Lucas loves technology. He wants our phones or the remote to the tv constantly. You can't fool him either by giving him one without batteries. He always finds the 'live' one.
02 how they look
These are my handsome boys that I love.
03 then and now
Now for this one I have to cheat because Amy already made a then and now picture of Lucas not too long ago. I loved it so much that I am getting the now picture put on a float wrap which should be here on Tuesday YAY! I still can't believe how much he has grown in a year. He is a far cry from that little baby on his laptop monitor.
04 what they wear
Lucas wears pjs. I am lucky that I can take him to the sitter in pjs and she will change him once he is more awake or after they play for a bit. We are not morning people at our house so anything we can do to get a few extra minutes of sleep is worth it.
05 love to hate
Lucas is not a big fan of wearing shoes or socks. He loves to take them off especially when riding in the car. These are the cute little shoes that his Aunt Joride bought him for Christmas for probably waaayy too much money.
There once was a dark cramped cave. It was full of an assortment of things, car parts, a broken riding lawnmower in pieces, old oil, paint, junk, tools, all piled in several heaps. Then along came a fairy with a magic workbench and some worn out lumber. Now this workbench looked like just a bench to most people (infact it had been used as a bench by the previous owner), but the Lord of the manner saw potential. After adding a few pieces of the lumber to the bench and turning it on its side *poof* it became a workbench. The Lord of the manner added a shelf to help store things in his workbench and then set off to make room for it in the cave. The Lady of the manner decided to help organize the cave with the Lord of the manner and together they were able to pair down and get rid of many things that were unnecessary and merely taking up space. The Lady was delighted at the amount of space that had opened up in the cave. There were still many things that needed to find alterior homes, but this was a start. The squire soon awoke which caused the Lord and Lady to stop working on the cave, but they both felt much better about it. Later that evening after a few phone calls to other manners and Lords, the Lord of this manner was able to find a home for the broken down riding lawnmower. The Lady wasn't going to believe it until she saw it. Sure enough the next day when she returned from work, the lawnmower was gone and in its place was a large opening in this cave. An opening fit for a party. And that is exactly what the Lady of the manner did, she had a party to delight in this newfound space.
Ok so we didn't really have a party with people over, but we did celebrate in the fact that we now have a garage. Its not totally organized, Dave needs to make places for his tools and he wants to add doors to the workbench to keep the squire out, but it is a wonderful start. So that is how we spent out weekend. I hope yours was as productive as ours.
This is such a great idea. You write down memories as they happen and put them in a jar. Then you can go back and read them when you want to remember or need a pick me up. As soon as I get a moment I'm going to make one of these and I'll post a picture of it. Here is the blog that gave me the idea. http://stephaniemoorestudios.com/blog/2011/01/our-jar-of-memories-memphis-tn-photographer/
Before I go into our lovely weekend, a Lucas update. On Thursday we went back to the dr (we had just been Friday before for his 15 month check up) because he had a runny nose and a bad cough. The dr says he has bronchiolitius caused by rsv. So he is on a nebulizer for 10-14 days to help him breathe. Poor guy. He seems to be feeling better now. Anyway back to your regularly scheduled programing.
We had a great weekend with some time to relax and enjoy our friends. The geek crew came over to our house on Sunday. The boys did manly things like installed an outlet in our bathroom for our automatic litter box, put a trailer hitch on Andy's van, and attempted to fix the squeal coming from Chad's van. The girls hung out inside with the kiddos. They all got along pretty well minus the usual attempting to share toys. I felt bad because Lucas seemed to manage to be asleep when the big kids were awake and he was awake when the big kids were asleep. Anyway it was fun to be able to spend time with the Geeks. We don't seem to do it often enough. The next get together I imagine will be at Sea World since we all have passes and the kids love it. Here are some pictures of Evie and I making brownies before the Bucks came over.
We decided to get out of the house this weekend. We settled on going to Downtown Disney (even though we missed meeting up with friends there the day before). After walking all around, eating chocolate, looking at legos, dinosaurs,and fish, we decided to take the boat to the Riverside at Port Orleans Hotel (we had been there walking around another weekend before which is how we found out about it). We figured Lucas would like his first boat trip. Well by the time Dave convinced me it was a good idea, I mean who would pass up a free boat ride, it was around 4:30. Lucas normally has his second nap by this time. He was fine untill we got on the boat. After about 5 mins and not understanding why he couldn't get down and crawl around he was fussy. We played pass the kid, look at that, tickled him, everything we could think of to at least keep him from crying. I was afraid he was going to lean too far over the railing and fall in. I pictured him going overboard and me frantically jumping in after him because if he did fall in, it would be the end for him. Good that did not happen, but we decided to get off at the first stop at Port Orleans.
We figured it was best to walk around a little bit before trying to get back on a boat to go home. So we walked around, watched people go down the alligator slide, went to the bathroom, colored in the lobby, ate a mickey mouse ice cream bar (Lucas' first ice cream on a stick), and found a playground on our way back to the boat. This was a little playground with one structure that had a big slide, 2 little ones, a place to climb up and a curly fireman pole. Lucas normally doesn't like slides, but we figured why not try again because you never know. Well this time he decided that he liked it. Daddy helped him down holding him the first few times. Then he would go down with Daddy's hand behind him. Then he went down with Daddy right next to him. Well on that time down he went a bit crooked and bumped his head on the side of the slide. It didn't look bad, but the silent scream, and immediate red bump told me otherwise. We got him to shake it off a bit and then made him continue to slide a few times, twice with mommy and once with help so he wouldn't be afraid of slides. He went along with it, but wasn't too happy about it. So we got him a apple juice and headed to the boat. He loved the apple juice because he normally drinks mots for tots which is half strength.We also tried to get him to put it on his eye to help the red bump, which didn't happen.
He did better on boat ride back, I'm sure partly because he was tired, partly because of the boys about his age behind us to look at. We were talking about how it would be a black eye tomorrow and the lady behind us said "wait until you have to go in for stitches." Oh boy, lets hope not, but I'm sure it will happen. Then we loaded up and went home. After a nap in the car we got home, ate dinner, and got into the bath. It was then we could see his lovely black eye starting to form. Ahh yes, Lucas' first black eye. It didn't look too bad this morning, which is good. I don't want people to think I beat my kid.
We refinanced our mortgage down from 6.5 to 5%. Doesnt it make you a little sick to know that you are paying for your home twice? Even with the new interest rate, if we stay in this house for 30 years we will pay 155,000 in mortgage interest alone. Sigh..but what are you gonna do?
On a creepy related note, we did a digital closing. No people. No notary. No one to wait around for or pay extra. Just click click click. Its the friggin future mannnn! You get all done and save a .pdf copy for your records. It was a refreshing feeling to close a mortgage in my pajama pants at quarter to 10 pm...i highly recommend it to anyone who is closing soon.
Its the start of a new year. Amidst all the cleaning and organizing we make resolutions that we never seem to keep. I just want to try and make the best out of this year. To stop and take notice of the small things and not to let them pass us by in a blur. Lucas gets bigger every day and it amazes me that he once was so small. I love seeing him grown and learn new things every day. This year I want to do a photo project. I would love to do the 365 day project but there is no way I have time for that, so instead I will try at least the 52 week project. One photo a week is doable. I will be uploading my pictures to photoblog at http://www.photoblog.com/suitejessi/ So check it out. Fun pictures from new years.
