10 & 11 Months

Wow - it has been a while since I last posted on our blog.  If there is still anybody out there following - Thanks!  I still can not believe that our baby boy is now 11 months old - will be 1 year in 20 days!  WOW - where has the time gone.  Now, let's see if we can recap what has taken place over the last 2 months!

Let's see if I can catch you up from where we last left off at 9 months.....  Luke has 2 teeth and is loving walking all over the living room while holding on to the furniture!  He has not yet taken a step without holding on to anything.  But that is just fine - he is hard enough to keep up with his "cralking" (he is crawling with one leg and kinda walking with the other leg - so funny to watch but boy can he really get around like that!).

He still loves to get into the refrigerator EVERYTIME the doors are opened.  So, the items on the bottom 2 shelves (the only within his reach at the current moment, but not for long) are "kid friendly".  1000 Island dressing and Chocolate shell sundae topping!  He loves to "teeth" on the the topping bottle.

When you catch him on the move, he always has that sweet innocent up to something look in his eyes!  It is so precious right now but I just know it only a matter of time before the mischief begins!

He is such a talker and gets intense about it at times!  He will sit in the floor for hours and just play and talk with all his toys, socks and remote controls.  The socks and the remote controls are by far his favorite toys - starting to wander why I spend money on toys....  He is not really Mommy or Daddy yet but he is making great noises that we tell ourselves are Da-da-da-da-da and Mum-mum-mum-mum.

The weekend before Stephen's 30th birthday, his parents, his sister (MaryBeth), her husband and their little boy Thomas can up for a visit.  Poppa is reading "How to Hug a Porcupine" to Luke.  They are both very intently focusing on this book.  Luke decided that he was done but Poppa said that he could not stop until he knew how to hug the porcupine!

For 4th of July weekend, we went home to Forest to visit with my parents, sisters and all the nieces and nephews.  While in Forest, we got to help my twin sister, Amy, with the garden.  (The rules are: if you want the veggies, then you got to pick them.  She will plant them but you are responsible for picking your share).  Well, thankfully, Stephen decided to let me sleep in on Friday morning while they picked the garden.  But, this meant that Luke got to go to the garden as well!  I did not get any pictures of him looking like a boy covered in mud from garden, but below are pictures of Stephen hosing him done in the sink at Aunt Amy and Uncle Chris's house.  And, as you can tell from his facial expressions, he is loving every minute of it!!

Luke enjoying his ear of corn from Aunt Amy's garden - it appears that a 3rd tooth is coming in so this is a great teether :-)

And now Luke has found the bucket of water on Aunt Amy's porch and is having a blast playing in it!

He figured out he could blow bubbles in the bucket of water like him and daddy do  in the swimming pool!

While in Forest, we took Luke out on his first boat ride!  He was not to sure about the life jacket but loved the boat ride (as long as the boat was moving) and playing in the water with daddy!  I think we have ourselves a little fishy - I am just praying that he continues to enjoy the water when he gets older!

Well, I think that gets us up to date for the past 2 months on Luke!  I will attempt to do better at blogging a little more often but between trying to exercise, traveling to Boston and Houston for work, and just wanting to spend time with my baby boy, it is hard.  Thanks for still checking in on us!