Skip to main content

The joys of being a mom

I can't express how much I love being a mom! The joys, even struggles, add up to something amazing and immeasurable. It drives me crazy how quickly Callie is growing up - she's learning new things quicker than ever, we truly have a sense of her strong and determined personality. I am excited about what's to come but every once in awhile need to remind myself to take everything in because it changes so quickly.

Some recent events have made me remember how important it is to remember everything and tell all around me that I love them. So, this post is more for Callie than anyone....

My new favorite thing about Callie is that she has realized she can now make Preston and I laugh with one little thing she says or does and she thinks it is great! The joy I see on her face when she realizes that she is the reason we are smiling and laughing is adorable. It then leads her to her super contagious silly belly laugh.

Here's some other new things:

She knows all of her abcs.....

She is a total chatterbox and now will have complete conversations with us (I just wish she would do it around other people). The other thing she does is she now makes up songs, which is so fun to see her do. They are always to the same tune....the farmer in the dell......but they are about anything she sees, motorcycles, cheese, whatever!
Her favorite game is the car is to point at something and say "what's that?". I would try to figure out what she was pointing to and tell her the answer until one day I asked her back "what is that?" And she responded. So now, she asks, I ask, she answers. Now I don't have to actually figure out what she is pointing to.....which is good because sometimes her response is really random....like red. Okay....whatever!

She is absolutely fearless. She does not hesitate to do anything. We have recently started gymnastics, which she loves, but terrifies me. She is not scared to do anything and I can just see her try to do something without me. Her favorite thing is the jumping. Apparently in daycare she is trying to jump off of everything.

She is officially in a big girl bed (which was a super easy transition) and pacifier free (not such an easy transition)!

She is a super caring little girl. She can't stand seeing other kids cry and will drop whatever she is doing to walk over to figure out what is wrong. When we pick her up from daycare she will often tell us that one of the kids was sad and crying.

She has a crazy fun imagination. She will line all of her babies up and tell me all about what they are doing, what they need, and what they are going to play together.


She wants to do everything that Preston and I do. It doesn't matter what - It scares Preston and I a bit about how quickly she learns things just by observing us or older kids. We are realizing that we are already having discussions with her about how some kids can do some things but that she can't. So far that is not going over too well.
She helps Preston make coffee every morning and often takes it upon herself to make it by herself. Future career?

Here's just some random pictures from things we have been up to lately:
First motorcycle

Helping mom wash the car

We recently went to the zoo with the Wagners. After lunch we decided to explore the grassy area. Rachel and I were cleaning up the lunches and we looked over and Wyatt was walking with his arm around Callie....super cute! (they also gave each other a hug good bye and then Callie leaned over a gave him a kiss.....I'm going to choose not to read too much into this!)

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Another Plane Ride

So, Callie and I spent my spring break in Pennsylvania. It was a wonderful trip and Callie just LOVED being spoiled by all her aunts and uncles, cousins, and grandmas! (she was a bit in shock when we came back home and she was stuck with just mom and dad - she also took a two hour nap the day we got back, which she has never, never (and probably never will again) done, traveling sure is exhausting!). I was a bit nervous about the very long plane ride, but besides not eating at all, Callie did fabulous! Although, she never really did understand why she couldn't grab the people sitting next to us or in front of us. Even though she got sick on the way back, she was still a wonderful traveler. She loved sitting with Grandma and looking out the plane window (yuck!). We met Grandma in Chicago - at that point in time both Grandma and Callie needed a snuggle, so they spent part of our layover cuddling up in the airport. (sorry, I took these with my cell phone) Looking out the ...

Bikes

We are now a family of 4 pretty impressive bike riders.

Sun River 2018

For mid winter break, we headed up to Sun River for the week. As always, it did not disappoint! The kids had a blast spending the week with Grandma and Grandpa, all their cousins, skiing, and playing in the snow. This year we started with no snow on the ground and ended with a blizzard that made driving home very tricky. Liam stayed home with Grandma while Callie and I skied. Although it is always hard to be left behind, he loves his Grandma so much and they had an absolute blast together. I'm also realizing that she took all the pictures so I have very few with her...major bummer! We celebrated these 2 boys on this trip.  When there is this many kids, you not only take over the whole run but there it is also very difficult to figure out which way to go.... Grandpa and his gang Pretty soon we won't all fit on one couch. Unfortunately our sister/dad ski day did not go as planned. Sarah took a spill the day before and was not able to ski with us for ...