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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday Fun I
I will also be posting a video montage of our Friday Fun (because who doesn't love to watch and hear the little guy be silly). We put up a gate to the laundry room. The door doesn't latch shut so he can push it open and can't seem to get enough of Nala's food and water so we try to keep him out - he was quite intrigued by the gate so that is why there is so much video taken in that area.
Enjoy!
Friday, November 6, 2009
Getting There...
Here is a pretty good video of him taking some steps. At one point last night, he walked from our dining room table to almost between our couch and loveseat in the living room (you know that distance if you know our house)...it was crazy!!! He really wants to do it and is getting so steady...I just can't believe we 'almost' have a walker!!!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
These days...
- Lucas has decided he isn't too fond of pureed baby food anymore and would much rather feed himself. I am ok with this, except when he tosses some (and sometimes a lot) to Nala. He won't always eat off the spoon anymore, and the majority of the food is going to the dog. We are working on this with him, and I keep telling him he needs to eat so he can get big and strong. This leads me to the second "These Days.."
Nala patiently waiting...
- Lucas and Nala are BFF's! If you recall, I had mentioned in a previous post that Luke LOVES Nala...he lights up when he sees her! However, that love wasn't mutual - in fact, we had one small biting incident (Luke was tugging on Nala's hair on her face and she had enough - we are working on petting her nicely). BUT I do believe the love is becoming mutual mostly because Nala is getting a lot of table scraps these days (see above).
Watch how nicely they play together - their favorite is to play tug-of-war with a sock!
- Lucas is far too busy and has far too little patience to sit still for a diaper change or to get dressed. One of his favorite places to be when he was really little was on his changing table. If he was upset, you could usually count on him being happy again once he was laying on the red cover on the changing table. Now he is much happier NOT being on the changing table. He rolls, flips, and squirms when you try to change him. He would much rather sit on the table so he can flip the light switch. I am starting to become a pro at changing and dressing a very squirmy little boy!
- Lucas is soooooo tired in the morning, but heaven forbid he sleep past 6 AM no matter what time he goes to bed. I used to have to wake him up to get ready in the morning, then we went through a short stage of waking during the night, and now we are back to sleeping through the night with no problems, but he is up and happy anytime between 5:30-just before 6 AM. This makes getting ready in the morning a little more hectic! By 6:30 though, when he needs to get changed and dressed (which is a struggle, see above), he is soooooo sleepy. When we sit in the glider and I am giving him his bottle around 6:40, he is nearly falling asleep. Once he finishes, I put his coat on him and we are out the door, and he is SOUND asleep in the car on the way to Punky's. Sometimes he will go down for a morning nap there, but most days he won't anymore. If it is a Friday, I put him right back down after his bottle and he will usually sleep another hour at least. So he is tired, but I guess he just likes that little bit of morning time with me! Of course, I don't mind, but like I said, it just makes getting ready a little more eventful - he is into EVERYTHING!!!!!
- Lucas likes to get pulled around the house in his blue wagon. The wheels don't hold him for long, but he just kicks back and let's Daddy pull him around.
Loungin' in the wagon!
- Lucas is into giving high fives!!
- We like to pretend Lucas is in the circus!
-Lucas is completely standing on his own!
-Lucas is just being his silly self :)
- I am in 1st Birthday Party planning mode. Can you believe it? I am trying not to get too out of hand with it!!! But it IS my baby boy's 1st birthday celebration :)
- We are FINALLY home!!!! We have been out of town the past 3 weekends. I am SO looking forward to staying put until Thanksgiving! Hopefully we can get some more rest and our colds (yes, all 3 of us) will go away, my house will no longer be neglected and finally get a good cleaning, and we can just relax!
That's what's been going on these days!
Working On It
As you can tell from the SUPER SHORT video, we are working on the walking...Lucas stands on his own quite a bit these days and is actually wanting to walk (or so it seems). He will take a step here and there even without our encouragement...meaning, he CHOOSES to attempt to walk rather than take the easy route and just crawl to his destination. We have gotten as many as 4-5 steps at one time from him (of course we can't capture those on video). We will continue to work on it and hopefully each video we post will have a few more steps....go Luke go!!!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Happy Halloween - Part II
And wouldn't you know I happened to find a Frankenstein costume for Nala too!! She wasn't much of a fan though.....
We had a lot of fun - Luke got to see lots of fun costumes and hang out with family and friends. Enjoy some pics....
Dracula and Frankenlucas
Lily, Ava, Great Grandma Hylla, Caleb, and Luke
Great Grandpa and Grandma Swanson
Luke laughing at Nala licking his toes!
Lukey and Papa
The Goodbred's stopped by too - Blake was a deer hunter - too cute!!!
All the Zuk's (+2) all dressed up!!
Sunday we went to church and then headed over to Grammy and Papa's to watch the Bears game.
Happy Halloween - Part I
We headed over to Punky's...things got a little crazy for a bit there with all the costumes and pizza for lunch that day, but it was a good time. I really enjoyed getting to know the other kids and seeing how Luke is there with his friends. He just plays away and laughs and smiles with the other kids, but then he might take off on his own to play for a bit...it was great to see how comfortable he is there!
Unfortunately the weather was awful on Friday (VERY windy and VERY rainy) so the kids couldn't parade around the neighborhood like they usually do. Instead, Punky had a "fashion show" in the living room. All of the kids sat down and one by one each child got to go to the center of the living room to say what they were and show what they could "do". When it was Luke's turn, he sat really well right in the middle of the floor waiting patiently for us to tell him he was done - it was too cute!
After the fashion show, we did some mummy-wrapping with toilet paper. The kids had to pick a partner - 2 kids wanted to be with Luke. One little boy said he wanted to be Luke's partner because "he is just soooo cute" - how sweet is that!! So Abby ended up being his partner...unfortunately, Luke didn't cooperate so well for her. The kids had a lot of fun though and it is amazing how quickly all that toilet paper can be picked up with the kids' help! After the mummy-wrapping, it was lunch time. The kids had some pizza (a special treat for them!) so that was kind of crazy and then it was nap time so Lucas and I headed home!
We headed to LP when Wally got home from school. As you may or may not know, Wally's mom always puts on a pretty cool Halloween party - she goes all out!!! So we definitely wanted to head there for Luke's first Halloween and it worked out that it was the weekend!
Friday night Nancy had all of the Halloween costumes out in one of the bedrooms so Wally, Will, and Will's girlfriend Alyssa tried on some for fun. I do like Halloween (as much as Wally likes to say that I don't), but I am not one to dress up really. Of course I had a blast dressing Lucas and will make sure he enjoys this holiday, I just don't feel the need to dress up myself!! After Luke went to bed, Wally and I headed to Super Wal-Mart to get our ingredients for the chili cook-off on Saturday :)
