6 months already!

I can't believe my little baby is already 6 months old. He's growing so fast and is so much fun. We love him so much and are so excited that he is such a wonderful addition to our little family.

He constantly sticks his little tongue out like this. It's ridiculously cute!

On November 18th Luke rolled over all by himself! He's pretty good at it now. The only problem is that he can't roll back onto his back and he only lasts on his stomach for a short period of time. He happily rolls over then gets mad moments later.

Oh, and he's obsessed with his feet. (I love this stage. It's just so cute.)

He LOVES daddy. Whenever dad comes into the room he just stops and gets a huge grin on his face (including in the middle of a feeding! Focus, Luke!)

He has started to take baths with big brother (though it's mostly because Mikey will actually get in the bath if he hears Luke is taking one too.)

So I know it looks a little like Luke is about to go under...I only found this picture on the camera days after this bath, of which I was not a part...Lance? (Just joking. For the record, I do, in fact, trust Lance with our kids :)

Happy 6 months! We love you!

Family photo shoot continued

We got our pictures back from our family photo shoot and we're quite pleased (especially considering the fact that Mikey was freezing and not all that happy through most of it). If you are on facebook chances are you've already seen these, but here they are. Thanks Sami! You did a great job!!

The Diminutive

Suddenly Mikey can only talk in the diminutive. All day long this is what I hear:

"Luke is sady"
"Come into my roomy"
"Can I have a drinky?"
"I need a snacky"
"Can we go to the storey?"
"I need to watch a showy"
"Can I have some milky?"
"I need to brush my teethy"
"I don't want to take a bathy"

I don't know where he came up with that, but it cracks me up!

The end of an era...and only 8 years too late

Kristy obviously didn't think this made the blog cut, but I was pretty happy with my work, so I thought I'd share. She was also worried that it would cause people to conclude that I don't think "W" is a moron...not so.

Poor Lance

Anyone who has been to our house knows about our trees. They are huge. They have many leaves.

Lance had, in fact, ALREADY raked a week or so before this was taken.
And this was how many leaves were still on the trees soon to join the others covering our lawn.

Poor Lance

Happy Halloween!

(Okay, first of all, sorry about the major onslaught of posts. Geesh, I went crazy! But there was so much to catch up on, I just had to get it done. This is the last one for today, I promise!)

On Halloween evening, we went over to Heather's to see some of Mikey's cousins all dressed up. They all got to play in their costumes before doing some trick-or-treating. Getting pictures was another story, though.

While jumping, we got a few of them to stop long enough to snap a picture.

Then we tried for the posing on the ground in the leaves.

Kate and Ben were quite cooperative, but Mikey and Abigail were a different story.

We thought Kate could hold Anna and support Luke at the same time, but that wasn't so easy for a 6-year-old. You can see a hint of Mikey and Abigail running off in the background. Those two wanted nothing of posing.

Finally we got Mikey to sit down for one second, but he wasn't able to hold Luke up very well and right after this picture, Luke was pretty much flat on his back.

This was the final attempt to get a picture of Abigail. We never did get a very good one. But she was a darn cute monkey!

Anna was pretty much the only one who held completely still. Way to go Anna!

On a side note, as we were getting ready to go, Mikey and I had the following conversation:

Me: Mikey, do you know what Kate is for Halloween?

Mikey: What?

Me: A cat.

Mikey in a high, shocked, screech: WHAT?! A Cat?!

Me: Do you know what Ben is?

Mikey: What?

Me: A froggy

Mikey in same, aforementioned voice: WHAT?! A froggy?!

Me: Do you know what Amanda is going to be? A bumble bee.

Mikey, same as above: WHAT?! A bumble bee?!

And so on and so forth, through Caroline as a bunny and Abigail as a monkey and Anna as a ghost. He was just as shocked at the last one as he was at the first

Halloween Trunk-or-Treat

A week before Halloween our ward had a Trunk-or-Treat. Mikey and Luke's friends, Hallie and Gavin joined us for the evening and had a blast.

The ballerina and dragon--unlikely couple? I think not!

Luke is our little tiger for the year (as Mikey was our tiger two years ago and their cousin, Ben was the tiger last year. But it's a cute costume and we never tire of it!)

I love this picture! If only my stupid arm wasn't in the way!

Luke and Gavin are obviously quickly becoming best friends as Luke already feels comfortable enough to try and suck on Gavin's hand instead of his own.

Luke has 4 months and more than a few lbs on Gavin. I'm sure Gavin will catch up one day! :)

Birthday dinners and Mikey's cooking experience

On the last day my mom was in town we had a family dinner to celebrate Brad and Kate's birthday. It is always so fun to have everyone together. It was so cute to watch all the bigger kids line up along the fireplace to "watch" (more like help) Kate open her presents. Here is Abigail, Ben, Mikey, Kate and Amanda.

I was in charge of the desert and being October we had to go with the Halloween theme. We have a chocolate ice cream cake AND pecan cup cakes because many members of the family can't live without chocolate, and a few won't even touch it. But it's okay, it just gives me a reason to do two cute things. :)
The night prior to the dinner, I had to start baking. I decided that Mikey was big enough to help. He helped me to stir and dumped in an ingredient or two...and of course licked the spoons, bowls, beaters....the usual things that need licking. Thanks, Mikey!

Happy Birthday, Kate!

Kate turned 6 in October and had a party at Chuck E Cheese's, which happens to be right by our house so Mikey got invited! Thanks for the fun party, Kate!

Ben, Mikey, Kate and one of her friends.

Mikey on the carousel. (It's been hard to get good, smiling pictures of Mikey lately so we're lucky to have this one!)

I lost track of how many tokens we used here, but Mikey and Ben just rode this and rode this until it was time to leave

Mimi had the tough job of hanging out with Luke and newborn Anna. I know it was rough, but she hung in there.

Mikey and Kate's cousin, Ester driving around town