These Are a Few of My Favorite Things!

Luke's two favorite toys at the moment are his big Elmo (which was a Christmas present last year from second cousin Brooke) and his ride-on train (which was a hand-me-down from the neighbors). I love watching him play with this train. He is all boy, that's for sure! :)

Silly Luke

Luke loves to play with my kitchen towels. I am always finding them around the house somewhere, or in this case, on his head. He is such a ham! :)

Building a tower (and yes, those are Christmas lights).

Talking on his "phone", which is actually a remote control. Luke can turn just about anything into a phone.

Luke's newest toy~the dome hockey table. Jonathan discovered that Luke loves sitting on the ledge watching us play. And Luke is getting really good at dropping the puck in the hole for us! Check out the video at the bottom for proof...

We received a package from UPS and the box was a hit with Luke and Peyton! By the way, the box contained free diapers--just ask and I'll let you know how I scored those! :)

Sitting in the box was completely Luke's idea!

I've heard of having a frog in your throat but this is something new...

"Hey Peyton, can you help me get this frog out of my shirt?"

He is such a silly boy!

Video of our little helper...

Eight Years!

It's hard to believe eight years ago today Jonathan and I started dating. Ahh, memories! What I remember most about that day was that I wasn't sure about putting our friendship on the line to start a romantic relationship. I asked Jonathan, "What if it doesn't work?" and he simply replied, "What if it does?" And eight years later....here we are happily married with the most adorable son in the entire world! I definitely feel blessed beyond measure!! As a sort of celebration, and just to get away, we got a hotel room last Friday night through Priceline (love that site!). Jonathan's parents were kind enough to take Luke for his first overnight visit. I thought it would be harder on me to leave him overnight for the first time, but I did okay. And of course, he did fine too! :) We had the entire hotel to ourselves practically. We were able to swim in the pool and relax in the hot tub just the two of us--so fun! I told Jonathan we should make it a weekly thing...alright, maybe monthly. ;)

Here are some cute pictures of Luke from after church last Sunday. He looked so handsome! Here he is eating some of daddy's KitKat bar. This boy has a chocolate radar or something...he can hear a candy bar being opened a mile away! :)

I know the bathroom is a weird place for a picture, but he just looks so handsome here I couldn't resist!

Aw, these two love each other so much!

Some Pictures and a Funny Story

Jonathan was fortunate enough to have yesterday off (yea for working for the State of Michigan!) and since it was such a gorgeous day (sunny and in the lower 70s!) we decided to take a nice bike ride--16 1/2 miles. I was feeling it the last five miles, that's for sure! :) Anyway, we biked to downtown Rockford which is a really nice area and ate lunch next to the river and let Luke play at the playground. It was such a wonderful afternoon! After eating lunch, we walked down by the river and Luke was able to see some ducks, which thrilled him to pieces!

After church on Sunday, Luke somehow managed to get away when we were changing his clothes. I think every little boy loves running around in his underwear sometimes! haha

Here's Luke before he stripped down to his diaper! He and daddy decided to match for church. So cute!

And here's some video of Luke and the "quackies"...

And now for the funny story: I apologize if this offends anyone, but it just cracked us up! This evening, Jonathan was in the bathroom--ahem--doing his business and Luke decided to bring his daddy some reading material since he was going to be there a while. And of course, what better literature for such an occasion than "The Toddler's Potty Book"?? I about died when he brought that book to Jonathan. He's such a smart boy! :)

Trick-or-Treat!

Poor Peyton puts up with a lot! I think she secretly enjoys it though! :)

Getting ready to hit up all the houses in our subdivision!

We had to carry the banana around so people would know Luke was a monkey--some people thought he was a lion and someone else thought he was a bear! ;)