Busy Bees

We have been really busy this past month, which is why it has been awhile since our last blog. My parents came into town this past month for a couple of weeks. We spent the previous weeks preparing for there arrival. Attempting to finish some projects up and de-clutter the house. There was a lot to get down, but we were successful and ready for their arrival minutes before they pulled up! Now we have to get caught up with all the things we've done and the pictures we've taken the past few weeks.....

Stay tuned.

mmmmmm

The last couple of weeks, whenever Lucas eats something he thinks is yummy (which is pretty much anything he eats), he will look at me and say, "mmmm... mommie that is good". It is pretty adorable and I have pretty much let him eat just about anything so I can hear him say it. Lucky for us, Lucas is not big into sweets, which is pretty surprising since that is what I am known for. Making and eating sweets is essentially my hobby! We have taken him to the dairy a couple of times for ice-cream, he will eat a couple of bites and then he is done. Guess we can't complain about that.

Whipple Dam

We went to Whipple Dam for the first time this season. It was a little cool, with a slight breeze, but not bad! My highlight was for the most part being able to sit by friends and chat, rather than running after Lucas the whole time. He didn't wander as much, and seemed to enjoy playing with his friends. I strapped his swim float thing on him, though he never got far enough into the water to use it. I think he was a little discouraged after he tried to swim like one of his friends tummy first and ended up floundering with a mouth full of water. After that he stayed on the outskirts of the water. All in all, it was a good day! Long, but fun!!!

Strawberries!

On Friday we went to a ward members house and picked strawberries. Craig more than hinted that he wanted Strawberry Rhubarb pie and they also had rhubarb that we could pick. Lucas picking strawberries consisted of him taking my bowl and dumping the strawberries into his bucket and then eating them. He was covered in strawberry juice by the time we left! Lucas wandered around there yard and at one point one of his little friends let us know that Lucas was in the pasture with the horses. That is my little wandered, so curious, and has no probably investigating his surroundings, even if it requires wiggling through a wire fence. The highlight was that she let Lucas ride a horse! Lucas loved it, he wanted another turn! He also helped lead the horse by holding onto the rope. It was a fun morning! I am so grateful that we are surrounded by so many wonderful people!

A crappy day (literally)

I had not planned on writing about this particular event, but after several of my friends mentioned that I needed to blog the story, I succumbed to peer pressure and am now blogging about it. A couple of days last week I would go get Lucas from his nap and find him without his shorts or diaper. An important thing to note here is that Lucas usually has a bowel movement during his nap and needs to be change after he wakes up.......Do you see a potential problem with him having no pants or diaper? The first time (yes, the first time, he did it twice in a row), was not so bad. I was impressed at how well I kept my composure as I cleaned up poop and in a calm manner explained to Lucas that we do not take off our diaper and throw it overboard. The second time or the following day, did not go as well. I decided to take a nap towards the end of Lucas nap, I thought I would sleep about twenty minutes, until Lucas woke up. I woke to Lucas crying about an hour later, with about ten minutes till we needed to pick up Craig. I went upstairs to grab Lucas and get him in the car. Only to find my child covered in poop! Unfortunately it was a little more mushie than the previous day. It was everywhere; on the floor, the handrails of the crib, the crib mattress cover was caked in it, it was on Lucas feet, and his hands were covered in it. I wanted to scream, and it was very difficult to maintain my composure and I probably did let out a few sighs of frustration with the little stinker, who was laughing as I cleaned up the mess, which included scrubbing the floor, cleaning the handrail, putting the sheets in oxi-clean (I love you Oxi-clean, you were heaven sent!). I ended up putting Lucas in the tub and then into his PJ's, all the while Craig is calling wondering where I am. Amazingly enough I was able to get everything, including Lucas cleaned up and in the car in just over twenty minutes. (No worries this story has a happy ending!) On the way home from picking Craig up at work, I explained to him what had happened, Craig had had a bummer day also, so I decided it was an ice cream day, we went home had dinner and went to the Dairy for a sundae. Yummy! A day like this needed to end with ice-cream!

Our Little Monkey

Saturday Lucas was entertaining himself as I was trying to tidy up the house. He eventually wandered up stairs, I could hear him wandering around, and then several minutes went by and I heard nothing. This is almost always a red flag that Lucas has gotten into something that he shouldn't be in. I quickly head up the stairs and to my surprise I find Lucas sitting on the changing table with a pile of wet wipes sitting beside him. Now at first you would think that I would be upset about the wipes, however, my first thoughts is how did he get up there? My child climbed the changing table, probably to get to the wipes. I am not mad about the wipes just relieved he is okay and the changing table didn't topple over when he climb it. Little stinker.

Craig also discovered yesterday that he can now open and shut doors, which is unfortunate, because now he has access to every part of the house, meaning the office and bathrooms. I don't want to even think about the havoc he could cause in those areas of the house. Why can't Lucas new skills involve using the restroom, cleaning up, and listening.

Goodbye Goldilocks

Lucas had his very *first* haircut last night. I put a caveat on that because technically there was an instance in the past that involved Lucas, his hair, scissors and a broken-hearted mom, but that was more of a "Mullet-Prevention" trim. Last night was a full-blown haircut, involving hand-fulls of Lucas' golden locks falling to the ground (to be promptly picked up by Lucas and displayed proudly). When all was said and done, Lucas' hair was about 4-5 times shorter than it was only minutes before.

I think he looks pretty good. He suddenly looks more like a little boy and has lost another of the few remaining "baby-like" elements.