Perfect Park Picnic

We had a great time this afternoon meeting Daddy at a park near his office.  We packed up a nice picnic lunch and enjoyed the warm weather and cool breeze.  We're thinking about making this a weekly ritual...as long as we can handle the weather.  But there are some covered pavilions, so that might help when it heats up.

Oh, and have you heard?  Caleb is going to be a big brother!  I think he'll make a great one.  Today he helped me clean up some toys and push in the chairs after dinner.  Such a good helper!

Ready for summer!

Here is a short video clip of Caleb getting ready for the pool this summer.  I think he's going to love swim time.  :)

Busted lip

Poor guy got his first walking injury.  I think he's had some minor bumps before, but this is the first to draw blood.  He was walking around outside, tripped, and then face planted.  He bit the inside of his bottom lip, and scraped the outside of his chin on the pavement.  You can see a little bit of his fat lip in the picture.  It actually scabbed up worse the next day.

In other news...

Caleb is going through a clingy stage.  He doesn't like me to put him down or walk out of the room.  And he's started to cling and cry when we drop him off at the church nursery.  He's never done that before, so's it's kind of a weird thing for us. 

He spent 5 days with Nana and Grandpa while David and I went to Missouri for his work.  It was our first time to leave him, but he did so good!  And he learned a few new tricks while we were gone - going from sitting to standing on his own, saying "Nana", and trying some new foods.

He's doing puzzles now.  And he loves blocks, Legos, and stacking cups.  He also enjoys taking things apart (i.e. my phone).  Do we have another engineer in our family?  May be too soon to tell.  :)

He has a hilarious sense of humor.  I can't really explain it because he doesn't use words.  But we can see it though his facial expressions and babble, his laughs, the way he plays games with us and teases us, and when he joins in our silliness.  He's always making us laugh.  I think he'll be one of those kids that "says the darnedest things."

Can anyone else relate?

The cartoon Dilbert hits really close to home for David.  Like, sometimes he wonders if the writer is following him around and documenting his work life.

Well, the Dilbert a couple weeks ago hit on more of a personal note.  We laughed and laughed after reading it.  And then thought about it later in the day and laughed some more.

I'll give you the back story:
When David and I got married, we realized that neither of us really liked to iron and neither of us really cared.  So I figured in our new life together, we'd probably be known as the wrinkly couple.  I try to hang up shirts and pants as soon as they come out of the dryer, so as not to have to iron them.  (Thankfully, now we have all of his dress shirts pressed at the cleaners.)  But there are those times when I don't get around to it, and a shirt or pants are pretty wrinkled.  I'll say, "David, you can't wear those pants to work, they're so wrinkly!  I didn't get a chance to iron them!"  He'll just say, "Nobody will notice.  And if they do, they'll just think I wrinkled them on my drive to work."  hehe.  Riiiight.  If by "wrinkled them on my drive to work" you mean "look like they were balled up in the corner for a few days" then sure, that's what they'll think.  Same with ink stains, etc.  People don't know it didn't just happen.  I guess we don't have to worry about being too image-conscious. 

Anyway, here it is.  It even throws in some IT nerdiness to make David laugh even more.