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!

Summer fun

The last couple weeks have been really fun and busy! We've been gone a lot, and other than Cory and me getting pretty sick last week with a killer cold which turned into bronchitis (luckily it's gone now!) we've been having lots of fun. Here is what we've been up to...

We went to Draper Days parade with my family and watched the fireworks. Even though we don't live in Draper we still had to do Draper days, it's a tradition! Here is a picture of my dad with Luke at the parade...

Then that weekend to early last week my dad's side of the family had a get together with all the families up in Park City at the Marriott up there for a couple nights, it was lots of fun! We went boating one of the mornings, hung out at the pool, had some good meals made by my grandma Bagley.

Here is a picture of Luke boating. We went to Deer Creek and it was overcast that day so it was a little chilly till the sun came out. So we wrapped Luke up in a little baby burrito wrap. He was so funny, just laying back relaxing all wrapped up.

Luke doesn't have any cousins on either mine or Cory's sides and it could be awhile because we are both the oldest and none of our brothers or sisters are married yet. So I am always kind of bummed that Luke won't have any cousins close to his age to play with. But, he has a second cousin that he is really close in age to! My dad's youngest brother Dave and his wife Sue had their 4th kid, which was a boy, 2 months after we had Luke. So they are really close in age. Here is Davis and Luke looking at each other...they will be little buddies!

We were home for a day from Park City and then headed down to St. George mid-week for the 24th of July and the weekend to hang out with Cory's family.
Me and Luke drove down with Cory's mom because she was already up here, and Cory drove down later that night when he got off work. On the way down Cory's mom had some fun dressing Lukeup like Davie Crockett at a convenience store...
On the 24th we went to a baseball game. St. George has a minor league team called the Roadrunners, and after the game there were fireworks. We didn't know if Luke would be scared or what. But by that time (about 10:30) he was already so tired, he got a little fussy with the fireworks and then about halfway through them he actually fell asleep in my arms! And they were loud fireworks! He must have been exhausted. Here's a picture of Luke and Cory's sister Jamie at the game...
We went over to Cory's aunt's and uncle's house for a 24th of July breakfast, they went all out with pancakes, fruit, dutch oven potatoes, eggs, sausage, etc. After breakfast we went to their son's play room and he had this cute doggy rocking thing that Luke had fun sitting on!

It was really hot down there, so we of course did lots of swimming and laying out by the pool. Luke loved the pool this time. It took him a minute to figure it out, but pretty soon he was splashing all over the place. Since it was so hot outside so he would get worn out after not too long, but he really liked the water. He also loved being in his little turtle floaty toy. He would just lay back and relax in it, and he liked kicking his legs around really fast so he would move around in the little turtle.
Splashing around......Loving the turtle.....

Daddy's birthday

Six months old and first time at Lagoon!

As of yesterday our little guy is six months old. I seriously can’t believe he is a half a year old! It’s crazy to think that in another six months he will be a year. Sometimes it makes me sad because he’s growing up so fast, but then he is so much fun right now and he seems to get more fun the older he gets! He is at the cutest age. He is so sweet and just a little guy, but he is SO interested in everything around him and he's learning so much. It’s like he has 10 hands, he grabs for everything and wants to play with it. He will always give us a big smile or laugh. He is a really happy, easy going baby. I think I am luckier than I realize with how easy going he is (well most of the time…we definitely still have the wake ups during the nights and the occasional dramatic moments). He’s just a ton of fun and we couldn’t love him more!

Tuesday was my work company party at Lagoon. We went toward the end of the day because we figured we wouldn't be doing lots of rides this year with Luke. We ended up taking him on a couple. Cory took him on the Puff the Magic Dragon ride. Just watching it, the ride doesn’t look like it goes that fast but Cory said it went faster than he thought once they were on it. He said the whole first time around the track Luke went all stiff and just held his breath. Cory was a little worried he would do that the whole ride! But then after once around he loosened up, he never cried but I don’t think he knew quite what to think! Cory was laughing the whole time around because Luke was being so funny, you could tell Luke wasn't really sure whether to laugh or cry!

Then I took him on the kiddie Tidal Wave ride, I don’t even think he realized he was on a ride for most of it, I just had him sitting in my lap, it probably just felt like a big swing or the rocking chair to him. But the girl who put our bar down put it so tight he could barely move, so I was worried he would start to get bothered by it. So when the ride was about halfway done Luke starting squirming, arching his back and getting all antsy. I wasn’t sure what to do so I just had to try to hold him still and he didn’t like that very much and of course he got upset! I think he would have liked the ride better if the bar wouldn’t have been so tight! But that's okay, it was fun anyway!

After going on the two rides he was so worn out and just being out in the sun for those two rides he turned beet red! He wasn’t sunburned, just hot and a little overwhelmed I think! He fell asleep in the stroller and didn’t wake up for like an hour. Those rides are pretty intense to such a little guy!

4th of July weekend & Great-grandpa's b-day

It's become a tradition for Cory's family to stay up in Park City for a few days over the 4th of July. We stayed at the Canyons. We hung out at the pool, went shopping at the outlets, and ate at some yummy restaurants. The Canyons puts on a really good firework show for the 4th. This year it was perfect because our room had a balcony that looked out to where to fireworks went off so we were able to stay in the room with Luke and still watch the fireworks. He got a little scared of the loud noises but didn't cry, and I think he kind of liked watching them with all the bright colors.

This is the only picture I got, I took it on our last day there in the morning when Cory and Luke were cuddling in the bed, Cory sleeping. 

Luke had fun up there with everyone and slept pretty good the first couple nights, but then the last day or so he seemed more fussy than normal and the last night was tough.

On a better note, while we were up there Luke started saying "Mama"! It's the first thing he's said that sounds like a real word when he says it. I love to hear it, even though I know he doesn't really know what he's saying. He says it over and over. "Mamamamama". He was making lots of cooing sounds and squealing and everything before, and had even sort of said Mama but not as distinct as it is now. Now he says it over and over and it really sounds like the word! It's fun. We're working on "Dada" with him now. :)

A couple weekends ago we went to a b-day party for Cory's grandpa. 

Luke was having fun playing with the doggie's ear....poor thing!

Luke and his second cousin Myah...they are buddies! She LOVES to hold "baby Luke" :) .

Some fun new pictures of Lukie boy

My sister took these pictures of Luke about a week and a half ago. It's not always easy to get him to smile for the camera for a bunch of shots like this. As you can tell his hair is SLOWLY starting to come in (still recovering from after he lost all his newborn hair and went completely bald!) and he is starting to pack on some pounds with all the solid foods he's been eating and loves. I think his cheeks are getting chubbier every day!