One, two, three times for pictures

1. Cael is enjoying slide time while in Holbrook with Aunt Kirsti for the afternoon.
2. Cael is at Gun's house, guarding Pa's tane until he needs it.
3. Cael decided to use the drawers to climb up to the counter to get the crackers out of the cupboard.

Go, go, Jay!

Cael loves his cousin, Jalen. Cael has had the opportunity to watch Jalen play in quite a few basketball games the past two years. This year, he took to cheering quite well for his cousin, even aping the cheerleaders' moves. Jalen's team from Holbrook played for and won the state championship on February 26th. Cael started yelling for him that night, and he has yet to stop. He goes around the house with his "tom-toms" (thanks, Aunt Kirsti) and says, "Go, go, Jay." If there is a basketball game on television, it is "Jay's ball dame."

When we got home from the state-championship weekend trip, he was so wiped out from all the cheering, he just fell asleep on Da-da-ee's lap - holding his pom poms, of course.

Where's my sweet boy?

He is making sure nothing escapes his watchful eye.

He is reading a book at Great-grandpa's.

He is helping Grandma and Aunt Sarah make his Cars quilt.

He is powdering his nose at Aunt Kirsti's.

P90Cael

Since Da-da-ee and Mom-mom are doing P90X, I decided to join in on the fun by riding the bike. I sweat a lot, so I need the headband to help with that.

I also lifted some weights with Mom-mom one day. Whew! What a workout!

Watching the Snow Fall

I used to think that parents were the ones who were supposed to teach their kids what they needed to know to get through life and thereafter. Yet, while I teach Cael to sing his ABC's and "You Are My Sunshine," he teaches me more powerful lessons. 

One day, I told Cael it was snowing. "So! So!" He said, and he went to see it outside our back door. He made himself comfortable and just watched the snow fall. I busily cleaned and ran around like a madwoman, per usual, while he quietly observed individual flakes falling to our dry earth.

I need to take a breath, slow down, and prop myself next to him more often.

After all, snow is a rarity around here, but time is ever fleeting. 

The Life of a Boy Named Cael

I am now 2 1/2 with very definite ideas about what I want and like. First, I love "Do's Too's," which you see on the television in the picture below. There are 41 episodes of my best-loved show saved on our DVR. Notice that I needed to move my chair right in the center of the room for maximum viewing pleasure.

 Another thing I enjoy at this time is my "faff." Hope and Breonna were giving me my nightly cleansing in this picture. I like my mohawk.

 Hope is one of my favorite people. We are both super cute with great smiles. I was so happy that she babysat me while Mom-mom was out with her friends.

Lately, I want to watch the movie Up every day. I like the old man in the movie and call him "Pa" because he reminds me of my great-grandpa Ellsworth. I am pointing to the T.V. and saying, "Pa's tane" (Grandpa's cane) while I am all set up in the "share" watching. I also like to put my notebook on the tile stand and pretend like I am conducting the music at church.

 

 I have been playing independently in my room more and more, which makes Mom-mom happy. She always finds me doing cute and funny things, like in this picture. I put my "toy at" (cowboy hat) on backwards, climbed on my "orse" and went galloping away.

Chopped Liver

When it came time for Cael's monthly Holbrook visit, we asked him if he wanted to go bye-bye. He didn't - until we told him where he would be going. "Ti, Ti," he cried in delight. Upon dropping him off, he promptly bid us farewell with a, "Bye Mom-mom. Bye Da-da-ee."

Cael and Great-grandpa watching each other at Lowe's

"Faff" at "Ti's"

Hugging "Say-see"

Watching that exciting Steelers' game

Taking a walk with BFF, Jalen