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!

End of June Already!?!

It's so hard to keep up with this right now! Luke has ZERO patience for Mommy's PC time. We're all doing well. Luke is still cute as ever! We're enjoying watching him grow and learn everyday. I've got just one more full week off before going back to work, which has been incredibly hard emotionally to come to grips with... Far more difficult than I ever imagined!

Well, I know pictures are what people come here to see, so I won't bore you any further with commentary =)

Completely out of chronological order:

Father's Day Dodger gear

(Ben and Rich are actually in LA this weekend for the M's vs Dodgers)

Luke and Daddy on Father's Day

He looks good in Dodger blue!

Flirting with Daddy during bath time

Passed out in his big boy 2 piece, police car jammies!!

Luke's 3 month pictures

... another one

We watched Papa throw out the first pitch at Uncle Nick's baseball game on Father's Day

(It was a strike in case you're wondering) =)

Uncle Nick keeping a good eye out and let a 'ball' go by

'The kids' at Jake and Heather's house

Family Day!!

Too many pictures to post! 

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Water Baby

For Auntie Aubrey

Hi Auntie! I miss you!

Remember this?

It fits me a little better now!

Come back soon!!

(1 week old vs. 14 weeks old)

Overdue

Alright, I know, this is long overdue. It's difficult finding the time to type out a post when I can be playing with my boy! Luke is awesome! We are having so much fun with him! It's going to be easier to list out the new stuff he's doing, so in random order:

*Luke is now starting to rub his little eyes when he's tired - it's adorable.

*Sleeps the second half of the night snuggled up to Mommy - he's out in second, compared to 20- minutes of being up and down in the bassinet - that's 20 less minutes I need to be awake!

*Smiles and jabbers up a storm

*LOVES bath time! Loves it! He's like his Mama, the warmer the water the better. I sit him sideways in the big tub (in his sling) and he stomps his little feet on the side of the tub and coos and smiles when the water is nice and warm to his liking. If it's too cool he just sits still and looks at me like, "Really? What's so great about this? I can't 'perform' when I'm cold!"

*He's been lifting his head and 'rolling' over since he was about 6 hours old, so that's not new news. He's still super strong!

*Luke has already been to 2 Mariner's games! Once with me and my co-workers, and just again on Monday - we brought Daddy and Devin and Chelsey along too =)

*He flirts - it's hilarious! He does it to Daddy and immediately gets the, "Daddy's a boy, no flirting with boys"

*Luke has decided that unless his car seat is moving, it is unnecessary to be in it, and gets all mad about it. This means I have literally 3 seconds from the time I walk in the door and put the seat down to get him out. No putting bags or keys down, no potty breaks, he wants out NOW!!!

Ben and I are doing well too. Ben's moved a total of 52 yards of dirt around our yard. Thank God for Lannie! He hooked us up with a bobcat so only the first 10 yards were done by shovels and A (single) wheelbarrow. We found the guy to hydro seed and the guy to build our shed... The fencing has been the hard part. I got a couple bids, did all the prep work and now the neighbors, that were previously not interested in doing anything - just told me to find the best price and they'd sign off - then decided they cared and wanted to get their own estimates. We're not going to have 5 different builders come out to do different sections. Funny thing is they all ended up calling the guy that gave us the best bid for the better materials... $16 a foot (including labor seems to be the going rate). Though we did have one guy show up after me telling him to forget it. He argued on the phone with me for 10 minutes and refused my directions telling me I didn't know my address because his GPS couldn't locate it. Yeah dude, when you screw my fence up this is going to be fun arguing to fix it... Oh and he was "The best price we'll get anywhere... $28 a foot!" And then he left his planner here full with: his business license, registration to his truck, business checkbook, and personal checkbook AND it's still sitting on my porch 8 days later!!! No thanks dude! So lots and lots of yard work for Ben and lots of on the phone price comparing for me lately. Slowly but surely we'll have a yard! As long as the stupid HOA doesn't get in my way!

Because blogger decides the order of appearance, in no particular order:

Us at the game

Chelsey and Devin at the game

Ben, Jared and Marco at Jared's birthday BBQ 

(this was great, now that we all have kids the dynamic of the backyard BBQ has changed quite a bit - everyone was 'toast' by 10... And these days 'toast' means tired - not drunk)

Cameron making a face at the BBQ

Daddy and Luke at the game (Luke has his M's blanket from Great Auntie Debbie)

Luke and Dad sleeping in

Luke supervising, um I mean sleeping from his stroller while Mom and Dad shovel dirt

My Mother's Day Flowers from Ben and Luke

Happy boy!!

Does this one really need explanation? He's so freaking cute! THIS is the face that melts me every day! And yes, he's this baby 99.9999% of the time... and even when he's being a punk, he's still this sweet!

Blue Eyes!

From Wrinkles to Rolls

Here was my scrawny little guy 1 month ago...

Here he is now:

Daddy calls him the physical calendar, with every day he changes a little more and we get to see time actually pass. I'd be alright if it slowed down a little.