November Misc.

In front of Macy's...thanks Janice for our gift certificate!

shoveling at Shipe Playground
Zilker Botanical Gardens with Ravyn and Sufyan

New Macro Lens!

24 months

A little belated, but here it is! The last every-other-month update on The-State-Of-Lucas. We'll be moving to every 6 months after this! :)

Lucas' Favorites:

Food: salty snacks/crackers, apple juice, chicken tenders, clementines, and cheese (still loves the fancy and international cheeses)

Toys: All vehicles. Especially if he gets to make a motor sound for them while he's playing. He also loves playdough and a little ride-on tractor.

Games: Anything where we throw him on the bed, roll him up in a pillow like a burrito, or fly him around in our arms ("rocket baby")

Lucas' language continues to improve so quickly that we're amazed every day at what he can say and remember. He tells Laith all about his day when he comes home from work, likes to narrate his books, and can speak in 5 to 6 word sentences. He also is figuring out emotions and how to verbalize them and that happy, sad, and hurt don't apply to cars, toys or food. :)

We are thoroughly enjoying Lucas and seeing his personality develop more and more. We love it when he invents new games, pretends he's a kitty in the morning to get more snuggles, tries to sing along to every song, and comes up with crazy voices when he's playing pretend. He is such a delight and we look forward to seeing how he'll change in another 6 months!

Kitchen Update

We had the floors installed! Yay! Still have to do the backsplash, paint, and finish the ceiling. Then we are done!

Race for the Cure

I couldn't run this one, but Laith did great and we'll be in training to run another race together as a whole family with Lucas in the jogging stroller in a couple months! Weee!

Growing Boy!

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This is the last installment of the bouncy-seat photos! More variations on "growing boy" will be posted soon! :)

GrandDad Visits!

My Dad came all the way from Guam (2 days of travel!) to stay with us for 5 days and enjoy the beautiful late October weather. It was a wonderful and relaxing visit with lots of dessert-eating :) and lots of playtime. We all enjoyed Dad's easy-going company and all the groceries he bought (thank you!) Lucas would ask about "gan-dad" whenever he left the house and he also got entry to Lucas' favorite song where he sings hello to Ravyn, Sufyan and whatever he happens to be playing with at the time (what about hello to mommy and daddy, Lucas?) :) We look forward to seeing Janice next visit and we're already planning the things we want to do when they're both here in March! Thanks for staying with us, Dad- enjoy the pictures!

Lucas Loves his Daddy

Happy Halloween!

Thanks to GoodWill costume prices and Lucas' interest in dressing-up, we had 3 halloween costume choices this year! The lion outfit he's wearing with his friend Hollis is 2 sizes too big, so we think that's what he'll be next year. He's still too young to understand trick-or-treating so we just dressed him up to show off his cuteness to the neighbors gathered at a shindig across the street. :)
The ladybug outfit was for a preschool festival he attended with his friend Rosemary.

More Choo Choos

We've been going nearly every weekend to see the Amtrak come into town at 9:15. Lucas is still as enthralled as he was the first time he saw the big train.

Waiting for the train...

Here it comes! Choo choooooo!

Bye bye Amtrak!