New Hair Cut

So I finally couldn't take it anymore! I defied Matt's attempts to keep Luke's shaggy look and took him in for a hair cut. To be honest, he was bordering on having a mini mullet. I'm a little disappointed that his strands couldn't support a fauxhawk but alas, he got the classic little boy cut. And it looks all kinds of cute on him! I've got a few pics but and they aren't great but you'll get the idea until I get some better pictures.

Oh and I think I have found my new favorite work of Luke's...PICEY! As in, spicy but w/out the S. Luke doesn't like picey gum. Big Red is "hot and picey."

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Please, Pretty Please?

Hi Friends,

I'd love to see some comments on my blog...I think it will add to the history :)

At some point, I'm going to be compiling all posts into a book for Luke so if you'd like to add any notes for Luke, please do!

Thursday

Hi Everyone!

I'm feeling sane today, yay! My mom was here Sunday through Thursday helping out with the wee one and I also worked from home today. I asked (pleaded) my mom if she could extend her trip through December but sadly, she declined. I guess that 80 acre farm and animal sanctuary need tending to. She also made mention of the fact that there is a reason why "young" women have babies. Have I mentioned before that Luke is a particularly active and decisive little fellow.

Alas, we spoiled Luke rotten this week...as if he hasn't been spoiled rotten from day 1. Lukey baby had all kinds of sugar and went on all kinds of outings. Pretty sure Luke's highlight of the week was the Thomas the train ride at Navy Pier. All the pictures are on my mom's camera but I think it sufficient to say that we had to drag Luke away kicking and screaming after his 6th ride. We tried to distract him with a ride on the merry-go-round but he wasn't to into that...he was asking for the choo choo as our horse went up and down.

Edited to Add: I now have pictures of Luke on the train:

Luke and the bye byes

I don't have much to report but thought I'd post just because I have the time.

I think we've read Goodnight Moon to Luke too many times. You know, the book where you say goodnight to everything in the room before going to sleep? Luke says "bye bye," to every single thing before we leave somewhere. He really makes it a point to make sure he says bye bye to the kitties and the couch. ? . funny. Also, he give kisses goodbye to the person handing him off and kisses hello to the person taking him. Such a little lover.

Actually, in regard to Goodnight Moon, Luke's favorite part is pointing out that the fire in the fireplace is HOT (on every other page or so). The concerned look he gets on his face while doing this is priceless.

This weekend I'm hoping to FINALLY get Luke his table and chairs set! I also ordered him some new toys on Amazon as well. I like buying things for Luke even more than I like buying things for myself!

This and that

So Matt's traveling is really getting in the way of my blogging - you can blame him for my lack of updating due to exhaustion. Oh, and my full-time job really gets in the way of my life sometimes, sheesh!

Anywho, my newest update is that Luke will finally watch Sesame Street for approximately 15 minutes! Woo hoo, 15 whole minutes that I can use to prepare a meal for him. Today he even started repeating the ABCs with Elmo - I'd say that's 15 minutes well spent!

In addition to Sesame Street, Luke finds much entertainment in his new book Llama Llama Mad at Mama. He really likes the page where the little llama is scowling and it actually reads "llama llama mad at mama." Do you think he's trying to tell me something? Even when I turn to the next page, he wants to go back to that page. It could be that I started growling to express extra anger (so that he would get the point) and he really enjoys it when I growl. In case you're wondering, the book ends with "Llama Llama loves his mama," and we all know that Luke is the epitome of a mama's boy. Also at the end of the book it shows little llama and mama llama holding hands and eating ice cream - another parallel for us - we've been frequenting Dairy Queen.

So my last piece of news for tonight is that Matt and I finally booked our trip to Paris in September! We're going for a week and we plan on eating and drinking too much. I suppose we'll see the sights, too. We're supa spoiled in that we are staying at a 5 star hotel on the Champs Elysees - a saving grace of Matt's eleventy billion trips to Detroit.

Our Trip to NY

Luke and I are back home in the Windy City and on the path to recovery. We had so much fun in NY that I don't even know where to start. I apologize in advance that this is going to be a moster post. Luke took part in so many activities and events that he has had enough stimulation to get him through the rest of 2009. In Corning, we swam in the pool (and attempted the diving board), bounced on the trampoline, rode on some kiddie rides, played the piano, pretended to drive every vehicle under the sun (especially the lawn mower) and visited with friends and family. As you might imagine, the trampoline was a huge hit. And even more fun was the beach ball on the trampoline that was used as a wrestling partner. Luke is a professional "seat dropper" and "popcorn kernel." I'm not sure who laughed harder during the trampoline shows, Luke or the people laughing at Luke laughing. Mimi taught Luke to say "kawackers!" Pretty funny :0

The second leg of our trip was in Canandaigua. Again, Luke did so much here as well. He played with second cousin, Charlie, went to Wegmans, ate lots of ice cream cake, played on the hammock, monopolized the lawn mower (again), went to a "fly-in" breakfast and also went to the Esperanza. So I mentioned above that Luke has been into driving everything and anything that is motorized and has a steering wheel. Well in Canandaigua he got to drive a real fire truck, a model T car, and a golf cart (he has an interesting technique). The fire truck was his fave and he garnered a reputation among the firemen as "the one that won't get out if you let him in." No joke, I kid you not. He's such a vivid little soul.

July 2nd was Matt's birthday and our 4th wedding anniversary. Two funny stories.

#1 Matt's mom made him an ice cream cake for his birthday Thursday morning and before it went in the freezer, Luke got to have a few tastes of the cool whip topping. He apparently remembered how much he like it hours later when we got it out for dessert. The ice cream cake was sitting on the dining room table thawing while we were finishing up and cleaning up from dinner. Luke was playing in one of the chairs and nobody was really watching him until he grabbed a spoon and quickly scooted up on the table and dove right into the ice cream cake. He proceeded to shovel scoops of the whip cream topping into his mouth. We all thought it was so funny that noone dared to remove him from the top of the table and the cake.

#2 The Esperanza is where Matt and I had our wedding reception so we headed over there with Luke and Matt's parents for a late lunch on friday afternoon. Well there happened to be a wedding going on in the main event room. The music was pretty loud when you walked by which of course, attracted Luke like gum to a sneaker. He was wiggling his little booty all over dancing to the music! The funny part was that this was a Latin wedding and Luke lurrrrved to Latin music.

Matt and I even got to go to the movies TWICE since we were taking advantage of the free babysitters. We also went out to lunch, to our favorite pizza place for a late night snack, golfing, shopping and out for drinks - all sans kid. Why oh why are there so many miles between Chicago and Corning/Canandaigua?!?!

I MUST share more pictures, ta-da!