Caleb and Momma Time

Because of the way this summer has gone, I haven't had nearly as much one-on-one quality time with Caleb as I had hoped. It's just not that exciting for him to be at the hospital all day, but I have needed to be.

We have been able to do a few fun things though. We snuck away a few weeks ago to the Science Center for a few hours, and he had a great time!

building moon cars...

...trying to feed the baby bird like he's the momma bird...

...simulating an earthquake..

...creating a cool track...

...pretending to be a ship's captain...

...admiring turtles, because they are his teacher's favorite animal...

...pretending to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

...playing on the underwater simulator and chasing down a sea turtle for his teacher...

I was also able to take him to Port Discovery again last week...but I purposely didn't bring a camera so that I could have even more quality time. :)

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Mary Lou said…

Julie....
I am so very glad that you were able to give Caleb some much-deserved quality Momma-son time!! ;-D
--Raelyn

July 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM

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