Such a big boy!!

Our friends, Kim and Jonathan, have a beautiful daughter who turned one on March 2. We were blessed to be able to celebrate her birthday with them, and while it was so much fun to see their sweet Nora on her birthday (well, actually the day after), it blew my mind to think that in just 3 short months (less now) we'll be celebrating Caleb's 1st birthday!! Where has the time gone?? Caleb is getting so big and growing up so fast! I think it's safe to say he's making the transition from "baby" to "little boy"... and he is ALL boy! :)

Already a fan of watching the garbage man do his job ~

He has been crawling since about 7 1/2 months old, and started pulling himself up to standing not long after that. Now, he cruises along the furniture pretty quickly, and will let go and just stand by himself for a while too. AND he took a few steps the other day!! I could be wrong, but I'm guessing he'll be walking full-time pretty soon. :) But if he isn't, he gets around pretty quickly by crawling or bear-walking! (on his hands and feet with his butt up in the air... quite a funny sight, actually) :)

9 month picture with the elephant ~

He got his first hair cut a few weekends ago, thanks to my cousin Traci, and was such a big boy!! He sat in the chair all by himself, and was quite content to look around and let Traci trim the wings off the sides of his head. :) (both of our boys look like they're going to have mommy's curls... or some sort of them... sorry guys!)

He looks so little with that gigantic cape on! :)

Such a big boy!

Aaron took the boys for a ride in the bike trailer the other day, and they loved it! Micah wasn't too impressed with the bike trailer last year, but maybe if Caleb is in there too, we'll get some bike rides in this summer. :)


Aaron just downloaded a few songs by Trace Adkins, one of which is called "You're Gonna Miss This". And for as often as I find myself wishing the 'bad' days would go a little bit faster I know the words to this song are true ~

"You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this"

These ARE some good times and we're loving (almost) every minute of it. :) I think we'd say we love every minute of it if the boys, well... Caleb mostly... were sleeping through the night. But this too shall pass... right? :) We have been blessed with some precious boys and every day (even those preceded by sleepless nights) is a gift to treasure!