Growing up!

We missed our Lukie guy so much while we were gone in Europe. We took a couple pictures of him the morning before we left and kept them on our camera so we could look at him any time we wanted while we were there, here are a couple of them...

Even though we missed him so much we knew he was having lots of fun with his grandma and grandpa Bagley and that he was getting so much attention and love, so it was all okay!

While we were gone my parents and fam taught him some pretty cool new tricks like...throwing a ball, putting the rings on the plastic ring toy stick (not sure what it's called!), hitting a button on a toy to make it spin, and hitting the sweeky santa on his santa book so it will make noise!

Since we've been home, it seems like he's been learning new things everyday. I swear he is growing and learning so much right now, it's so fun. He is at such a fun age.

The other day Luke took his first steps! Since then, every day he practices his steps a little more. I think the most steps he's done in a row so far is 4. He can stand up in the middle of a room with nothing to hold onto and lower himself down too. When he stands up like that he just starts smiling so big and you can tell he is so pround of himself. He stands, takes some steps, and usually ends up plopping down on his tush. I'm sure he'll be walking pretty soon here!

He is also learning the concept of putting things away or at least putting things back where they came from. He likes to rip my newly folded landry out of the baskets and them put them back in. Yesterday he dumped out some garbage from a garbage basket (it was just a few peices of paper so it wasn't gross garbage) and then put the peices back in, and he is so proud of himself!
He is so fun and learning so much everyday! It's so fun but then also kind of sad, my little boy is growing up so quick!

Halloween!

Here are our Halloween pictures! As you can tell Luke was a cute tiger. Around Halloween we started doing the "rrrawwrrr" sound to him gearing him up for his tiger outfit. He started doing it back to us just in time for Halloween! Now he still likes to do it but now he adds some spunk to it by also clenching his fists while he does it! It's pretty funny! He especially does it when he's either frustrated or excited.

Halloween, with the cutest tiger ever! :)

Luke and the other kiddos at Cory's aunts house on Halloween

Wow dad that hair is pretty scary...

Pumpkin carving

Last night we carved a pumpkin. We were excited to have Luke participate in his first pumpkin carving! However, most of the time he was more interested in eating the pumpkin goo, seeds, and the newspaper the pumpkin was sitting on then anything else. But still, it was fun. I have to say Cory is a master pumpkin carver, he did all the carving while I sat back and watched, or kept Luke out of trouble I should say. :) He is all over the place lately...crawling, standing up to everything, finding and eating any little peice of anything on the floor, and he gravitates to staircases, he loves to climb them. I'll have to get a video of him doing it. Anyway, here are our pictures from the pumpkin carving...

The before picture

Working hard...

"Dada can I help?"

Dad carving while mom tries to stop Luke from eating the pumpkin insides

The finished product...this is Luke's half smile half deer-in-the-headlights scared smile he has been doing lately

Good job Cor, Luke's first Halloween can now be complete with his first pumpkin carving experience!

Luke the tiger

Luke and I at the Haslam family Halloween party at my mom's house. Luke has a favorite stuffed animal that's a tiger he just loves, so when we saw this tiger costume we thought it would be perfect for him! Our cute little tiger :).

Luke was given the stuffed animal tiger from Kyle's (Cory's brother) girlfriend Nikki. He loves it! He's never gotten attached to something like this before. He has a blanket that he likes to sleep with at night and he always cuddles to that, but this is the first thing that he has ever seemed to become attached to. He will drag it around, hug and kiss it, and tackle it. I think one of the reasons he likes it so much is it's pretty big, it's almost as big as him! So he likes to tackle it and I'm guessing he thinks it's fun because it's like tackling something his own size. He responds to it's name...we'll say, "Luke, where's your tiger?" And he'll crawl really fast to it and grab it and start hugging and tackling it. It's fun to see him grow and begin to do little things like make preferences to toys, etc. He is growing so fast!

Moving!

This past week we have been moving so it's been a little crazy! For the last year and a half we have been housesitting for John & Jean Groberg who have been serving as temple presidents up in Idaho Falls. John Groberg was a member of the quorm of the seventy and now is amaritus. There is a movie about him, "The Other Side of Heaven", which is really good. Anyway, we were lucky to get the opportunity to live there. The Grobergs get back in a couple weeks so my grandma Bagley offered to let us live in her basement for now until we figure out if we are going to buy a house or what. She lives just a couple blocks up from the Grobergs. So this week we have been moving all our stuff in and we are finally getting settled! 

Restaurant experience with the Lukester

Cory's mom and sister were in town this weekend so we went out to dinner with them and a bunch of Cory's family Saturday night. We took Luke and got kind of creative in ways to keep him entertained and happy at the restaurant...

First we gave him some orange slices to suck on. He made some pretty funny faces eating them, I guess oranges are really sour to him!



Then we dripped water from a straw in his mouth. He loves doing that! He could do it all day. As you can see he likes to bite down on the straw really hard with his teeth! Cory has to pull it out quick before he gets too tight of a hold!

Pictures

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