Our New Place!!!

So we found a new place to live that is less expensive, has more storage, a carport and driveway, a fenced backyard, a dishwasher and a disposal! We moved in about two weeks ago on a Saturday. Thanks to my family and friends we were moved out of our old apartment and moved in to our new place with pictures hung by 7pm that night with only our clothes to put away. We started this long day at 6:30am, at least for me and Tim. Men from our old ward and my family started showing up at 8. The men had the apartment totally emptied out by 9, then all of the women went to work cleaning. It is so amazing to me that you leave the place you lived in cleaner than when you actually lived there. We finished up there at Noon and headed to our new place to unpack. To say the least it was a very long day and thanks to my wonderful friend Jessica and my mom and sister Kim. I wouldn't have gotten so much done also thanks to my wonderful husband who worked up until he had just enough time to shower and air dry since I forgot which box had towels (oops) and hurry to work the rest of the day. Kaleb had a very hard time with the whole move he wasn't sure what was going on, I honestly didn't think it would even phase him, oh but it did he was very clingy if he couldn't see me he did fine but the minute he would see me he would only want me to hold him. My mom helped me out a lot by taking care of him so I could clean and unpack. Kaleb was a little trooper! He had a few days of adjusting to our new home and realizing I wasn't going to leave him. Now he loves it he crawls all over the place. We all really love it! It feels like a home. We are sad we had to leave the boundaries of our old ward that we loved but we look forward to this new change. Anyways here are some pictures of our new home!

THE LIVING ROOM

Our front door is to the left of the window


THE KITCHEN

KALEB'S ROOM

OUR ROOM

THE HALLWAY

The Pantry in the hall

THE BATHROOM

Life Over As We Know It......

Kaleb is CRAWLING!!! Yeah I know life will never be the same!

Well he finally figured it out after swimming and pushing him self up on all fours for over a month. Saturday November 8th, My mom had called me and needed me to look some stuff up on the internet so I put Kaleb down on the ground in our bedroom and went in to the living room to jump on the computer. While I was on the computer I could hear Kaleb whining so I was talking to him and the next thing I knew he was in the hallway by the living room. He has a bit of a funny crawl he doesn't use both of his legs.It will make more since when you watch the second video. He loves to just roam arond our house. He has been good so far about leaving my decorations that are at his level alone but I know this too will not last. He also discovered on saturday that he can pull him self up to stand using the couch or his bed or Me.

He is such a happy boy always smiling or giggling. He also loves to grab your face with both hands and kiss you AKA slobber all over you!

Sorry I am not the best camera woman

This is what is looks like from the back you can see what I mean but a funny crawl. But he is starting to use both legs like you see most kids do.

K.A.L.E.B

So I finally have made Kaleb's name for his room. My friend Jessica learned how to do this so she was kind enough to share the idea with me and help me do the letters. It was pretty easy and fun. I am not all that crafty but this was fun. When Jessica first showed me the idea I thought I would do one for Alethia but I decided I should do Kaleb's first as my rough draft so when I do Alethia's I will know more of what I am doing.

So I just got the letters at Michael's and then got scrapbook paper and ribbon's and buttons to embelish them. Used mod Podge to put the paper on and hot glued the other stuff. Jessica is the wonderful artist who painted the baseball on the "A" for me.

Just some close ups of the letter's

I did baseball paper (Tim's favorite sport) even though his room is all sports.

Just a close up of some of the cute buttons I used.

Chunky Monkey!

Since we have called Kaleb Chunky Monkey since he was only a few weeks old, we decided to have Kaleb be a monkey for his 1st Halloween. I found this super cute monkey costume online at Spirit Halloween and when I found it I knew it was the perfect one for him. Maybe I am a little biased, but he sure is the cutest little monkey ever!

On Halloween I took Kaleb up to Layton Hills Mall because Tim had to work, so I wanted him to be able to experience a little bit of Kaleb's 1st Halloween. So Tim was able to take Kaleb around to all the competitors kiosks to Trick or Treat. After finishing up there we went to Grandma Julie's Annual Chili Cook Off at her ward. ( Which she won once again. They just might ask her not to make any next year so someone else has some chance of winning.) Then they have a Trunk or Treat after everyone eats. Poor Kaleb was about asleep on Uncle Ed, but he held out until we were done. We then went to the Hanson house for homemade donuts and Hot cocoa which they do every year. Kaleb slept in his car seat, so maybe next year he will get to enjoy Halloween a little more. He was really good though about wearing the costume even though he was tired and sick with a cold. He is such a little trooper. He did get to enjoy a sucker on the way home which he enjoyed until he lost it!

No we have not traded Kaleb in for a girl! The morning of Halloween before Tim Left for work he debated wearing my blonde wig when he decided he it would not really work. I decided to try it on Kaleb just to see how he would look. Well, Kaleb looked so cute I had to capture the moment. I showed the picture to some of my family and they didn't even realize it was Kaleb. They told me that is what our girls will look like only with darker hair. I sure love my little Boy though and am glad he is 100% BOY! These pictures will just be black mail for when he is older!

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First SNOW Fall.....

Oh Yes SNOW!! Can you believe just barely into October and we are having to deal with snow whatever happened to FALL! Anyways it was Kaleb's first snow. We didn't go out and play in it but when we were walking into church he just kept looking all around trying to figure out what it was. He is so funny! Well the next snow we will try and let him play in it. We did bundle him up and go to our friends to make and eat some dessert.

Kaleb is so curious about everything and everyone right now. It makes it so hard to nurse him if there are people or anything for that matter to catch his attention. He eventually gets hungry enough to eat or I find a quiet place to nurse him. I love him tons though. He definitely makes life a lot more interesting!

This is what was left last night!

All bundled up ready to go down to the Brandts to make DESSERT!

Cousin Milo's Hat from when he was a toddler and mittens from Target's Dollar Bins!

SOO Tired!!!!

SO TIRED he rolled down the hall to his finally resting place!

So now that Kaleb is on his schedule I tend to feed him lunch @ noon and then he lays down for his nap @ one well in between lunch and nap I get ready for the day so Kaleb usually plays in the hall and watches mom do her thing. He usually loves it but we have our days when he fussy so sometimes I just finish after he is laid down or give him his blankie and every once in a while he will pass out it is the cutest thing to look over and see that he has gone to sleep so the other day I took a couple pictures so everyone can enjoy the cutest little Boy that we love so much!

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6 months ALREADY!!!!!

So Kaleb has been in our lives for 6 Months TODAY!! Crazy hoow fast it has gone and how fast he has grown up I thought it would be fun to post some of the pictures when he was new and some pictures of him today. It is so weird to look at him and see how much he has changed I can harldly remember him being so little. Speaking of growing up Kaleb is SLEEPING through the NIGHT yea!! I thought it would never happen he has been doing this for a little over a month. I love having My sleep back. He is also beginning to drink out of sippy cup he is getting pretty good about holding it too. Kaleb is also getting so close to crawling now when you hold him he just kicks those chubby little legs and squirms all around he is not very content to just sit on your lap. So I am trying to enjoy my last few moments of him not being able to be mobile, because I am sure the minute he figures out the crawling thing I am going to be going all over the place chasing him. I guess those are the joys of being MOMMY! He is the sweetest baby right now his thing is to grab your face with both his hands and kiss you and pull your hair. We love him and are so glad he is in our life it makes life so much more unexpectable and JOYOUS! WE never go a day with out Kaleb making us laugh!

Standing while holding on for dear life!

Kaleb in his BIG BOY JAMMIES!! size 18 Months just for the length! Tall like his Daddy

Can you say DADDA......

Kaleb's first word was...dada. He's just the cutest thing and sometimes he just goes on and on. Jenny was practically certain that he would say "ball" for his first word, but I knew it would be something else. I actually thought that it would be mama since when he first started muttering while hungry it would resemble mama. Jenny told me he wasn't talking then though, so I turned out to be the lucky one. Now we're just waiting for him to start saying mama.

Kaleb's Laugh

Life has been crazy for the last two long weeks. Tim has been working at his normal job (Excel Cabinets), but quit because the hours aren't paying the bills. So, he got a job at Sprint as a manager so he goes to work at Excel at 7 am and then works until all the deliveries are done then drives home takes a shower and spends between 15-30 minutes with Kaleb and me then heads to his Sprint job until 9pm then he gets home about 9:30. We then pretty much go to bed. Luckily we have awesome friends who have been allowing me to hang out and feed me as well. But unfortunately Tim still has to do this for one more week. When he first took the job he was planning on doing a trial week and if he liked it he would put his two week notice in at Excel and for the last week he was going to use his vacation. Well the first week went great at Sprint and he put his notice in and his boss was going to be out of town for the second week and asked Tim to work both of the weeks. So of course Tim said he would so they are just sticking the vacation time on as a third week. I am so GRATEFUL to Tim for all he does for our little family he is such a wonderful husband and father.

Kaleb has been growing a lot lately. At his 4 month appointment he weighed in at 15lbs and 27 inches long. He has found his voice and will just jabber to us. It is the cutest thing. He also found his laugh which just puts a smile on your face. Just this last week Kaleb has discovered how to sit up on his own he is still a little wobbly but he does pretty good (picture above) He loves to be sung to and to play patty cake and have Tim rub his whiskers on his belly. We are just loving every moment with him and can't imagine life without him.

Growing up way TOO FAST!

Kaleb is growing up so fast! On the 24th of July he rolled over for the first time; he had been getting really close and he finally did it with us all watching! So we have also started feeding Kaleb rice cereal. He ate it great the first couple of times and then decided to make things difficult. He started to not really eat, so I decided to feed him some carrots with the cereal since the Dr told us we could start him on yellow and orange fruits and veggies if the rice cereal wasn't enough for him. Well, it worked out great, he ended up eating his cereal and half the carrots. He loved the carrots although he ended up with at least one-fourth of it all over him.


He even got it down his back.


He is such a funny boy! He has continued to increase the amount of fruit or veggie that he eats every night. Just last night he ate all of his cereal and all of his veggie. My mom couldn't believe he ate it all and then still wanted to nurse. She said she has never seen a baby eat that much. It must be because he is a Miche! I must say I am a little worried how we are going to keep food in the cupboards if his appetite becomes anything like Tim's. I guess Tim better hurry with that degree so we can afford to feed them!!

Kaleb trying to do it himself!!

He gets very impatient when we are feeding him. Sometimes we just can't get it to him as fast as he would like it. Tim now has to hold his hands down when he eats, otherwise he has more on himself then in him. We are slowly learning! We sure love all of our little adventures with our little boy!