Playing at the park

We love to take Luke to the park, and we have been several times this week. The park has put in a whole area for toddlers to play on and Luke loves it! He loves to climb up the slide (doesn't like to go down, just climb up!) He likes to crawl through tunnels and still enjoys the baby swings. We look forward to when it cools down a little so we can go earlier in the day. Here are some pictures.

Luke was so excited when we got to the park, he almost jumped out of his wagon!

Daddy pushing Luke on the swing

Luke bouncing on the seahorse

Luke playing with the steering wheel

Luke and daddy on the big kids slide!

Words

I keep forgetting to mention Luke's first few words. We are counting his official first word as "go"....he started saying that about a month ago, but has not been saying it much lately. He is consistently saying "done" or "all done" when he is done eating, which is a great improvement over throwing his milk and/or food on the floor! He loves to say "mama" and sometimes "dada" but we are not really sure if he clearly associates those names with Vic and me. In fact, the other day at a friend's house, Luke was banging on the refrigerator yelling "mama!", so I am a little offended that he has me confused with a large appliance!! Really, as I have long suspected, I think Luke just associates yelling mama with getting food :-)

Visiting Friends

Luke and I spent the week visiting friends and staying with grandma and granddad while Vic was in Montana and Utah for work (he wasn't too thrilled to go to such exciting places!). We stayed one night with Trinity and Kristy, and we also visited Jessica and Sterling. It is now becoming almost impossible to get a picture of Luke without him moving, much less Luke and another child in the same picture.....so this is the best I could do! We had a fun week but we are glad daddy is home now. As you can see, Luke is also continuing to help around the house with things like unraveling all the toilet paper!

Luke doesn't just like to unravel the toilet paper, he then likes to shred it to pieces!

Luke and Trinity digging in the grocery cart and playing in the kitchen

Luke and Sterling playing together

Chuck E. Cheese

We have continued to have a low-key week, spent mainly indoors or at the pool. Fortunately, Luke loves to go in the water and is happy to stay for as long as we want. Last friday, my parents came over and grandma decided it was time for Luke to make his first trip to Chuck E. Cheese. Yes, I know Luke it too young to go there, but we were out of good ideas for close and indoor ideas. Luke was in a bit of a funk, so we don't know if he enjoyed it or not. However, Luke LOVED watching Chuck E. Cheese talk on the stage. He was so excited, he looked like he wanted to crawl up on stage with him. He was much happier after we left and had lunch, food always seem to cheer him up! Luke is still getting closer to walking, he pushes everything that has wheels around the house, but doesn't let go yet. Here are a couple pictures from our outing.