Lots of teeth, scooting and crawling, and eating carpet!

Luke has had a couple big things happen in the last couple weeks. Now he has not two, not four, but EIGHT teeth! He is pretty young to have this many teeth! He got his top two in a couple weeks ago and within a few days got both his top and bottom side teeth. All the sudden it's like he has a full mouth of teeth! I haven't had him bite me too bad yet :).

Also, he's been scooting around the last few weeks and getting up on "his haunches" as we call it, but just over the weekend he took his first real little crawl without landing on his face. The last couple days he has been pretty mobile and seems to be getting this crawling thing down better and better, moving around quick and grabbing things that used to be out of his reach. I need to baby proof the house! There are things I never even thought of that he has started to grab! For instance, we have these rugs that are remnants of carpet. There is one big one in our family room area, one in Luke's room, one in my room. We didn't finish off the edges of these rugs because it was expensive, so sometimes the little carpet pieces fall off the edges. Well now that Luke can crawl his way to these rugs, he loves to play with the carpet on the edges of the rugs and loves when he can pull out carpet peices, and of course they go right in his mouth! I'll turn my back for a minute and turn around and Luke has little carpet strands hanging out his mouth like noodles! I have to be careful because they are kind of thick, i'm pretty sure if he swallowed one he might chock! So there is one example of little things he can now get to that I would have never thought of! Funny guy, why does he love carpet so much? We love our little Lukie boy. :)

I am so grateful to have this happy, healthy baby boy. Sometimes I don't know why I am so lucky. We love him so much and feel so blessed to have him.

Weekend in Wyoming

This last weekend Cory, Luke and I went on a little roadtrip up to Wyoming. I have done some modeling for a recreational real estate company out of Jackson and they wanted me to do a couple photoshoots over the weekend. So we went up on Thursday night and I did photoshoots on Friday and Saturday. We stayed at a cabin the owner of this company just built, it was just out of Star Valley on the way to Jackson, up a canyon in Bridger National Forest. The cabin was nice, they loaded it with good food for us, and it was at a BEAUTIFUL spot.

The first day we were up there (Friday) I did a photoshoot in the morning down on on the river. Then we came back and Cory and Luke were gone. I waited around for about an hour and they hadn't made it back yet so I was getting a little worried, then they pull up together in this!It was so funny, Cory had Luke all strapped up in this off-road thing. Cory said they were crusing around in this thing (called a Ranger) for like an hour and Luke was loving it! Later that night all three of us went for a ride in it and Luke was getting so excited, he'd kick his leg and make little noises like "vrrrr" like he was trying to sound like the Ranger. So funny.

Here are some more pictures of the trip...

The cabin

This picture really cracks me up. Cory had Luke sitting on a chair in the cabin. He looks like such a little man here! Just the way he is sitting and everything!Saturday afternoon Cory went fly fishing on the river. 

A little rocking chair just Luke's size!

Out the back of the cabin.

Lake Owyhee

Last week we went on a week long boating trip to a lake in Oregon called Lake Owyhee with my family. The lake is just over the Idaho boarder, outside of Boise an hour or so. We went there last year and really liked it, so we decided to go again. 

I was pretty worried about camping for a week with a 7 month old! And I was worried about the 7 hour drive! But it actually worked out as good as it could have. On the way up Luke did great and slept most of the time. Once we got there he loved it. He LOVES being outside so I figured he would like it. He loved constantly being outside and he liked being on the boat, too. I told Cory I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being an outdoorsy tree hugger! Do all babies like to be outside this much? 

I kept him on a good nap schedule and it worked out great. My parents and bros and sister are awesome so I had a lot of help, and my parents bought a portable electric air conditioner! So for Luke's naps during the day we would put him in his pack n play inside one of the teepee's and plug the AC in and crank it up, and it would cool the teepee down and he would sleep great! The nights were a little harder, I'm not sure why Luke didn't sleep so good but it was probably because he just was in a unfamiliar place, and it probably didn't help that he hasn't been sleeping very good through the nights lately anyway because of his teeth cutting and getting sick. So the first couple nights he woke up a lot, and we would end up having him down sleeping with us on our pads/sleeping bags by the end of the night. He seemed to like that. I think towards the end of the trip he knew exactly what he was doing. The last night he was throwing a fit, nothing would sooth him. Finally we pulled him down on the ground in between us on our makeshift bed and he closed his eyes and a little smile went across his face! 

Here are some pictures from the trip...

Our camp site

Luke and me riding on the boat - I had him wear this little hat as often as he would let me to keep the sun off him! He was a little fisherman! Notice his hand on the bar, he would hold onto this bar constantly when the boat was running. It was like he just knew he should be holding on when the boat started going!

Luke would start getting tired on the boat after awhile and would usually end up asleep on Cory .

Chillin at the camp site...
Luke loved taking his baths there, he would splash to his heart's delight!

Lukie and me...notice his cool mohawk we made after putting sunscreen on his head :). Cory thinks I should do this to his hair everyday!

I put this picture because you can really see his new little two front teeth in it! And look at that cute face :)


Cute guy riding on the boat!

Take me out to the ballgame

Friday night was Cory's last ward softball game. They won and he hit a home run! I think he's hit a home run at every game but one this year. Luke liked playing with the snowcone ice and sucking on it.

Cory's family was in town so they came to the game. 

Luke and daddy...
Luke hanging out with his grandma Ferguson, eating his snowcone ice...

Pattycakes, top teeth, hates the vacuum, and scooting

Lately Luke loves pattycakes. I have been doing the little pattycakes song and actions with him for a couple months now and he always gets a big smile on his face when we do it, but he hasn't had the hand control or really known how to do it himself until lately. The last couple weeks I'd catch him doing it here or there, clapping his hands together. But the last few days it is constantly! If he's not sucking on something or eating, it seems like he is clapping his hands together, and when I do the pattycakes song that makes it even better. He gets a huge smile on his face or laughs and starts at it. It's really cute. This morning and yesterday morning when I went to get him out of his crib he was doing pattycakes before his eyes were even open all the way! What a funny guy.

In this picture he is kind of doing pattycakes, except he put his thumb in his mouth in the middle of it! I've been trying to get a picture of him doing it and it's really hard, this is the best i've got so far!

Top Teeth

Next, Luke got his two upper teeth! The first one was cutting through for a couple weeks and is all the way in now, and the second one just cut a couple days ago and is now all the way in. They look huge to me! I was kind of scared at first that they were going to take up his whole mouth! But my mom assured me that those top teeth always look really big when coming in. I think he's been in some pain with them cutting so his sleeping schedule has been kind of off. But that's understandable, those things are big! I can tell they will be really cute in, but it's kind of sad to think he's already getting his two front teeth - he's not just a baby anymore! With these new top teeth he has discovered that when we feed him he can bite the spoon. Sometimes it's a little tricky to pry it out of his mouth! He thinks bitting the spoon is pretty funny...

Not the vaccuum mom!

Luke is suddenly terrified on the vaccuum! He was never afraid of it before, in fact I think he kind of liked the humming of it. But now it scares him really bad. Also, the lawnmower scares him too. Cory used to take Luke's exersaucer outside and Luke would sit and play in it and watch Cory while he was mowing the lawn. Cory tried doing that the other night and Luke freaked out just like he did when I was vaccuuming earlier that day. Poor guy. I read in a book that it's really common for babies to suddenly get scared at loud noises, it's like they are all the sudden aware that things in the world could be dangerous and loud noises make sense to scare them. But it makes it a little difficult for me to figure out when to vaccuum...can't do it when he's awake because it scares him, but can't do it when he's down for a nap because it will wake him up! Lets hope this little faze doesn't last long! :)

Scooting along

Luke is really close to crawling. For the last couple weeks he has been getting up on his hands and knees and rocking. I think he just needs a little more arm strength to get crawling. But he is already pretty mobile because he is scooting everywhere. He scoots all ways, but mostly backwards and in circles. I'm not quite sure if I'm ready for him to be crawling all around! I need to babyproof the baesment first!