Caleb is two!!

A few months ago our little man turned 2 years old.
With that in mind I realized it was way overdue for me to update you all on all things Caleb. He is definitely your typical two year old little boy and by that I mean he is rambunctious, lively, loud, temperamental, and a bit of a daredevil. He is also an incredibly sweet, good natured, funny, charming, friendly, and loving child. Most days you can find us passing time while Sabrina is in school by  having playdates with his rather large group of friends, making trips to the playground (his favorite place on earth), building muscles at The Little Gym or just running errands. Our little dude is  pretty busy for a two year old but he seems to thrive on all the action. If we are having a rare day at home he will often appear at my side holding up my car key and ask to "go go go" Have to say his willingness to be out and about makes him a pretty nice sidekick for me!

While he loves to run around and be a crazy two year old be also has a quiet side. He loves books and will sit for long periods of time with a stack of books next to him looking at the pictures and occasionally asking them to be read. He also is currently obsessed with trains and train tracks. I scored on Craigslist and found him a pretty substantial train set with a table and he will play with it for hours at a time. Coloring, painting and other forms of art are not really on his radar-he would rather scribble on the wall than on a peice of paper so needless to say he does not get the opportunity to express that creative side all that often.

He seems to have a pretty well developed sense of humor. We are convinced he "gets" the joke more often than not. His favorite type of jokes are knock knock jokes. His current favorite is knock knock, who's there? Poppy. Poppy who? Poppy pooped!! :)

Sabrina is still his favorite person on earth. The two of them are definitely partners in crime and are often in cahoots plotting against me. They love to sneak up behind me and scare me-its a good thing I have nerves of steel!! Caleb is more than happy to let Sabrina take the lead in their play which makes her happy enough to play with him. They love to pretend to be animals and I have to say they make pretty convincing puppy dogs and birds. They have their moments but its make me so proud to say how close they are. I hope this continues for the rest of their lives.

Below are some pictures from the life and times of our little guy:

On his second birthday-of course it was an Elmo Party!

Pretty cool cake for a two year old

With his little friends at his birthday party. We outsourced it this year and had it on a  weekday morning at a local music venue that has a daily kids show. The band Rocknoceros was playing that day, its his favorite band and he loves to jam out to their not annoying kids music.

Painting a picture-we only let him use the water paints for now-I shudder to think of what would happen with actual paint.

Snuggling with his big sister on a nice day.

Being silly

Posing with his buddy Ali at Sesame Street Live hence all the Elmo gear :)

Posing with his long lost twin-or the fat baby at the sushi restaurant as he is known in our house.

Best Buddies!!

He LOVES his cousin Dean!

He is also something of a ham :)

Playing with his sister

Learning to swim

Following in the Michl tradition of being handy with tools

One very happy Caleb-he was with his Poppy, his sister and in a pool

Dyeing eggs for Easter with his playgroup friends

Caleb and Ali during their gym class

Cheese!!!

His favorite pastime-eating!!!

With a few of his playgroup buddies

Eating dinner with good friends

More playgroup friends