Happy Birthday Luke!

Two years ago today my life changed forever!  At 2:34 pm on January 31, 2008, I fell in love all over again with a 7 lb. 7 oz 21 in long baby boy!  It's hard to believe that 2 years have quickly come and gone!  He is the most amazing thing in my life and I couldn't feel more blessed! 

Luke is changing everyday  He is a whopping 32 lbs now and is finally putting 2 words together!   I never thought we'd get there!  He knows all of his colors and can count to 10 although, he leaves out the number 8!  He loves "Daydo" (Diego), "Melmo" (Elmo) and playing outside.  He loves to eat french fries, green peas, chicken nuggets and pretty much any veggie.  We're still working on the fruit!  He loves to talk on the phone and Skyping with aunt Jo-Jo!  He has begun to be interested in pottying but still won't tell us when he has to go.   We're taking it very slowly!

We celebrated Luke's 2nd birthday with family and friends last Saturday since daddy had drill this weekend.  It was so nice having a low key birthday party and not have to worry about feeding 100 people like we did for his 1st birthday!  Luke was definitely into his birthday this year!  We had been talking about it for a while and he is so proud to tell everyone he is two! 

Here are a few pictures of his early days and his birthday party!  Enjoy!

Jan 31, 2008

Our first family picture!

Two of my favorites!  Luke was only few days old

Luke's 1st Birthday Party!

I can't believe he's 2!

"Toptarts" for dinner

I was "cooking" dinner the other night and Luke kept saying "eat, eat" so he was obviously hungry! We were getting ready to eat dinner so I told him to be patient and to wait because his dinner would be ready soon. I was fixing Luke a very bland supper since he had gotten sick twice in the car on the ride home from the beach. I turned my back for seriously 2 seconds and found Luke eating a "toptart". I just had to laugh and take a few pictures! He could probably eat pop tarts for every meal, so I did let him eat a little but then he sat down to eat his real supper!

Caught in the act!

Ahhh...the simple pleasure of a "toptart"!

A Weekend Away...

Luke (23 months) and Betsy (17 months)

They loved listening to the stories!

A very cold golf cart ride!

For the past few years we've headed down to Litchfield Beach with our good friends, The Elferts. This year was no exception so we packed our things and headed down with Luke on New Year's Eve. Luke did so good on the ride down and so I was hoping for a good weekend. Although, I will let you know that we took his paci AKA "pap" away the Sunday before so I was unsure of how things would go!

We met Todd, Erin and sweet little Betsy down at the beach house and we were really looking forward to a calm New Years Eve and my last weekend before going back to work!

We had a great time with The Elferts! Luke loved playing with Betsy although we did have to play referee with the toys! Luke did have a hard time sleeping which I figured because of the no pap situation and the fact we were in a strange place.

We had a great New Years Eve! We rang in the New Year with a glass of champagne and headed to bed! New Years Day was calm, relaxing and lazy! We hung around, ate a lot of good food, took the kids for a ride on the golf card and Trey made Chicken Stew for supper!

The last full day Erin and I got to go shopping alone! It was so nice to shop without worrying about Luke pulling all of the clothes off the rack! We got a lot accomplished but we still wished we would have had a stroller!

We had such a good time and look forward to this little weekend getaway every year! It's funny, because of all the times I've been there, I've still never seen the beach! Luke had such a good time but was definitely ready to be home! He went to bed early without a peep and without the pap!