Wednesday, December 7, 2011

To my Firstborn son: Caleb

To celebrate their 3rd birthday, I wanted to write a little something about each of my boys that was to them specifically. So often we lump them together as "the boys" or "the twins" that we forget they are two special individuals! This post is for Caleb my firstborn son by about half a minute!

Caleb Dean, you bring so much joy and laughter to our home! You are definitely our goofy clown! You have the silliest faces and are always doing something funny to make us laugh! Just the other day when I finished vacuuming, you asked me "are you done mowing mommy?" I love your happy attitude and laid back view of life! You definitely have your daddy's personality.

Along with your goofy nature, you are also my very stubborn little boy. When you want something, you will NOT let it go. You would rather go in time-out 50 times before acknowledging that mommy is the winner! You are slowly learning that mom can be even more stubborn than you and picks her battles with you very carefully. We are also seeing that your stubbornness gives you a fierce determination to accomplish anything in your way. You will not give up when faced with a task and keep trying until you succeed. This attitude will definitely take you very far in life! You faced roller-skating and ice-skating with this attitude this winter, and were able to do both all by yourself! We are so proud of you!

You also take after your sister with your creative imagination and creativity. You love to play Barbies and House with your sister. You LOVE it when she plays with you and you both can have so much fun together when you put your minds to it. You are always talking your cars and giving everything a personality. You get quite sad when Joel decides he doesn't want to play that way anymore. You love to color, paint, and cut. You will sit a long time at the table doing projects with Joel.

Right now your favorite toys are Lightning McQueen and anything from the original CARS movie, airplanes, Little People, matchbox cars, trains, and GeoTrax trains. You love playing outside and following daddy everywhere. You love to figure out how things work and definitely have daddy's handyman gene in you! I am constantly amazed at what you have figured out to do without any help. Now if you will just figure out potty-training....

Your relationship with Joel is one of my favorite things about you. You and Joel are two peas in a pod! Every morning you get woken up by Joel telling you it's time to come down from the top bunk. Every minute is spent by Joel's side playing, eating, and talking. There is NOTHING you do apart from Joel. If he wakes up in the night, you always get up with him and follow him to make sure you aren't missing out on anything. If Joel gets something, you think you need it too. If one of you gets hurt and needs a binky, the other one gets a binky just to sympathize with whoever is hurt. One time you were sick and fell asleep and poor Joel was so lost without you. He wandered aimlessly until you woke up feeling better. Usually if one of you is sick, the other is as well. You are definitely the more brave of the two. You rarely cry when I leave and always look at Joel like he's crazy for crying about us leaving.

Your favorite foods are ice cream, pizza, candy, pancakes, salisbury steak, and good ole meat potatoes and vegetables! You don't really care for corn and really do not like spaghetti.

We are so proud of our precious Caleb and cannot believe we have had you in our family for 3 years now! It has been quite a journey and you have challenged us in so many ways, but we wouldn't trade you for anything! We love you so much and you bring so much happiness to our family!

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