Sunday, February 21, 2016

Valentine's Day

  Valentines Day was pretty low key for us.  Daryl and I didn't go out or anything, but we did play a mean game of Phase 10 that day.  Since it was Sunday everyone was dressed up for at least part of the day, and we had a nice spaghetti dinner with my parents.  


Luke with his new penny loafers and bow tie.

Here's an action shot of my dapper guy.

Emery being Emery

I gave Daryl a spatula for Valentine's, and I'm not sure how I'm going to keep topping this year after year.  (If you're a Weird Al fan you'll get this.)

Avery with her heart Valentines envelope she made at school.  I had a hard time getting a happy face for this shot because we threw this away after we documented it for the ages.  She had spilled water and fun dip all over the bottom, and it was shedding fun dip everywhere.  

Sunday, February 7, 2016

What We've Been Up To

  These past couple weeks Luke has finally decided that walking full time is the way to go, and now rarely crawls.  I took the kids to the park yesterday, and Luke walked all over the place.  He went probably a quarter of a mile on a trail there and was a real bruiser.  He kept falling down on the black top and catching himself.  Every time he would get up and continue on his way without any tears.  The pictures will illustrate more of Luke's favorite things to do lately, and some other non-Luke things.


Emery has taken to dragging this castle all over the main floor of the house in a bid to play with it away from Luke's loathsome presence.

Our replacement chandelier finally came the other week, and it's beautiful.   

Luke loves playing with the broom, and the other day he was attempting to use it correctly.

This kid is so happy.

Luke discovered that he can throw our stools down and make a terrific crash noise.  He thinks it great!

Here's my guy walking around and eating.  People have always asked if having a boy has been different from a girl, and I've always said no.  Finally have noticed something different.  Luke eats almost non-stop now.  He knows where his food is and will go sit by the cupboard complaining loudly until I get something from it for him.