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!