Little Explorer

Luke is definitely in the stage of starting to get into everything. Here he's opening our file cabinet and seeing what he can get his hands on!

Iraq photos

I got a few photos from Drew today. It's nice to be able to see a little bit of what life is like over there for him.

He's still as handsome as ever! He's sitting on his bed here in his little mobile unit that he shares with one other soldier.

Here's rows of the mobile units they all live in. His is the one that has a Texas flag flying over it!

Here's looking into his unit from the front door. He gets along with his roommate pretty well. They didn't know each other before they got over there. They have "movie night" every few nights. They watch movies together on Drew's laptop to help pass the time.

Here's a typical view from around the camp. Drew said they have been having bad wind storms lately and this is what the sky looks like a lot- just thick and gray.

A nice little surprise today

I was at work today and got a special delivery. My hubby actually arranged to have flowers delivered to me for Valentine's Day. Pretty impressive considering he's in Iraq!! Thanks babe! It made my day!

Sometimes it's rather difficult trying to get a picture of Luke these days. He's always heading toward the camera, trying to grab it. Here I got him before he quite got his hands on it.

I was letting Luke play in his crib the other day after his bath. It looks like we're going to have to consider taking his bumper down...

Luke finally sits up in the bath tub like a big boy (safely, that is). He loves his rubber ducky!

Luke loves his kitty, Rico. He always smiles or laughs when he sees the cat around the house. Luke also loves to look outside. If he's fussy, you can usually calm him by putting him in front of a window. Here, both are enjoying the view of the backyard.

A couple of videos from a while back...

For some reason Luke does not not enjoy food other than his baby food yet. Here he's trying some mashed potatoes with gravy at Grandma & Grandpa Schwartz's house.

Here's Luke's first Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Rossow's house!

Luke is 9 months old!!

We had Luke's 9 month pictures taken today. Here are a few of them. He was kind of grumpy, but we were able to get a few good ones. He is getting so big. We went to the doctor last week and he weighs 20 pounds and is 30 inches long! He's getting close to crawling, but not quite there yet. We're still waiting for him to get teeth too!

We have a blog!!

Hey everyone! I finally decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon. I can't promise that I will keep up with it really well, but I'll do my best. I'm going to really try to keep up with it while Drew is gone so it will be easier and faster for him to see pictures, videos, etc. Now bear with me because I'm totally new at this and I'm not familiar with how to do it all yet!