18 Months

Here we are again - another month has passed! Luke is now officially a year and a half old (as of yesterday).

This past month has brought many, many new words to Luke's vocabulary. I think I will do a separate post on Lukey's language.

This past month has also brought many more meltdowns. Aaahhh...toddlerhood :)

We have seen him stay up to almost 11 PM 'partying' and sleep as late as 7:30 (yep, that's late for us!).

We took our first dip in the pool yesterday. It was a failure. I have to admit the water was a bit chilly. I went in first and Luke put his hands out and very much willingly came into my arms and then the screaming began! I tried to bounce up and down, walk around the pool with him, but he really wasn't having it. We later tried putting him in his boat floaty and that was a massive failure! sigh.. We will try again today though. We put together the basketball hoop that floats in the pool so maybe that will help entice him and the water should be warmer today (I hope!).

This picture pretty much says it all - he desperately wanted his paci and is pointing to GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!

He is becoming quite the jokester and he knows it - it's too funny!

I could go on and on, but well, it's summer, and I would rather be outside than behind this computer on the weekend...happy 18 months Bubba!!!!!

This picture makes me smile :)

We went out to eat last night and stopped at the Creamery on the way home. Luke had his first very own baby cone!

He doesn't look excited at all, does he?!?! :)

And who says boys can't play dress up???? My shoes were in the laundry room and he put one on and came loudly walking into the living room to show us - he thought it was pretty hilarious!

Busy Weekend

We had a pretty busy and fun weekend.

Friday we made our first trip to Brookfield Zoo for the summer. There will be a separate post to come on that!

Saturday Wally headed to scout a game for the T-Bolts. There was a rather lengthy rain delay, but they finally got it in and then he was able to head over to catch the end of T-Bolts sectional championship game (which went into extra innings, but they pulled it out!). While he was there, Luke and I ran some errands in the morning, he napped, and then we headed to our neighbor's to celebrate their son Zack's 1st birthday! They had a big jumpie in their backyard. Luke kept climbing up and checking it out, but he wouldn't go all the way - which was fine by me because it was a little rowdy in there! We were there for a couple of hours and then when Wally got home around 5ish, we headed to the DeHaan's house (head varsity baseball coach) to celebrate the sectional championship.

We got home around 9:30 Saturday night. Luke fell asleep in the car and after I layed him down, I layed down myself. But then, the tornado sirens went off. I wasn't watching tv so I had no idea this kind of weather was possibly heading our way. In my past life (aka "pre-Luke"), I would have flipped on the tv to see what was going on, went out on the deck to see what it was like outside, and slowly headed down to the basement. However, in my current life, I panicked! I immediately went and grabbed Luke (who remained sound asleep) and came downstairs. Wally was on the computer and I frantically told him we have to go to the basement. He didn't follow, but Luke and I hung out on the couches down there - again Luke was still sound asleep. I turned on the tv and saw that a tornado had just gone through Streator and was heading south of Kankakee. Within a half hour, everything had passed and we headed back upstairs - Luke to his room and me to mine. He doesn't have a clue that any of that happened! It was quite the eventful 1/2 hour for me!

Sunday we headed to church and FINALLY made it over to the Happ's house to meet Mr. Clark. They live 15 minutes from us, but we were having a really hard time coordinating a day that worked! Clark is SO adorable - it is amazing how tiny he looks next to Luke and to Wally and I, yet Chris and Erin can't believe how big he is getting all ready! Luke was pretty good with him. Sometimes he would pat his belly a little too hard, but for the most part, he was very gentle. He kept saying "baby" and when Chris went upstairs to change Clark, Luke was looking all over for the baby - it was too cute. We can't wait to see him (and Chris & Erin) again in a couple of weeks! Here are a couple of pics!!!

Go Blackhawks!!!

A super short (and dark) video to get you ready for the game tonight!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Gum?

Luke has been saying 'gum' a lot. Sometimes he says 'a-gum'.

Neither Wally nor I have any idea what he means. We noticed that he says it a lot in the car, but then he will say it every once in awhile at home too.

We are trying to tie anything we can together to figure out what this word means. Is there always music playing? Is it always said after something else? We can't figure it out!

And it doesn't have anything to do with actual gum. He wouldn't have a clue what that even is and neither of us really chew it much that he would really even hear the word.

At least at this point he isn't getting frustrated that we aren't 'doing something' after he says it. Hopefully it will click for us soon, but until then we will just keep nodding and smiling when he says it :)

A Good Run

The Andrew Thunderbolts varsity baseball team made a good run at the end of the season. They were one game away from making it to State. Unfortunately, they lost last night 3-1 to St. Rita.


Last night was the super-sectional game. It was held at the same place that the Windy City Thunderbolts team plays. (Remember, we went to that game a few weeks ago.) The game was at 7, and I have to admit I was a little nervous going by myself with Luke. After the way the Joliet Jackhammers game turned out the other weekend, I wasn't sure how this was going to go.

It ended up going GREAT!!! He may have had almost an entire bag of goldfish while we were there, but he was happy and I was happy and actually got to watch a lot of the game. Luke lasted the entire game and was such a trooper. We both really had fun! He was out as soon as we got to the car, which was a good thing because it took quite awhile to get out of the parking lot! There were over 2,000 people at the game.

Here comes Wally after being introduced.

Unfortunately, we had the sun in our eyes for the first couple of innings.

There's that bag of goldfish!

This also helped to keep Luke occupied. He was really concentrating!!!

You know it's summer when...

Luke is dressed like this just about everyday!

That means that Wally is home, and he is the one dressing Luke in the morning :)

This weekend we hope to be swimming finally - with baseball and the end of school we tend to open our pool up a little later than our neighbors!

Where did all the pillows go?

Getting a running start....

Phew! Time for a water break!