More pretzels..... and more again!

Here's another video I took today of Caleb. Doing what he does best!! I love my kids! This one is a little longer, but he is so cute! I had to post the whole thing. I must be biased, but I think he is the cutest almost 3 year old!
This is how Caleb is when he is calm and this is when I love to cuddle with him- when he isn't using me as a jungle gym, and he will just sit calmly. It doesn't happen often, so I take advantage of it when it does! (unless it is when he tries to get in bed with me at 3 am!, then he is kicked back to his own bed!)
He is really good at keeping me on my toes! He loves to "swing" on me. He holds my arm, and uses it like a swing and hold himself up for about 4 or 5 swings- That's a lot for a 37 pound kid to hold up all by himself! He is really strong!(I guess that might explain why one of my arms is stronger than the other!)
He hangs and swings from our ficus tree in the front of our house and is learning to climb it. Needless to say, the child is covered in bruises and scrapes! But that doesn't faze him- he just picks himself up off the ground or out of the tree and keeps on going!

Pretzel Mania!!

Ok, today was a funny day.
The setting: I was doing laundry straightening up the house, Anna was eating a snack of pretzels and Caleb was just playing around the house quietly, for the 1st time all day!
I came into the house from doing laundry, and saw that the playroom door was closed. I open the door- and what did I find???
Caleb had taken the entire bucket of pretzels and dumped the WHOLE thing out onto the table in the playroom! Then, it seems that he decided that wasn't enough fun, he thought it would be better if some were on the floor and the rest were crushed into bits with salt all over the table!
So, I went in, yelled at him for about 2 seconds and realized, what am I yelling about? So I sent him out of the room, asked Anna to bring me the vacuum, and started picking up the pretzels and putting them back in the container for the next person to eat!
I was not about to waste all those pretzels! (there was a whole new bag in there!) Here is what I did for the next 30 minutes! The videos aren't really that long, I promise!
While I was still picking up pretzels, Caleb came in while I was cleaning up and was licking his fingers to get all the salt he could eat! I almost threw up! It was hilarious! This is a prime example of what life is like in my house on a good day!!! I love almost 3 year olds!

A Painting We Will Go...

We spent Conference Saturday painting our bedroom. For my birthday, Chad gave me a bunch of paint samples and a certificate that said, choose your color and we will paint the bedroom and bathroom. I have been wanting to do this for a few years, and just never did. So I went to Home Depot and chose a ton of different samples, took them home and narrowed it down to one. I LOVE IT! We didn't get to the bathroom, but that I could probably do in a day(if the kids were not around!) We will do that another day, but at least I already have the paint! We took a bunch of pictures and videos of the kids painting and Chad made it into a mini movie. Take a look at how we spent the weekend!!!!