Random Acts of Fun

Calum has been sleeping better than usual this week and as a result so have I. So I have enjoyed that little blessing. Nothing too crazy this week, just living the dream :) 

Calum never really uses this pacifier but he likes to play with it. Most of the time he puts it in his mouth like this and just chomps away. It makes me laugh.

I helped Calum make this for dad using the fridge letters. There are 5 words. Can you find them all?? 

 Calum got to be a fireman just like his Papa!!

 So he has been bossier when it comes to eating this week. (We think he might have a little cold or something) He refuses to eat certain things. And while he has always been impatient while we prepare his food, it has reached a new level this week for some reason. So I thought maybe he would like to hold the spoon. He sure did. More just to bang it around than anything. As you can imagine it is quite the party.

This is at our friends house. I was constantly having to move him away from the computer behind us so I stuck him in the shopping cart. Haha. He thought it was fun. That night we tried to get him to ride a rocking horse which he was scared of. He would tense up and yell when he saw it. By the end of the night he tolerated it a little better. He also hit his head on their coffee table pretty good and has a little bruise on his cheek. It was sad but he walked it off pretty quick.

This cute red hat finally fits him and of course he doesn't want to wear it.

Another fun week with this crazy kid. Nothing too momentous but always exciting :)

A Day in the Life of Calum

Hi my name is Calum and I am going to tell you all about what a typical day is like for me. It is pretty great being me. First things first, a good breakfast. I eat a lot, this week I ate an entire banana one day and a whole pancake on another occasion. Food is yummy and I am getting really good at eating it.

   After breakfast it is time to go play in my room. The first thing I do is go for the books. I like to look at the pictures and flip the pages. So of course I need to pull out every single book that I own. The only thing that can pull me away from my books is an electrical outlet. My mom put the ottoman in front of it but I'm standing up now so I still try to get it. It is hard work pulling myself up to stand so most of the time I have to bite the edge of whatever I am holding onto and pull myself up with my arms and my mouth, it is kind of like a third arm.
   When my mom gets tired of moving me away from the outlet she sometimes lets me play in her closet. I really like all the different colors of clothes and textures, it makes me giggle, my mom thinks I'm cute. I also like to turn the lights on and off when my mom lets me. In the closet the lights go on and off with a pull string, that one is my favorite.
   Sometimes I sneak into the bathroom and the first thing I go to is the bathtub. I like to pull myself up and look in. I am secretly hoping that if I come in here my mom will give me a bath because I love my baths!
   I got some new toys this week, my friend Mason has outgrown his spaceship car so he is going to let me have it for a while. It is fun to push the buttons, stand up and get pushed around on it. I also got a little house from my friend Aimsley, she is too little for it. It is really fun. My friends Izu and Alitza came over and played with my new toys with me. They are nice. And it was funny watching my mom and dad climb through my house door.
  Some days we get together with a lot of my friends. I am the biggest one and so naturally I pick on them. I really like Aimsley's bows and socks and will take them from her sometimes. She is nice and lets me. It is hard to hold still when our moms are trying to take pictures of all of us.

(Thomas is thinking, "Calum what are you doing? Sit up so we can get this photo shoot over with!")  

This week I crawled up some stairs, I started using my sippy cup all by myself, and I made friends with a dog, which is a big step for me because they used to scare me really bad.
  At the end of the day I am pretty tuckered out. Sometimes I even sleep with two pacifiers because I forget that I already have one in. What can I say, I'm a total boy. I play hard; throwing stuff, jabbering and getting into everything. My days are jam packed with fun and mischief. I keep my parents on their toes and they love it.

 (Notice the two pacifiers, too funny)

My mother-in-law sent me this this week. I definitely need something like this.

Accident Prone

Last week was pretty eventful. It finally snowed!! We have been needing some good storms and last week we got some. But apparently the snow was not on our side because Kevin slipped on some ice and now thinks he has cracked a rib, I slid into a curb in Edna (my car) and that same day Kevin slid into a car with his work truck. Not a good week for the Foulgers, luck was not on our side, or maybe we just aren't as accustomed to the snow because we haven't seen it for the better part of this year. Either way we took my car in and they quoted us for $2600!! Luckily our good friend McKade is a mechanic so he looked at it and is going to help us fix it for way below that price. So we are hoping to get that all squared away this week so that I can have my car back. Not much else has happened since my last installment other than the day to day joys of parenthood. Calum is becoming ever more on the move. He likes to climb on the pillows on our bed so I moved them onto the floor to make a pillow mountain that he loves to climb.

 He is so mischievous but he is so cute, we just love him.

He has started to pull him self up on some things but most of the time he just does this little number, the half standing up stink bug. 

He thinks he is pretty clever :)

He has also kind of started to wave. 

And obviously Christmas has come and gone but I just had to share this cute picture of him and Santa.

All and all we have had a pretty good week, aside from our accidents. But, we are all safe and happy, how could we not be when we have such a fun and happy little boy that we get to be with all the time. He definitely brightens our day and reminds us that we have so much to be thankful for. Hopefully this week we wont be as accident prone as the last otherwise we might have to start wearing helmets.

Muttin Bustin

So lately I have been on this cowgirl kick, maybe it has been all of our trips through Wyoming lately, I don't know. You know that country song, "I should've been a cowboy" That has been my theme song of late. I want cowgirl boots and a hat to match. I want to ride horses (even though I am ridiculously allergic) and herd cattle. But yesterday I realized that I don't need to be a cowgirl to go wrangle up some livestock. I get to round up Calum everyday! 

Let me just tell you that he is everywhere and gets into everything. I thought the whole baby proofing part of motherhood would be a cinch in our two bedroom apartment. My thinking was that he can't go far, we don't have stairs, or much that is breakable so how much trouble can he get into. Boy was I wrong. Just yesterday he broke off two of our window blind things, ate some dirt he found in the entry way, ate some carpet he managed to pull up off the ground, tried to pull a plug out of an outlet, tried to wedge himself behind our couch, beside our washing machine and in our pantry. And that was just yesterday! Needless to say I was a little worn out from chasing after Calum. It is hilarious, he will notice the second that I open the bathroom door or one of the cupboards that I have locked and he will immediately go after it. 

 

 He has more fun playing under the exersaucer than in it these days.

 Trying to stand up.

 I was feeding him pieces of bread and I turned around for two seconds and he had snatched the whole slice and was trying to eat it. 

 I had this mat rolled up because I was sweeping and he unrolled the whole thing by himself. He thought it was so funny, he would make these happy squealing sounds after he would unroll a section. So funny. He was pretty proud of himself.

And after a busy day of roaming the floors Calums favorite thing is to wash his hands in the sink! He loves to splash around and play with the running water. He is such a happy guy and we love chasing after him and seeing all of the adventures he has everyday. I am glad I'm a mom and not a cowgirl. Although I would still love a rocking pair of boots!!

New Years Resolution

Ok so my New years resolution is to become a blogger. I figure I can make time to do it at least once a week. That way I can keep everyone updated on our cute kid and also count it as my journaling. I like to take pictures but all I ever do is add a gagillion onto facebook every so many months so I am hoping that this will help me be better. I am excited to be a blogger. As you can see I've had this blog for a while but pretty much all I have ever posted is stuff for school. Not very exciting. I am hoping to change that and to become a Blogging Baracuda!! So here is my first post of the New Year, wish me luck!

This is my cute family. I was going to send out a Christmas card but time and money prevented me from doing so. Hopefully next year. But this is a quick taste of what it was going to look like. Haha. Thank you Kelli and Darin for taking such awesome pics. We love you!

This was

Calum's first Christmas and it was quite the party. Lots of firsts for him. He started off the week by learning to crawl and getting his two front teeth. Which is funny because I wrote a Christmas wish list for him and his two front teeth was on it. Santa

granted his

wishes. He loved opening the presents and playing with the ribbons and bows. We went and saw the lights at temple square. It was cold out but Calum was nice and bundled. All of his cousins loved hanging out with him and Hayley and Jake Castle met him for the first time. It was a party. We also made a gingerbread house and got to see my sisters. It was a fun Christmas. Too bad we all ended up with colds and Calum got an ear infection so we stayed in and watched Lord of the Rings to ring in the new year. Such is life. But he's got antibiotics now and is almost back to his normal self. So we are grateful for that. But happy New Year and I hope to see you next week with our latest adventure!

Hopefully I'll have the hang of this by then!