An Unexpected Visit

  My sister DeAnna and her husband Brad were in Portland last weekend looking for a place to live since they will be moving there in a couple weeks.  They flew back home Monday morning, except DeAnna volunteered to get bumped and was rerouted home through Seattle with a long layover.  DeAnna hadn't met Logan yet, so it was perfect.  This time when Logan and Luke were hanging out I remembered to get a picture before they got all grumpy.

DeAnna holding sweet baby Logan.

A close up of Logan, so you can better admire his arm chubs.

Logan never did look at the camera for me.  Several times it looked like Luke and Logan were trying to hold hands.  It was sweet.

Luke at Four Months

  Last week Luke turned four months old and what a difference a month makes.  Luke went from doing pretty much all of his sleeping in the swing to suddenly being okay with sleeping in the pack and play.  It is quite the welcome change.  We sure went through a lot of D batteries in the process, and I learned to change the batteries in the dark by feel.  Now with no effort on our part Luke doesn't need his swing to sleep at all.  I don't know how we got to be so lucky with babies just sleeping like they should.  Luke sleeps at least eight hours a night, and has been sleeping ten hours some nights too.  I am really excited the swing is out of our bedroom because now the pack and play isn't jammed up against the side of my bed anymore (I was getting into bed from the foot. Not the end of the world, but it makes going to the bathroom a lot easier now).
  Luke isn't rolling over yet, but he's pretty close.  He hates tummy time.  In the mornings we walk Avery to school and he likes to fall asleep in the stroller.  I don't think I have a good picture of this yet, but he sticks his tongue out all the time.  He loves to coo and make various other baby noises.  When you kiss him on his cheeks repeatedly you can get him to laugh out loud.  He's still a shrimpy guy.  He's only 12 pounds 9 ounces and 23 inches long.  Not very big, but oh so snugly.

Serious times with Harper.

Hanging out in his new to him bed.

The girls having a dance party with Luke while I am trying to make my bed.

Luke actually stretched to his full length for this one.  He's finally overtaking that monkey.

February Leftovers

  Here are some various February pictures that didn't make it to the blog.  Enjoy these pictures that illustrate our month.

We celebrated Valentine's Day with a heart shaped ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

Emery likes to eat her foot sometimes.

Harper playing with her toys.  Apparently the super heroes were over visiting the princess castle.

Avery playing with Max Steel in Ariel's undersea home.

Harper and Emery were pretending to be pirates with their straw swords.

All the girls sitting together of their own accord.  Too bad Harper wasn't in the mood for a picture.

Harper made us dress up with underwear on our heads, so we could pretend to be a princess and a prince.  I was the prince and I slew a dragon with a Minnie Mouse spatula saving Princess Harper in the process. Then we went to a ball, and attended Ariel's wedding to Robin because she couldn't marry Batman because Batgirl was marrying him.

This is Luke laughing.