Nothing but Pictures!

All of Luke's Christmas loot (yes there is a lot!)

Happy kids Christmas morning

In his jeep when he realizes the basketball hoop

What is this?

Oh my gosh its a Jeep!

Luke loves himself some Elmo and Zoe

A Sunday afternoon at Seaworld

Me & Luke in Old Town

Lukes loves chicken taco soup

Our little puppy. He loves this costume

We were shocked at how much he loved these two!

Hello again

So it looks like its been over a month since i've last posted! What the heck have we been doing? Well Jason and I have been enjoying every minute with our little guy. He is so much fun. He is really starting to talk a lot. His favorite words right now are baby (every time we see a carseat with a baby at the store he freaks out screaming baby baby baby), candy (not sure exactly how he learned this one because he RARELY gets candy and if he does I call it a treat), and his favorite phrase is Hi Sissy. Yes he seems to be a little behind in talking but he really has picked up the last couple weeks. He repeats every thing we say. Today he was shouting Football football as he and Jason were watching football. So cute. He has a new game too, hiding in the kitchen cabinet. He thinks its a nice quiet dark place to take a poop. I opened the door yesterday and I could tell he was pooping and he freaked out yelling get get until I closed the door again.

This weekend Jason went to Arizona for some baseball meetings and Luke and I had a great time just the two of us. We even went to the local frozen yogurt shop and got a yogurt to bring home and share while we watched The Chipmunk movie. I'm a little sick of that movie. Luke has no interest in any other movies, not even Cars, but he always is up for The Chipmunks. I need to get The Squekel to see if he likes that one because I am getting super sick of the original.

Good news, Jason passed his final CPA test! He also passed his Ethics exam so its now just waiting for all the paper work to go through and he will have his license! So excited that all the studying and taking exams are over. Now we are gearing up for tax and baseball season. Not really looking forward to all that! Luckily I have 2 baby showers that I'm helping throw for friends so that along with Luke should keep me pretty busy!

Can't believe we are in the home stretch before Luke's second birthday. Is it possible that this second year went even faster than the first? Well I'm super excited because I have picked a theme for the party, The Cat & The Hat! Super cute decorations out there that I can make myself! I'm trying to get a head start on all this stuff so I am not having to do it all in April when Jason doesn't exsist in this house!

Merry Christmas!

Well Christmas is right around the corner. This time of year is crazy. Luke is loving all the lights. On nice nights we go walking around our neighborhood to look at the lights. We have made it to a place in Santee called Starlight Circle twice so far this year. It is really the cutest neighborhood. They sell hot chocolate, hot apple cider, kettle corn, and other snacks that you can get while you walk around looking at all the awesome lights and decorations!

We are in the middle of the worst "teething" we have had. Seriously these teeth are worse than the molars. He has been moody/cranky for weeks. Finally one of them has poked through and the second is just about there, then we will have to do it all over again when the bottom ones come through. I'm ready for teething to be over!!

Luke is growing into such a BIG boy! I can hardly believe it. He listens to instructions very well now and can do something if you ask him(like going to give something to daddy in another room, or put something away in his room or my room). He also answers correctly now. Before he would shake his head NO to everything. Now you ask him if he wants to eat and he says yeah or no and actually means it. So much easier knowing what they want. If we are in another room and he wants something he grabs our hand and takes us to what he wants.
We went to see Santa last week. I was nervous because when I picked him up from daycare he was very very grumpy. My mom came over before we left and said oh you shouldn't do that today he is not happy, but it was seriously the only day we could do it. So we met Jay there and when we get to Santa there are two kids screaming in his lap and we look at each other like oh no. Well Luke catches a glimpse of him and starts waving and trying to get down from Jay's arms. Once the other kids get up he runs up to Santa and says hi! So darn cute! He took several photos with him and then sat on his lap until I looked through all the ones and paid for them. He loved it! Last week our friend had him and took him to the mall and he was very excited to see him again as they walked by. He is definitely not afraid, although considering his grandpa has a full beard and he is not afraid of him at even though he doesn't see him much, I'm not surprised he is not afraid of Santa.

Just one of the guys

My son thinks he is one of the big guys. Today at a birthday party where he had never met any of the men before he just kept climbing in their lap and demanding they play with him. Its funny and cute but can be a little embarrasing. Epecially when he tries to pull their kid out of their lap to sit.

We went to Seaworld with Ashley and Boston on Thursday and I think I may have given the kid too much freedom because he kept running off. He really could care less about the animals right now, well that is except for the birds that are flying all over the place at seaworld. He loves birds. He must love them just to upset me. I hate birds!

Jason takes his final CPA test on Sunday. I can't wait for it to be over. He has really been studying so I am sure he will do good. He still would have an open book take home ethics test (does anyone else find that funny?) but that should be easy.

I am so ready for Christmas!! I can't wait. Thanksgiving day is usually when we decorate for Christmas so only a few more days. I have already been listening to Christmas music to get in the mood! We have lots of Christmas activities coming up.

Post Halloween and Vegas

So we survived Halloween...barely. We have an awesome group of friends and they all really know how to have fun. Friday night we had a pumkin carving party at Luke & Alyssa's. Luke got to play with his good friends Aurora, Boston, & Brayden. These kids are starting to actually play together and not just next to each other doing their own thing. Its so much fun to watch! Luke was really a big time partier that night and stayed up until we got in the car at 11pm!

The next night was the annual Halloween party at Ryan & Loralyn's. Wow did we have fun. We left at 12pm and only because my child was the only one still awake and I felt like a bad mom!

Sunday we had a little block party/pot luck and then took the kids trick or treating. It took Luke all of about 2 houses to get the hang of it. He kept trying to walk into people's houses. He loved the decorations and all the little dogs that were hanging out in driveways helping their owners pass out candy.

Friday we are leaving for Vegas. Totally bummed and excited all at the same time. I just dont want to leave Luke. If only he could come with us it would be the best trip!! Ryan and Loralyn are coming with us and that is going to be a lot of fun!

I will put up halloween pics later.

Pooping in the potty!

Well our doctor told us to try Luke on the potty at 18 months. Since his 18 month birthday is just a few days away I bought a little potty chair for him. I really wanted to just get one that goes on the seat but he is afraid of the toilet so I just got the seat. Luke loves it. Thinks its very cool. We just got it yesterday and so not really ready to completely potty train but I noticed he is more aware of when he pees recently so I decided to let him run around naked (his favorite thing to do) and just "watch" him closely. Well I am the biggest dork because there he was naked on his seat looking so cute so I went to grab my camera and when I got it I noticed the battery was dead so I went to get the charger and set it up and the next thing I know I hear something in my room and walk in to find him standing in next to my bed peeing! After breakfast I tried again and this time I caught him in time and put him on the potty and he peed! We made a huge deal out of it and gave him a treat for peeing in there! We had a really busy day but when we got home that evening he had a full 8 oz of milk and I thought perfect we will try it again. Sure enough within 10 minutes I noticed a little drop of pee coming out and I put him on his seat he finished peeing and went poop! I could hardly believe. I was freaking out telling him how awesome he was and I was proud of him and clapping and he looked at me like I was crazy! Don't think we are going to go full force with the potty training right now. He is still very young and doesn't quite get it yet but this is a big step in the right direction. I was afraid he was going to be one of those kids who is 3 and not potty trained yet. With Jay & I going on vacation soon and then the holidays after that we will probably wait until after the first of the year to really go for it unless of course he decides he wants to.

On a side note he is starting to talk a lot now. His new sentence is I can see it or I see it which means he wants to see something. Took me a couple of days to figure out what he was talking about because he kept saying I can see it and I had no clue what the heck he was seeing but it all made sense yesterday when we were at a friends house and they had a fish on the dresser and I had picked him up to show him and then later he said mom I can see it and raised his arms so I would pick him up and show him. It also sounds like he says I can't do it a lot but we are not really sure. He said cheese yesterday but I missed it. Seems like every day he gets a new word.

When he drinks his milk at night I let him watch a show on Nick Jr. Usually its Yo Gabba Gabba since that is his favorite and if I say Yo Gabba Gabba is on he runs to his chair or the couch waiting for me to turn it on. On Nick Jr. the shows are only about 20 minutes or so and then after they have a cartoon moose come on an do puzzles and songs and stuff. He loves Moose. Last night I was washing dishes while he was drinking him milk watching tv. I look over at him and he is bouncing in his chair. Then I hear Moose on tv said step 2 is clapping and Luke starts to clap. Step 3 is turn around so Luke gets up and spins and then the do all the steps over again and he does them. Seriously when did he get so big! He is getting much better at listening to directions and if he does go in time out he actually stays put until we tell him.

Well we are off to a busy weekend. Saturday: I work, we have 3 birthday parties stacked up after that. Sunday: Bates Nut Farm for Pumpkin Patch (which is about an hour away from us) and then a birthday party at 5. Seriously between the 4 Bday parties this weekend and then we have a birthday dinner for my BFF Loralyn on Tuesday then her actual party on Friday we are just on this birthday party train which continues from last month where we had 4!

Pictures

I just realized I haven't put any new pictures up in a long time. I have nothing special to share just a few random pics since September

Eating an ice cream cone backwards

Just love this face!

He has sunscreen all over his face but he doesn't care

This was after my bunco night. He passed out in our bed and was so cute as I was trying to put his jammies on.

Passed out with the bottle

Drinking some milk laying on the floor. He is very silly!

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having Boston spend the day with us. Luke had so much fun! For some reason he does this a lot in photos

The boys playing swords

See he is doing it again.

What little cuties!

Showing off his head injury. He was skateboarding with our neighbor Ben. Well Luke thought he could skateboard himself and this is what happened.