part 2

Here's the second part of Caleb's Christmas video. See the story below...

Bellefield's Christmas pagent 2009

The Sunday before Christmas, our church, Bellefield Presbyterian in Oakland put on a little Christmas pageant with the children's Sunday school classes. Sadie's class were sheep. Caleb's class were shepherds. Unfortunately with the events of the past month or so, we haven't been making it to Sunday school with regularity. The kids had learned their song "Away in a Manger" but didn't really know beyond that what they would be doing. To make matters even more complicated Saturday morning we were supposed to have rehearsal but mother nature decided to send us a heavy snow fall. Rehearsal was rescheduled for right before the service.

Well, Caleb was not even remotely interested in playing this game. He knew very well that there were no policemen in the manger scene and therefor no place for him. He couldn't be a shepherd when he's always been a policeman. He happily sat with Daddy watching the practice and performance.

Sadie was all dressed up in her Christmas dress but a little unsure of all that was going on. Then came time for putting on her little lamb costume (a pillowcase). Well, she wanted nothing to do with covering up her pretty dress. She reluctantly put it on and came downstairs to rehearse with the rest of them. A very sad and pouting Sadie came down to rehearse. I went to ask what was wrong, seeing her so upset, and all she had to say was "I look silly." I've never been good at lying and while she did look adorable, she also looked a little silly with the pillowcase on. I tried my best not to let on and reassure her that she looked like a little lamb but she was not having it. Her class went up on stage to practice and she refused to sing at all and stood there pouting. It was heartbreaking to watch and still so funny because the poor thing was convinced that she looked ridiculous.

Rehearsal finished and the little ones were sent up to their rooms to wait for the program to begin. I talked to Sadie and talked to her teachers and we agreed that she didn't have to wear the pillowcase if she would be happy and sing with the rest of the kids. This made her very happy. After a short time of playing, it was time to take the lambs all down to the sanctuary. This meant getting pillowcases on 8 or so 3 yr olds (most of which were not interested at all in wearing them let alone being up on stage singing). One of Sadie's classmates put on her pillowcase and the next thing I knew, Sadie was happily wearing hers and was ready to sing.

She went with her class up on stage, wore her pillowcase and even sang a little. It was very cute. We even had a black sheep in her class. Actually the little guy was wearing a bat costume from the dress-ups but we decided that he was the little black sheep and it was adorable.

It was a very cute program, complete with a newborn baby as the baby Jesus and I hope they do it again next year. Who knows, we might even be able to convince Caleb to be a shepherd.



Notice the black sheep on the left



Sadie pouting

Packing for Vacation...

Caleb Swimming

Easter Morning 2009

So the Easter Bunny thought it would be fun to do a little decorating for Easter morning. There were Easter eggs hung from the ceiling fan in the living room and over the archway to go in the dining room. He also gathered up all the stuffed rabbits and left the kids a little message on the chalkboard. Cute, right? Well, not if your Caleb. He didn't care for all these changes but Sadie seemed to enjoy Easter morning. Here's a bit...

And just to let you know, after church, Caleb was very excited by the Easter Bunny and was quite happy with the decorations. It just took a couple of hours to grow on him :-)

Sadie Dancing

Just like "Angelina" as in Angelina Ballerina. This is our little ballerina in her Easter dress. If she's not dancing, she's hopping. She only stops to sleep :-)

Sadie and The Lord's Prayer

Sadie and Caleb have been learning The Lord's Prayer for Sunday school. Sadie's got it just about down. Hope you like.

Dr. Sadie I

Bear with me, the memory can only record 24 sec. before it dies. We'll be getting a new, larger card soon (hopefully). :-) Enjoy Sadie checking out Daddy with their doctors kit.

New Camera

I just thought I would post a short video clip. We recently got another point and shoot digital camera (since mine finally died) and so once again I will be able to post short video clips. Really short right now because I have a very small memory card. But hopefully we'll get something bigger in the near future.

Enjoy Mr.Caleb-Man and Sadie singing their ABCs

Sadie Singing (kind of)

Caleb took a longer nap this afternoon so that allowed for Sadie and I to have a little more time. We've been doing lots of singing in this house lately. They both love music and we've discovered that a silly song goes along way in getting a 2 yr old to do things he doesn't really want to do (like put on shoes or a coat). We make up lots of songs but we've also been working on the classics, like "If You're Happy and You Know It" Sadie has started picking up on it and loves to play along.

Hope you like the video!

Caleb Video

It's been awhile since I put up video clips... mostly because I haven't been using that camera very much. Here's a clip from February of Caleb "reading" Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. I've mentioned that we've noticed that he's memorized some books. Well, here's what got it all started. I don't have the whole thing recorded because I didn't have that much space and Sadie was also competing to be in the video.

It's been wild seeing how amazing his memory is. With borrowing books from the library, I've noticed he has most of the story memorized by the third or fourth time reading through (depending on how long the book is). It's been really nice because he can kind of sit and "read" to himself- not that we get out of reading the boy stories. He could definitely be the poster-child for the "read to your child" movement.

Caleb and Sadie playing

Here's some of Sadie and Caleb playing yesterday. I tried to get Sadie talking a bit but I don't know how well you can hear her. Hope you like- sorry it's been so long since I've put up a video.

New Video Clip

It's been a while since I posted a video clip- mostly because I've been so busy mastering my new still shot camera. Here's one from a few weeks ago of Caleb reading another ABC book to himself. I love that he's sitting in the push cart.



there will be a Sadie walking video shortly!!