These Boots Were Made for Walking

Luke worked on these all morning. He wanted to walk in them so bad--I lost track of how much time he played with them!



By the afternoon, he was a pro! Hard work pays off I guess!

Luke's New Favorite Word

Our little toddler is learning all sorts of new things. One of those things is independence! He loves being able to answer "yep" or "no" when I ask him if he wants to color, read, etc. I think he enjoys feeling like he has some control and can make up his own mind! Lately, though, he likes to give just one answer--NO!

Name That Cousin!

With eight cousins to keep track of, Luke's been slowly on learning all their names! We have everyone's pictures on the fridge and he loves looking at them and naming everyone. Here's his progress so far. He's doing pretty good, and when he doesn't know a name, he just mumbles two syllables, which covers most of them. :) I think it confuses him that he has a cousin and an aunt Emily as well as a cousin and an uncle Jacob!

Updates

I had my second doctor's appointment today. I'm currently 14 weeks along and everything looks good. The baby's heartbeat was 144. I think Luke's was about that when he was 14 weeks, so Jonathan now believes it's another boy! ;) Here's my first belly shot. I definitely feel like I'm showing a lot sooner with this one than with Luke. Then again, I'm not sure how much of this bump is actually baby #2 and how much is leftover from baby #1. :)

In other news, Luke is 19 months old today! Time sure flies, that's for sure. He continues to learn new things all the time and is such a busy busy boy!! Here are some cute pictures and videos we took of him this past week.

Making an important call in the car.

Helping daddy build a tower.

I took this picture right after the Griffins scored a goal. You can just see the excitement oozing out of Luke, can't you? He really did enjoy himself, I promise! :)

Luke loves playing basketball and lately he's actually been shooting it, not just dunking it. He didn't really do it as much for the video, but you get the idea. I'll keep trying to get a good shot on camera.

On a much sadder note, my friend Ali and her husband, Jon, lost their twin baby boys yesterday. Ali was 21 weeks pregnant with the twins and everything seemed to be going well. Each boy lived for 19 minutes. Jon and Ali continue to remain firm in their faith. I can't imagine what they are going through. They already lost their first daughter, Emmalee, just ten short months ago. Please check out their blogs and keep them in your prayers right now. They're in our blog list to the right.

Road Trip

This past weekend Luke and I took a road trip down to Indiana to see my family. It was so great to spend time with them, as always! And, of course, Luke enjoyed getting all the attention. Boy, is his world about to change in a few months. ;) As usual, I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I wanted to, but here are some of the ones I did take.

While we were in Indiana, I really wanted to take Luke to a REAL high school basketball game. And what better place to learn about basketball than in the Hoosier state? Grandpa keeps the book for the team and Luke couldn't understand why Grandpa wasn't paying any attention to him!

"Whatcha doin' Grandpa? Can I help?"

"No mommy, I didn't eat that powdered donut!"

Luke is really into coloring now as you can see.