I am really sorry for my absence again!  Mitch has had a wonderful way to occupy his days since he's been home (freelance writing for our city) but it has required that he has the computer all day, so I have gotten an awful lot done (just not much computer stuff!).  But it's all good .

So anyhow, I just wanted to reflect a bit on the fact that my baby boy will be TWO tomorrow!  Really, how is this possible??  His grandparents, some of his aunts and uncles, and birthmom will all be coming to celebrate this weekend...all for one wiggly little worm!  He was with me tonight at GEMS (the girls club at our church) and they sang happy birthday to him...he hid his face in my lap!  I hope he's not too overwhelmed this weekend. Thankfully, it should be pretty laid back.  I just want him to have fun!

Anyhow, he is definitely becoming my little buddy.  He calls out "Mommy? Mooommmy?" whenever he wants me to check out what he's doing...or snuggle a little.  Too cute.  And he has such a routine down...books right away in the morning, then scrounge through the fridge for something to eat, then "pray??" before any meal (or even when he sees one of us with our hands crossed), then throw left-over food to "Cha-ie", then "go pay? trucks?" for much of the morning, then "nack"-time which usually involves "papes" (grapes) and milk, then "nigh-nigh" for a couples of hours...which is definitely preceded with "pray??".  Then when he's up, we go see "Peyt" and "Tee-tee" (Kiernan) at my work and play with many "choo-choo's" or "buses"...(this kid has his modes of transportation down!), fight a little over the choo-choo's (of course...he's almost 2!), then go home and see Daddy and "Cha-ie" again.  Also many times throughout the days he talks about "Papa Truck" or "Papa Rockies"...I think his way of keeping his 2 grandpas apart. Is that not too cute??  He loves my dad's truck, and just knows his Papa on the other side (as well has his daddy) talk about the Rockies all the time.  Funny little boy. 

Looking back a bit....

One Day
 

One Year


And I'll have pictures of TWO to post soon!

Here is the start of our birth week celebrations...at Red Robin last week. Mitch was greatly enjoying his birthday sundae!


Lucas at the mall today, where we met my sister for coffee.


Being loved on by Auntie "G"


My birthday flowers (Mitch came home with the sunflowers and I added the gladiola from my garden)

 


My yummy birthday pizza made by Mitch...mmm!


And leftover Chocolate Mint cake from Mitch's party Saturday.  Still delicious!

Lucas has had a few cute firsts for the week that I wanted to share:

1. He ate his first corn right off the cob.  For some reason I always felt I had to cut it off for him, but this week we just gave him the cob.  He wasn't sure what to do with it at first, so I took a bite out of it for him.  Then he went to town on that corn! Loved it...too cute.  Mitch took a video of it, but I haven't uploaded that yet so may post it later.
 

2. He also picked his first 2 books from the library.  We've gone on occasion, but this time I decided he would be kind to the books instead of eating/ripping them, so he picked out a "fishy" book and a "Bah-ey" (Barnie) book.  He is just thrilled and wants to read them several times throughout the day.  I also got him signed up for Story Time this fall.  He just loves to come plop on my lap now to read a book...warms this momma's heart!

3. As the water was draining from the tub the other night, I asked him to put his bath-blocks on the shelf.  He usually just stacks them right up and leaves them alone.  But that night he lined them all up and his imagination took over as the blocks became a choo-choo train.  For probably 10 minutes after the water was gone, he pushed the "train" back and forth on the shelf.  I love to see his imagination forming!

4. This is not really a first for this week, but he is on the list at church to be in Sunday School this year!  There is a 2-3 year old class...won't that be a kick? I about cried thinking about him going to Sunday School...I'm really going to be a mess when it comes to Kindergarten!

Unless something major happens, I've decided summer-time and blogging don't go together for me!  So I'm officially taking a break...I'll keep up on your blogs if you allow...and I'm friends with many of you on Facebook anyhow.  But I'm not going to keep saying I'll blog when really, that is not what I feel like doing.  It's summer-time!! And to that I say "Yahoo"...and we'll "see" you in the fall .

I am really sorry for my absence again!  Mitch has had a wonderful way to occupy his days since he's been home (freelance writing for our city) but it has required that he has the computer all day, so I have gotten an awful lot done (just not much computer stuff!).  But it's all good .

So anyhow, I just wanted to reflect a bit on the fact that my baby boy will be TWO tomorrow!  Really, how is this possible??  His grandparents, some of his aunts and uncles, and birthmom will all be coming to celebrate this weekend...all for one wiggly little worm!  He was with me tonight at GEMS (the girls club at our church) and they sang happy birthday to him...he hid his face in my lap!  I hope he's not too overwhelmed this weekend. Thankfully, it should be pretty laid back.  I just want him to have fun!

Anyhow, he is definitely becoming my little buddy.  He calls out "Mommy? Mooommmy?" whenever he wants me to check out what he's doing...or snuggle a little.  Too cute.  And he has such a routine down...books right away in the morning, then scrounge through the fridge for something to eat, then "pray??" before any meal (or even when he sees one of us with our hands crossed), then throw left-over food to "Cha-ie", then "go pay? trucks?" for much of the morning, then "nack"-time which usually involves "papes" (grapes) and milk, then "nigh-nigh" for a couples of hours...which is definitely preceded with "pray??".  Then when he's up, we go see "Peyt" and "Tee-tee" (Kiernan) at my work and play with many "choo-choo's" or "buses"...(this kid has his modes of transportation down!), fight a little over the choo-choo's (of course...he's almost 2!), then go home and see Daddy and "Cha-ie" again.  Also many times throughout the days he talks about "Papa Truck" or "Papa Rockies"...I think his way of keeping his 2 grandpas apart. Is that not too cute??  He loves my dad's truck, and just knows his Papa on the other side (as well has his daddy) talk about the Rockies all the time.  Funny little boy. 

Looking back a bit....

One Day
 

One Year


And I'll have pictures of TWO to post soon!

Here is the start of our birth week celebrations...at Red Robin last week. Mitch was greatly enjoying his birthday sundae!


Lucas at the mall today, where we met my sister for coffee.


Being loved on by Auntie "G"


My birthday flowers (Mitch came home with the sunflowers and I added the gladiola from my garden)

 


My yummy birthday pizza made by Mitch...mmm!


And leftover Chocolate Mint cake from Mitch's party Saturday.  Still delicious!