Men at work

John and Bert (Ian's folks) came down yesterday for the weekend to help with the remodel. The guys and Bert have been working non-stop. Pics below on the progress as of last night.

Tresses are here

Hunters at work

Jack of all trades

I have to do a little bragging about my man… As most know, we’re remodeling our garage (making it part of the house), re-doing the roof, etc. Instead of hiring a contractor we decided to do it ourselves… Ian drew up the house plans, did all the demo work, re-wired the electrical, relocated the gas line, etc. Ya, impressive – I know. This weekend we’re putting up the new roof tresses, putting on the roof and doing all the exterior work. Once that’s done we’ll work on the inside. Good thing I snatched him up when I did, cause he’s quite the catch!

Just a man and his pug

She's doomed when he gets more mobile....

Cal absolutely loves Suzie and he's constantly trying to catch her. She's pretty into him too, until she gets in trouble for trying to give him too many kisses and she realizes that he can't throw her toys. Once she loses interest in Cal, she'll do walk by's and Cal stretches to the max trying to grab her (lots of grunting involved). She's in for it when he starts crawling cause I have a feeling he'll be chasing her all over the house.

I'm gonna get you

I got you!

Trying to escape from his Bumbo

If only I was a little taller

Couple Cal updates

• Bananas are his new fave
• He has what we call “crazy arm.” He’s fascinated by movement and touching things and his new thing is to lift his arm up and down really fast
• He gets a little wacky before bedtime. Like a second wind while we’re getting him ready for bed but the second his head hits the crib he turns totally chill
• He uses his voice to get food and associates his high chair with eating. We put him in his chair while we get his food together and he yells at us until we feed him.
• He’s SO close to sitting up on his own. He can sit for a couple seconds, supporting himself with his hands and then tips over.
• Still no teeth…
  
  In other kid news, Suzie had an unexpected trip to the vet this week but rest assured, she’s fine. We thought she might have stepped on a nail but somehow she torn off part of the top layer of her foot pad. A little TLC and she’ll be fine.

Getting ready for dinner (this is pretty mild compared to most nights)

Working Weekend

Ian spent all weekend working on the garage. Him and his buddy Nic tore off the old garage roof Saturday and I have no idea what he's working on out there today but he's spent all day out there again.

Cal and I chilled this weekend. We made sure the guys had food while working, did lots of dancing and singing to Cal's new Harry Connick Jr. kids CD, ran some errands and played. We also made and froze a bunch of homemade baby food today. Totally the way to go rather than spending a buck a pop on a small jar of baby food. Cal taste-tested little samples of some of the goodies I was cooking/pureeing up.

Got his work clothes on and is ready to help out in the garageView from the garage Old (dormant) bee hive in the roof
Ian's other baby

Fun Friday

Some pics from yesterday...

Who ya gonna call?

On the hunt for more food

Helping with the clean-up

Snuggle buddies

Boring pic... We've been working on our flower beds all week and replanted part of our front bed

If I had a penny...

...for everytime Cal made me smile during the day I would be able to buy lots of nice shoes ;) He's so great, so funny and makes me SO happy!

We went to the park today to play with Charlie, Carter and Jordan and Cal had a blast. He loved watching the big kids (Charlie & Carter) play and had fun swinging with Jordan.

In other news, the house remodel is officially underway (pic below)...

Swinging with Jordan

He's supposed to be napping (on his back)

Naughty Suzie... Earlier in the day I noticed lots of dog hair on the top of the chair and had no idea how it got there since Suz isn't allowed on the furniture. Then this afternoon I came out of the nursery and this is how I found Suzie. I think she's been sneaking out of the bedroom at night and sleeping here.

Having fun before bed time

So long garage door