Video: The Foot Book

For a time, we read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss constantly (until we hid it in the sofa). Then we read it constantly again after we found it. Some Dr. Seuss is good, but I hit my limit before Caleb does. Thankfully, this book has found its home in the public library again. Anyway, this video is from December. Since then, Caleb's hair has grown a couple inches, and his feet have only gotten faster.

Video: This Little Piggy

Video: Body Parts

Evolution of Movement

Mama!

I'm working on editing some videos of Caleb, but in the meantime, here's one to tide you over. (At least I know some grandmas need their Caleb fix.)

Oh Joy (choose your own punctuation mark)

I get to laugh a lot throughout the day.

I hope you get a kick of of this too:

Gun Show

10 months

It doesn't seem possible that Caleb is already 10 months old!

After interviewing Caleb extensively, here is the latest:

• Favorite food: cottage cheese and fruit
• Favorite game to play in the grocery store: peekaboo
• Favorite new toy: Baby swings at the park
• Newest skill: waving hello and goodbye
• Latest research focus: walking and going down stairs
• Biggest adventure: Staying at Grandpa and Grandma Baker's house for the weekend
• Newest territory to explore and conquer: Cabinets
• New acquisitions: 2 new teeth for a total of 8

Overall it's been a good month!

The results of Caleb's new explorations:

Caleb is on a fairly predictable (but flexible) routine now, which the planning side of me really enjoys. His personality is becoming clearer. He is constantly moving, very active, slow to wake up, and generally happy. He is not a fan of some of the consequences of his explorations (paper cuts, falling after trying to climb, etc.). If you have any fun activities or games that keep little boys out of trouble, I'd love to hear about them. I'm starting to run out of ideas, and we haven't even hit the one-year mark!

As was mentioned earlier, Caleb stayed with my parents for a weekend while Luke and I went to a marriage conference in Des Moines. We enjoyed the conference, and Caleb enjoyed having new territory to explore. Oh, and he loved playing with Grandma from what I hear. I was afraid Caleb would really take off walking over the weekend and I'd miss it, but he didn't. He takes a few steps on his own, but he's not confident yet. Instead of walking at Grandma's, he decided to break out two new teeth. Thankfully they were easy teeth, and he didn't keep Grandpa and Grandma up all night.

The following video is actually from about a month ago, but it seems that I've been too busy playing with (i.e. chasing after) Caleb to take many pictures or capture video.

Sounds

Last week I checked out Oh the Wonderful Sounds Mr. Brown Can Do from the library. I think Caleb was inspired and is now rehearsing for a part in the Broadway show: