The Littlest Pevehouse

I feel like every time I sit down to write, I start to begin with, "It's been a while...".  I seriously have to get better at this.


After reading my more recent posts I started feeling bad about the lack of blogging devoted to Caleb.  Even though this blog did begin as a way for me to write about all the stuff going on with Joshua, I don't want it to seem like Caleb gets pushed to the side.  We really try and give both boys equal amounts of attention.  So, I've also thought about writing some bios on each of us and this has led me to today's post which will be all about the littlest Pevehouse.


Caleb Brant was born May 25, 2010.  He had a head full of hair and looked like he might belong to some other (more ethnic) family.

First, let me go back a little farther to when we picked his name.  I have a huge thing with the meanings of names.  If I find something I like, but it has a weird meaning or no actual meaning, then I have to keep looking.  I always liked the idea of doing Joshua and Caleb, but most of the meanings you find for Caleb say 'dog' or even 'rage like a dog'.  Needless to say I wasn't thrilled.  I found a couple that said something along the lines of loyal but mostly they revolved around other dog-like qualities including tenaciousness, which to my momma's mind translated to stubbornness. Not exactly what I had in mind.  Besides, he would get plenty of that from genetics alone.  We looked at lots of names but Bobby kept bringing me back to Caleb so finally I agreed we would just go with the name representing who Caleb was in the Bible.  Not to mention at the time we still lived on "The Promised Land" so that was hard to pass up.  Then one day my mother-in-law reminded me of how the Bible says that Caleb had "a different spirit", and she believed God was saying that's what our Caleb was going to usher in to this season of our lives.  That was plenty of confirmation for me.

 {photos by Lacy Hampton Photography}

The word about the 'different spirit' has never left me, but it's just been recently that I've realized what it's been all about.  Caleb has added so much joy to our lives.  He is our constant source of comic relief and I have a feeling he will always have that spot in our little family.  In the moments when the road with Joshua has seemed overwhelming, and dark, Caleb has remained the little ball of life and light that keeps us smiling.  None of this is said to diminish the joy Joshua also brings, because for all of our grief over him, he is an extremely happy child and is always reminding me that he isn't having as hard of a time as we are.  But Caleb has offered us the joy of seeing our child develop the way typical children do, the opportunity to delight in milestones we still haven't reached with Joshua.  At first, this was actually very bittersweet.  Almost more sad, than happy.  But eventually we came to a place where we weren't going to let our hurt over one child, stifle the excitement over the other.  Caleb has brought us a glimpse of that light at the end of the tunnel and I can't imagine this stage without him.

He is the busiest of toddlers.  He never stops moving, and he never stops grabbing.  He climbs, and pulls, and squirms and runs as fast as his little turned in feet will allow him to (he's still wearing the braces at night). He talks and talks and talks, although most of it is in a language only he speaks.  He is easily amused and just as easily irritated.  He is independent and particular and doesn't need your help with anything (or so he thinks).  He loves baths, music, and letting Joshua bounce him all over the trampoline.  After almost 20 months of life, he still fights having his diaper changed or putting on clothes, probably because he has to be still longer than he likes.  He laughs and laughs and laughs and makes us laugh even more.  Joshua's baby nick name was Pork Chop and if we're a family of pig names, then Caleb is definitely the Ham.  He's already a ladies man and accomplished flirt and I pray for what this means for us later on in life.

I love our little Caleb boy more than words can express, and I am so thankful that God blessed us with him when He did.  He was our extra dose of joy right when we needed it.

Numbers 14:24

But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.  

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