Pictures

amie took some fun pictures of Luke on Sunday. Here are some of my favorites...

"I Love You" book

For the last month or so I've been reading books to Luke before I put him down for naps and to bed at night. He has never really shown preference for one book over the other until a couple weeks ago, he started to pay pretty good attention to this cute book called "I Love You". It's a touch and feel book so he loves to touch the soft fuzzy little things on each page. Last week I sat him in his room to play while I went around the corner to the bathroom to get ready. I heard him crawling around and then kind of struggling to pick something up. He was grunting and making noises so I went in there to find that he had crawled over to the basket I keep his books in, dug through the books until he found the "I Love You" book, pulled it out (it's pretty heavy, I'm still amazed he can get it out) and was trying to turn the pages to read it! I wondered if it was just a fluke that he chose this book over the others. But later that same day he did the same thing, went to the basket and got that book out. Since then, every day he has gone to the basket and pulled the "I Love You" book out all on his own. It's heavy and he struggles to get the pages turned and it slips around a lot on the carpet but he keeps trying! We read it at least 4 times a day, if not more, he loves it! It's so fun to see him start to show his little opinion on things like this and I love that he likes reading books, or at least this one :).

On a side note...I pretty much have the book memorized so I decided we needed some more variety. So yesterday I went to Barnes and Noble and bought him two new books. One of them is a lot like the "I Love You" book, it is a touch and feel and has the same type of bright pictures. But he doesn't seem too interested in either of the books. I try reading them to him and he just grabs them and throws them! Hah! I guess he knows what he likes!

This morning after he pulled the book out (notice all the books in the background he had to dig through and throw out of the basket to get to this book)

Weekend in St. George

We went to St. George over the weekend. It was fun for us to spend time with Cory's family and it was fun for them to see Luke, he's grown a lot lately. They hadn't seen him since before he started crawling and now he is cruising and climbing all over the place. My family was also down there because my sister did a Triathalon there on Saturday. Cory and I went to cheer her in. It was her first Triathalon and she did awesome, in the swimming part of it she came in 12th for women 40 and under! We also went to Les Miserables at the Tuachan theater with Cory's family Saturday night. It was way good! Luke had fun swimming in the pool at Grandma and Grandpa Ferguson's house as usual and playing with them. Cory's mom bought Luke a fun baby einstein bouncer toy that he sits in and can bounce and turn it has all sorts of toys on it, kind of like his exersaucer but more high tech :). It was a good weekend!

Luke loves splashing, he splashes in the pool like crazy. It's cute how much he likes it and it's kind of nice for us because he wears himself out so much doing it he always sleeps really good after! :)

At the triathalon after Jamie came in - good job Jam!

This picture is actually last week before we went to St. George, but I thought I'd include it because Luke has been doing this tricky little crawl lately - he doesn't want to drag his knees on the hard ground like the wood floor or tile (or here the cement!) so he crawls on his hands and feet with his knees off the ground like a little monkey and he's gotten really good at it! It's pretty funny.

Go Cougars!

We had fun watching the BYU game yesterday. What a win! Cory is training Luke early on what team to cheer for :)

Picture day

For some reason I was camera happy today. I took a bunch of pictures of Luke, nothing special, just once I started snapping I couldn't stop!

Lately Luke loves going to the grocery store because now he can sit up like a big boy in the cart! He loves looking around at all the things and people in the store, and especially loves watching other kids being pushed past us. Right as I put him in the cart and strap him in he starts doing his little happy squeal which means he is getting excited.

So today at Costco I pulled out my camera when we were in the parking lot getting ready to load up, I thought I might as well document him in the cart and how much he likes it. I sat there taking picture after picture trying to get a good shot of him looking at me and not getting distracted by cars passing by, AND smiling, and then I realized what a dork I must look like to all the people walking by me. Here I am trying to get my kid to pose in the Costco parking lot like it was some big outing! I'm sure people thought, that poor mom, she really must not get out much! 

Here he is looking every which way but at me as I snapped off a million pictures

Finally I got the smile I was looking for!

Just hanging out on the couch later in the day

The last couple days Luke has been standing himself up! I am constantly worried he'll fall, but he usually surprises me and does pretty good lowering himself back down. He's been standing up to all sorts of things around the house. Here he is standing in his crib, and bitting the crib rail, his latest trick :)

And this is just a cute picture I couldn't resist posting!