Fall Fun

It's been an unusual fall out here in Kansas. the weather has been nice sunny and in the 70's. so we've had some time to get out and play. These are just a few shots of Lucas enjoying the leaves. He thinks it's great fun to stomp on them and listen to them crackle.







also having nothing to do with Lucas at all, Hugo got attacked by some sort or I'm assuming wasp and his whole face swelled up. I cannot resist putting the pic's up. Trust me at the moment this was no laughing matter, the pictures don't even show how bad it really has. but this not being his first run in with wasps i knew what to do and he was back to normal by the next day. and now that he is fine i find the pictures to be quite amusing.

Lions and Tigers and ..... Monkeys ????

We had a great Halloween!
We started it off by taking a few pic's of our lil monkey at our house. We couldn't resist putting his duck jersey on even though it didn't really go with it at all. it was game day and it was a big game so we couldn't mess with that. So he was an Oregon monkey!

Then we met up with some of our friends who's lil guy is a couple months older then Lucas. He was dressed up as mickey mouse. and we all went to the hutchinson zoo to trick or treat. We took Lucas in his wagon, and i dressed it up a bit for the occasion. i put some green fabric over the top and cut it a lil to somewhat look like leaves, and he was equipped with bananas and a few other monkey stuffed animals to keep him company. I swear the whole town was at the zoo. It was packed! We had a good time cruzin through. Lucas attracted a lot of attention, he even got his picture taken for the radio stations web page.


After the zoo we headed to get some pizza and bananas! we went back home and ate our dinner, then headed out to trick or treat the neighborhood.








one last shot with momma.


We got done about 8:30 and Lucas was in a great mood the whole time. It was a long day for him and he was a trooper. Lucas headed off to bed and then greg and i watched the Ducks stomp USC. it doesn't get much better! We just had so much fun takin our lil guy out and about. he was so funny doing his monkey noise all day. and watching his reflection in what ever he could find it in.

Grandpa George and Uncle Grant Came To See Us!!!

Grandpa George and Uncle Grant came and stayed with us for a week! Lucas was lovin the extra attention. He got to sit on grandpas lap in the morning and eat all of grandpas bananas, and he loved cuddling uncle grant on the couch in the morning and was giving all kinds of kisses. Grandpa took him out side to play in the yard all the time, he had a great time running all over the place. We went to a car show here in town, it was nice, there were a lot of cars for such a small town. Grandpa took us out to dinner and we enjoyed walking downtown. Also while they were here grandpa and grant put in a new sink for us! no more yellow sink! We had a great time visiting with them, and were sad to see them go.

Dancing

This is a little clip of Lucas dancing. I'm sorry the video isn't very good. I took it with my phone. I guess thats the bad news but the good news is i finally figured out how to get my videos off my phone and on to the blog! so even though they won't be as good of quality my phone is with me a lot more than the flip so i will be putting a post up of all my past videos that are at random and will try to keep up with everything i shoot. .... I hope you enjoy!

Just for fun

These are photos I've taken with my phone while we were out and about. I'm not sure of the dates i took them but i thought they should be put on here. I'll probably add more later.

State Fair

We all went to the Kansas state fair tonight. It was lots of fun and Lucas enjoyed all the people watching and fair food. He got to try a lil bit of everything. Well not everythnig but trust me he got to taste plenty. We all went on the little train that goes around the fair together. It was fun. I was hoping Lucas could go no something but you have to be 36 inches even for the kiddie rides. I ofcourse forgot to get my camera out except for as we were leaving so sorry thats all I've got.

A day at the park

After Hugo had his stitches taken out we took him to the park. Lucas had a great time walking him around the park.





This video is from a day at the park a couple days later but i thought I'd just put in on this post.

Game Day!!!

We all look forward to football season in our house, even Lucas likes to watch the ducks play! The first game was to late for lil man but he did watch a little bit of it.

I got my hair cut!!!

I cut Lucas's hair ... He is looking pretty studly!







These are the paintings that greg did for Lucas's room! pretty cute!

Reading

Lucas loves reading! I catch him in his room reading books instead of playing with his other toys all the time. these are a couple short videos i got on my phone of him reading his books to himself.

It's official!!!

Lucas is up and walking! he was doing pretty good yesterday taking about 5 steps at a time, then today while Greg was watching him he walked from the fridge to the cabinets. it's probably about 5 steps too but this time we weren't there to encourage him to do it. so he did that a few more times so i decided we should work with him some more since he was in the mood to walk. We sat down and had him go between us a few more times. after this we had to show some family on skype, by the time he had shown off a few times he was just cruising around the basement. one time Greg was about to grab him to turn him away from the fireplace and before he could get to him Lucas just turned around and went the other way. he walked in a few circles even ... he was just going and going and going, so 35 minutes after his normal bedtime we finally called it quits and he was out like a light! I'm sure he's dreaming of all the places he will walk to tomorrow!

We are so proud of you Lucas!

Things are changing so fast now ...

Today Lucas was practicing walking back and forth between daddy and my self and several times made it all the way (about 5 steps each way) he was very proud of him self as were mommy and daddy! I am trying to get a decent video of this but it's hard because i want to see him too so i end up cutting part of him out of the video while I'm paying attention to him and not the camera. It is so amazing how quickly things are changing these days.

I don't think i mentioned he got his upper left molar partially in while we were in Eugene and since we've gotten home i can see the bottom two molars coming through. they are about to break the skin so i am sure he is in some pain. He is handling it like a champ though, just a little bit of whimpering in his sleep.

The last note i wanted to add was that i have been teaching Lucas what a monkey says. and he also eats bananas for breakfast so i always tell him "monkeys eat bananas, what does a monkey say" and the other morning when he saw me coming towards him with his banana he started making the monkey noise 'ooh oooh ooh' it was pretty cute needless to say. I am trying to get that on video as well but he just does the cutesdt stuff all the time i'd have to have the thing out all day.

Oh my Oh my

Lucas climbed up on the love seat this morning! Pearl and Hugo were laying on it and i guess he decided he wanted to be with them. It was pretty crazy to see him up there. And just when i thought i had the downstairs child proofed .... yikes!

Also he has figured out how to go down the stairs. He's been going up them for a long time but now he's got the down part too. He climbs down feet first on his belly. he's still pretty unstable going down but going up is a breeze. of course i am right there to catch no matter which way he is going. It's pretty cute to see him turn around to go down the stairs because sometimes he miss judges how far he is from the stairs and scoots backwards for quite a while. it cracks me up! I'll try to get it on video.

12 month check up

Lucas had his 12 month check up and shots today. I know it's a little late i usually do it right on the date but since we were in Oregon i didn't schedule the app until after we got back. It all went good, the doctor said he is doing great. He was 30 and a 1/4 inches tall, 80th percentile. 26 lbs and 11 oz. which puts him in the 92nd percentile for that. He was also in the 92nd percentile for his head size. They gave him 4 shots, it was pretty hard on him. I had to hold his hands while they did it, poor lil guy I felt so bad knowing he doesn't understand why I was letting someone hurt him. He stopped crying as soon as i picked him up, and fell asleep on the way home. I'm sure it took a lot out of him. Hopefully I can make the rest of his day a lot better.

Peekaboo!!!

Lucas got a wagon for his birthday! He loves the wagon and we go walk pretty much every night with him in it. But he also loves the box! here are a few videos of us all playing with the box.

Lucas's 2nd First Birthday!

Lucas Got two birthday parties this year since we were in Oregon close enough to celebrate. but when we got home we threw a party on his actual birthday. We have a small BBQ With our friends out here. The cake was cute as can be and so was the birthday boy! He had a lot of fun and got some great loot!

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... nope it's SUPER LUCAS

This picture deserves a spot of it's own! Thank you aunt Jane for the awesome super man cape! This picture turned out pretty cool. It's a good thing Lucas likes to be thrown up cause we did it a few times to get a good one


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This one was with out the cape but still turned out pretty neat.


Nice shooting aunt Taylor

12 month photo shoot!

Well as we all know i like to have Lucas's pic's taken monthly. I think now that he is one that will slow up a bit. and I'm still waiting on the 11 month photos from aunt Taylor but I'm sure I'll get them up soon. anyway here he is at 12 months! There are a lot ... but i just can't help my self.

my first ... 1st birthday

He kept this hat on for a long time. and actually did very well with it. He also had a monkey attached to his belt loop.

With his grandma Linda

Hunter, Maddelyn, Liam and Lucas playing. Hunter and maddelyn are my best friend Mindy's kids and Liam is My cousins Kari and Kurts lil boy.



Everyone was singing happy birthday, and he was into it. just looking around trying to figure out why everyone was singing.

Oh ya frosting!!

Chillen with his Grandpa mark



Lovin on aunt Taylor

Kisses for mama

Some of the decorations. you can't see all the apes i had hanging from the ceiling but you can get the idea. it looked prety cute in the house




Since we were in Oregon close enough to Lucas's first birthday we had a party there for him so the whole family could be involved. It was a very nice party and Lucas got lots of goodies! Thank you to all who attended! And also a thank you to my dad and barb for letting us throw it at there house and for buying Lucas's cake!

Florence

We went to the coast on June 30th for a couple nights, Taylor came with us the first night then John and hannah came up for the second night. We went out on the beach but the wind was pretty cold so we didn't stay long. Lucas loved the sand and really watched the waves. we had a good time going through old town and of course Taylor and i traded shifts with lucas so we could do a lil gambling.