About a week ago, I walked from my moms house, to the 7-11 across the road. Caleb of course wanted to walk with me, so I let him. We were there to get some drinks to go along with dinner. We were standing in line when Caleb looks up to me and says, “Mommy is that Christmas?” I look at him and hes looking right up at me for an answer so I had no clue what he was talking about, but there are Christmas decorations everywhere, so I said, “yes!” Well we get up to the counter and the teller was an older man who did not know much English. (I think Indian…) He had white hair with a long white beard. I didn’t realize it right away, but Caleb looked at him and asked, “Your Christmas?” He just smiled since he didn’t understand… I laughed a little because now I understood that he was trying to ask me if the man was Santa. I paid for my things and grabbed Caleb’s hand. As we walked out the front door Caleb turns and waves to the man saying, “Bye Christmas!” I told everyone about it! It was the cutest thing! I’m noticing lately that he has no problem talking to strangers… In this store for instance, he had no problem confronting the old man.
Well, today we picked up our Christmas tree. We got to the lot of trees and a young guy came out to tell us how they were priced. When he was done, Caleb says to the guy, “What are you talking about? I don’t understand what you just say!” The guy laughed and said, “Well your parents understand…” Caleb wanted to continue talking to the guy, but we moved away… I guess it’s time to have the stranger talk!
Alec is starting to hold his head up more. He still wakes up 2-3 times a night and I am sleeping on his bedroom floor so that he can sleep in his crib. I would have him in our room, but Marcus is a light sleeper and wakes up with every sound he makes… I need to get an air mattress or something because my back is killing me. Maybe after Christmas I can pick something up. Speaking of which, I should be off to sleep here soon. Caleb wakes up every morning with the sun, and will NOT let me sleep in. “It’s wake up time,” he says… Sometimes it’s just too early for him to be cute!
