Bath Night

On bath nights we try to let do his thing with some sort of yogurt/pudding/apple sauce and a spoon. Sometimes he ends up clean, other time he ends up looking like this: How did he get so messy?!?!?! The following picture should clear things up:

Who needs a spoon when you've got fingers?!?!?!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :) This night his bath required a "pre-rinse" cycle :)

Birthday Dinner

It is kind of telling that it was my birthday on Monday and the only pictures that I have from the entire day are of Luke at dinner :)

Here's Luke apparently zoning out while eating his animal crackers: Checking out the lights:

Eating like a cave-man... I can honestly say that I have NO idea where he picked this trick up! We think that he's trying to eat like Cadence :)

Near the end of dinner he started getting a little antsy and the cars, books and other miscellaneous items I brought to entertain him weren't cutting it, so Gibi went through her purse and found an ace bandage. ha! It did the trick until dessert came :)

CHEESECAKE!!!

(Please note that chocolatey face!)

Luke and grandpa using their fingers to lick the whipped cream:

Weekend

Opening Valentines Day presents Sunday morning before church:

Luke showing Mark and Diana his Valentines Day presents

Zoning out while eating cinnamon rolls :)

Licking off the icing:

Playing guitar with Uncle Mark:

FLYING!

About to head back to Lubbock... can't wait 'til next time! :)

Lukes New-OLD-Favorite Book

This post will pretty much only be interesting to my parents and Auntie Sandy... just a warning :)

Now that Luke is more interested in patiently reading books and not just turning (and ripping) the pages, I was able to get out all of my paperback and other special books that my mom and I saved from when I was little.

His favorite (BY FAR) is the book Just a Snowy Day.

This cracks me up, because I can remember reading this OVER and OVER and OVER again and again... scratching and sniffing the hot chocolate cup and turning the wheel to make the snow fall in the window and now Luke LOVES it too!

In case you can't read it... this says December '85 Love Auntie Sandy. I was two months away from being two when I got this book and Luke happens to be two months away from being two right now as well.
I bet that when Auntie Sandy book 25 years ago she never imagined that I would keep it and read it to my kids!

Snow Monkey

The first thing Luke did this morning when he woke up was point to the window in his room and start screeching :) I opened the blinds and he started jumping up and down in his crib... ... he kept pointing to the snow and smiling...

... and squealing...

... and telling me very "big" stories all about the snow (complete with hand gestures, just like his mommy talks!)

Dave was outside attempting to shake some of the snow out of a couple of our big trees out front (the branches were almost touching the ground because they were so heavy) and so Luke and I ran outside, snapped a picture and then ran back inside to get warm and eat some breakfast. Here's a quick picture of our patio table out back so that you can get an idea of how much show we had:

None of us really have any snow-appropriate clothing, so we layered up and then headed out into the snow. Luke had on his pjs, a pair of wind pants, rain boots, his michelin man coat, mittens that we couldn't ever really get on correctly and his favorite hat that Gibi knit for him. I had on leggings, pj pants, big giant rain boots, multiple hoodie sweatshirts and a hat that Gibi knit for me as well :)

Luke took a running start toward the snow and immediatley bit it:

He then became very concerned with getting all of the snow off of his mittens:

We decided to head to the sidewalk where the snow wasn't as deep...

... and then Luke made a beeline for Gibi and Grandpa's house!
I tried to get him to pose by the garden, but he was having none of it. Then he had on too many clothes and couldn't get himself up :)

Daddy made him a snowball and I finally got him to look at me!

Taste testing the snowball:

Smooshing the snow into his face:

We headed back over to the side yard and he immediatley got stuck - and was NOT happy about it :)

NOT HAPPY AT ALL!

Daddy came to the rescue!

I wanted to try and get a picture of Luke and I, but he wanted nothing to do with it! He wanted to be on the go!!!

Luke and I decided to kick some of the snow off of the super saggy bushes - seriously... why have I never taken up martial arts?!?!?! I think that this picture proves I have a natural ability for it :) hahaha

Admiring our work:

Luke wanted to water the plants, but he couldn't hold the can and walk through the snow at the same time:

Eating snow off of my sleeve:

I'm not sure when (if ever!) we'll have this much snow again and I am super glad that we got to enjoy it as a family - even if it was brief and we were dressed completely mismatched :)