Army Crawl

For those of you who saw Luke's now dubbed "Breakdancing Video," this is what I was actually trying to capture...his army crawl. He is all over the place! It is amazing how quickly he has mastered this. He loves the remote, cell phones, cords of any kind, and Taxi. Those are usually what make his dart across the room at full speed. Now that he knows he can get where he wants to go, he even tries to crawl over me when I am carrying him or holding him. This daredevil doesn't yet realize that if he jumps out of my arms he could be seriously injured! I am astonished that my 5 month, 5 day old baby can move like this. When they tell you they grow fast, they are NOT KIDDING!

New Discoveries

Here are a few photos of things we have been doing. Domonique and Olivia came over for a pre-fourth of July picnic. We sat Luke in the window to watch Daddy mow the lawn. As you can see in this first picture, Luke has suddenly begun to suck his bottom lip. And Luke has quickly taken to solid foods. Since Luke can now flip himself out of his Bumbo seat, Howie built his high chair so that we could feed him. He has cereal in the morning for breakfast, and has had peas, carrots and applesauce at dinner time. We had a rough go the first time, I don't think he was quite ready for it. Now he attacks the spoon! And he likes to grab my hand and help guide the spoon into his mouth.
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Luke has begun to army crawl and scoot across the floor. I took this video this morning trying to capture his army crawl and he actually looks like he is breakdancing. It is so funny!

4th of July

BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing In past years, as a childless couple, Howie and I have had full, fun 4th of July celebrations. Our first 4th of July together we went to a friend's BBQ and had a VIP balcony viewing of the Bellingham fireworks where Howie proposed. Every year after we have been at BBQs and out late watching fireworks. This year we enjoyed a much more laid back day. We hung around the house in the morning, ran a few errands, took a good afternoon nap, and let Luke try out his new fresh food feeder. We put an orange slice inside the mesh bag and he chowed down! We went to church then to a small BBQ at the Evans' new house just down the street from us. They have a two year old Nate who got to stay up for fireworks for the first time this year. We didn't go to the Bellingham fireworks this year because we weren't sure how Luke would react and they don't start til after 10 so we opted for neighborhood fireworks. We enjoyed watching him do pockits (pop its) and firecrackers (sparklers). :) We bought sparklers for Luke but he was less interested in them than I thought he would be. He much prefered the fountain fireworks the neighbors had. Luke did so great! He was up late but was his usual agreeable self and he was not bothered by fireworks. He was startled a couple times by the noise but didn't cry at all. We are thankful to have a very laid back child and dog on a holiday that is often scary for pets and young children. :)