Grandma's Purse

He loves sitting on her kitchen table and pulling out stuff from her purse. He goes straight for the cell phone, checkbook and wallet. The only problem is he discards cash over his shoulder like trash.

Big Boy Chair

Loves his little personal chair and tv at Grandma's house.

Snowglobes

This is not the part I thought he would want to study.

He doesn't think I know he is after the cat water. Slowly he makes his way towards it... but Mommy makes it in time! This time. I do not catch him about 30 minutes later.

Candy Warning

Sometimes you have to learn lessons the hard way. I never saw this one coming.

Spaghetti Dinner

I know he cannot give a thumbs-up yet, but I do believe he might have been inspired to by his food. Or maybe its just the fact that he is finally eating solids and finding that he does kinda like food. After this lovely meal, he turned to the couch and thoroughly wiped both hands on it. Then, without my suggestion, he walked to the bathroom, pulled back the shower curtain and started the water.

Door knocker

He has a favorite new game...knocking on doors! Yes, it is as much fun as it sounds. Especially when someone answers from the other side. He can play this game for hours! Maybe that is why Daddy is in there so much!

Kitty love

While Baby Cat doesn't necessarily want to cuddle the way Lukas wants to cuddle, he never goes too far away to stop future attempts.

Halloween afterparty

After stopping a few places to show off the little duckling, we went to my parents' house. He was very happy to get out of the puffy layer and down to his striped tights. He spent about 2 hours destroying their house and climbing on and off his 'motorcycle.' He isn't quite to the point of riding it anywhere, but loves the ability to get on and off as many times as he pleases.

Halloween

Lukas had fun dressed as a duck this year. Grandma Wolf thought he was a turkey...and asked if he was a turkey about 5 times...guess turkeys used to look a lot different when she was younger :)

Ticklish

Lukas eating solids

Since he is now 13 months old, Lukas should be eating solids pretty well. He has such a gag reflex that he has been struggling with for a while now. The doctor seemed concerned because he only gained about 1 lb from 6-9 months, and another 1 lb from 9-12 months. It sounds worse than it is, as you can see in the pictures he is not a skinny boy, but the doctor said it was not enough. He has me giving Lukas whole milk + formula in each of his bottles. He gained 2 lbs in just 1 week! He also sent us to a speech therapist to see if she could help him with tongue movements. We went to the therapist and she said to dip lots of stuff he chews on into baby food. We have to start all over getting him slowly used to different textures. I'm willing to do whatever helps him eat solids, but I am still hoping that one day soon he will outgrow the gagging and eat solids with ease. We see his doctor and the speech therapist again next week. With the whole milk, I am guessing he has gotten up to 27 lbs, but we will see soon!

Messy boy

It seems like the fun of throwing more food on the floor than into his mouth will never end. We went to a friends house for dinner the other night, they have a dog that ran over to eat whatever he threw down, and he thought it was hilarious! Still thinking getting a dog would be great (less kitchen floor cleaning!) but the cats say no. If we had a fenced in yard it would be different, for now I just need to work on training the kitties to lick the floor!

Fall is here!

Went to get apples, cider and pumpkins from the local orchard.Lukas isn't sure if he likes cider or not, but he loves biting into apples. He doesn't eat them...just bites them all over leaving tons of little teeth holes...then leaves them for us to finish off. These 2 large pumpkins were real and huge!! We got the much smaller version for carving.

Lounging

Nothing is better than lounging around watching cartoons in your favorite chair. Slowly relaxing more and more. Eventually, he just slid out of the chair. Blues Clues can be hypnotizing!

Keegan Along for the Ride

How he decided that he was supposed to push her, we will never know. He sure was cute doing it. What a helpful little man he is becoming!

Birthday Fun

After having cake we had fun putting my brother's size 14 shoes on the kids. Keegan showed Lukas how to ride on his bus. To our surprise he started pushing her around the living room on it. He is already such a good boyfriend! He now climbs on and off that bus, which he had never done before watching her do it. It is so nice to have another little one around for him to play with and learn from...and eventually marry once they are old enough :)

Birthday Party

We had a small get together at our house for his birthday. My family came, including Great Grandma Wolf. Lukas' girlfriend Keegan and her Mom joined us as well. The two of them didn't make near the mess with cake as I had expected. I think his favorite present was a balloon. Why did we spend so much when we could have just gotten a balloon?!