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...

"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.