Trip to the Oil Ranch

We took a field trip out to the Oil Ranch with our MOPS group today and we had a blast! There were so many fun things to do, Luke of course loves anything having to do with animals. Thanks Grandma for going with us!

Luke loves petting zoos.....the best part was the way he yelled "BAAA!!!" back at the sheep when they talked to him :-)

Luke and Grandma on the train, we rode the "choo choo" as Luke calls it, several times

Luke had his very first pony ride! He definitely needed me to help him stay on, but he enjoyed petting the horse as he rode and yelling "Neigh!!"


We could hardly get Luke out of the petting zoo area, here he is looking at chickens, which he yelled "Cacaca" (for cockadoodledoo of course!) Do you see a theme for the day? Luke may not say many words, but he sure can tell you what sound the animals make :-)

We had several firsts today and I think Luke's favorite was his very first snowcone....yummy!!

Luke really loved the jumpy thing, we had a hard time getting him out of this too!

Playing in the sand

I have been really bad about not taking pictures lately, which is why I haven't been blogging very much. Luke is just too busy for me to stop and pull out the camera! We had a really nice Easter weekend, we relaxed a lot, played in Luke's new sandbox that Nana and PaPa bought him and got to see all of Luke's grandparents. This past week we enjoyed the beautiful weather by playing a lot outside, going to playgroup, the park and the zoo. We are enjoying this before it is too hot to go outside! Here are a couple pictures from the week.

Luke didn't mind sitting in his sandbox, but he did not like the sand getting on his feet....odd, since he has never seemed to mind getting dirty before!!

He got over that and enjoyed playing with his toys in the sand :-)


Luke seems to know where the baby is and last night we asked him if he wanted to hug the baby, it was so cute!! We just hope he is this loving and gentle to the baby when he or she actually arrives!! (I have a feeling that is going to be a lot different!)

Easter egg hunts and 21 month update

Luke has been very busy lately, he had his first overnight trip to Nana and PaPa's this weekend and two easter egg hunts. And he turned 21 months yesterday, so hard to believe that he will be 2 in just 3 months! Luke is changing a lot, he has started saying some new words (mainly cartoon character names!) and has some new interests. His main new hobby is climbing on anything and everything, he is a little monkey! His favorite place to sit is on top of the end table in our living room, I find him perched there several times a day. Luke also has developed his hobby of taking things apart (unfortunately not putting them back together!), his favorite things to take apart are the vacuum cleaner, remote controls and the air conditioning unit in the sun room. As you can tell, this has made my life much busier as well! Luke continues to love cartoons and the only people's names he says on his own are "Man" for handy manny, "Chuck" for ChuckECheese and "Bob" for sponge bob, ironic since we have never let him watch spongebob??

The pictures are from the egg hunts Luke went to this weekend, one for our young adult sunday school classes and one for MOPS. Luke was interested in putting a few eggs in his basket, but then just wanted to take those out and open them, we had a hard time getting him to collect all 12 he was supposed to! (I doubt this will be a problem by next year). I have to brag on Vic, he took Luke to the first egg hunt all by himself b/c I was at handbell practice and he even took some cute pictures, what a great dad!!

I found an egg!

Hmmm... let me see what is inside this one before I decide to keep it :-)

Playing at the park after the egg hunt

(These are all from the sunday school egg hunt, I did not get any good pictures of Luke from the MOPS one because Luke spent the whole time climbing on the stage in the church gym to get to the fire alarm and touch it! Fortunately he never set it off, that would have definitely disrupted our egg hunt!)