Visit to My Parent's House

I went to NC to help my family out while my mom had surgery on her shoulder. My sister and her baby live with them and she is still having a lot of trouble recovering from having her baby and can't do a lot of normal house activities. I took the kids with me for the almost 2 week stay. I went to help, but sometimes it seemed as though the kids added more work that I did help. It was fun though, but exhausting. My mom is doing much better than before the surgery. She could hardly move her arm pre-surgery and could almost lift it straight above her head the evening after.

Here are some photos of the trip. More are in the Picassa photo album on the right.

I love this picture of Caleb's hair.

My sister and her BIG baby. Baby Christina was 3 months old and over 16 pounds!

My parents just got a swing set for the kids. It rained most of the days we were there, but they were able to enjoy it for a few days. They are getting so big. They look like little kids instead of babies.

Krystina

Annelise woke up at 6 every morning and went to my parent's room.

Caleb and 'baby cousin'

Mamita & Papito and the 3 grandkids

Caleb's 1st Birthday

We had a fun time with Caleb on his birthday. I know it has been a long time since March 3rd, but I am sure that everyone will still enjoy these photos. I took several photos of him in his "birthday suit" and some of his first bites of cake.

Every time I held up the camera, he made the same funny smile.

I made a yummy apple cake that my grandmother makes. It was very tasty. Caleb wasn't as messy with the cake as we expected. He was pretty tidy, actually. Some of you may notice that we have a different table. We got that on his birthday and are enjoying it.

You should be able to click on the photos if you want to see them enlarged.

Mobility

It has started. John has been working with Caleb all day today and has been pretty successful. Here is a sample of the fruit of his labor.


You will notice that Annelise would also like to show off her abilities!

Puzzle Time

Annelise has been doing this puzzle for many months now and she still enjoys it because I gave all of the students different names. I hope you can understand her on the video. She gets very squeaky at the end. (This video was taken 2 months ago.)





(Chalkboard, Charles, Papito, Tia, Gaing gaing, Mema, Daddy, Doodad, Tricia, Squeeky, desk, globe, teacher)