Happy Halloween!

Caleb was a baby bummble bee this year. Costume sent to him by his great auntie Cynthia.

More Halloween pics can be found in his Halloween Picasa album.

When we first got the halloween costume mailed, Caleb didn't want to wear it, but he did want to practice his buzzing :)



to get ready for when he's all dressed up at the harvest festival:)


I'll also upload pics from Googleween soon :)

Weekend to LA

We made a quick somewhat spontaneous (hence driving instead of flying) trip to LA last weekend to visit family. It was great to see everyone! Here's some random pics from this weekend. Or see all the pics on his picasa page :)



Car Ride:

• YAY! COWS!
  As usual, Caleb was really great with the drive. He LOVED seeing the cows. He kept saying "Cow! Moo! More Cows! YAY! (clap) More cows! YAY! (clap)." He did this for a really long time and I was sad that I had the camera in the trunk :P After some time, I realized I should just use our phone to take a video since it was so funny. I caught the end of the cow area...but need to d/l it from Gabe's phone. :) Will post later.
• Stuck in Mama car
  It was really funny. After some time of sitting in the car seat and singing songs and pointing out "Mama Cars" and "Dada Cars," Caleb paused and said "Baby stuck in Mama car." It was totally funny. He wasn't complaining really, more just saying that he realized that he was stuck in Mama's car.

Caleb's favorite "LA" things

• Coo Coo Clock
  It's funny, Caleb has a great memory and always recognizes places and remembers people even if he hasn't seen them in a few months. One of Caleb's favorite things in my parent's house is the coo coo clock (which Gabe and I actually got them from Switzerland 5+ years ago from our honeymoon). So every time we pull up to the house he says "Wai Poa! (Grandma) Wai Gong! (Grandpa) Coo Coo! Coo Coo!" Even when he looks at pictures in my parent's house, he'll point off the picture to where the coo coo clock would be and says "coo coo!"
  
• Apples
  Caleb LOVES to pick apples. He loved it in our first house and he loves it at my parents house. He'll look outside and say "Apple! Apple!" Actually, this is semi-unrelated, but Caleb knows how to spell apple now! Here's a quick video

It's funny, he learned this from a Chinese book about fish :P Many of the pages showed a picture of an Apple can that said "Apple" and had a picture of Apple. Since Caleb knows his letters, he'd often say "A-P-P-L-E...Apple!" and thus learned how to spell Apple from a Chinese book about fish :)

• Kumquats
  Along the same lines, Caleb loves to pick and eat the kumquats...even though they're so sour! Here's a recent picture and an older video :)

• The purple chair
  My parents have this purple plastic chair. You'd think it's not a very exciting thing - especially when Caleb has lots of really cool toys there - but he loves it! He thinks it's so funny. Here's some pics from last weekend and a video from last time we were in LA.

• Harmonica
  My dad has always loved to play the harmonica. And now there's someone who loves his playing :) Yi Poa (Great Auntie Cynthia) also got him his very own harmonica this time. He loves it! Caleb's been playing nonstop! He actually has been playing the harmonica with one hand or no hands so that he can still read and play with other toys :) And oh boy...we heard a lot of harmonica playing on the way up from LA! He calls it "haaa-mo-ka"

• Snacks!
  We usually hide from Caleb when we eat snacks...but in LA...boy oh boy. People spoil Caleb! My parents always have tons of snacks on the table. And whenever we're there, there's tons of people tending to Caleb. So he gets spoiled and gets lots of snacks :) Here's Caleb with a little can of nuts. :)


When he looks at you like that...how can you resist giving him a nut? :)

Go Bears!

Every time Caleb wears his UCLA hat (shown below), which was given to him by Auntie Kimmy for Christmas last year, Gabe says "We GOTTA get him a Cal hat!"

Unfortunately, we haven't been back to Berkeley in a really long time. But we went to the east bay last weekend to celebrate Helen & Will's wedding (CONGRATS! :) ). Before the wedding, we popped in for a quick visit to Ned's and made a few very quick picture stops before rushing back to the car to get to the reception. Caleb got to sport his Cal football jersey (a gift from Auntie Gina and Uncle Eric). Here's some pics from our quick photo trip around Cal:

Waiting for daddy to pay for his new hat


Running around Sproul


Walking through Sather Gate (they're dong something to the middle portion :( )


At the campanile

And he kept shouting "GO BEARS!" :) Good boy. I gotta take a new video since he's much better at this now, but if you haven't seen it already, here's the old one.

Jesus loves me...and other updates.

The other day, Caleb was "praying" and it sounded like he said "Jesus Loves." So I replied "Jesus Love me..." and Caleb replied "I know!" I was shocked. We have sung "Jesus loves me" to him in the past, but very rarely. But, it turns out that Caleb is actually pretty good with the lyrics...with a little help :)

Other updates:

First Dance
Oh! Last week, Caleb had his first dance with a girl! The daycare teachers have pics, but I don't have them yet. But it was SO cute. They started playing music and the kids started dancing. Caleb LOVES to dance at home, but was shy about dancing at school. He was such a typical "shy guy" too. He put his hands in his pockets and slightly bobbed his head to the beat. haha! But Alex (Alexandra...the girl who always hugs and kisses Caleb and calls him "Cay-Cay") came over and grabbed his hands and started dancing with him! She was SO happy. Caleb was ok with it :) Hopefully I can post a picture later.

Shoreline
In other updates, we enjoyed our first weekend in a while where we didn't attend a wedding! (Back to another wedding next weekend though :) ) So we ran some errands, spent some time with friends, and went to the park. :) We took Caleb to shoreline park again...we took him once before when my mom was here a couple months ago. But as soon as we pulled up to the park, Caleb remembered. He started saying "Throw rock" (since last time he enjoyed throwing rocks into the water) and was very excited to see the water and rocks again!

He also enjoyed the sunset :)

But we definitely missed Wai Poa this time! Here's a few pics from when we went last time (during the day) when Wai Poa was here!

First Craft
Also, Caleb made his first Sunday School arts & crafts! It's a series of little plates with verses from Genesis.

I made him pose in his crib with it since it's taller than him. But now this is like a new game for him. He always wants to stand in his crib and play with his craft!

He's quite proud of it :)

"Go in Mama Car"
Now that Caleb is much more expressive, one thing he says all the time is "Go in Mama car." Caleb LOVES to play in my car. It's like his favorite playground. He loves to pretend to drive

He loves to climb and jump from the front seat to back seat, back seat to front seat, etc.

He loves to climb into his car seat and try to buckle himself in (he climbs into his high chair and buckles himself in now too!)

He's really happy when he actually straps himself in successfully. :)

Go Bears
One more video just for fun....Despite his UCLA hat from Auntie Kimmy, Caleb shows that he's a bear at heart :) Especially with his new Cal Jersey from Auntie Gina!