Todd's Tatler

We woke up to 4 inches of snow on the back porch...thankfully, most of it melted by the end of the day.


Before General Conference started, we enjoyed our Easter festivities. Caleb loved the basket left by the Easter bunny - especially the marshmallows. We discovered that he only needs two to get a solid sugar buzz...


Then we had our egg rolling contest. It's a tradition that I grew up with - everyone sits in a circle and rolls their carefully hand-selected egg toward the center. Players are eliminated from the competition if their egg cracks when it smacks into the other eggs. Todd was out first, and then me. Who knew our one year old had such a good eye for a sturdy eggshell!

We started the morning with the exciting discovery of balloons on the ceiling fan!

Today was a beautiful sunny day in the low 60s, so we made a family trip to the park! We hadn't been in a while, and I think Caleb endured a little sensory overload...


But, overall it was a good family outting. He really enjoyed walking around and a couple times he tried chasing down other peoples' balls...I guess we should have brought his with us!

On Saturday, I was watching a little bit of the BYU vs. UNM basketball game on Todd's computer. Caleb was standing where he could lean on the coffee table and see the screen too. All of a sudden, he was swinging his pants above his head and yelling! I'm not sure how he got them off! Anyway, I figured this picture was cute enough to justify sharing the story:

Caleb is now tall and agile enough to reach anything within 2 inches of the edge of our dining table. The other day, I accidentally left a stick of butter in the danger zone:


Oops.

On Friday, January 8, 2010 Caleb took his first steps unassisted! I was several feet away when I held my arms out to him. Instead of letting go of the table and crawling to me, like he usually does, Caleb let go and took five steps right into my arms! Now, just over two weeks later, he can do this: