Prairie Dog Exhibit Cal loved!

This I think was one of Cal's favorites at the zoo. Of course he loved it, Daddy was too that's what was so great. I could have watched those little creatures for a while. They are quite comical.

He is such a little GOOBER!

The stroller was in the kitchen. I was doing dishes. I heard him giggling and found him here in the stroller bottom but head first. It took him a while to figure out how to turn around. Silly BOY!

Calvin's 1st Birthday cakes. Anyone want to borrow Elmo cake pan for a cake? It will be in my cupboard for a while.

Here is Cal eating his birthday cake. I blogged about it but the pics wouldn't load that night.

Look at this smarty pants. He found my keys and apparently he watches and remembers because he was pretty determined to get those keys to stay on the doorknob. Now that it is warm outside I have been trying to spend at least a full hour out in the sun with him. Coming back inside the house can be a bit of a trial. Bribery is becoming a necessary tool. But now he goes to the door with or without my keys and stays there until I finally give in to going out.

How cool is that! They were right there by the window. He enjoyed the zoo. Mostly because we were outside. Some guy gave us free tickets for the train. He was so overwhelmed by everything to see. Honestly I think his favorite part was the Discovery portion of the zoo. They have a hut you can go in and it has skylights you can poke your head through. The skylight is in the middle of a prairie dog exhibit so your head is right next to them. He loved it. Cal would bark at them. Oh if I haven't told you already we are convinced we have a Dr. Doolittle. He speaks jibberish to us and speaks fluent dog. He even barks at the birds. Or when he hears someone outside our home he goes to the door and barks. Yeah I laugh constantly with this boy. Although he does scream like a girl. We found out that he can be terrified. Not that we didn't think that he was old enough but we have just never been in a situation that has scared him. Until the zoo. They have a life-size replica of an elephant and it makes elephant noises. It scared him soooooo bad. I thought a little girl had been seriously injured. No, it was our baby boy. Jason couldn't go closer than ten feet or else he screamed so hard. He woke up 5 times two night after with the same scream. Nightmares?

This is when I realized he needed a hair cut. I cut it later that night. EINSTEIN HAIR!

So our little guy has had a rough weekend, but can you tell? It's amazing how happy kids can be even when they aren't feeling well. I think he just had a 24 hour bug. We stayed home from church today just to be on the safe side.

Yesterday I left Cal with Mom while I went up to SLC to do a bride early in the morning. I was not even half way through with her hair when Mom called saying Cal had thrown up four times. I fed him some sweet potatoes after he woke up from his nap at Mom's. He seemed to feel so much better so I thought it was a good idea to get him full of some food. OH BOY WHAT A MISTAKE!! I picked him up and all of our bags, blankets, etc. to go and he puked on EVERYTHING!! Including Mom's white living room carpet. Orange Sweet Potatoes! Oh and my new white blouse. So we were in the clear later that evening so Cassady and I took him out in the stroller. As we neared home he started to grumble. I now know why. Minutes after walking in the door we stripped his pants off of him to cool him down, it was so warm out. He was standing at the window when he relieved himself and Cass and I laughed because we could have swore he said a slow " Oh yeah.." I went to do the dishes and Cass summoned me quickly back to the living room. It had gone out the diaper, down his legs ALL over the carpet, and get this, down my heater vent. Not just on but DOWN IT. I had to take it apart and reach inside. It was SUCH A MESS!!! Cass just kept laughing and took a picture. You wait until its you Tweed. Although I was laughing pretty hard myself. Cal knew he had done something yucky. He had this worried look on his face. Poor guy. After that was cleaned up I got to clean up the pee Ruby left me in the bathroom. She was in there all morning while I was gone, but STILL.... So I screaming "UNCLE!" I am so done, please no more. He seems good today. Our good friend gave us a pair of shoes for him that are too big. He insists on wearing them. He tries to put them on by himself. So on they go and they stay, but walking is a little harder. He cracks me up all day. I wish I could just videotape our whole day sometimes. Especially in the car. He is so freaking funny. He has some of the best dance moves and he has the pursed lips and slight head bob down pat. LOVE LOVE LOVE this age!