Baby's 1st Christmas

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room...

He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness,

And wonders of His love...

I'm a BIG 8 month old!

Calvin playing with Uncle Telly and Aunt Cristina.

Cal got to open up his very first Christmas present from his Aunt Cristina.

Cal's first Christmas Eve with the whole Blesi gang.

Calvin had a busy December! He turned eight months old, celebrated his first Christmas and New Years Eve, got to spend time with his Uncle Joe and Aunt Cristina, and travel to Washington to visit his Nana, Gramps, Aunt Lera, Uncle AJ, and Great, Great Aunt Anna and Great, Great Grandma a.ka. GramCracker. On top of all that, he learned to crawl!
More Christmas pictures to follow!

Merry Christmas!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Cal learning how to play football






True or False? Another one of Cal's favorite foods is green beans.

(video on bottom is the longer version)




Cal's lesson on walking...and opening up cabinets :)

Baby's 1st Christmas

After Thanksgiving some friends of ours took us to Missouri Botanical Gardens to see the Christmas decorations and take a family Christmas picture. It's really hard to get three people to look at the camera!

Later we went to Giancarlo's for lunch where a 91 year old Sicilian cooked for us.

Mimi took us to get a Christmas tree. Cal's first!

Cal loves the new toy in the living room!

Mornings are rough!

Thanksgiving spent with Papa Nino- boh!

Mostly, we just like to play!

Happy Thanksgiving

"Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for His has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."

-Isaiah 12:4-6

This Thanksgiving Cal and I are especially thankful for our beautiful and loving mom/bride. She takes the best care of us and I don't know what we'd do without her. She is such a wonderful mom and wife because she is so wise, patient, helpful, nurturing, affectionate, gracious, hard-working, passionate, sacrificial, etc...

I am also thankful for our close friends and family members, and our church family from CITC (oh how we miss you) and Kirk of the Hills.

Most of all though, we are thankful to the Lord God for reuniting us to Him through Jesus Christ's atoning death on the cross!

Fun at Home (even though we've all been sick)

Cal gets to spend the morning in mom and dad's bed since he's been sick

Cal living up to his namesake and getting his Theological "grub on"

Learning to stand up (and fall) without mom or dad's help

Every rising film-star has to learn by studying his own work

Cal's first crawl and other epic films...

Cal 1st attempt at Cheerios


1st crawl - well, sort of

evening exercises... and you thought you train hard

Prunes anyone?

Happy 7th Month Birthday Cal!

Cal showing off his new tooth!

All bundled up and ready to go to church!

Cal at work in his office

Daddy caught his jail bird

Caterpillars... Calvin's 1st Halloween

I love prunes!

Halloween: Trick, Treat or Retreat?

I came across a pretty cool (and long) blog post tonight while doing research on the history of Halloween. If you think you'll read the whole thing, you may want to cut and paste it into a word doc. as the writing is small and will most likely give you a headache or fry your eyeballs.

Also, on the topic of jack-o-lanterns, you'll be happy to know that Cal's first tooth broke through today! Pictures to follow...

"Show-Me" How You Jump!

Family, Food, Fellowship & Fun

King Kong Cal: part III

King Kong Cal visits the Missouri Botanical Gardens...

Dirty "Diaper" Dancing

Mac and Susan give Cal his first dancing lessons

Happy 6 Month Birthday Cal!

Morning Exercises

One of Cal's favorite time of day...

Feeding Frenzy

Right around the 38 second mark Cal makes a pretty funny face - it only lasts half of a second though.. poor fella, life is rough when you're just a lil' guy!

Cal training for the Missouri State Rodeo...

Nana Comes to Visit!

Cal Takes Nana to the Botanical Garden

I can hold my own bottle!

Bailey likes to take me on rides.

Cast Your Vote for Cal!

For those of you who know us well, you know we hate to get political. But this is really important: Calvin is running for the office of the Cutest Baby in St. Louis. Please cast your vote at
http://www.thebullrocks.com/pages/babyidol_vote.html?feed=303227&article=4348643. Click "Vote" which is below A-D.
So far, he's got two votes out of 1537. They are both from his parents. He needs your help.

Autumn in St. Louis

The Moores go to the "Best of Missouri" annual farmer's market

at the Botanical Gardens

Catherine, thank you for my cute bunny outfit!

Naptime is rough!

Farmer Bob, thanks for letting Cal play

with a chick while he goes apple picking!

Mimi reads Beatrix Potter to Cal

B is for Baby!

Happy 5 Month Birthday Cal!

Cal celebrates Mimi & Mackie's birthdays at Mount Pleasant Winery...

Cal's First Labor Day Weekend!

Cal finally gets to meet Aunt Anna.

Thank you for my new outfit and doggie Nana, Gigi and Aunt Anna!

Cal sits up for the first time!

Day on Lake Coeur d'Alene...

Sunbathing with Dad at Loon Lake...