First summer trip to Utah!

From May 17th to June 23rd, Lucas and I abandoned Craig and headed to Utah. My really good friend was getting married and the grandmas and grandpas were missing Lucas. We went everywhere and saw a big part of Utah, from Logan to Spanish Fork and several places between! Aunt Kenzie taught him how to high-five and on the 21st of June he learned to wave good-bye. He is not consistent, but he does it now and then. It was lots of fun and Lucas was excellent through it all! Here are some pictures taken during our trip!

Picture #1 - We are boarding the plane to head to Utah and all I can say is I love pre-boarding it is so nice and makes flying a little easier and lets other passengers know what their getting into if they sit next to us! Though Lucas is wonderful when flying and we have not had any big issues, besides changing his diaper multiple times during the trip!

Picture #2 - Grandma Les has a toy car, Lucas loved being pushed around in it, when he wasn't trying to open the car door to escape.

Picture #3 - Since I was involved in my friend's wedding and also attended another wedding of an old family friend, Lucas was left at various times to bond with his grandparents! It is a good thing they love him!

Picture #4 - A baby taking a bath is pretty cute, but two babies take a bath together priceless!

Picture #5 - Lucas's head measures off of the charts! His height and weight are about average though, which is kinda of surprising. So with that in mind, his hat that we bought last summer (which was a 12 month size) did not fit. Grandma found him a new hat. He looks pretty darn cute in it, when he leaves it on! It's his Crocodile Dundee hat!

Birthday!

During the month of May we celebrated Lucas's Birthday three times. On May 16th the day before we left, we celebrated Lucas's Birthday! We had animal cupcakes, we let Lucas chose which flavor of cake he wanted, he picked chocolate! Smart Man! He loved the cupcake and smothered it everywhere! Here are picture from that.

Barbecue

We went to a ward members house for a barbecue last Friday. Lucas had a blast he loved the fruit salad and hamburger! He also liked swinging in the hammock and drinking from one of our ward members cups, obviously he thinks he is too good for his sippy cup. He was the entertainment for the evening.

update!

It has been a couple of weeks since we have blogged. So I thought I would give a quick update on Lucas. In the last couple of weeks Lucas has started pointing, it is not consistent, but he does get that little pointer finger sticking out, were not sure half of the time what he is pointing as, but he is pointing. Sometime in the last week of April, we were outside and there were some kids down the road playing with a ball, I could have swore that Lucas pointed at the balls and said "ball". Yesterday the 5th of May, he was playing with his blocks and he said, "block". We are also pretty sure he knows "dada". The other day he pointed at his daddy and said, "dada". We have also notice that he doesn't say, "dada" as much if Craig is not there. Lucas is quickly gaining his independence, he doesn't like being removed if he is getting into something he isn't suppose to be in. If you do something that he doesn't like, or he is not getting something that he wants, he is quick to tell you, he gets this tone and lets you have it, you know he is scolding you, though you don't know what he is saying.

Another tooth!

Another tooth has broken through his bottom right (lateral incisor). Were now up to eight!

Baby Walker

Lucas and I were playing at the neighbors house and they have this little push toy. I stood Lucas on it and was holding on to him as he pushed it along, after a few minutes of this it occurred to me that he was cruising along and I wondered what would happen if I let go. I did and to my amazement Lucas kept walking with the assistance of the toy. He was giggling and just loving life. It was pretty funny! We now have this toy at our home and Lucas loves it as much as he did as the neighbors. I suspect that walking by himself is just around the corner!

Persistent

Last week I was on this uncluttering, organizing kick! Lucas was a big help as always! I was in his closet putting some things away and I could hear a lot of noise coming from the extra bedroom so I went in to see what Lucas had gotten into. We keep are food storage in the closet of the extra bedroom. Lucas was in the closet he had was standing on cans of food leading over the shelves reaching for a bag of the Graduate Freezer Yorgurt things. Which I would guess he saw them and decided he wanted them, even if he had to climb over and get on top of other items. In the end he did get what he wanted!