Baby Mardis: Pics from the last two weeks

I have been obsessed with reading for the last week and a half. And I must say it was awesome. I didn't check facebook or read any blogs. I checked email just so I wasn't slammed and to do a bit of work stuff. But for the most part every moment the boys were busy (think sleeping) I was reading. I even woke up before them so I could start my day with my book and some coffee, the perfect morning. But sadly they books are done and I am lost. Not sure what to read next but I have to find something. Although I must say my duties around the house suffered a bit. Oh in case you are interested I was reading the Hunger Games, our roomie brought the book home and left it on the table so I started reading it.

Not too much happening these days but we are having fun.

This is my favorite picture of Caleb. You can see his sweetness, and his serious side

Caleb is so fun these days. I am learning more and more about his personality. Sometimes I think all kids do (fill in the blank) and then I realize nope just my kid. So here are some examples.
~ When I tell him to go and get in the car he will correct me that it is a van. He is not being sassy but is simply correcting me. I think the word that best describes this is meticulous.
~ He pushes the dining room chairs all over the house to reach things, light switches, the bathroom sink, the kitchen sink, the higher shelves of the pantry, etc...
~ He has started stacking stuff. The other day he moved the dining room chair to the kitchen sink then put his little chair on top so he could reach the sink. He put the stool on top of his little table and stood on top proclaiming he was on top of a mountain.
~ He can climb all the way up the outside of the stairs. This one is freighting but also impressive.
~ A common phrase for two weeks was: "I get out of bed all my by own". No matter how many times I corrected him that he can say, all by my self or all on my own he refused to get it correct. It was funny to have him adamantly state that he was correct. He really is my child.
~ I told him he was handsome and this was his response: " um huh, yes, just like Daddy. You are beautiful and Micah is handsome too."

Micah loves to kneel and just this week started pulling up to standing. Watch out world here he comes.

Such a sweet boy, if only mommy could remember to put a bib on him.

We have started playing Hide n go seek. It is kind of awesome. We count to 10 then say ready or not here I come. We usually play inside, you know a bit safer but on nice days we play outside also. This is his favorite spot to hide. Caleb was very upset when I went to snap the picture because I wasn't counting, oops.

This was our mountain of pinestraw we ordered for our island. Caleb was so confused when it was gone.

Check out his teeth. He has 4 in all now. The top two are growing in at separate times which makes him look silly but I love it. Such a smilie guy.

For fun today I busted out the finger paint but he kept calling it "pinter faint". In general he has a great vocabulary and impresses me often with how quickly he learns a new word or phrase. I start to think he is older than he is then he has a silly phrase like this.