HandsomeCal

Happy Birthday Uncle Johnny

2009-06-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

Belated birthday post

2009-02-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

As usual, I've been terrible at keeping the pictures coming but here are a few of Cal's 2nd Birthday last month. He had a great day, playing with friends and eating all his favourite foods. The best part of the day had to be the birthday cake that Daddy made. A lovely chocolate covered sponge decorated with smarties and filled with chocolate butter cream. Cal thought he had died and gone to heaven.
Here are the pics to prove it. I think a couple are in slightly the wrong order but you get the idea.

A few more pics.........

2008-11-10T06:52:00.000-08:00

Just clearing the memory card a few nights ago and found a few pics worth posting. Here are some ones of Cal's first messy play at home. We hadn't managed to persuade him before this point - he HATES having dirty hands. Can't be my son.

Cal looking all American in his puffer vest and hat with ears.

CHEESE!

Cal loves his cycle helmet more than his little bike I think.

Big frown!

'Punkin'

2008-11-04T07:59:00.000-08:00

This is all Cal has said all week..........PUNKIN! PUNKIN!

Cal and a little Pearl

2008-09-19T12:34:00.000-07:00

After meeting up with Charlotte and her lovely little baby girl Pearl the other day, I had to post a few pics.

Cheeky Monkey!

2008-07-03T15:56:00.000-07:00

It's been way too long since I posted last and Cal is changing so much every day. Of course he is walking now in fact he pretty much runs everywhere now. He's also a little chatterbox and attempts to say everything you say to him - some words come out better than others. My favourites at the moment is 'oggie' for yoghurt and 'menlamum' for mango but there's lots of words he'll say much more clearly - garden (after The Night Garden), toast, shoe,park,cat,two,bubble,Daddy (of course)......the list goes on.
He also seems to be slimming out a little despite his two weetabix for breakfast habit and his hair seems to get more blond by the day.
At the moment he is particulary keen on his books, his new shoes and cats. Cats don't seem to be that fond of him. Luckily, so far he has only come into contact with tolerant cats...it's only a matter of time before one shows it's displeasure at being pinned to a wall and patted heavily.
Here's some recent pics.

At last some pictures!!!

2008-04-24T05:06:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been so long. Here's some recent pics of Cal on holiday in seattle last month.

Tickled

2008-01-15T15:14:00.000-08:00

Little shuffler.........

2008-01-12T15:07:00.000-08:00

1 YEAR OLD TODAY!!!!!!

2008-01-12T14:49:00.001-08:00

This year has gone so fast. Cal smiled a lot today but somehow we don't seem to have caught any smiles on camera. He got lot's of lovely cards and pressies....thank you everyone!!

Cal is mobile at last!!!

2007-12-10T13:53:00.001-08:00

Although I don't have any photos of Cal in action yet, he is now crawling around like crazy and getting into everything. Also he's pulling himself up to stand whenever he gets the chance.
Cal is so pleased with himself but we can't take our eyes off him for a second now...........shoes are flying off the shoe rack, he's fiddling with the stereo and the dvd player and even the kitchen bin. Action packed photos to follow shortly - meanwhile here's some not so action packed pics we took today.

Cal gets a very guilty look on his face when he's crawling off to create havoc.

When Cal met Kal.....

2007-11-09T14:27:00.000-08:00

We finally got the chance to see Kal and Si last weekend and it was the first time they had met Cal. He and Kal got along famously and entertained each other all afternoon. (By the way, Cal is not quite as big as Kal even though it looks that way in one of these pictures......he's just closer to the camera......;-)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

2007-10-31T10:12:00.000-07:00

Cal has been excited about Halloween for ages now - since his Aunty Alicia sent a special penguin costume from America. We squeezed him into it as best we could and he looked fantastic......a VERY well fed penguin.

SPOOOOOKY!!!!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!

An Apple A Day

2007-10-18T14:10:00.001-07:00

Flashing those teeth.....

2007-10-09T04:29:00.001-07:00

A couple of pics of us on holiday in France and some taken yesterday at home of Cal at his happiest.....being fed!!!

......and for dessert I'll eat the camera

A Few Pics......

2007-09-03T14:24:00.001-07:00

Cal is changing so much, every day it seems. We've been waiting for some teeth to show for ages now and finally after a really grumpy weekend he has a little white tooth breaking through his gum on the bottom. Pics to follow.......I'll have to wait few days I think before it's big enough to photograph.

Cal gets really giddy when you follow him being carried up the stairs. He kicks his legs and screams.

It's been a while....

2007-08-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Yes, I've been very lazy with the updates recently........sorry!

This weekend we went to Lampeter Velfrey in South Wales to the home of Two Bad Mice. The weather was absolutely awful and friday night and the Pasadena roof orchestra were a little bit soggy. Saturday, the sun came out for a while and we sat in the grounds of Lampeter House, nibbled nice food, drank some wine and listened to a really good jazz band play. Cal LOVED the jazz and was dancing on our knees all afternoon - although on the pics he looks quite bored.

At the botanical gardens with Molly and Cal.

Has Anyone Seen My Bunny?

2007-07-29T14:47:00.000-07:00

Somebody call ChildLine.......

Some funny pics from today

2007-07-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

I have some great photos of the walk that Steve took - way better than mine so I'll post those in a minute. Meanwhile, here's a couple from today.

Me and Cal having some quality time this afternoon after his tea.

Cal is sitting up to play now!

Walking in the Peaks

2007-07-29T13:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday the sun was shining. At last it felt like summer so we were determind to get out and walk. We jumped in the car and following the directions given by the nice lady on Steves new GPS, we drove to Tidswell Dale.
There is one thing I learnt yesterday, in fact I already knew. That is that boys are completely obsessed with maps,directions and the shortest route to get somewhere and girls don't give two hoots about where they are in relation to anywhere or how they got there. I'm thinking of buying Cal a road map of Britain for his first birthday because he's a boy and it's a given that he'll be into directions too.

The walk was beautiful. We saw lots of cows, waded through lots of cow dung, drank a nice pint of beer at a country pub and ate the best fish and chips I've had in ages on the way home.

I wish I was carried around in this

A wrong turn?

A climber on Sardine, Raven Tor

Oooh a map!!!

Mad cow!

"So, the car should be just over that hill, across the next field and........"

The Lakes

2007-07-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

How could I forget? On Sunday afternoon we drove up to the Lakes to see Grandma Grace and Aunty Pauline. On monday morning the sun was shining and we managed to get out for a walk with Cal in his new back pack. He spent most of the first part of the walk shouting and singing and the last part of the walk he zonked out (see pic)

SPLASH!!!

2007-07-26T10:33:00.000-07:00

Not much has been going on recently, the weather has been so awful - it's STILL raining here.
I did take Cal swimming the other day and although there is no photographic evidence, he did have a great time and wasn't scared at all. He was floating around quite happily and kicking his legs - I'm hoping he will love the water. This was a good start. I did however, forget to take his trunks so his first swimming pool experience was sans swimming cossy. Luckily his waterproof nappy was blue and patterned on the outside so we got away with it. What kind of mother am I? Lucky he isn't old enough to be embarassed.
Today we went to see Grandma Friend. She kept Cal entertained while I got a bit of work done.

A typically crazy afternoon at Grandma Friend's

Lazy Sunday

2007-07-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

It's still raining believe it or not....what a summer! Today we were driven to do some house work but not before a quick visit to Outside Cafe in Hathersage. Picked up a much needed baby carrier. As Cal is getting bigger it's impossible to go walking with him in the Baby Bjorn and there's lot's of places we want to go where the pushchair won't.
For Cal the rest of the day consisted of eating sleeping and lots of smiling......no teeth yet though.

Sunday papers

Cal transporter

Tough day

Happy 1/2 Birthday!!!

2007-07-12T10:52:00.000-07:00

Cal is 6 months old today.He didn't have cake because he's not able to eat it yet. Actually, he'd probably give it a go but we didn't think it a good idea. Instead he had some birthday yoghurt.....mmmmmm....what a treat!
Also as a special 1/2 birthday treat his teething pains seems to have abated a little today.

Happy Birthday!

A birthday raspberry

Say cheese!

A BIG HAPPY 1/2 BIRTHDAY TO CAL'S TWIN ZACH IN SEATTLE TOO!!!

Cal does Jarvis

2007-07-10T12:05:00.000-07:00

Cal's talented best friend Steevie made him the star of his own music video - this is hopefully just the first in a short line of Cal movies ;-)

A Busy Day

2007-07-06T15:28:00.000-07:00

Well, apart from drinking out of a sippy cup and bouncing in his bouncer, Cal has been to Sleaford today to look at a new car with us. Very nice it is too so hopefully we'll buy it. Something nice and roomy to carry His Royal Chubby Chops around in (pictures of the car if a when we get it). Mike also made coffee - it's really good!!

And more pics.........

2007-07-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

This update is just for Aunty Alicia..........

2007-06-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

We miss you lots!

Mike's Birthday!!!!

2007-06-27T12:31:00.000-07:00

Yaaay!! No work today in honor of Mike's Birthday. We started the day at the Outside Cafe at Hathersage for breakfast - not exactly 5 spot but not bad.
Then we headed out into the peaks and to the Chatsworth Farm Shop at Pilsey. Such good food! In fact most of the day was based around food (surprise, surprise) with a pint and a bag of crisps at a pub mid afternoon and a chicken and ham pie followed by sticky toffee pudding for evening meal. My Stomach hurts!!!! Cal was good as gold all day apart from shouting his way round Waitrose later this afternoon. He has such a deep voice!
Mike got a loverly Espresso Machine for his birthday so at last we'll be drinking nice coffee (Pics of nice coffee to follow). I'm hoping for Vivace quality before too long.

It's Raining Cats and Dogs....Good Day to Start a Blog

2007-06-25T09:15:00.000-07:00

Since we moved back to England the weather has been awful. Today is no exception, so I thought I would take some time out to post some Cal pics.
With the weather being so rubbish at the moment we needed to escape to somewhere a little more exotic...................here's some holiday snaps. 'Handsome Cal in the Sheffield Riviera' or ' Cal in Front of the Cheesy Print the Landlord Left Above the Fireplace'