I'M SUCH A BIG FAN

...OF LIGHT! Ammon and Dad were able to put up the other two fans a week or so ago, and I am LOVING IT!! We didn't have any light in our front room (see the before and after pictures) and now we have 8 lights and 2 fans!! And it only took them about 6 hours to get it all done. Men are AWESOME, aren't they?!?

The Story of the Three Bears

Most of you have heard the traditional fairy tale of Goldilocks breaking into the home of the poor defenseless Bears' home and tearing apart their chairs and beds... Well, here is a story of another set of three bears.

Once upon a time, or as I like to call it: 2006, there once lived a young girl bear who was snowy white and oh, so fun, but she was very lonely. She wanted to find her true love and get married and live happily ever after. Well, at this enchanted time that we will call 2006 she did just that! She found another bear who was just as fun. He was much bigger and much darker than her and very sweet. So she called him her Honeybear. Since she had such a cute name for him, he decided to call her Sugarbear (cuz she was white like sugar)... which eventually evolved to sound like Chugarbear.

Well, these two funny bears got married and found a wonderful cave to call their own, but they knew they would not be complete without a bunch of cubs bouncing around, so they had a little bear that they named Kaleb. It was a good, strong sounding name, but it was not a bear name. What could they call their little baby bear? They couldn't always call him 'Baby Bear' because they would eventually have other baby bears. No! There had to be a special name just for him. So Honeybear and Chugarbear watched the little Kaleb for almost a year, trying to think of something that would be just as special and finally one morning, while Kaleb was eating his breakfast, they found it!

Chugarbear said, "What is Kaleb's favorite treat?" and Honeybear said, "Toast with butter of course!"

"And what color is Kaleb?"

"He is a soft creamy color, like his mommy," Honeybear stated.

"And, " Chugarbear continued, "What is our favorite part to kiss on little Kaleb?"

Honeybear smiled and said, "His round, chubby cheeks, of course... He's our little butter-ball!"

"No," Chugarbear exclaimed, "He's our little Butterbear!!"

The END (well, to be continued... eventually)

Kaleb at 10 months

Kaleb has taken many leaps and bound over the last month. Literally... okay, leaps might be exagerating slightly, but Kaleb has been kinda walking sortof ish for almost two weeks now. Here is the link to the first decent video we got, which was done at my parent's house Easter Sunday. We had a bunch of other family members there, including my nephew Christian who couldn't help but steal a few seconds of fame while his mom was taping. It adds to the fun, I think!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzYVea6L98



Kaleb has also learned how to wave on his own, only Hello. He doesn't yet understand that ByeBye is the same thing.



Another accomplishment that I'm very happy about is that he has realized how to allow gravity to help him drink out of a bottle. He has been holding a bottle since he was 3 or 4 months old, but unless he was on his back, he wouldn't hold the back-end of it up. We finally got him used to using a sippy cup a few months ago, but then I was worried the size of it was preventing him from wanting to lift it properly, so we've had him using a small bottle for water the last few weeks and it appears to have done the trick. He consistently drinks on his own now... I'm just not looking forward to getting him to use the sippy on his own. Baby step, Baby steps (and we are full circle)