Ohhhh Luke!!!

Well, it's all over... those wonderful days of Luke quietly playing in one spot totally content. Yep, it's OVER!!! He has mastered this whole crawling thing his little friends have been sporting for months and is now busy checking everything out. Who needs toys when the whole house is a new playground?!?! Someone needs to tell daddy to get out the screw driver and the safety locks because we have several cabinets that needs some TLC to prevent our new little crawler from checking out what's inside!!!

I've got it!! That's what we can do at his birthday party. Yep, anyone who stays past 3:30p on Saturday will be put to work. Keith will demonstrate the first installation and everyone left will equally divide the remaining cabinets! Ahhh haaa! :-) We love you that much!

So, what does he seem to enjoy the most??? Well, bathrooms seem to be lots of fun to him. He loves the tub and wants to pull up on it and check out what's on the other side of the tub wall. He also really likes the toilet paper roll (but only if no one else is looking). Then there is (was) the toilet bowl cleaning brush. (It's hidden in the garage now.) And lastly, there are big sissy's hair ties in the drawer of her step stool. They will need to find a new home too. Outside of the bathroom there is big sissy's room (lots of fun stuff in there... and chokeables that will soon be going bye bye for good), the kitchen with the brooms/mops (which will also be finding a new home), and the front entry area where he loves to try on mommy's shoes/sandals, lick the bottom of souls, toss big sissy's shoes around, and simply slide his little butt back and forth.

And by the way... if anyone is eating something around him, he will insist on having some himself so be prepared. His best food retrieval skill... swiping cup cakes from you! Today while at the playgroup birthday party, mommy was helping Emily and others get their cup cakes. As soon as Luke saw them he started fighting mommy to get one for himself. As soon as he was successful, he had the biggest grin on his face. HE WON!!! What's the funniest part, he doesn't even want the cake. He just wants to eat the paper. He will smash it, toss the cake out and then satisfyingly begin to eat the paper very slowly. If you try to take it from him or say, "no" he will get really mad at you and then hide it from you.

Life is loads of fun around here. There's never a dull moment. Luke loves to explore and then gets upset (understandably) when mommy says, "no, no" or big sissy takes something away.

On the upside... he's a little social bug. He loves to talk on the phone now and seems to be able to figure out for himself when I'm talking to daddy or grandma. He insists on having a turn to talk and loves it. Tonight Emily and Luke enjoyed talking to daddy for about 15 minutes, taking turns of course. Luke would breath heavy or say, "hi." He would even crawl over to Emily and sit on his feet waiting for his turn to talk. It was very cute! So don't be surprised if you call the house and Emily asks you if you would like to talk to Luke. She's serious... she doesn't want him to be excluded from the fun and odds are he's sitting next to her trying to swipe the phone out of her hands. :-)