caleb at 2 1/2 years old

the first half of this year has been a big one for caleb. he's already mastered sleeping in a "big boy" (toddler) bed, only using his pacifier at nap/bedtime & in the car (this was a big one for us), speaking in sentences, running/jumping/kicking/climbing stairs faster and higher than i ever thought possible, and he became a big brother. quite a lot of work in only 6 months! there's only 1 MAJOR task left to complete...potty training. we've began the process, but that topic is worthy of it's own post. caleb has picked up a few really cute expressions such as, "watch out, buddy!" (he likes to say this when he drives his choo-choo train past the station), "asher love me?," "hey, dude!" (an homage to his uncle patrick), "you kidding me?!" (you can hear this when in the car and the cars in front of us don't go fast enough), and the infamous, "bad gas [insert name here]!!!" who has bad gas differs from time-to-time. often times it is me (his father puts him up to it), occasionally it's daddy, and one time it was even our sweet friend kelley...good thing she has two boys of her own and understands that for a little boy to say you have bad gas is really a compliment! also, caleb has finally started singing his abc's. up until a few months ago, every time i started to sing it, he would say, "no." i thought he'd go to kindergarten saying "no" to his abc's. apparently he just didn't want to sing them until he knew them all. he also likes to sing, "twinkle, twinkle little star," "baa, baa black sheep," "ring around the rosies," "the wheels on the bus," "holy, holy, holy," and one of his catechism songs, "who made God?" he has also gotten pretty good at counting 1-10; only he prefers for the order to go "1, 3, 2" as opposed to "1, 2, 3." crazy kid. his imagination has also started to grow by leaps and bounds. he is very good at playing by himself while i'm feeding asher. he loves to take the trains and part of the tracks off of the table, much to his father's dismay, and place them on the couch in his own order. he also uses them as different "houses" for his trains and cars. he also likes to make up destinations for his cars to drive to. most often it is gran/nanny's house, or ms. sara's...he has a thing for those stegall women :) but most importantly, last week he was crawling on the ground saying, "i lion roooooar." i love how his little brain works! only at 2 years old can you go from this to this and still pull both looks off!