Anyway, our big boy is getting bigger and bigger! He is over 19 pounds and is 28 and 3/4 inches long. He is almost walking on his own, and if he doesn't think about it, he will take a step or two without holding on to something. It seems that when we are trying to get him to take steps then he realizes what he's doing and plops down to crawl! :)
Caleb waves bye-bye almost everytime you say the word now. He also starts waving bye-bye when we walk up the stairs for naps and bedtime. Caleb loves to shake his head "no" and even if someone mentions the word no in a sentence, Caleb is likely to start shaking away! It is really funny!!
This is how Caleb is playing peek-a-boo now. He sometimes will cover his eyes with his hands, but a lot of times will scrunch up his face and close his eyes waiting for you to ask, Where's Caleb?
Then he pops his eyes open and starts laughing while waiting for you to respond There he is!!
In other news, all of the boys are thoroughly enjoying a Western/cowboy phase right now. Papa and Nana gave them Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy DVD's for Christmas, and they choose those for every movie time. Uncle David gave the older three cowboy pistols and holsters for Christmas, and I probably buckle and unbuckle gunbelts more times in a day than I can count! Aaron races through the house shouting "Woy Wod-gders, where are you?" And then, "I just put the bye-guys (bad guys) in jail then locked the door so the bye-guys won't skape (escape) away! (To bad guys: The rule is - you can't come out!) Justin can't be outdone, so he rounds up his bad guys and tells them "You're going to prison and they have guard-er people to make sure you don' get out!" Yep, the Wild West is alive and kickin' here at the Ellis Dude Ranch! :)
Some other common sayings from Aaron these days: "Come here! I wanna have a cummersation (conversation) with you!" and "It's not meeeeee! I didn't do anything!" And we know that he was probably up to something when the first answer to our question is "It's not my fault! It's just not my fault!!" I wish I could follow Aaron (well, all the boys, really) around with a recorder because there are so many other cute things they say that I know I'm not remembering.
And, not to be outdone by her older brothers, Miss Rebekah has started getting in on the action with a few definite flips and wiggles of her own! The boys haven't been able to feel her move yet, but I sure can!! Maybe I see gymnastics in our future! :) Our next check-up is this Thursday.
I think that's about all the news from this ranch. Hope you all have a good weekend!!
Nancy
