Happy Halloween!

This is Luke's First Halloween, and although he's not going to be trick-or-treating we still wanted to do something to celebrate. We would have let him carve the pumpkin, but he still doesn't quite have a good handle on how to use those hands.
We did let him take a good look at those pumpkin guts, and we tried to get him to decide what kind of face the pumpkin should have.


This is a picture of Luke right up next to the pumpkin in the dark. I know it's hard to tell but if you look closely you can see his hands and face.

Three months old already!

I can't believe that he's 3 months old already! (well technically not until tomorrow) Our little boy is growing up, he's already gotten to do and see so many things, it's just to bad he was asleep for most of them. In September we drove up to Minnesota so that he could meet his whole family! It was a 19 hour drive and we stayed there for more then three weeks, it was a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of Luke just a few days before he turns 3 months old.


He's started to know that he has hands, but he's still not very good with them. He will look at them a lot, and he will grab my fingers if I hold them where he can reach and then look at my hands. The only thing I wish he would get the hang of is toys, so that I don't have to think up new games to keep him from getting bored.



He hasn't laughed yet, but he does smile often! The trick is trying to catch the smiles on camera. Once you pick the camera up and hold it in front of him he gets distracted from what he was smiling at and is curious about the camera... This picture I just happened to snap in the right place at the right time.


He is the best baby!
We are trying to teach him to sit up, but he's not very good at balancing yet.
As for Josh and I, we are doing really well. About 2 weeks ago Josh started his training, he will have a few months of academics and then he will actually start flying. By the beginning of next year he will have his wings. Luke and I spend our days talking, taking pictures, napping and playing games. I feel really blessed to be able to have this time with him. And I promise that I will get better about this blogging thing. I have so many pictures and we have done so many things, I'm not in need of topics yet!