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Are you searching with Swagbucks? I wasn't either until earlier this week. I have heard about Swagbucks for a little while now out in the Blog world and finally decided to take the 2 seconds that it takes to sign up and start earning points and prized for my normal everyday internet searches.

Here is some brief information about Swagbucks:
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You can get 3 Swagbucks just for Signing Up.

Definitely not a get rich quick program but slow and steady wins the race and overtime it all adds up. Hey, why not earn something for all those internet searches you are going be be doing anyway. I've heard reports of people saving up their Amazon.com Gift Cards and utilizing them to buy Christmas gifts.

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Cake=Candle+Party

Tonight after dinner Caleb asked for some cake. He was super excited when we said ok and exclaimed "candle, have a party". Hmm...why not?! So we busted out a candle and had a party complete with hot fudge and whip cream. We even were silly and sang 'happy snow day Caleb' to the tune of Happy Birthday. I think he had us light the candle 4 or 5 times just so he could blow it out. We however only sang 1 time. Good times! Thanks Caleb for initiating our little family 'we don't need a reason to party' night.

Snow Day

Looks like someone had a fun snow day with Nana and Papa while Momma and Daddy were at work.

Ahhh Vacation

He's Getting So Big

I don't think there is a day here lately that I haven't made a comment about how big Caleb is getting. I swear we put him to bed at night and in the morning he has become more and more of a little boy. I went to Kansas Thursday and Friday for work and when I called David and Caleb Thursday night I was both sad and proud of my little guy and couldn't believe how big he sounded. First he usually doesn't want to chat on the phone for very long and typically gets preoccupied pretty quickly but Thursday night he actually carried on a little conversation with me and would answer questions that I asked him about his day/night and made other comments about little things that he was thinking about at the moment. As we were talking David asked Caleb if he wanted to sing a song and Caleb busted out singing Jingle Bells (well at least the first part where you just repeat jingle bells, jingle bells.....). My heart swelled with pride and I hated that I wasn't there to see him sing it in person. Since he doesn't really know all of the words David sang the rest of the song for him and Caleb would do the "hey" part of the song. Such a sweet little duet.

Happy 2nd Birthday Caleb!

BYE, BYE 1!

HELLO 2!

Is it really possible that you are 2 today?! Your Daddy and I are in such denial and can't believe that another year has come and gone. You are such a blessing to us and we can't imagine our home without you in it. You are full of life and have tons of energy and although this keeps us very busy and on our toes we wouldn't want it any other way. Here is just a few things about you:

*We have converted your crib into a toddler bed and you have done great with the change. Daddy and I still can't believe how easy you made the transition.

*You apparently do not like sleeping in socks and it is a rarity if you actually make it through the night with them still on.

*You LOVE books and at night typically say "read" and want us to read you a book before bed. I'm sure this is partly a stall tactic but none the less I don't think a day goes by that you aren't flipping through a book. One of your favorite books right now is "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake". Daddy and I like it when we get to the part where the cat goes to karate class. When I first read you this book I said "aaiiiyaaa" and did a karate chop after that part and it has stuck with you because you typically do this every time we come to that page.

*You still take an afternoon nap

*When you get up in the morning or from a nap you don't need any type of warm up time you are just up and on the go. You are like the energizer bunny and just keep going, going, going until we put you to bed at night.

*You don't have a lot of patience and do not take to well to us telling you no or you not getting your way. If this occurs you either let out a scream, stomp your foot, hit yourself or something close by or a combination or mixture of any of the above.

*You love getting to help out in the kitchen or just about anywhere for that matter. Just assign you a task and you are ready to pitch in and be a helper. I love it when you say "Caleb, helper"

*Some of your various sayings/sentences are "hold you, hold me", "so good", "no, sir" (it doesn't matter if you are a girl or a boy everyone is sir to you), "Dada, work"

*You are obsessed with drums and can't get enough of them right now. You love watching the end scene of Drumline where the two percussion sections are battling it out.

*We are not necessarily in full fledged potty training mode but we have started sitting you on it every now and then. Saturday when you were sitting on your potty chair you kept looking down in the potty and saying "pee, pee where is it". I must have mentioned to you something about keep trying because you finally looked at me and said "pee, pee where is it I trying". You pee peed on the potty Friday and Saturday morning and Sunday evening.

*You can count to 12

*You don't know your colors but if we ask you what color something is you at least respond with the name of a color.

Sucker!

Caleb currently has two favorite items that he can't seem to get enough of lately, one being drums and the second suckers. He was very excited by all of the suckers he received on Halloween so it was no surprise that after dinner last night he asked for one. Since he ate pretty good we decided we would let him have one. After only a few licks he handed it back to me and kept saying "different, different sucker". I kept trying to persuade him that the one he had was just fine but he insisted that he needed a different sucker. I remembered that Nana had said he really wasn't finishing suckers at their house so I thought maybe he really didn't like the mini tootsie roll pop that I gave him that he confiscated from Nana and Papa's house on Halloween. I finally decided to trade him out and give him one of the dum dums that he has had no problem devouring. After giving it to him I got side tracked talking to David and forgot to take the mini tootsie pop away from him only to look over a few minutes later to find this...

Hmmm.....who's the sucker? Looks like I got played by a not quite 2 year old. Needless to say he had no problem whatsoever eating both the dum dum and mini tootsie roll pop that he insisted he didn't want.