long time no write. we heard caleb laugh for the first time last night. it was so cute!! he's been getting better...but now that i wrote that, i'm in for trouble! last night he slept at around 9:00, woke up at 1:00...then we had to wake him up at 7:00 so I could drive dave to school. what i realized when i got up before 6:00, though, is that i had the volume to the monitor turned down super low, so i wonder if he got up between then and i didn't hear it...poor baby might have been crying and i never even knew!

thursday we take him for his first plane ride to maui...that should be interesting. i pray that we are not the couple with the irritating crying baby. a suggestion was to use our carrier to hold him during take off and landing...and i thought it was an excellent suggestion...but i tried to put him in it again and he gave a loud shriek and wasn't having the constricting material around him. i'll try again tomorrow, but i doubt it'll work...such a tempermental little guy.

his naps have been getting a little bit better...usually at least half an hour to 45 minutes...sometimes an hour and that's wonderful.

he's a drooly boy...my shoulder is soaked if he is in a gnawing mood. dunno if it has anything to do with teething cuz i can't feel anything there yet, but i did get my first teeth at 4 months so he might be like me. then again, dave was also a big drooler when he was little...funny how now he gets all grossed out when caleb drools all over him.

went to target several times and i'm so sad when i look at the clothes for kids...the girl clothes are so cute and the boy clothes are so blah. i wonder how i'd be if i had a girl...if i would be the mom dressing my baby up all cute or not. caleb's lucky cuz he gets a lot of cute hand-me-downs...actually, we're lucky cuz we don't have to really buy him any clothes...the only clothes i can remember buying him is a pair of jeans for our trip...all the rest was gifts or hand-me-downs!

in exactly 4 weeks from yesterday i'll be back at school...yikes! i still gotta figure out exactly what i'm doing and how i'm going to do it so that i don't have mountains of work to correct each weekend...gotta plan smarter now cuz my time to look at student work is going to be slim to none.

i really hope caleb doesn't forget me when i go back to work...i love that he knows me now...and will smile, coo, and snuggle into me. i'm going to miss him so much but i'm sure my kids will keep me very busy during the school day so hopefully i won't have time to be too sad and worried.