Last Friday I stayed home because I had worked on Thursday instead. I mostly spent the day getting ready to go to Vermont for the weekend, but I did a little bit of shopping as well. I wanted to get some wrapping paper for next year and I had to make one return and buy one more gift as well. Unfortunately, Caleb didn't nap well on Friday, so that made it is a little difficult to get everything done that I needed to, but we made it work. We also met my mother at the hospital to visit a church member who was there with a broken hip and then we went to the Thai restaurant for lunch afterwards.
In the elevator at the hospital
Looking out the window in the hospital room
Crazy hair at the Thai restaurant
The keeper of the wrapping paper
On Friday night, my parents stopped by to see us for a few minutes because they wouldn't see us for a few days since we were going to Vermont. Other than that, it was a quiet evening and after Caleb went to bed, Steve and I did a lot of packing.
On Sabbath morning, we were trying to leave around 8:00 to make it to church on time, but we had so much last minute packing to do that we didn't leave until 8:30, but that wasn't too bad considering everything we had to do.
Showing off his new boots from Grammy
Talking on his cell phone - he actually puts it up to his ear on his own!
We got to church around 11:30 and then spent the rest of the time in the mother's room, as usual! After church we took a family picture with everyone, because it was a good opportunity.
After church, we went home for lunch and I fed Caleb first while everyone else was getting the rest of lunch ready and then I put Caleb down for a nap. It only ended up being a 45 minute nap, but at least it took the edge off. The rest of the afternoon we just spent visiting with family and then we had the Christmas party and opened the gifts.
Love this picture!
With cousin Bethany's brand new fiancé Darren
I left the party to put Caleb to bed and then after that, we played some Apples to Apples, which was a lot of fun. On Sunday we had our family Christmas, but it took awhile for us to get our act together, so we had it in a couple parts. We didn't get started until almost 1:30 and then Caleb needed a nap around 2:30, so we took a break and ate a meal and then resumed around 5:30 or 6:00 and then we were almost done when I had to get Caleb ready for bed, so we missed out on the last little bit, but it was ok.
I love Caleb's arms in this picture
Sunday night we had a snowstorm and it was beautiful. I have never seen such big flakes! The only bad part was we ended up losing power for a few hours from around 8:30 or 9:00 until 1:00 in the morning. Since we couldn't use the monitor without the power on, I ended up going to bed early so I could be in the room to hear Caleb.
On Monday, we didn't do much all day except hang around the house. I wanted to get a few hours of work done, so Steve spent some time with Caleb. He took him out in the snow for a little while.
Checking out the snowman his cousins built
On Tuesday, we left around 1:00 to come home, so we spent the morning pretty much getting ready to go and just hanging out with everyone. It was hard to say goodbye to the Whitsetts, but we are happy we will see them again this summer instead of having to wait a year and a half like last time.
Steve's mom broke her leg several weeks ago so was pretty immobile
Caleb playing with Grandma's walker
We had a relatively good trip home, although we weren't really thinking about the fact that we would be going through Boston during rush hour, so we did hit some traffic, but it could definitely have been a lot worse. We got home and unpacked the car and fed Caleb supper and then put him to bed and then we went to bed early instead of staying up until midnight. I am definitely not a night person, so it doesn't make any sense to stay up just because!
Today was a catch-up day. I did laundry, unpacked our Christmas gifts, cleaned out my closet, and did a few hours of work. Steve took Caleb out shopping for a couple of hours, which was a nice break for me. We had Rad and Jen and my parents over for supper since we hadn't seen Rad and Jen in almost 2 weeks. It was nice to get together and we got to show them Caleb's new tricks. While we were in Vermont, he really started pulling up on everything. We used his pack and play a little bit as a playpen in the mornings because Caleb was up much earlier than the rest of the house, and he loved pulling up to stand in the pack and play and then he would throw his toys out. This morning at home, I went on my treadmill for 45 minutes and when I came upstairs, Steve told me that Caleb had been walking his activity table across the room, which he has never done before. He also started saying "bye bye", which was very exciting. Recently he has been saying "ball" constantly, because he has a lot of balls, so his vocabulary is expanding! It is so neat to see him learning and doing new things!
Well, that's about it. Here are a few more random pictures from the week.
Pulling himself up at the changing table and throwing all the diapers on the floor!
Last night right before we took the Christmas tree down
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