Splish Splash!

Back while Grandma was here, she taught Luke how to splash in the bath. For some reason, I couldn't get it to post the other day, but here it is!

Crawling!

It seems like we've been waiting forever for Luke to crawl. He's been kind of scooting along for a while now, but today he finally fully crawled. Looks like we're definitely going to have to watch the little man a lot closer!

Growing up

Luke is working hard on becoming more mobile and independent. He's starting to try to pull himself up and finally holding his own bottle. He's starting to crawl about a foot at a time, but I haven't been able to get a video of it yet.

More fun with Grandma

We went to the zoo while Grandma was here. Luke wasn't as enthused as I thought he would be. He wasn't too sure what to think of feeding the giraffe.

He seemed to enjoy the meerkats more than anything. He loves watching the squirrels at the babysitter's every day and I think these were the closest thing at the zoo.

I was trying to get him to look at the moose, but he was obviously not so interested. Oh well, we'll have to try the zoo again when he's a little older. We bought a membership, so we'll have plenty of opportunities in the next year!

Fun with Grandma

Grandma came out to visit for the week and is spoiling Luke to death. Here's a video of them having fun together.

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.