I've been terribly remiss in my blogging duties of late...and this post isn't really changing that. However, here are a couple cute videos for your viewing pleasure until I can get a real post up!
His new habit whenever he gets excited is to huff and puff and just about hyperventilate. Until, of course, he huffy-puffs his way into a yawn. :)
And here he is eating some of the squash Grandma Vickie grew in Illinois. I'm loathe to share it with him, it's so good...but how can you say no when he clearly loves it so much? He's getting so much better at not pushing everything out with his tongue, too! He's now eaten sweet potatoes, bananas, oatmeal, rice cereal, peas, carrots, avocado, pumpkin, apples, pears, oatmeal, yogurt, blueberries, and beets, along with bites of my potato soup, tortilla soup, chicken Parmesan soup, and guacamole...and I can honestly say the only things he clearly did not like were plain pumpkin and guacamole.
And here's a pic if him at the doctor'a office last week for his six-month check up. He weighs 21 lbs. 2 oz.!
Not enough going on around here for a real post this week. Basically, I've just been working and working and working. You notice there's no sleeping in there. Yeah, that's a trend lately.
Here's a video of Lukie squealing to himself. The kid is so vocal...he just does this all day. And evening. Like last night. At a community daycare meeting where Lukie decided to squeal just about every time the owner tried to talk.
Not his fault, though. Miss Catie was egging him on. :)
We made it! Lukie turned six months old on the 3rd, but because we had just finished traveling, we decided to wait until Tuesday the 7th to celebrate. We had spaghetti and coconut pie, and took our pictures!
I can't believe this kid is already half a year old. He's so much more fun, now, too. He babbles and giggles, he kicks and screams, and absolutely loves anything to do with being moved through the air; he loves to be tossed and swung and spun around.
Happy Six-Month Birthday, Little Lukie! We love you!
Here is the pie picture this month:
It's not a great picture of Pete or or me, but we're not the stars of the show, really. (Oh, and we switched out the quilts.)
And here are his chair pictures. I can't believe how much he's grown up!
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Six!!!
I wish now that I had used a tripod and marked my spots so I could get the angles the exact same way every time... but still, I'm so glad I started taking these early. This kid is almost unrecognizable from his first few photos!
An outtake that's too cute not to use:
And finally, the thing I promised a week or so ago when I updated...
We recreated one of Pete's childhood photos when we were home. Lukas is in the same outfit, in the same chair, on the same tile floor...and with much the same expression. It's true, they look alike...but to all of you who say he's a carbon copy, I submit this in evidence that he looks a LITTLE like me. I'm busy trying to figure out how to copy one of my childhood photos, as well. That'll be a great blog post, if I can do it.
I'm so far behind, but I'll try over the next few days to catch up on what Lukie and we have been doing over the past few weeks. It's been a busy few weeks of Christmases, sniffles, and travel.
Christmas Day was...nice. It's been harder than usual this year to continue having big holidays where we would usually be with our families, and have to spend them in Tennessee. We have great friends who come over to celebrate with us, and we're so lucky to have them...but it's just not the same as being able to spend time with our families.
That said, we had a nice Christmas morning. And by morning, I mean MORNING. Lukie got us up at 5 a.m. on Christmas Day. Must have been excited. :)
We opened presents-- we only bought him one major present, since he won't remember a whole lot of this particular Christmas. I had noticed that he liked the light-up toys at daycare, so we got him one of those. And an awesome hat. He was asleep again by 7 a.m., drooling on Mommy in the rocking chair.
We had friends over for lasagna and pie later in the day. Lukie was a good boy, but he was suffering from both a sinus and an eye infection that he had gotten over the weekend. We were giving him antibiotics and eye drops, but they made him so mad that he now has a serious aversion to me messing with his face in ANY way.
Poor guy was trying to play, anyway, but you could tell he didn't feel good.
Didn't stop him from eating some tasty bananas and yogurt, though!
I worked the rest of the week, but then on Saturday, we drove to Illinois. I had been dreading the drive to Illinois for months, knowing that it was going to be really hard to get a keep a 6-month-old happy for that long in the car. I have to say, though, that Lukie took the whole drive so well. We left at 5 a.m. and he slept until almost 7. We stopped at a Cracker Barrel to eat and wiggle around a bit, and then I entertained Lukie in the car for another hour or so until he fell asleep again. We made it to Cincinnati by mid-morning and hung out with some of Pete's friends for a few hours, wearing him out and getting a nice visit in at the same time. Kiddo slept a good part of the way to Indianapolis, then fussed at me until Champaign, and then slept the rest of the way home. I was really proud of how well he did-- no major melt-downs the entire way to Illinois!
We had family Christmas with my folks and brother on Sunday, and then had a gigantic family party at my Aunt Julie's. It was so fun and Lukie took the whole thing in stride. He was wonder-baby. He didn't barely cry once at Julie's house. He just spent the whole time playing with his aunt, uncles, cousins, and Grammy Noel.
We hung out with some of my high school friends on Monday...boy was that a trip. I can't believe how far we've all come!
On Tuesday, we drove up to Pete's parents' house, where Lukas met his cousin Eleanor for the first time. Eleanor is just a few weeks older than Lukas. Their meeting was pretty fun!
He got some fun new toys, books, and clothes, including a pretty awesome walrus sweatshirt. I also took a picture of Lukie, Pete, and Pete's dad, Paul. I think there's some definite family resemblance there...especially in the eyebrows and forehead.
We were able to visit Pete's friend Clint, too, and Lukie got a chance to watch the fish in Clint's saltwater aquarium. He wanted to grab the clownfish so badly...watch what happens when they come into the bottom left-hand corner of the video.
We went back to my parents' place as planned on Friday, but on Saturday morning, we couldn't ignore the fact that there was a pretty awful storm bearing down on Illinois. We decided last-minute to drive to Tennessee that day. It was a pretty rough trip, since Lukie was reaching the end of his tolerance for both new environments and car time. He cried more than a quarter of the trip, but he slept from about 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., when we finally got home.
We're glad we left early, given how nasty that storm has turned out in Illinois. Lukie is teething something fierce, and has been pretty crabby lately, but we're glad to have a little time at home with him before I go back to work on Wednesday.
In the midst of all of that, Lukie turned 6 months old on January 3rd. Expect a 6-month-old birthday post pretty soon (and here's a teaser: we recreated one of Pete's childhood pictures over vacation, and the results are AWESOME).
Here are a few more awesome Christmas pictures of Lukie.
