This is a cute one of Ella, but Caleb shows a bit of his little personality, too. He's always joking and teasing a bit. Tonight I was swinging the kids on our swing set (it's a bit old but they love it...good enough for residency :) and I started tickling them as they would swing up to me and away. That's when Caleb started saying, "Daddy, you are a Jarker!" I couldn't quite figure what he meant. At first I thought he was calling me a jerk, and I got a bit worried that I'd actually taught him that word. And then I realized (and he confirmed) that he was saying "Joker." Phew! The kid has a great vocabulary which is nice because he's the one teaching Ella how to talk, it seems. She copies pretty much everything he does now. It's really cute. They're going to be awesome big siblings. :) Also on the swing, I asked Caleb what he thought about having a new baby join our family. He proceeded to tell me, "I'm gonna hold it. I'm gonna feed it." Sweet big brother in the making. :)
Ella pretty much loves anything messy. This last Saturday we started refilling our garden boxes with compost to attempt to get a decent garden this year. She was out there the majority of the time scooping up dirt with her little shovel and spreading it pretty much everywhere but inside the box. Just before I recorded this, she was laying in the dirt. Oh well, she loves helping. You kind of gotta encourage that. :) We love our little girl.
