Holiday Party

A few weeks ago we had a fantastic holiday party in our neighborhood. It was a pajama party, with activities for the kids, a gingerbread house contest, and blind wine tasting for the adults. There were tons of things to do, see, loads of fun and a room full of amazing neighbors.

Santa came near the end. We had told Caleb Santa would be there, but he was very reluctant to talk to him. We told him that he didn't have to talk to him if he didn't want to. When he first came, Caleb was very nervous and just wanted to sit on the couch with me. Eventually, as he watched other kids talking and laughing with him, he decided the big man in red was OK and ended up on his lap.

Thumbs up!

Caleb's gingerbread house (he obviously had a little help). He kept finding excuses to stick his fingers in the frosting just so he could lick his fingers.


Caleb and Daddy. Nice PJs.

The family.

Happy Holidays!

Messes

Sometimes Caleb enjoys a good mess with his food.

Blackberries

(Real) Whipped Cream

Chocolate!

Happy mess-making!

MDA Firefighter Event

A couple of weeks ago Caleb got another opportunity to be an honorary MDA Ambassador (he's still too young to be official, but we're honored to have the chance to help out). This was a convention for the California Dept. of Firefighters. I'm not sure who had more fun, Caleb or me... OK, who am I trying to kid. Caleb was kind of a pill for most of the day, so I obviously had more fun chatting with all those hot firefighters... er, um, I mean fine gentlemen in uniform.

Anyhoo, even though Caleb was in a bit of a mood, I still managed to get some cute pictures of him.

Caleb and Abby Umali, the National Goodwill Ambassador. Isn't this the cutest picture?

Mommy and Caleb having a "chat" about cooperating with getting pictures taken.


Caleb posing with a couple of firefighters.

He would look good in uniform, don't you think?

Appeasing Caleb by letting him take some pictures. He's getting pretty good at centering the camera.

He loves Katie!

Caleb with some of the wonderful MDA staff, and some more of the patients.

Happy Hannumas!

I finally made a tree-topper for our "Hannumas" tree!