Who says boys can't be drama-filled?!?!
This happens on a very frequent basis! My little faker!
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
This is how I dress when Papa watches me...
Daddy's Bears hat, last year's red snow suit jacket, and this year's orange mittens!
The Beginning of Christmas 2010
I am not skipping right over Thanksgiving this year, but I forgot my camera when we headed back to LP for the holiday! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of lots of family and fun.
We came home on Saturday afternoon and slowly started pulling out the Christmas decorations. When we were downstairs, Luke found the movie Polar Express so we decided to halt all decorating and put in the movie. Then one of the most amazing things happened, Luke sat and cuddled with me for the ENTIRE movie! I have to say that was one of the best moments I have had as a mommy. Me and my little boy, snuggled up, watching one of my favorite movies during my most favorite time of year - it was the best!
Sunday we were in full-on decorating mode. Luke was as helpful as we needed him to be, which was great!
And here are some snapshots of some of our decorations!
This was the first year we hung lights up outside. Here is the big reveal - part of a strand shorted out so we had to fix that. But all in all, it looks great!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Church
Luke has been to church just about every weekend of his life. There are very few weekends that I can recall him not going. He generally is pretty good. In fact, 3 weeks in a row now we have made it through the whole mass without taking Luke into the children's room.
He really gets the routine. He knows he is supposed to be quiet, but we have to remind him of this quite frequently. He points out "Fadder" multiple times throughout mass. When we walk in, Luke really looks forward to dipping his hand in the holy water. He makes a pretty good attempt at the Sign of the Cross and usually very loudly says "Amen!".
When it is time to stand up during mass, which of course is multiple times, Luke lets everyone know by saying "sand up". He LOVES putting the envelope in the basket. You can see the anticipation in his face as the basket gets closer and closer to us. And if there is a second collection at the end of mass, Luke asks us for money so he can do it again!
Luke is also very friendly to the other parishioners. In our church, we all hold hands during the Our Father and Luke very willingly will hold one of the other parishioner's hands. He also makes sure he shakes hands with everyone around him during the Sign of Peace. Everyone just loves shaking hands with Lukey!
The main reason I decided to blog about church today though is because this morning Luke did something at mass that we had no idea he even knew anything about. After mass was over, we guided Luke out of the pew and at the end, he genuflected! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen! I was literally cracking up! It's so funny the things that kids pick up on that you don't even realize. I think we usually are carrying Luke out of church and genuflect with him in our arms so he knew just what to do when he walked out on his own! One other lady saw him and was also laughing pretty hard!
He really gets the routine. He knows he is supposed to be quiet, but we have to remind him of this quite frequently. He points out "Fadder" multiple times throughout mass. When we walk in, Luke really looks forward to dipping his hand in the holy water. He makes a pretty good attempt at the Sign of the Cross and usually very loudly says "Amen!".
When it is time to stand up during mass, which of course is multiple times, Luke lets everyone know by saying "sand up". He LOVES putting the envelope in the basket. You can see the anticipation in his face as the basket gets closer and closer to us. And if there is a second collection at the end of mass, Luke asks us for money so he can do it again!
Luke is also very friendly to the other parishioners. In our church, we all hold hands during the Our Father and Luke very willingly will hold one of the other parishioner's hands. He also makes sure he shakes hands with everyone around him during the Sign of Peace. Everyone just loves shaking hands with Lukey!
The main reason I decided to blog about church today though is because this morning Luke did something at mass that we had no idea he even knew anything about. After mass was over, we guided Luke out of the pew and at the end, he genuflected! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen! I was literally cracking up! It's so funny the things that kids pick up on that you don't even realize. I think we usually are carrying Luke out of church and genuflect with him in our arms so he knew just what to do when he walked out on his own! One other lady saw him and was also laughing pretty hard!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Just Like My Daddy
It was very quiet upstairs today so I went up there to see what was going on...this is what I found!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Off To School He Goes...
We will be in the market for a smaller lunch bag that fits in the back of his bike :)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
From the Mouth of Luke
I know, I know, I have been a total slacker in the blogging department lately. Even my dad called me out on Sunday night! I will try to be better...I don't have pictures to share tonight, but I do have a couple of the conversations we have had with Luke lately.
Last night: Luke was very, very whiny!
Me: Luke, what's wrong?
Luke: I crabby
Tonight: On our way home from swimming lessons
Luke: home
Me: You want to go home?
Luke: Yeah, tired.
Let's just say he is a very honest boy!
Lately: been going on since before Halloween
Luke: a pirate, a monsser, a ghost
Me: where?
Luke: right, dere...I see it
Me: that's ok...they are nice
Luke: no, scawy
Luke has also been singing us lots of songs. In the car on the way to swimming lessons tonight, we heard a beautiful medley of:
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (I really need to get this one on video)
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Ants Go Marching (the "hurrah, hurrah" part)
Elmo's World
And then a little rap mix of "Go Daddy, Go Daddy, Go Mommy, Go Mommy, Go Truck"
Last night: Luke was very, very whiny!
Me: Luke, what's wrong?
Luke: I crabby
Tonight: On our way home from swimming lessons
Luke: home
Me: You want to go home?
Luke: Yeah, tired.
Let's just say he is a very honest boy!
Lately: been going on since before Halloween
Luke: a pirate, a monsser, a ghost
Me: where?
Luke: right, dere...I see it
Me: that's ok...they are nice
Luke: no, scawy
Luke has also been singing us lots of songs. In the car on the way to swimming lessons tonight, we heard a beautiful medley of:
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (I really need to get this one on video)
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Ants Go Marching (the "hurrah, hurrah" part)
Elmo's World
And then a little rap mix of "Go Daddy, Go Daddy, Go Mommy, Go Mommy, Go Truck"
Monday, November 8, 2010
World Series
Wally and his dad had the chance to go to Game 5 of the World Series last Monday night. Wally's Aunt Loie and Uncle Dan live in Texas and were able to get tickets.
They flew out around 8 PM on Halloween night. Monday morning they toured the Dallas Cowboys new stadium and then headed to the game that night. They can both say they saw the winning game in the World Series - very cool! It was a short trip with them arriving back home around 6 PM on Tuesday. Here are some pics from the trip!
Cowboys stadium
Rangers Ballpark
Nolan Ryan
The Giants are new the champs!
They flew out around 8 PM on Halloween night. Monday morning they toured the Dallas Cowboys new stadium and then headed to the game that night. They can both say they saw the winning game in the World Series - very cool! It was a short trip with them arriving back home around 6 PM on Tuesday. Here are some pics from the trip!
Cowboys stadium
Rangers Ballpark
Nolan Ryan
The Giants are new the champs!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Barnum FUNundrum
Yesterday, the three of us went to the "the greatest show on earth"! We went to Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus at the Allstate Arena.
An hour before the show, you can go on the floor at no cost and see some of the acts.
Then it was time for the show to start...it got dark and it got loud and Luke was not loving it!
Wally and I did our best to calm him down and tried to show him all the cool things going on, but he wasn't having it. He eventually snuggled into my lap and put his held on my shoulder. I tried to turn enough so he could still see what was going on and every once in awhile he would pop his head back up, but then he fell asleep! Yep, as loud as it was, he fell asleep! And we were at the 11:30 show so it definitely wasn't his usual nap time. Here is some of what went on while Luke napped.
There were 7 motorcycles in this globe at one time going 65 mph - crazy!
Then there were the tigers. That guy is crazy - some of those tigers weren't happy!
Thankfully intermission arrived and we woke Luke up. He ended up thoroughly enjoying the second half! (We moved to an area of the arena that wasn't as crowded so that was helpful since he had some room to roam!)
Here are some highlights of the second half:
The elephants were definitely Luke's favorite part (and mine too!).
We even got to meet the baby elephant, Barack, born in January 2009.
Luke liked this too - a motorcycle on a tightrope!
Trapeze artists
These people were crazy! They would be shot into the air, do flips and land on top of 4 people or on a stilt!
The finale!
It ended up being a great time. Neither Wally nor I had ever been to a circus of this magnitude - you know, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! This is definitely something will we continue to do every so often! We highly recommend it!
An hour before the show, you can go on the floor at no cost and see some of the acts.
Then it was time for the show to start...it got dark and it got loud and Luke was not loving it!
Wally and I did our best to calm him down and tried to show him all the cool things going on, but he wasn't having it. He eventually snuggled into my lap and put his held on my shoulder. I tried to turn enough so he could still see what was going on and every once in awhile he would pop his head back up, but then he fell asleep! Yep, as loud as it was, he fell asleep! And we were at the 11:30 show so it definitely wasn't his usual nap time. Here is some of what went on while Luke napped.
There were 7 motorcycles in this globe at one time going 65 mph - crazy!
Then there were the tigers. That guy is crazy - some of those tigers weren't happy!
Thankfully intermission arrived and we woke Luke up. He ended up thoroughly enjoying the second half! (We moved to an area of the arena that wasn't as crowded so that was helpful since he had some room to roam!)
Here are some highlights of the second half:
The elephants were definitely Luke's favorite part (and mine too!).
We even got to meet the baby elephant, Barack, born in January 2009.
Luke liked this too - a motorcycle on a tightrope!
Trapeze artists
These people were crazy! They would be shot into the air, do flips and land on top of 4 people or on a stilt!
The finale!
It ended up being a great time. Neither Wally nor I had ever been to a circus of this magnitude - you know, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! This is definitely something will we continue to do every so often! We highly recommend it!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Daycare Halloween 2010
Luke and I had a lot of fun at the Halloween party at Punky's this year. I always enjoy seeing Luke with all of his friends.
All the toddlers
Prayer before the cupcakes I brought
I hope Jett's mom doesn't care he ate his cupcake in his costume :O
A perfect pirate mustache
Luke's turn in the ;parade of costumes; - telling Punky what he is dressed as.
Singing some Halloween songs
All the kids!
Luke and his best friend AJ enjoying their rice krispies together! (They actually sat down this close to each other!)
All the toddlers
Prayer before the cupcakes I brought
I hope Jett's mom doesn't care he ate his cupcake in his costume :O
A perfect pirate mustache
Luke's turn in the ;parade of costumes; - telling Punky what he is dressed as.
Singing some Halloween songs
All the kids!
Luke and his best friend AJ enjoying their rice krispies together! (They actually sat down this close to each other!)
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