St. Patrick's Day

5 Month Old Luke

Luke at 4 Months Old

Luke is four months old and growing like a weed!

Luke's likes:

Loves tummy time and that has turned into knee and elbow time and driving mommy crazy rolling off the blanket onto the tile.

Loves hands (his own and others), he will stare at his hands turning them every direction and he will grab other hands as well and look and turn them also!

Sticking Out his tongue! He always has it sticking out...all the time!

His sister, Jillian, she can make him laugh by just looking at him!

His brother, Dallin, he watches everything Dallin does. Dallin get sad because he can't make Luke laugh like Jillie, but I tell him that Luke is too busy watching everything Dallin does so he can be just like him!

Eating, He weighed in at 18 lbs 12 oz and was 27 1/2 inches long at his 4 month check up! He will probably out grow his car seat by 5 months.

Daddy's thumb, he loves to sit with Daddy and chew on his thumb with his 2 first teeth! Yes, already!

Dislikes:

Car seat! :(

Missouri in January

In January Rich was working the Keys for two weeks and I didn't want to stay home by myself, so I checked to see what plane tickets would be! They turned out to be fantastic: $29 one way and $9.99 the way back, so we went to Missouri! The best things about being in Missouri is being with family and being on Papa's and Meme's farm. It is so relaxing! Since the weather got bad we only got to see grandparents this time. Meme's parent come over before the weather got bad and then we were able to visit Papa's the night the winter storm was coming. Of course they all wanted to see Luke and the kids, who cares about me! Luke was mesmerized by Granny's scarf. He really wanted to taste it. We got to spend a lot of time with my nieces, Abigale and Olivia because school was canceled. Jillian was Abigale's shadow and Dallin and Olivia played all kinds of games. Meme cooked good food and Papa let us feed the animals and do chores with him.

Thankfully the snow storm wasn't quite as bad as they were calling for. It actually turned out to be perfect. The first day it was just beautiful and then the second day it warmed up to play in and it was perfect for a snowman and sledding. And the best Meme's snow ice cream!

Dallin would not stop eating the snow. Even when he was going down the hill on the sled, he would grab a handful and eat it on the way down! Jillian was a little upset with everyone throwing snowballs until she realized it was fun to do it also. It was a perfect trip!

Leanne's 8th Birthday!

We celebrated Leanne's 8th Birthday on January 18th. She wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese and have a Chuck E Cheese cake. Which did make me sad, because I love to make the kids b-day cakes each year, but that's what she wanted!

She is growing up so fast. She is so smart and always knows what she wants. She makes friends so easily. When we were at Chuck E Cheeses she made a new friend and they took their picture together. She is hopefully going to get baptized this year now that she is old enough, but she is a little scared so it might not happen right away.

My wonderful new friend, Happy, took Leanne's yearly pictures for me. Happy did a great job and Leanne looks so beautiful.

Christmas 2009

I was really bad at taking pictures this Christmas (I know it's so terrible, especially when it was Luke's 1st). This was the first year our little family had no extended family to celebrate the holidays with and Leanne didn't get to come either, so it wasn't the best. I tried to tell myself it would be great with just our little family and even though I liked it...I would much rather have a big family around! The best thing was Nana coming down 4 days after Christmas to visit for a few days! We went to the park and just enjoyed having her with us...it was a little chilly for the beach! I dressed Luke warm one day and it reminded me of Randy from A Christmas Story when he couldn't put his arms down!

I just forgot the scarf!!