Hurricane Ike

We had a nice leisurely weekend since we were expecting bad weather from Ike. It wasn't too bad, though we did get some wind and rain. We watched some Mickey Mouse with our dinosaur friend then played some indoor baseball. I'm sure I'll regret allowing that habit, but he does love playing baseball, and it was raining. Last night was our lifegroup meeting. Some of the teenagers keep the little ones while we meet. They said Caleb played with their new puppy all night. I hope he doesn't start asking for a puppy now. Today we took Caleb to the park, we haven't been able to take him often since it's been so hot. He was all over the place; up and down the slides, swinging with daddy, even just hanging around. I finally told him just one more time on the slide and then we need to go home; three times later Caleb is still running around to the slide before we could catch him yelling "one more time."

Caleb showed daddy a few bad tricks on the slide.

Tonight Caleb was wrestling with daddy, and he apparently didn't appreciate one of daddy's moves because he stood saying "no Greg, no." Caleb will do that occasionally, call us by our first names. I corrected him one time saying "you need to call me mommy", we went back and forth on that one. He now corrects Greg when Greg calls me Kaylynn; "no daddy, that's mommy". If you haven't noticed there seems to be a pattern of negativity lately. I suppose it's just another phase we're going through. We just had Caleb's 2y well child, and our Pediatrician said this is a fun but challenging time, and we should pick our battles. I understand that completely.