out!


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Food Storage

We are trying to do better at following the prophets councel of getting out of debt and getting our 1-yr supply of food storage. We already had quite a bit of regular food storage that Amy and I have packaged from the Spanish Fork Cannery and from just regular sales from the store. With the sale of our Springville home complete, we decided to purchase a 1-yr supply for 2 people of complete meals, snacks, desserts from a freeze dried supplier. Check it out.

NuSkin Lagoon Party

Last night we went to Lagoon, for the annual NuSki