John, Christy, and Luke: July 2006

Monday, July 31, 2006

Up for the Challenge

Luke has pretty much mastered pulling up to tables, seats, people, etc. His next challenge is pulling up to flat surfaces. He's attempting the back of the couch here, but he also likes to try the wall and patio door. He shows no fear, but I do (christy).

Pretty Boy

This is one of Luke's wrist rattles. John decided to make a bow out of it on Luke's head.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

7 1/2 Months Old and ALL boy. Luke is developing rapidly right now. We've learned to expect him to do something new physically each day.

"I own this place." I put Luke down here in front of his boppy while I went to the kitchen to get his sippy cup. This is how I found him when I came back to the room. He looked so funny and older than what he really is.

Who do I look like now? Daddy or Mommy?

Look at my big foot! "These feet were made for walkin.' That's what I'm gonna' do."

Look at me Mama! Luke is constantly amazing us and himself. Just over the past 4 days, he has mastered sitting himself up from his belly, pulling up to EVERYTHING, moving from object to object while standing, and just this morning he has started to let go of things while he's standing. I keep telling him to slow down. He still cannot crawl with his belly up. He does the army crawl. At the rate he's going we figure he be walking by the end of the week and running early next week:) I guess this means he's ready for the work force soon!! Get ready McDonald's!!

Luke: Hi Da!
Customer: Uh...I'd like a Big Mac and fries please.
Luke: Blah, blah, blah da-da?
Customer: What??? I said Big Mac and fries!
Luke: Da-da-dad. Blah la da da da.

I'm a big boy Mama.

Bite.

Check out my cereal beard!!! This is what happens when I feed myself.

Caught! We keep Luke's toys on the shelf where you see him in this picture. He had just crawled into that space right before I took this picture.

This looks like it's just my size.

Playing is FUN!!!

I know this may look bad, but I wasn't trapping Luke. He was pretty intrigued by the laundry basket so I wondered what he would think if I put it over him. He enjoyed playing in his "cage" for quite a while.

Here he is squeezing his nose through the basket. He thought it was pretty fun to press his face up against it.

Whew....playing can be rough on a little guy. It's a tough job that wears me out, but somebody's gotta' do it. This is how Luke sometimes falls asleep. He rolls over to watch Mama walk out of the room and falls asleep soon after.

Whoa...this feels different. We started Luke on some finger foods this month. He is having veggie puffs in this pictures. He also likes to eat biter biscuits.