Soccer Star

Someone definitely taught Luke how to dribble a soccer ball while I wasn't looking. Who done it?! Honestly, he can dribble a soccer ball and he even looks like he knows what he's doing. My little theif pilfers soccer balls from unsuspecting children at the park and dribbles away to his little heart's desire. I wish I had it on video so you all could see Luke's super soccer skills because I am not exaggerating. If I were exaggerating, I'd be saying something like "Luke is the smartest child that ever lived - think Einstein." Gah, there is nothing that annoys me more than "that" kind of parent. I digress.

Back to Luke's pilfering ways, along with soccer balls, he has a penchant for scooters as well. As if he doesn't have enough toys with wheels, we'll be purchasing a scooter in the near future *sigh*. At this rate of wheel collecting, we'll be buying the kid his first car in kindergarden.

My little man also has a magic carpet for transportation. Yep, blankie turns into a magic carpet and mama turns into the engine. I'll translate, Luke makes me pull him around the house on his blankie repeatedly until my quads burn. I even ask the slave driver for a break and he says "no....again!" And so the humble servant halls his majesty off down the hallway. That's right folks, I'm a huge pushover and I love it!

But you know who isn't a push over? His nanny/best friend Tali:

Me and my prince:

Back from Paris Back to Blogging

Wow, well that was quite the hiatus I took from the blog! I guess I left off with preparations for Paris. Well, we're back, duh. We had a super fabulous time which would be hard NOT to do in Paris. We roamed the city child-free and care free...saw the main attractions, ate some good gub, browsed a lot of stores and basked in the sun. We walked so much every day that our legs ached by the time we got back to the hotel room. Matt and I are now Paris pros as we mastered to metro system and discovered some off-the-beat gems. We missed Luke a ton and I filled the void by dragging Matt into every kid store we came to. We, of course, spent some Euros on the kid - his wardrobe theme for the fall is total Euro toddler. As soon as I snap some pics, we'll have a virtual fashion show in the blog.

When Matt and I returned, Luke literally couldn't contain his excitement and threw up all over himself. I wish I was joking, but sadly, I'm not. His other new tricks include saying words like, delicious -or dee-ish-is, bonjour, which sounds exactly the way it is supposed to and j'taime, or tem as Luke says it. Luke's report card from his time with mimi came back with all A+s, imagine that! Mimi even took Luke to his first Wiggleworms class, which is toddler music/singing class. Luke is starting to "sing," and tonight in the car, he was singing the uh-uh-oh-uh-uh-oh part to Beyonce's Single Ladies song - freaking hilarious.

We might be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for Matt's ridonculous work schedule; he's in the last big push of his Detroit project and he actually might work less than 80 hours a week beginning sometime in October - woo hoo! I'm really not sure who's more excited about this, me or Matt.

Random Cuteness

Luke and I went to Targo (aka Target) tonight for a few supplies. I've duped Luke into thinking that Target is one of his favorite places because it is one of my favorite places. We visit the toy department as a treat for being good - Luke already knows how to work the McDonald's register (his favorite toy to tryout at Targo) - guess we've got a backup plan if the presidency thing doesn't work out.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to post again before I leave for our trip to Paris, so if not, I'll owe a bunch of posts when I return. Luke's gonna be hanging with mimi...I'm sure he'll have learned how to do back flips, swim and read by the time we return. We'll miss him so incredibly much!

Back to tonight, after Lukey's bath, I got some cute pictures that I wanted to share - the actual reason for this random post, so without further ado: