Growing

It just seems like my boys are growing so fast.  Gabe took Caleb to an ISU basketball game last night and I stayed home with Owen. I took the opportunity to go through some of the bins of clothes and change out what fits and what doesn't fit.  Owen definitely does not fit into the same outfits as Caleb did within the same timeline of life.  But it's been fun to go through and remember when Caleb was small enough to fit into some of these outfits.  I've got Owen's room done, now I've got to carve out time for Caleb's stuff.  I simply dread it - but it must be done.
   We also got some really cool CARS license plate-type things from someone I work with.  Her husband knew that Caleb was a CARS fanatic and scored some really cool things for him at some sort of State Farm giveaway.  We finally got around to hanging them up.  They round out his CARS bedroom theme quite nicely.

 An update on Owen.  He's 6 months now.  I can't keep him from grabbing George.  He used to sit so nicely while I took his picture next to George, but now he thinks he's a friend.

Baths are starting to be more fun.  Owen can sit up on his own now (something that has happened within the past week), so he loves playing with bath toys more and he especially loves to try and eat the bubbles.  They're quite fascinating, you know!

Happy New Year!

Well, we're officially into 2012!  2011 was a great year filled with many blessings to our family!  Winter break is over for Gabe, so he is back at school and we are back to our normal routine.  Caleb doesn't go back to preschool for another week and a half, so we've got lots of downtime to fill each day.  Good thing we got new toys for Christmas!

We headed to Highland to celebrate with my family for a couple of days.  We saw just about everyone! It was a full house.  And this was Owen's first Christmas! He mostly enjoyed chewing on anything that came within a foot of his mouth, but he did seem genuinely pleased to get the toys that he did.

My grandma came up the next day so she could give the boys their gifts.  I love Caleb's reaction in the picture.  He's so expressive - I love that kid!

Then we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day in Normal.  The kids opened their presents and had a lot of time to play with them as we didn't have anywhere to be until Monday.  Then we headed to Urbana to spend Christmas with Gabe's family at his grandma's house (a.k.a. GGMax, as Caleb calls her).

All in all a great Christmas season!