10 Months old

May 4 2012

 I can not believe this month snuck past me.  I remembered a couple days (so here Luke is 10 months and 3 days old). AND one happy baby.  

This month He has learned to:

-walk 10 to 15 steps on his own without falling.

-how to get into everything

-that he likes to eat paper (toliet paper, cardboard, printer paper) (can a 10 month old have Pica?)

-he loves to eat grass too

-squat and stand back up with out falling

-bend over from the waist and back up with out falling

-to eat gerber arrowroot cookies

-MY BOY "FINALLY" HAS 2 TEETH. Both cut within 3 days of each other

-he has had his first little black eye

-has had his first busted lip

-he has learned that electrical sockets are a NO NO. 

-he now knows the signs for "milk", "hungry", and "more" 

-he has tried spinach this month (not a huge fan)

 My boys just adore one another.  This makes my heart happy. 

And I just thought this was the sweetest pic of Luker and Daddy.

Early Grana Day

May 6 2012

 Jeremy and I decided that Mom was gonna have an early Mothers' Day.  Since He and I were gonna both be out of town on the actual Mothers Day we moved up the date.  

 We met and had our usual Sunday lunch and had a fun time together. 

Noah eating blackberries picked by Grana at the farm

Picking Cucumbers from Grana's garden

 And giving Grana her Mother's day gift, a bigger pot for her fruit trees.  

Backyard swimming.

May 1 2012

Luke woke up from nap early and would not go back down, so Momma got the pool out.  It was on it's last leg and was slowly deflating as Luke as splashing but he made good use out of it while it lasted.

 My little guy splashing

 One Happy Boy

 Then brother woke up, and really showed him how it is done.  

 Look at Noah's face, he looks like he is being sneaky.

 Just a fun afternoon. 

Backyard Camping.........FAIL

May 1 2012

I thought it would be such a fun idea for Daddy and Noah to camp in the back yard.  I mean what little boy would not want to do that with his Dad.  

I could not get the boy out of the tent once it was up.

         

Here they are about to work together and put it up.

 Luke the "bout" naked onlooker.

Luke thought he could help too.

 Daddy showing Noah all that needs to be done. 

 My happy boys.

Well it was fun while it lasted.  And by lasted I mean till it was time to go to bed.  They had an air mattress (yep this is backyard camping remember, not tough stuff), a lantern, and an extension cord running out to the tent for the sound machine (to block out the sound of yappy dogs in the middle of the night, plus the boys have always slept with one).  Luke was of course asleep in his crib inside with Momma ( wouldn't that be disasterous trying to camp with a 9 1/2 month old), and the guys were outside.  They were laying down to go to sleep and Noah wanted to come inside and get in his bed.  Drew said "No, buddy we are camping, you sleep outside in the tent."  Well Noah would not have it.  SO inside they came.  At least they were just in the back yard and not really out in the woods.  

Cutting teeth

April 29 2012

Oh FINALLY, Luke decides to cut some teeth.  At almost 10 months he cut his 1st 2 teeth within the week.  The evidence is all over his shirt.  Slobbery boy.  

 He is pretty excited.  

Cleaning out the Garage

April 28 2012 

  We cleaned out the Garage while the boys were napping.  And well we made a bigger mess than we cleaned up. The boys woke up to such fun stuff to get into.  

Both my boys love Babu's lawnmowers.  

Noah found Daddy's Highschool Football Helment and decided to try it on.  

 Boy has got a big head.  

 He is all smiles here but it wasn't so pretty coming off  

New Nature Park

April 28 2012

We checked out the new nature park next to Winners' Circle Park.  LOVE IT.  Has such great walking trails, and fun stuff for the boys to see.  A lake with a fountain. a bridges, geese and baby geese, fish (Noah is sure they are under the water somewhere), and places to cook out or picnic.  

Noah making our stroller a double

 Daddy and Noah

 Momma and Luke

 Daddy and his buddy.  These two are inseparable lately.  

Dog Sitting

April 25 2012

Okay even though these are technically our (Drew and I) dogs.  They live with my parents.  Before we moved to Kenya for the first time, we didn't want to give them away to anyone but family.  SO they graciously took them.  Well they got use to their house after 2 years so we just decided they could stay there.  Plus we did not live anywhere we could keep them in NC.  

My parents flew to AZ to drive back with my brother after his semester was over, and the dogs came for an extended stay at the Taylor residence once again.  

Raleigh and Madison

I am pretty sure the dogs were ready to go home.  Luke was so fascinated with them, and would not leave them alone.  They were sweet pups and let him crawl all over him.  

Even Raleigh.  Which is surprising.  

At the end of the day.  The dogs were exhausted and Luke was happy.  

So excited about.........

April 24 2012

SOMETHING!!!!

So this doesn't show Luke walking much but he sure is excited about it.  

Slidin'

April 23 2012

 Just our typical morning playing outside before it get too hot, out.  

Up

Down

Just love how they interact with each other.  

Lukers goofy grin.  

Noah decided that Luke needed to go down the slide.  

Luke wasn't so sure.  It happened but it wasn't pretty.  

If I can't find Noah this is usually where he is.  Reminds me of "me", I just loved swinging when I was little.