Christmas 2011

Luke's 1st Christmas was a success!

You wouldn't now it from his Santa visit,

Yes, I took a picture of this picture because I was cheap and didn't spring for the digital copy.

or when he opened his presents,

but I think he enjoyed all of the festivities as much as a (almost) 9 month old can.

I was excited about it, though. So excited, I made stockings for all 3 of us.

Even thought we had absolutely no use for them this year, they still looked pretty. And it was a fun project for me :)

We celebrated with my parents the week before Christmas, since we were heading to Alice for the big day this year.

We opened presents and then had a lunch of beef tenderloin with rhubarb chutney for dinner. It was delicious. I love this meal my mom cooks.

Trey and I fresh off our 24 child free hours!

Luke loved his high chair that my mom saved from when I was a baby. My grandfather finished it, so it's cherished :)

Luke loved his activity table the first (and second) time he opened it.

He also enjoyed his new bath toys from Uncle John. Excuse the blue bow, we were trying to be funny.

At the end of the day, Luke was worn out from the festivities.

A couple of days before Christmas, we headed down to Alice at bedtime like we did before Thanksgiving. It was pretty successful and we made it with no issue.

During the days we played with Luke, chatted with the family, gave Radar some attention, and then played with Luke some more.

Sharing a laugh with Grandpa

Eating cheerios with Grandma (and Radar)

We even got artsy during playtime.

Trapping Luke so he couldn't wander off

This boy has hair!

He showed off all his cool tricks which I'll put in a separate blog post, but it's becoming impressive to see all he can do, or maybe it's just the normal development of a baby, but whatever it is, he's a genius at it!

Christmas morning was a little overwhelming for him. He mostly liked to wave the tissue paper in the air.

He got a pair of shoes from Santa. Kind of lame, Santa. I've already told him to be more 'fun' next year.

See, he loved them so much, he immediately threw them.

Luke got a great 3-in-1 sports activity center, plastic keys, and a rubber duckie from Grandpa and Grandma J. My parents and Lauren & Jason both gave him this fun activity table. He loves it, nonetheless.

After his morning nap, he was a little more ready to enjoy his fun new toys.

Trey's mom and dad barbequed a brisket and made the normal fixin's- potato salad, spanish rice, and beans. The best part was the dump cake for dessert. It was great, and I helped myself a few times to that one.

The rest of our visit was fun and pretty lowkey. There's just not much you can do with a 9 month old.

Overall Christmas was excellent. I'm excited to next year's because it will not resemble this one in any way. Except for sharing the holiday with family. Luke will not resemble himself in any way. He'll be running around like a madman!!

First Christmas, success!

Random Pics

Who me? Crafty?

Yep, that's right!

So the baby boom continues, and it seems I have more friends that are pregnant right now than not. It's very exciting, but expensive times ;)

I decided to try to be crafty and sew some fun prints with ribbon borders on burp cloths for baby gifts. I received some of these from different people, and I LOVE them. Gerber makes the best plain white burp cloths, but they're a little flimsy, so when you add the fabric, they're perfect.

Here's my first go-around. These are for Katie Taglione Mallette and her baby girl, Madison.

I thought the pink and green were pretty together.

Close up of the 'packaging' I created.

It's fun to do, and I'm excited to do it for more people!

8 months

Lukie's 8th months old!

 

I feel like we're on the downward slope to his 1st birthday which is somewhat hard to believe. 

Luke's been very busy this past month, and by that I mean, he's busy moving all over the place.

• Now he's a fast army crawler. He pretty much goes wherever he wants to know. Usually if he's taking off, it's to chase KC.
• He can easily go from laying down to sitting up now. 
• We often find him sitting up in his crib waiting for us to get him up.
• I bought him a 'wearable blanket' because he gets out of his blanket we wrap around him swaddle-style.
• He's fully in 9 month clothes now. The six month one are finally too short.
• He wears size 3 diapers when he's in disposable, but he wears cloth most of the time.
• He can say the sounds ba, da, and ma.
• He's working on pulling up. He kind of tries, and he can get on to his knees sometimes.
• He's eating three meals of solids a day. I've made some chicken recipes for him that he loves which makes me happy. He likes most of what we put in front of him.
• He still sleeps really well. We're down to two naps a day, usually about 9ish and then again around 1. He goes to bed about 6:15 and will sleep until about 5 or so, get up for a feed and then go back to sleep for an hour or so. I don't mind that schedule too much.
• Luke loves being around other people. He talks to them and laughs.
• He know screams at the top of his lungs all of the time. He's quite vocal on a regular basis. I think he'll be a talker.
• Luke is still a very content baby. He doesn't give us much trouble at all. We're really lucky that he has such a nice personality.

We love him very much, and we're so happy to have him here!