Playing in the snow...

We had a blast playing out back in our snowy back yard today. Just wanted to shoot some pics out to all of you. I know one of my friends (Meredith) that may be quite jealous of these pics!

Cal loves playing outside and it has been a little hard on us with the -10 degree wind chills, so today when the weather let up a little bit and gave us some +10 degree weather, we decided to venture out and enjoy the warmth! :)

Cal hates to get snow stuck on his gloves, he will make you brush it off every time, I have seriously considered just leaving his gloves off for just this reason!

Cal was totally amused by the fact that I let Zeus come out and play with us, he just wanted to snuggle with him, since this was one of the few times that Zeus would let Cal actually catch him and touch him! I think Zeus was so cold, he was looking for any kind of warmth he could get, he waited by the door for re-entry most of our outside time!

Go Packers...

If anybody doesn't know us well enough, here is an update... We are Packer Fans! haha... Of course, Adam truly isn't, he is a Jets fan. But he got pulled into the excitement for the NFC conference championship when we were all sure that Favre would pull off a win...

Well, we have been packer fans for a while, so we can take a little disappointment, there is always next year.

Go Packers.

Closet issues...

Our closet recently took a tumble on us and completely fell apart. So, being the good consumers that we are, we decided to go out and buy a whole new closet system. Here are some pics of cal helping us with the installation...

He walked about for days with this mini screwdriver, it was so funny!

We had to keep encouraging him not to use it on the walls, but that is what he saw daddy using it on, so it was difficult to explain.

Calvin turns 2 years old...

Calvin has finally hit that terrible 2 age... even though, I would have to say from experience, that he has been in that stage for a little while already. today we celebrated with our family and friends in our home and it was a very fun little party. There were quite a few people that ended up unable to make it, but it was fun nonetheless. and it was a full house anyway!

Mommy worked hard on her "dirt track"cake for Cal's "Cars" theme party...

Cal got a lot of very fun gifts, including some new trucks and some Cars, games, a Cars desk, clothes (which cal promptly threw off to the side), a punching bag, a counting book, among many other items...

The birthday boy.

Cal blew out his candles.

and we ended with a pull-string pinata...

Birthday cake...

Cal helped me make his birthday cake today for his party later in the evening... It is hard to believe this little man is 2 already... time does truly fly.

Cal was a big help with the cakes that we made... Luckily he is quite a "monkey-see, monkey-do" type of kid, so I only had break open one egg and then he could repeat... of course this lead to some cute mishaps!

Mommy had to show him the most important part of making cake... cleaning the mixer!

We made chocolate and funfetti (the cake was chocolate and the cupcakes were funfetti) on a sidebar, I will point out that unfortunately by the time the party came around, there were no more cupcakes left... the dog took it upon himself to "clean up" all of the cupcakes on the counter, luckily for us, he did not touch the chocolate cake! thank the lord!

Climbing around...

As if mommy weren't busy enough lately, she has had to keep up with Calvin who is an incredibly unscared little daredevil type of kid. cal has become ever more increasingly unafraid of trying anything "at least once..."

unfortunately some of the things he does are quite scary to his mommy... But he has survived thus far. Here he is scaling the kitchen barstools, a site mommy sees probably at least twice a day.

APPLES!

Calvin LOVES apples... and it just so happens it is one of the few words that he says clearly enough for most people to understand, so he gets to eat a lot of them.

The only problem is when you give him a whole apple to eat (without cutting out the core) he will tend to eat it all (seeds and everything) because he refuses to give it back to you for you to show him what not to eat...

He thinks you might be trying to steal his slimy half -eaten specimen... no thank you! But he is awful cute sitting at his new table!

Oh yes... p.s. Happy New Year! 2008 is finally here!