This one will, of necessity, be mostly pictures. Lukie turned two, we dorked around for a couple weeks, and then, we spent 2.5 weeks in Illinois! Most of the Illinois pictures were taken with an iPhone, so please excuse the graininess, but we were out and about moving and that meant I just didn't have time to grab my camera very often!
First, Lukie's two-year-old photos. I expect by the next time I take photos, it'll be a little easier to keep him still. Right now, though, not so much.
He's also really into hats right now. He requests a hat every morning by pointing to his head, and then when we put it on, he rearranges it by pulling it almost over his eyes and cocking it to the right. If we take it off, this happens:
...until we put it back on.
House work also continues. I've been working on painting the hallway. It was a nasty color of peachy-beige, which I lovingly referred to as "soul sucking burnt flesh," maybe a little over-dramatic but still fairly accurate. I've been painting it a nice clean white, and I have to say, I love the results.
The white color brings out the woodwork so nicely, and it bounces light around like a light trampoline. It's so much cleaner looking!
Finally, we went to Illinois for 2.5 weeks. It was a long but thoroughly enjoyable trip. First, Lukie had a birthday party at MoMo's house.
He is certainly not confused about what to do when a flaming cake is brought to him. We had to hold him back until we could finish singing.
His cousin Mindy, who has four girls and two nieces and has been waiting forever to buy a birthday present for a little boy, got him a Despicable Me fart gun. It was a hit (maybe more with MoMo even than with Lukie, but Lukie loved it, too).
And he played with his cousins Phoebe and Avery in the swimming pool. The game consisted mainly of jumping into the pool, getting out, running halfway across the yard, running back to the pool, jumping in, and repeating the process for 45 minutes. Where do they get the energy? (Sorry for the iPhone photos.)
Then we went north for a week to see Peter's family in Hinckley, IL. Grandma Cindy threw Lukie a second birthday party.
And Lukie ran around like a crazy person with his cousin Roland (and his other 7 cousins--- the 8th joined us a week later).
After a week in Hinckley, Peter went to Canada with his best friend for a fishing trip and I took Lukie back to my folks' place for 8 days. We had lots of fun.
Fun included Lukie's first trip to Jarlings, a Chambana staple for decades.
That was the gist of our summer trip. We had lots of fun, but as usual, we are also glad to be home among our stuff and in our house with our dogs and bed. We always miss Illinois, though! We are Midwesterners through and through and the whole region feels like home. See you at Christmas, IL!
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