First ride on a real swing!

What can I say... it was a little chilly but he loved it!

Cleaning out the cell phones

Here are some pictures that have been taken the past month or so. Like I say, whenever you need the camera it's never near by, thank goodness for camera phones or we wouldn't have these priceless pictures... even if they are a little blurry.
Luke used to go to sleep quite easily...
This is the perfect example of having a camera at the right time... he's not scared in this picture, I believe he was about to yell something at me and I snapped the picture right at the right time to get this face.
If you look closely you can see his sticking his tongue out. He doesn't do it as much anymore, but I believe that it is a part of the whole teething process... No teeth yet.
This is one of the only pictures I have of Luke's Halloween costume. There is a bear hat to go with, and as you can see there is bear tail on the baby butt! It was a really warm costume for him to wear.
And just a few more we missed from Halloween. If only he really understood what was happening around him, he's missing some of the best holidays!
Alright, so I haven't been taking very many new pictures lately, but let me tell you, this kid has learned a few new tricks... So I know the picture is a little blurry and that's because the camera is never around when you need it so most of our new pictures are taken on either mine or Josh's cells phone. Either way, this face is priceless. Luke loves to stand! Although he can't balence, if you hold his hands and give him a little support he'll pull himself to the standing position... and he could stand all day if I would let him!
Something else I never expected was how much this kid would love his baths... These pictures are about a month old.

He loves the tub. He cries and cries when he has to get out and gets all cold. He hasn't learned to splash yet, for which I am thankful.

I almost forgot...

I almost forgot my favorite face of all... The lip!

Making faces at mom

Since Luke and I are home most the day together we spend the majority of our time... when not sleeping... just sitting making faces at each other. I have done my best to try and catch some of them, it's a pity that you always seem to miss the best ones. Luke is learning to sit, and I would say he's doing a good job. He can't sit on his own but he definitely wants to, which I think is a good place to start on the road to success!
This kid is constantly sticking his tongue out at Josh and I. It all started around the time he began drooling none stop, so I wonder if it has anything to do with teething...
Along with drooling all the time, he also sleeps less, which to me is a sign that we will be seeing teeth sooner then we thought!
I don't think that Daddy and I could ever stop loving this little one, he is perfect in every way to us!

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!