16 months!

It hardly seems fair that Luke is 16 months already. He is not wasting any time growing up! He is really starting to lose his babyness. Makes me want to cry! He got his hair cut again yesterday and I didn't realize how thick and long his hair had gotten. Now its gone! She spiked his hair after cutting yesterday and put some red temporary dye. It washed out last night in the shower but it was so cute. I want to get some blue dye to put in. How cute would that be!

Well we have finally hit the point in Luke's short life where going out to do anything is no longer fun! Going out to dinner with him is out of the question. He is a busy little boy! He will sit in the high chair for about 5 minutes before wanting to get out. He needs to be running around exploring not stuck in a high chair. We met our neighbors and some of their friends at Fiesta Island for a bonfire. Luke was not fun! He wanted to go into the water or follow around an older boy who was playing with the wood pile which had nails and dangerous pieces of wood in it. The older boy was about 10 so it was fine for him to be doing whatever it was he was doing (hammering nails into the wood I think) but not for Luke. Well that didn't go over well at all! We finally decided Luke could have his bottle if he sat with one of us. Well he wanted his bottle but nothing to do with us. He ended up screaming. Jason took him for a drive around the island twice but he didn't fall asleep. They did stop and get out to watch the fireworks from Seaworld for a few. We had fun but not nearly as much as we would have if Luke would have been better! He just thinks he is much bigger than he is.

Even though he is not a ton of fun to be out and about with I can hardly get enough of him right now. He is so cute! This age is challenging because he really tries to communicate with us but we don't know much of what he is saying so he gets upset, but this age is so much fun! I love the new things he does every day. I love the way he is always trying to make people laugh. What a personality this kid has. He was trying to make an old lady at Vons laugh the other day. He did the job! Sometimes if his cute little "tricks" don't make people laugh he will just start laughing and that usually gets them. He also has 2 laughs. One that is this very deep loud laugh that if he is standing up he usually hunches over because he is laughing so hard. The other laugh is totally 100% fake. He does this when he wants others to laugh or look at him. It sounds a lot like a goat!

Luke really has been into daddy a lot too! On my days off by the end of the afternoon he is usually asking for dada. So cute yesterday he kept saying dada here dada here. I said no not yet dada will be home soon. He runs and give Jason the biggest hugs when he gets home. Now I'm not saying he is not a mama's boy still because my uncle brought his new baby (almost 3 months old) to California this week and while I was holding Avery Luke got very upset. He climbed into my lap wanting me to hold him instead. Makes me very happy we decided to hold off having another baby and did not rush into it like we originally planned.