Thanksgiving week 2008

This week we had a few things happen ... I started making baby food, ( sweet potatoes). Lucas got a little taste and liked them a lot but I'm going to try to wait a little longer until we give them to him full time. We took Lucas to Kobe's steak house which is a resturaunt where they cook in front of you and do tricks. Lucas was pretty interested in watching the guy however he let out a cry that everyone in the restaurant heard when the chef lit the grill ... i felt bad for lucas, but he calmed down pretty quick. We borrowed a jumparoo from Kristi and have been getting Lucas acquainted with that. He is a little small for it but he actually does very well with it. Kelly came to see us for the week, so we all went and did a few things around town. We went to the cosomosphere, the hutch zoo, did a little bit of shopping and had a great thanksgiving. We are all getting excited to see everyone in oregon for the holidays. I cna't believe it's only 11 days away. I'm sure we will have a busy week ahead of us getting ready to go.

a morning with cereal

these are the pictures we took the same morning we did the rice cereal video.

4 month photo shoot

for Lucas's 4 month photos we decided to do a train theme. We went to one of the rail yards greg used to work at.

4 month check up

Lucas had his 4 month check up today, it went well. The doctor said he is a healthy strong boy, shook my hand and told me congratulations. He weighed 19lbs 6oz. and was 27 inches long. so he is in the 97th percentile on weight and height. His head was 17 1/2 inches and he passed all the physical tests they did to him. They also gave him three shots which he was not to happy about but he only screamed when she was doing them and he stopped right after she was done! what a strong boy! The only thing we need to work on is getting him to role over, the doc said he would probably be a little late on that because he is so big. But over all he had a good check up.

16 weeks

I shot this on Lucas's 16 week birthday which was November 5th. When i made it i had myspace in mind so thats why i only mention a few people. they are all people who have myspace accounts. how ever it was too cute to not put on here. He is very smiley! We love to do goofy things to get one out of him.

eating his toys

I took this video a couple days ago, I thought it was pretty cute. I gave him these toys for the first time and he must have thought they were something yummy to eat. well you can see for your self.

Halloween

Lucas got dressed up as a ghost for Halloween. We wanted to find a monkey costume but never found a good one that woudl fit him so e went pretty basic with this white ghost onsie. Greg was out fo town for the weekend finally getting to have a little fun with his friends so Lucas and I went trick or treating with our friends Tina, Jay and Harrison. It was fun walking around the neighborhood with him, although he got very heavy after a while. I thought I would carry him instead of bringing the stroller.... not a good idea!

Rice Cereal

We've started giving Lucas rice cereal now! He likes it and does pretty well with it how ever we will need to start giving it to him before he gets really hungry because he gets pretty frustrated and just wants his bottle.

3 months old!

We barely made it back to Hutchinson before Lucas turned 3 months old. He is now starting to laugh a little bit and really trying to figure out how to make all those neat noises everyone else makes with there mouths. He us usually full of smiles how ever when we got the camera out he clammed up a bit. He sleeps through most nights now eating a bottle around 9pm and again between 3:30 and 5:30am which works good for us because it matches Greg's schedule. He is also up a lot more during the day and woudl like to be entertained. It's great fun for both of us but it has gotten increasingly harder to get things done around the house.

Florence

John, Taylor, Lucas and i all went to Florence for the day. It was a nice sunny day but the wind was still very cold. We took Lucas all the way out to the ocean and quickly explained to him why the ocean was so neat, took a few pictures and got back to the car pretty fast. then we went to mo's for lunch. Lucas was unable to enjoy the seafood but he seemed to have a good time anyway.

I love you

Lucas has really started trying to talk now. It's pretty crazy really. In this video he is just mumbling along but at the end i ask him to say i love you and he makes some noises that sound a lot like i love you. When we talk to him you can tell he is studying our mouths.

One Happy Morning

Lucas wakes up pretty happy usually as long as you are prompt with a bottle, but this one morning while we were in Eugene for some reason he was extremely happy. he was so animated and just making the craziest faces so i couldn't help but snap a few shots.

Visiting all our family in Cottage Grove

We made a couple trips to cottage grove while we were in town. Lucas was pretty tired from being passed around but he did pretty well considering his whole schedule was out of wack. Everyone loved him very much. Aunt karen had a cold so she insisted she woudl wear a mask so she wouldn't get Lucas sick. I missed a alot of the family for photos ... I'll have to get tehm next time.