New Blog

For your convenience and reading pleasure, there is now a new, combined blog for Caleb and Esther. Check it out at littlelowes.blogspot.com

Caleb is now a big brother!

In case for whatever reason you didn't know, Caleb's little sister, Esther Mae, was born Sunday morning! She has her own blog (linked on the right sidebar) at lowenumber2.blogspot.com.

Caleb had an exciting couple of days as he woke up Sunday to one of Elisha's co-workers at our house and spent the morning playing with his family. By lunch, Elisha's parents had arrived in town, much to his excitement. He has been constantly asking for "buhpa" which means grandpa (but he has also used it for my dad which we call grandad). There is a very slight variation on buhpa which means grandma, but it is quite subtle. Anyway, he picked them out of a crowd driving up to the airport!

His grandparents brought him to visit us in the hospital on Sunday afternoon and he was very glad to see us. At first he showed pretty much zero interest in Esther and was just getting into the normal troube around the hospital room. However, after we tried to get him to say Esther, he came up with this:

Once he got it, he wouldn't stop saying it! I think it sounds like either "Edgar" or "uga". I choose to think it's "Edgar", for obvious reasons, so that's what I'll be telling Esther later in life. :-)

On Monday he visited again. Apparently when he was coming up to the hospital he kept saying Mommy! Daddy! He showed a little more interest in Esther this time, pointing and smiling a couple of times and wanting to look closely once or twice. He stayed for quite a while and wore them both out:


One last thing: we've heard some people say that the older child just knows when the baby is about to come and they get really clingy. That was the case for Caleb! Thursday and Friday he was continually wanting hugs from Elisha, which is pretty unusual for him. These days you're lucky to get a good 3 second hug before bed! But he had to get about 10 hugs before we left him at daycare, and he would start crying and want another when he realized we were walking out the door.

Elisha's mom will be staying to help out probably at least till the weekend, so I'm sure Caleb will have lots more fun interactions with Esther. Not to mention adventures all of his own...

Halloween

We dressed Caleb up as a hunter and took him out trick-or-treating. He had a blast! He did very well too. We didn't really expect him to actually wear the hat or carry the gun or the bag of candy, but he did a good job with all of it. We only took him to about 4 or 5 houses, but he really had a good time. Here are some pictures and a video to enjoy.

Haircut!!!

We finally decided to attempt to cut Caleb's hair this morning. It was definitely in need of it. Here are some new pictures...
And here's a video of one of his new favorite toys:

Great-Grandparents Visit

Here are some cute pictures and video from when Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Waugh came to visit.

Naptime

Here is a funny picture of Caleb napping today. He has fallen in love with my old big stuffed tiger and he wanted to sleep with it this afternoon.

Recent Caleb Happenings

I thought it was about time to put some new pictures and videos here and to mention what Caleb has been up to recently. One of the most interesting things is that we finally decided that we should try to count how many words he has. So we took a few days and just wrote down all the words he said, so it's not a complete list, but it's a good sampling. We ended up with at least 75 words, which I guess isn't very useful information because I have no clue how many he should have at this point. But I must admit I was pretty surprised. If I had to just guess I probably would have said around 30. I had no idea it was over double that! He's getting to the point now that he's probably adding about 2 words a day to his vocabulary. He repeats just about anything you say. It's fun because we have actually gotten him to say "I love you" now! It comes out sounding a bit like "hello" but he's trying really hard. I'm just waiting for it to come out spontaneously one day instead of after we ask him to say it, but it still melts my heart even though it's prompted.

Well, as promised, here are some pictures and stuff:

I thought this one was cute even though it's probably a month old

Okay, I couldn't resist...this is me meeting Dan Haseltine. :)

Caleb...our future rock star!

This is from one Saturday while I was gone
for work. Apparently he first fell asleep with
his hand actually in the soup.



This is a cute video of him building a tower.

That ought to be enough stuff to make up for the lack of posts recently. :)