Sooo cute!

Derek loves his little brother :) He is so sweet and gentle with Caleb, when Caleb cry's at night, if Derek wakes up he pats Caleb on the head and say's "Hi Baby, hi baby.." in a sweet little high pitched voice, with a big sleepy smile :)

What nice big eyes!

I know Derek already posted this picture, but it is worth a second round :)

Caleb Jeremy Pearson

He has arrived!! Born at 3:18 am on Wednesday the 25th of October. He was 8lbs 14oz and 20.5inches long. Baby Caleb was born underwater in a tub in front of the fireplace, it was just lovely :) Big brother Derek woke up at the sound of Caleb's cry and was wide eyed and happy to meet his little brother, very sweet!

Sorry it has taken so long to get a photo posted, for some reason blogger wouldn't let me post pictures, so hopefully it will cooperate from now on, we have lots of good pictures, Uncle Derek and Auntie Sara came to visit wednesday evening :) Make sure you check Derek and Sara's blog!

Happy Little D

This lovely innocent looking guy just happened, after about a month of safe photo shoots ;), to break our camera, in about 30 seconds. It sounds like it turns on but immediately goes black, so if any one knows a place that repairs digital cameras let us know!
In the mean time this is terrible timing as we are expecting our new baby any day now and are not sure if our fantastic professional photographer brother will be available to come take pictures of the baby right away! So we bought a new camera today, only to find that it requires Quick Time to play the movies (not a big deal, just a pain) and doesn't use the same memory cards as we have. Seeing how we recently invested in a rather large memory card we will have to see if there is another camera we can get that uses ours. Sheesh, what a pain!

Having a ball this Fall...

What a beautiful Fall we are having! Derek, Mimi (Grama Gayle) and I have been able to spend lots of time outside, although I have to say that only Mimi has had the energy to properly play ball with Derek :) He has become quite good at dribbling the ball both down the hill and back up!

I was so impressed with his ability to keep up with the ball as it rolled down the hill, and help it with a few well placed kicks that I got a video too!
For those of you who don't know, this part of the yard is quite a long, and in places, steep hill.

Talking on the phone :)

This is Derek just after his first birthday, already happy to talk on the phone. He still thoroughly enjoys it and has become quite good at chatting as his Nana, Grampa, Uncle Jeremy, and now Auntie Hilary know. When the phone rings his first guess is "Dada?", and he tries to answer it ("Hi, Hi..") when he beats me to the receiver. He knows what button to press to answer and hang up but hasn't quite figured out when to press it yet (thank goodness!)
It is just amazing to hear his vocabulary growing every day! Some of my current favorites are the ones he can't quite pronounce just right, like "Guck" (duck) and "Munna" (banana) but in general he speaks quite clearly :)

Shopping

Derek home from shopping! He looks about as tired as I felt too, it must have been nap time ;)
This was the day he got cookie cutters to use with his play dough, along with many exclamations over his cute jacket and booties :)

Canadian Thanksgiving

This is last year, when Derek's Canadian Grandparents came over and we went to Point Defiance Zoo. Derek was new to walking so it was quite an adventure. This is when he discovered that it was more fun to hold onto the basket part of his stroller and push than to walk by himself or ride!

Here is our little cutie well stuffed with turkey and everything else he could grab :)

When Derek was born....

I don't mean to confuse anyone, the new baby has not arrived!
I have just been enjoying Derek's birthday pictures, taken by his Uncle Derek (many thanks!). They are so beautiful I had to share them :)

What a sleepy boy! He was no more than 0-3 hours old in these photo's.

More Birthday and Play Dough!

Here is Derek thanking Auntie Hilary for the great book and play dough, she got several hugs, a few kisses, and some high fives and tens!


Play dough is fun! Derek likes to mush it, and have us roll it into balls that he can smash :)
We made him a truck, a dog, and a few snakes. Today he got some cookie cutters, so now he can make a bus, helicopter, bike, lion and elephant, although his favorite thing to do is drive them through the dough :)


Dad and Derek made a smiling face, and then Derek added his own ;)