Our Big Boys

So Aidan is spending his first night in his toddler bed. I can't believe that he is old enough to be in it. He looks so sweet. James is going to take a picture of him tomorrow during nap and I will post a pic! Hopefully he will sleep well!

Caleb went back to the ice rink yesterday and kept up his passion for falling! It was a little more watery so he was a little wet, but he also marched around the rink just holding James' hands! I think he might be a natural skater, with his dad from Michigan and his Papa from Minnesota!

Christmas Pics

I never seem to have time to do a Christmas letter, so instead here are pictures of our Christmas so far. We will be celebrating with my dad on New Years and I am sure I will have more pics to share.

We spent our Christmas Eve going to Morse Church (where James is directing the student ministries). It was a wonderful service and the boys even enjoyed it. Then we had dinner with Grandma French and Judy. It was wonderful to spend time with family.

Christmas morning the boys actually got up at their normal time...I however had trouble sleeping and was up at 6:45. We started off by having James read the Christmas story in a childrens book.

This is Aidan's second Christmas, but the first one he can participate in. He is very meticulous in opening his gifts. He must have every little piece of paper off the gift before he shows any emotion of what he received. He gave me each little piece of this gift.

This is from Caleb, who was sick all week so I had to go get the gift for him. When asked what he wanted to give Aidan it was "a big twuck with cars."

Caleb for his "big" present got hockey skates. They happen to match my new hockey skates. He has been so passionate about playing hockey lately that we couldn't resist. He will get to take skate lessons early next year.

Luckily, Leawood just opened a new outdoor ice rink that happened to be the only rink open on Christmas Day. Caleb did very well. He can stand by himself and take a couple of march steps. He could probably do more, but he likes to fall on the ice. He likes to pretend that he is being "checked by the guys". Did I mention that he loves hockey?

The rest of our day we were with James' family. The boys had a blast chasing Joe and Michele's kids all around the house. They never get enough of playing with the older kids.

We hope that you and yours had a blessed Christmas.

He's Done!!!!!

Done with what you ask! James took his last test today!!!!!

He is so excited....tonight was a night of wine and sushi!

There is a huge weight off of his shoulders. Of course he still is waiting for his scores, but it is definitely time for some well-deserved rest!

Way to go honey!

Just when he thought it would never end

So today James had a bit of a challenging afternoon.....

It started like this....Caleb came out of their room from nap buck naked with dark circles around his eyes....he looked like a racoon...now while one would think it might be from lack of sleep (he didn't so much take a nap) instead it is from getting in mommy's mascara.....so like a good daddy he goes into their room to get clothes on, clean up the mascara only to find.....poop everywhere...on Caleb's bed, on the boys floor, in their bathroom floor, in the toy room floor. Daddy is wondering if instead of mascara around the eyes is it something else....so he puts Caleb back in his diaper when he notices another diaper on the floor....he looks at Aidan who is also without diaper, but couldn't figure out how to get his shirt off...so Aidan also gets a new diaper (James mental note remember to check the crib after cleaning up poop)....the boys are sent to play in the living room.....poop detail is done.....checking on the boys and see water all over floor from cat bowl......boys are soaked completely.....the boys are sent to the toy room to play while daddy cleans up the water....instead the boys decide to play in their room taking out every piece of clothing from Aidan's dresser.....both boys are now in serious trouble...daddy puts both boys back to bed in time out, while he cleans the clothes up.....ooops forgot the mental note....Aidan now needs another pair of shorts.....

We'll laugh about this right? Actually I am laughing about it now....it may take James a couple of days.

Doctors and more Doctors

So this is my week off and the first 2 days were filled with running from Doctor to Doctor trying to get all of the appointments done while I was off.

Aidan had is 1 year visit on Monday.

Current Stats:

Height: 29.25 inches

Weight: 21 pounds 3 oz

Head Circ: 19.25

Percentiles: 16, 16, 95.....

As his MD stated he is definitely a Caldwell baby. Both boys have head circumferences at 95% or greater, but again as their MD says at least they are cute heads! :) Aidan is healthy and growing well. He got a clean bill of health. Yes!

Caleb, James and I had our eye appointments today. This is Caleb's first time. He did fabulous. He had fun teasing the optometrist, by telling him that he didn't know what the picture of the cake was. Caleb also got a clean bill of health for his eyes!

Since the boys did such a good job at the MD's we took them to Deanna Rose. Aidan is finally old enough to love the going into the goat pen. Unfortunately he wanted to get down and crawl. Yuck!

Words

It's amazing to see how kids put ideas together. Several months ago, I fell down the stairs and scraped my elbow pretty badly. I showed Caleb and told him that I hurt my elbow.

While in California a couple of weeks ago I fell again and scraped my hand an ankle. (Yes I know I fell twice. I have no idea what is going on.) Anyway, Caleb saw them when I got back and stated how my "elbows" were doing pointing to my scrapes.

Then he was dancing and hurt is toe. Yesterday morning he woke up and told me that, "Mommy, I touched my elbow on my feet!" Translation, "Mommy, I touched the owie on my foot!" It is so cute. He kept calling the bandaid we put on his toe, "Bangdaid"

Aidan is also starting to talk. He loves to say Daddy and when asked to say Mama he says Daddy. He is adorable.

Lots of Photos

So after my week away life got busy. We have so many fun photos I think this post will be mainly showing those special times you just can't beat.

Aidan's first haircut. He did fabulous. He is now a big boy.

We took the boys to Powell Gardens outside of Lee's Summit to see the butterfly migration. The boys had fun. The gardens are amazing.

Caleb tried to catch some butterflies, but we didn't see any while we had the net. The day was still called a success by him, because he got to see caterpillars and butterflies.

We had fun playing in the yard. Aidan cannot wait to be able to run by himself.

Caleb making faces.
This is the Eudora water our kids get to take a bath in......

Just kidding....Caleb won some bath toys that had "Inch worm green" bath mud that turned the water this funky color.

So life is good. I am so excited because after 5 more days of work I get 6 workdays off!!!! Thank God for PTO. We of course will be working on the house......but also playing with the kids. We hope you enjoyed the photos.