The sticker post...

As many of you surely have noticed, calvin is a very busy kid. always getting into something, or just basically causing a ruckus in some area of the household. well, today was no different.

Like most mommies, I receive offers in the mail daily for new magazines and disney movies or whatever the advertisers can get their hands on to try to entice moms to keep their kids busy so they can get a moment's peace... Most of these offers have some little something for the kids in them to make you want them even more. Usually this is stickers or an activity. This particular day, we received an ad for a magazine that had a whole page of alphabet stickers in it.

Well, cal LOVES stickers. Usually we will find them in the most interesting of places after he is through with them... inside cabinets, on his bed, the backs of all our chairs at the dinner table, in his diaper at the next change, or just basically scattered willy-nilly throughout the house.

Today was no different, only a little more interesting in that, shortly after being given his prized possessions (a whole page of NEW stickers!!!) he reappeared, only to be covered with them! I don't think I stopped laughing for at least an hour... Then, when he decided they were no good on his face... (he couldn't enjoy staring at them there!) somebody else got the wrath of his stickering power...

Poor Ralphie, luckily he is a good sport and was asleep for the majority of Cal's workmanship. He only woke up after I happened upon them and was laughing and taking pictures. what a crew we have here at the houseofwahls!

Cal's new style

Recently, we spent an evening updating cal's room into his new and improved big boy bedroom.

We didn't want to be too stuck on something that he enjoys a lot RIGHT now, as we are hoping to span at least a couple of years. So even though, I am quite certain he would have LOVED to have Cars (the movie) as his theme, we decided to go with a universal space theme.

We got his name painted by somebody on the internet, and then we ordered some decals from this great little company called uppercase living... we just love how it has turned out so far!

Now he has little rockets and stars all over his room and his very own moon nightlight on the wall... he is a happy kid

Bellevue Community Days

Today we celebrated the 4th of July a little early in bellevue.

they have a little fair type thing in the streets there, and this is the first time we have ever been. we took cal originally for the big truck touch and fell (which he did enjoy) but then there was a lot of other stuff for him to do there too... so we stayed for a while

checking out the school bus, it really won't be that much longer...




front end loader and cement mixer, he wanted to drive them away!

Cal loved feeding the animals their carrot bits, I was partial to the camel... he was so cute! I told adam I wanted one... we'll see if he can come through on that

adam said they had good carnies there... he should know, he used to be one!

at the end of the evening, they put off fireworks and we went out to a country road and watched them, where adam proceeded to lose his cell phone for the tenth time this year... (although, we did eventually find it!)

The social event of the season

Our Annual 4th of July Party!

is finally scheduled...

What: Celebrate the 4th!
When: Saturday, July 5th, 2008 6pm-???
Where: The Wahl house

calvin and hobbes...

I couldn't help but put this in... it seems so appropriate. More and more lately, cal is getting into things I really wish he wouldn't!

Also, this is this blog's 100th post! wow...

Update on the Bee situation...

Today, all that is left of the bees is a few stragglers that apparently the swarm decided were unworthy of them. yesterday, I looked out and the swarm was still there in the morning, but when I looked out at noon (the same time they showed up the day before) they were gone! so, apparently, they had a 24hour ticket to stay in our front maple tree, and their time was up...

now we are saying the swarm left in a hurry, leaving these couple of bees behind and the bees were probably gossiping about "lenny" and "buster" that were always "just a little slow" and the swarm is probably more than happy to be rid of them! now, however, we are stuck with them in our front yard... I don't know how long they will actually make it without their posse

so here is to lenny, buster and all their pals...

p.s. if you look at the top of both of these pics, you will see that the weight of the bee swarm from the day before actually broke the branch! damn bees

AAAAAAAHHHH!!! Bees!

For some reason, we have had a swarm of bees take over our maple tree out front...

They just showed up today. We were just out front yesterday, and, no bees.

Now suddenly there is this huge bunch of bees! at least 3 feet long by 1 1/2 feet wide... Where in the world did they come from, and WHY are they in our front yard. I am hoping they will disappear just as quickly as they appeared!

First Day of "School"

Today was cal's first day of "school," as he likes to call it. Really it is daycare and it appears that he was unscathed by the day except that his very kind teacher, Miss Mary, says that he does have a problem throwing toys (which, unfortunately, we already know about) and that he is a "really good eater..." uh, yeah, we knew that too!

In fact, now that I think about it, maybe I should have asked if he tried to eat anything out of any of the other kids' lunches!

here he is, off in the morning for his first day, such a little man now!

Watermelon!!! MMMMM

it is time again for watermelon! I, for one, love this time of year. and as far as I am concerned, anyone that doesn't like watermelon, is just CRAZY!

i would have to say that cal agrees!

Nap time...

Cal has chosen a new favorite spot for nap time... and it is...

You guessed it! The couch! such a funny little man!

Buddies

cal has a good friend that lives just up the street from us, and they have declared that they are "buddies." whenever one is outside, the other has to go see them...

but yet it seems like as soon as they get to the other's house, all they do is blatantly ignore each other... well, except for when they choose to fight over a certain toy or something!

I guess it is just the stage they are in, but they do seem to play pretty well together! and we love cal's little buddy grayson...

Pool time...

It's finally June, which means pool and squirt gun time! cal loves this time of year, and mommy pulled out her ancient super soaker for him to play with, which he just thinks is the bees knees, AND he is starting to actually figure out how to pump it to make it work, YAY!