Busy Week

I have been a bad blogger lately, but I have a good excuse! Luke and I were out of town all last week while Vic was in London for work. So, as usual, Luke and I made our way around Houston visiting all of his grandparents. Unfortunately, Luke got a stomach bug while we were gone and also seemed to pass that onto all of his grandparents...oops! But we did have some fun while we were gone, and we are glad to be back home with Vic. Another reason I have been a bad blogger lately is because I cannot get any decent pictures of Luke! He moves too fast and never looks at the camera. This is such a fun and cute age, I wish I could better capture it, but you just have to see it in person. Luke is saying a few more words these days. His favorite word seems to be "Boo!" He loves to be scared and chased around and now he tells us "Boo" all the time. He also seems to really love hiding things, Vic caught him taking small grocery items out of a bag and hiding them everywhere...under the sofa, in my shoes, you have to be careful you don't leave important things in his reach over here or they disappear! Here are just a couple pictures from lately, this is the best I could do :-)

Riding the train at the zoo with grandma and granddad. He had a lot more fun than the expression on his face shows!

Checking out the tree and Christmas decorations at Nana and PaPa's house. Luke did pretty well, he only took off one ornament. We're about the start decorating at our house, so it should be interesting to see what he does!

Reading a book with PaPa, the only time he will slow down and sit still :-)

All dressed up for church. Notice that due to Luke's constant running around, he is starting to look a little slimmer in his clothes :-) He is also getting a little pickier at what he eats, I hope he doesn't take after his dad!

The big day!!

Today was the big day for Uncle Matt, he and Malissia got married!! It was a beautiful ceremony and fun reception. We are so excited for them and glad that Luke now officially has an aunt. Luke was surprisingly well behaved (especially after being out late last night for the rehearsal dinner). He even sat still and quiet on the front row during the wedding, with the help of a cell phone and some measuring spoons :-) Here are some pictures from today:

Ready for the wedding!

The guys (my dad, Matthew, Andy and Vic)

Malissia and Matthew

The Rhodes family after the wedding

Cutting the cake

Luke with Nana and Pawpaw (who helped tremendously to take care of Luke so that Mommy could enjoy the wedding!)

Luke loved picking apart the flower on Vic's tux, fortunately, this was after the wedding!

Matthew and Malissia leaving for their honeymoon

Halloween and rehearsal

We had a really big weekend, it was Uncle Matt's wedding!! Last night was the rehearsal, so Luke of course wore his costume since it was halloween. While the rehearsal was going on, we took Luke to the carnival at my parent's church. There wasn't a lot that Luke could do, but he had fun playing some games and mommy and daddy collected some candy :-)

When Luke sees the camera now, he walks toward it (because he tries to grab it!), so many pictures I take now of him are close-ups :-)

Luke and daddy playing games

Uncle Matt and Uncle Andy with Luke at the rehearsal

Outside the chapel

Fun day at the zoo

We had a fun outing to the zoo today with Jessica and Sterling. Outings are much more fun now that both boys are running around. Unfortunately, they don't tend to run in the same direction, so we did a lot of chasing! I don't think the boys cared too much about the animals, but they definitely had fun and it was a beautiful day to enjoy being outside. Here are some pictures:

We didn't get too many pictures of the boys confined in their stroller/car because this didn't last long before they wanted out!

Sterling's car turned out to be the most popular item of the day, and the boys fought over it on several occasions, including our first shoving incident in which Luke just shoved Sterling out of it onto the ground. Sorry Sterling!!

Lukes loves petting animals, he seemed to especially enjoy this animal, it even acted like it was hugging Luke!

While Luke really enjoyed the petting zoo and touching the animals, as you can see, Sterling did not seem so impressed!! :-)

Both of the boys enjoyed climbing on the playgrounds in the children's Zoo area. This meant the mommies had to climb in after them to make sure they didn't fall. Let's just say that these slides/tunnels are not made for people my size to be comfortably climbing through!


We enjoyed a yummy picnic lunch before heading home and both of the boys sat nicely on the ground and ate their food. But as soon as they were finished eating, they ran off!

You know you are getting older when.....

Vic, Luke and I had a really fun trip to College Station today. We visited Uncle Andy and had fun eating at our favorite places and walking around campus. We already feel old walking around campus having a child with us, but this really took the cake. We were on an elevator and Vic asked the girl (college student) in the elevator with us if she was getting off on the same floor as us, and she replied "Yes sir"!....Vic was appalled that someone referred to him as a "sir", and of course my brother and I gave him a hard time about this the rest of the day. Oh well, when I was in college, I thought people married with kids were old too. Here are a couple pictures from today...

Luke LOVES water, and he spent a long time trying to figure out a way to get into the fountain, fortunately, he did not succeed!

15 month update

Luke turned 15 months a couple weeks ago (on the 6th), but I never posted an official update, so here it is.....Luke weighs almost 27 pounds (75th percentile) and is 32 inches tall (also 75th percentile). The biggest change in the last few weeks has been going from a beginning walker to running everywhere! I am amazed at how Luke never stops moving, unless he is eating or sleeping (and sometimes he tries to eat while running around!). Luke has discovered a love for the outdoors, he didn't get that from mama! Luke stands at the backdoor every day crying to go outside. When he gets outside, he wanders all over, loves to touch the grass and really likes to try eating leaves and dirt. I look forward to when he can play outside without putting lots of gross things into his mouth! Luke still just says a few words, he mainly gets his point across with his squealing and pointing :-) My favorite development has been that Luke has started to really play games with us and with other kids too. He loves to hide things and then shrug his shoulders to ask us where the item has gone, it's adorable! The other day he was playing peek-a-boo with a friend, they stood on opposite ends of a wall and kept going from one side to the other to hide from each other, then when they found each other, the laughed....it was the cutest thing I have ever seen!! Well, that's about all for now, I'll have more exciting things going on soon, we have plans in the next week to go to college station and the zoo, so I'll post pictures after those events.

Birthday weekend!

I am a couple days late in wishing Vic a happy 29th birthday (on the 10th), but we had a great weekend celebrating. We had a nice date by ourselves on his birthday and then celebrated with our families yesterday both for his birthday and his mom's, which is tomorrow. Luke was very interested in helping open presents, he didn't understand they weren't for him!

Luke dragging the presents around by the bows!

The birthday boy :-)

Luke trying to get the bow off his head