Calvin Loves Abstact Art.

Good job, Cal.

Birthday Boy!

Okay, so this happened like a month ago...

July 13th, 2011.
HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CALVIN!

We invited all of our family over for a day at the pool.
These pictures were all taken by David, by the way.
He's pretty good with a camera..

Cousin Noah

My sister, Ali. Nice half moon eyes, Al. :)

One EXTREMELY swollen diaper...

The Cake, made by David.

The cake, take two... being eaten by Calvin. 

Opening his gifts with his Abuelo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIDDO.

♥♥♥

A B C

Calvin (as many of you already know) has a pretty intense love for all things Sesame Street. As he started watching more of it, we noticed that he would start pointing out numbers & letters to us. He can now count all the way to 12 and can tell you any letter of the alphabet.

Thanks, Sesame Street. :)

The Puddle Jumper

For about a week and a half (maybe two weeks?)  here in good ol' Utah, every day was grey and rainy. It was pretty awesome, everything was green, I could get away with still wearing my big scarves in May. The best part was definitely Calvin's discovery of what happens when you step in a puddle. On one occasion, his whole bottom half was soaked through. This video only shows the smaller puddle.

The bad side: Calvin's clothes were constantly having to be re-washed because of all the muddy water. but it was totally worth it to watch him stomp around in the puddles.

The Chase

After a week of nothing but gloomy rainy weather,  the sun finally decided to make an appearance. Sunday started off a little gray, but as the day went on, I just couldn't stay inside anymore! People were barbecuing outside, kids playing. So Calvin ran outside for a while. 

David was determined to get a good shot of Calvin and Cal just did everything he could to make ruin every shot. He would run away or turn his face right as David pushed the button. 

As you can see, yesterday afternoon, the camera was pretty much just an extension of David's face.

Just a little glimpse of our growing garden! 

Taking The Wheel

My guess is he'll need at least 4 or 5 phone books under this kid to see through the windshield.

Rock On

Guess what we found on an impromptu visit to Savers?

That's absolutely right. After much convincing on David's part, we bought Calvin a little rocking horse. I need to take care of the stickers on it (thanks, previous owners ::sulk::) And Cal loves it. In fact, this morning as Kinley laid eyes on it, she started going for it and Calvin screamed!

"NEE NEEE!!!"

(This is Calvin's version of Kinley..)

And proceeded to rock on the horse all morning. Watching Elmo on the horse, eating breakfast on the horse, etc. It's pretty cute though, I have to admit. 

LATE POST: Calvin and The Snow

Thankfully, there isn't a whole lot of snow left. We've been getting a few "surprise" snow storms here and there. Calvin LOVES the way the snow crunches under his boots. The way his feet sink into it and looking back at his tracks. His biggest complaint? When he falls, he lifts his hands up in the air and arches his back so his face doesn't touch the snow (kind of like a locust pose you'd see in yoga but hands in the air in front of him). 

Can you believe the size of that coat? It swallows him up! You should see us getting him into his car seat with that thing on. He's like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!

Can the Terrible Twos come early? 

Hypothetically speaking, if your friend's kid was super sensitive all of a sudden, started throwing tantrums, scratching and hitting, would you say he's started with his Terrible Twos phase? 

Just hypothetically speaking... 

↑ Calvin being cute and NOT being Terrible Twos-y ↑

Down With A Sickness

Look at this face. Look at those little puffy sad eyes.

I'm telling you, people. It was SAD.

He literally sat on that couch for HOURS before moving. 

The Little Man

Calvin is officially all caught up on his shots.

Oh don't worry, the had to suffer through 7 SHOTS.
Needless to say, the next day was rough. I had 3 shots myself, although the worst of my suffering was just sore shoulders. Calvin woke up drenched in sweat, totally lethargic, appetite lost. Probably the most pitiful of these things was that Calvin's legs were so sore that his legs couldn't hold his weight! Every time he tried to stand up, his legs would shake uncontrollably and buckle because they were in so much pain. Not to mention the poor little guy just couldn't stop crying!
Around nap #2 of the day, after a warm bath in an effort to try to bring down the fever, I put Cal down in his crib and noticed he was shaking so violently from the chills that his whole crib shook! I hated watching my Calvin in such a horrible state! I literally couldn't do any more than I already had.

Thankfully, by the time Calvin had woken up from his nap, his fever broke! After that, a little food, and some small efforts to try to stand up on his own two feet despite the pain in his legs.

The next day, it was like he'd never been sick!
Walking around, eating, playing.
Still a bit of leg stiffness, but nothing compared to the previous day.

I am so glad to have this kid back to his usual self.

Apologies if the pictures are just slightly blurry. There was a lot of movement to try to capture with my wimpy little digital camera. 

For The Love of Elmo!

HILARIOUS.

Calvin has recently proven his knowledge of movie characters... Most recently recognition of one, Elmo the little red monster from Sesame Street. Heard of him?
Whilst in the middle of a giant flower MESS (from my most recent wedding flower job), I decided to distract Calvin with a little movie called "Elmo in Grouchland", which I love... don't judge. Calvin was glued to the screen, totally mesmerized by the little monsters dancing & singing. It went a little something like this:

Me: Calvin! Come on, lets go get Elmo! (Translation: "Lets go turn on the Elmo movie!")

Calvin: *runs away to his room and returns with his giant Elmo book and also brings his baby Tickle Me Elmo*

Me: *amazed that he actually knew what I was talking about*


I guess I was just surprised that he's gone from not knowing or caring about movie characters or tv characters at all, to knowing exactly who they are and his favorite songs, etc. He's like an actual PERSON now.. Whatever happened to my little tiny baby?!