sitting on the steps

sometimes it is nice to sit with your buddy on the step

sometimes, your mom will catch you sitting on the step and try to get a picture, usually you are too fast for your mom to catch pictures of you... that is, unless, you happen to be busy talking with your buddy!

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...

Dirty faces...

The neighbors are always so nice and think of cal whenever they get something for their son, Grayson. today, they brought down some Cars marshmallow "suckers" and cal got one and so did grayson, of course cal finished his first, but they sat so cute and ate their suckers...

Sledding

Today, we went sledding after our big snow storm for the last couple days. We had a blast flying down the hill and we all even got a little air... if you know what I mean! we were hitting some ramps like it was our jobs!

Grayson and Cal before our trip to the hill...

No pics at the hill, much too dangerous!

To the Beach!

We had the opportunity to travel to East Harbor beach with friends on Wednesday and we had a total blast! Andrea and her son Grayson, went with us to the beach. They are very close neighbors to us now, and we feel blessed to have found such great friends so quickly after our move. Aaron (Andrea's husband, Grayson's daddy) and Adam stayed home and had a "fried food fest" as it will forever be referred to. We decided to first eat dinner at Arby's.

Calvin went with the chicken nugget option... again.

Then, when we first got to the beach, Cal, of course, played shy and didn't want to walk in the wet sand, nor did he want to walk in the water... and he most CERTAINLY did NOT want to play in the sand... but before we knew it, everybody was kicking up sand and having a grand old time.

We stayed for quite a while at the beach, but then before we went home, we decided to stop for some ice cream. good idea

Cal made a royal mess and kept us all laughing with his cone (which WAS a kiddy size, even though it looks absolutely huge!)

Cal also felt that he should eat the cone before the ice cream was gone... in case some of you don't know, this is not a very good idea! not to mention the fact that it was still wrapped in paper...

The whole way home, while Andrea and I chatted and laughed in the front seat, Cal and Gray chatted and laughed in the back seat... they really are two little conversationalists!

"Mom, I'm going to play at the neighbor's house!"

I anticipate this being yelled at me in the near future, in fact, this is one of those things that I, for one, thought about hearing, (and thought about when I used to yell it myself) even before we decided to have kids. Well, gratefully, we have been blessed with great neighbors at our new house, so I am happy to say that I can't wait to hear Cal yelling this from the back door at the top of his lungs!

Here are some pics of Cal playing with his new best friend, Grayson, from up the road.

And you want to know something cool... we think Grayson's parents are pretty great too! So that means we can actually have a conversation that consists of more than yes/no answers with another person of our own age bracket... YAY! (I know you parents out there can appreciate this!)