Endless Hats: Wearing the Mommy Hat for 7 years!

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY to Caleb!

Crazy, I know! I've been a mom for 7 years!

7 years ago, we met little Caleb. He came 12 days early. I was due Jan. 2nd and since I carried small, everyone (especially my mother) had me convinced he would come well into January. So you could imagine my surprise, just 2 days before Christmas, the last thing I was planning was to go into labor! God showed himself faithful through that whole ordeal, from my midwife being available to being able to go without an epidural.... :o/
But that's a whole other story that will have to wait for another post. (maybe ;)
So that little early Christmas present came home with me from the hospital on Christmas morning. What a special Christmas that was!
What a good baby he was... And what a good boy he's become. So cool to watch him grow into who he is becoming today. He has such a sweet spirit, and so sensitive to his relationship with God. Boy! The questions he comes to me with! No specific ones are coming to mind at the moment, but the remarks he makes to me tell me of his concern to do the right thing to please his heavenly Father. Of corse he is not perfect, but who is? Just to know he is thinking about his actions (and what they affect) is remarkable to me.
Caleb loves sports! Anything that contains some kind of ball he is drawn to and seems to excel at. Since he was 1 and a half? he has been quite the sportsman. At 1.5 years he could pitch a ball to his Daddy right down the pike! When Daddy would come home from work he would be greeted with the request of "b-ball daddy" (Caleb's way of asking to play baseball with the soft bat and ball they would play I the living room - yes, baseball was allowed in the living room!)
Caleb loves all things Mario! His favorite character is Luigi. Last year he had a distain for Princess Peach, but after I explained everything Mario and Luigi does it to save Princess Peach because they love her, he has seemed to soften up to her :) I got a wii for Christmas last year and Caleb soon surpassed this Nintendo veteran in skill and knowledge, I tried to keep up, but he's committed!
Caleb is über creative and loves to draw! He's a bit of a perfectionist about it at times.
Caleb is great at school, especially math and he love handwriting. (i think this comes from his I've to draw)
Caleb loves church and his friends.
Caleb loves to make music with his mouth. Occasionally I will catch him doing a beatbox of sorts and seems like HE doesn't even realize he's doing it. Must come naturally to him like his Daddy.

For his actual birthday, Caleb asked if we could go to Chuck E. Cheese, so that's what we did. We picked up his cousin Anthoni from his half day of school and headed our for some fun and pizza!

Later that night, Pop pop, Grammy and Auntie Kelly came for hot dogs and mac & cheese (as requested by the b-day boy of course) Caleb got to open a present from Auntie Kel.that was the "Cars 2" movie. So after opening a couple more presents from Auntie Kel and his mom & dad we watched Cars 2 (with a snowman ice cream cake intermission :)

(in some of the pictures you may notice Caleb's face looks a tad different than usual... When getting in the car for Chuck E. Cheese, Daddy mentioned to me that Caleb looked older and his nose was getting bigger.... I then realized Caleb's nose was swelling from a collision he had 2 days before with his friend Jayden.)

Cars 2 cars from Grammy

Lots of Cars stuff! and a Mario Bros shirt!

Auntie Kel picked up these cool Cars 2 napkins and cups just for tonight!

Caleb's Birthday Party....
We planned it for Jan 7th but after Emma contracted a stomach bug and then the following weekend being not good for some attendees we finally had the party 2 weeks after the scheduled one on Jan 21st!
The Giants (who almost ALL of the family are avid fans of) were doing well in the play-offs and the party was going to take place the day before the NFC Championship game. So with a little coaxing, we convinced Caleb to change his theme from Mario Bros to GIANTS! (and save Mario for next year)

And boy was he glad he did!

Caleb with the Giants Jersey bunting :)

It snowed! The signs we made for 2008 Super Bowl. This is kind of what started the whole idea for a "Giants" themed party. We decided to put this up the week leading up to the NFC game.

Emma in one of Caleb's old shirts (she said while pointing to her shirt "this is for my memory verse: Genesis 1:1 God created the heavens and the earth" :)