Little Boy Laughs!

Papa making Luke laugh

Thanks Aunt Debbie for posting!

picture update

Baseball 'photo-shoot' for Papa's birthday frame

A cute outfit that was only worn 20 minutes before he ended up in just the onsie in this 98 degree weather!

Standing against the ottoman all by himself!

... And very pleased about it!

Who's a happy boy?

This kid!

Hanging with Dad at Mom's company picnic

Sleeping at the picnic

Almost too big for the bouncer!

Yummy carrots!

... and Peas

Bathing

Alright mom's, I need some ideas.

Luke LOVES bathtime, but he also LOVES to arch his back and wiggle out of all his seats (bath seat, bouncer, etc...unless he's harnessed in - to which then he's irritated because then he's stuck) Anyway, this makes bathtime difficult because he's always wiggling out of his sling. I've started just trying to support him myself, but he's very slippery and still a little irratic with his movements - especially when he's that excited! He loves to lay completely back and have his legs out so he can kick and splash. He's all about the foot action too, he doesn't care much about the hands splashing at all. He's also not quite stong enough to sit up on his own so just the tub on it's own is out. And the bath ring seats have such mixed reviews that I'd hate to waste my money on the wrong one.

Does anyone have a baby tub seat or of the like, that they love to reccommend so that I can go buy?!

Many, many thanks!

Beautiful Babies

So my Aunt got me to enter Luke into this contest put on by a local news station. Voting was to start on Monday but they had a huge wave of voters and it crashed their server. Voting is now back up, but the site is still tempermental. So if the page doesn't load just refresh it, the url is correct. Go to the link on the top right of this page that says, "Vote for Luke" and go give him a 10! =)
... I think voting ends August 4th.

4 months

Luke was 4 months last Friday and had his appointment on Monday. The boy is over 16 pounds!! I told the doctor that I'm having a hard time keeping up with him (he wants more milk than I can produce) yet he's satisfied and he spits it all back up. Doc said, "feed him!" So we had our first adventure with rice cereal... Luke's not really a fan yet. Monday he got 4 shots and really I think just wanted to be held and fed his bottle, yesterday we made another attempt, which was only semi productive. He's just into it. Can't quite make the connection yet that he's supposed to swallow it, which is very surprising... He's a champ when it comes to medicine/mylicon, but I guess all of that comes out of a tube, so he can suck it out like a bottle. Anyway here was our first attempt:

And I'm back to work today... Lots of prayers!