Today in New York

Yesterday Luke was still pretty sick and if he was still sick this morning I was going to take him to the doctor, but his fever broke last night and he was feeling much better today. Here are some pictures of me and the kids on a walk today, there is an awesome trail across the street from our building that goes right along the river and up the entire west side of Manhattan and we went and walked a little bit of it today. Luke loved looking at the boats up close and seeing the dogs being walked and the "birdies" running around...he loves how close he can get to them without them flying away!

We went on a ride on the Staten Island ferry. Luke of course liked the ride and looking out the window at the boats. Then tonight when Cory got off work he wanted to walk me past his office building and we ended up taking a walk around Wall Street. We walked past the famous gold bull and into Wall Street. The pictures of the building are of Goldman's office building that Cory goes to work at. He's on the 36th floor...he says his ears pop when he goes up the elevator! The construction in the pic is where the World Trade Center towers were and where they are now building the Freedom Tower so you can see that his building is just right across the street from that. Our apartment is on the same street as Goldman's building a few blocks south.

We made it to New York

We made it to New York...barely! We woke up Sunday morning to get ready for our 8:30am flight, were scrambling to get ready, and Luke woke up with a horrible FEVER! Ahhh...sick kids + traveling = no fun. He was very emotional and poor guy didn't feel good at all, but we loaded him up with baby Tylenol (lifesaver) and by the time we got to the airport he felt much better. We were running late and got past security when we realized we had left one a small carry on suitcase at the drop off area...so Cory booked it back to find it and it had been confiscated by the FBI! That's a whole other story for a different time...but he got it back and made it back to the terminal in time for us to board as the last ones on the plane!

The flight went okay, we didn't have any meltdowns and both kids fell asleep for about an hour so that was good. It wasn't until after we landed that things started getting bad. Luke was feeling sick again (another dose of Tylenol helped that) but we waited on the runway for about 45 minutes before we could get off...that is the most frustrating thing when you are at the airport but just can't get off the plane! Esp with two restless kids! Then, there was the longest line in the history of lines to wait for a taxi. Probably because it was raining. So we waited in that line forfooorreverr, the kids were hysterical about halfway through the line crying, but we finally got a crazy cab driver who was nice but I was a little nervous and the kids didn't have car seats so I found myself holding onto Halle and Cory onto Luke for dear life!

A 45 minute taxi ride later we finally made it to our apartment which was a pleasant surprise...I didn't know what to expect..but it has two bedrooms, two baths, quite a bit of space for the kids to play, a full kitchen (small but full), and a closet in our room that is big enough for Halle to sleep in! We are on the 17th floor. The apartment has a view of the Hudson and we are at the very tip of the Island so you can see the Statue of Liberty from our window/balcony. It is a beautiful view. Luke loves looking out the windows at all the boats going up and down the river.

Shaboom Song

Luke LOVES the song "Dreamy" from the "Cars" soundtrack. The lyrics say, "Life would be dreamy....Shaboom, Shaboom..." and so on. He is pretty much obsessed with it. We listen to it over and over and over. It has been on repeat in the cd player in our car for THREE weeks! I don't mind the song, it's a cute song, and I have gotten to wear I can just tune it out, but my-oh-my we have had a lot of Shabooming around here! When he wants to listen to it he'll say "Boom Boom! Boom Boom!" If we have anything else playing, we'll hear, "Boom, Boom!" There's no arguing with the Boom Boom!

Boxes & packing = fun for a toddler

I have been starting to pack the last few days and Luke is enjoying the boxes and thinks it's very fun to climb on them. He also likes to decorate and color on them. He has drawn me countless burbans (aka suburban...his favorite thing to draw). He also likes to eat cookies while sitting on the boxes. I'm not really sure why...he doesn't ask to eat anything else while sitting on the boxes, just cookies. His favorite cookie right now is a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie. We went on a walk today to break up some of the packing time. It was a pretty day.

Grassing up the car

Lately when Luke plays with his car he has been into stopping and pretending to fill it up with gas with a toy he has. Tonight Cory had the back porch door open and Luke was playing in his car and running in and out and doing something with the gas tank hole. After a minute Cory said, "Linds, you gotta see this..." he was filling up the gas hole with grass and saying "gas! gas!" We quickly realized the words "grass" and "gas" sound an awful lot alike. There are so many things to figure out in this world and so many words that sound too much alike! We told him good job on filling his car up. It was too cute to burst his bubble that grass isn't what you really put in your car to make it go. For now we'll let him keep grassing up his car, I'm sure by the time he's 16 he'll have it figured out. :) Notice the grass on the carpet next to the car in the bottom picture.

Cute brother and sister

I got a cute picture of Halle and Luke sitting together on the couch the other day. These two are little buddies. Luke has started wanting to involve Halle in things a lot more. Every morning when he wakes up if Halle isn't awake yet he has to go in her room and wake her up and says "baby, up! up!" and says it until I get her out of her crib.

The other day Halle was sitting on the ground playing with some toys and Luke was in the same room playing with some of his toy cars from the movie "Cars". He went up to her and started telling her the story about "Cars". The story went something like this..."Baby, Boom Boom (Lightning McQueen), Chick, King, Da-Boom (crash)...." and so on and so on. It was so cute and I thought it was very sweet that Luke wanted to let little sister know about the story that he loves so much.

Easter

We had a fun time visiting Grandma and Grandpa Ferguson in St. George this Easter. We were able to spend 5 1/2 days down there. The weather was nice. Luke loved playing in the pool, which I was really happy about because he has had a fear of sitting down in the bathtub since we had to give him an enema once in it, so I've been afraid he'd be scared of swimming. But it was the opposite, he loved it! We had to watch him close because he would go running and jumping right in. One day when he and Cory swam Luke got in naked (pics below). It was really funny, he was riding on Cory's back and you wouldn't be able to tell that anything was out of the ordinary until Cory would turn around and you would see Luke's little naked white bum poking out of the water!

Luke had lots of fun with the Easter festivities this year. He enjoyed coloring Easter eggs and finding his basket and doing the Easter egg hunt Easter morning. Luke's basket was full of fruit snacks, fishy crackers, a Thomas movie, Toy Story, and two cars he has been wanting from the movie "Cars" - Chick and The King. Luke was so wiped out by the time Easter afternoon rolled around that he fell asleep right on the family room floor...I can never get him to fall asleep anywhere but in his bed or in the carseat so this shows how tired he was!

Jumping in the crib

Luke and Halle have a fun game they like to do. Luke likes me to put him in the crib (usually after Halle wakes up from a nap and she is in there already) and he will jump and bounce Halle. This has been going on for months now. When she was littler and couldn't sit up yet and would just be laying there being bounced she wasn't quite sure what to think about it...she wouldn't cry but would more just be surprised. I would have to coax Luke into doing "little" bounces...or as little as I could get him to do. But when she started sitting up I think it is funner for her and now she loves it! This particular day she was laughing and laughing as Luke jumped up and down and bounced her. So cute. I'm so glad these two little munchkins get along so well. What cute kids. I really do think my kids are the cutest. In the second picture if you look through the crib slats you can see how excited little Halle girl is!

Our house is almost done

Our house is almost done being built. Luke loves going to the house and playing in the dirt and especially going in the backyard and playing on the big dirt hill that is still there from the hole of our house. He likes to run around the inside of the house and run back to where his room is going to be. Up until this week we didn't have the flooring in yet so there was sawdust all over the floor on the inside, so between playing in the dirt outside and playing in the sawdust inside he is always a total mess by the time we leave! We are excited to be in our new house.

We heart sunny days

And playing outside on the grass while mom snaps off a million pictures.

We had a really warm day and enjoyed time outside playing. Spring is just around the corner... Luke LOVES being outside. Once we are out he never wants to come in!

Uncle Jake is going to Busan, South Korea on a mission

Uncle Jake got his mission call on Wednesday to Busan, South Korea! He leaves June 2nd. Luke has really taken to "uncle Jakey" lately. He gets really excited to see him when we are out at my parent's house and he thinks the truck (or in Luke words "buck") that Jakey drives is very cool. We will miss our uncle Jakey but are very proud of him and his decision to serve a mission.

Headed to New York for a month

Well, in two weeks we are off to New York City and we'll be staying for a month! Cory has to go back there to work at Goldman's main office in Manhattan for four weeks and I wasn't about to let him have the chance to "live" in New York for a month without me. They wanted him to go a couple months ago but he told them he had to hold off since we were in the middle of building a house, but now that everything with the house is pretty much lined up my parents SO KINDLY offered to take over overseeing the rest of the house building so we can get to New York and back in time to close and move into the house, plus the bonus of getting home for Jake's farewell before he leaves on his mission. We will be staying at a corporate apartment in lower Manhattan close to the financial district.

I must admit I am a little nervous at the prospect of me with two kids in New York City. Our apartment is right next to Battery Park so it will be nice to have some green area close that Luke can run in. I'm planning on taking my double stroller and going on walks, hopefully getting to the Central Park Zoo a couple times, some kid-friendly museums, but what else am I going to do with a baby and a toddler in New York City for a month? Am I crazy? I guess I will find out!