A year gone by....

I can't believe its already been a year (well technically 13 months) since we have been blessed with a bouncing baby boy in our lives.  We planned a big 1st birthday for him which was supposed to take place at a real Hanger in Vacaviile, but plans fell through and unfortunately we couldn't have it there...so instead the 100 people we invited had to be "diverted" to our house!  Good thing we bought a bigger house! LOL  His birthday theme was airplanes of course. 

Since there was going to be soooo many people we decided to get a tent for the backyard so people can mingle out there too...unfortunately that was the weekend the weather decided to act up and it was raining the WHOLE day =( Also that night Luke woke up with a 103.5 degree temperature!!! This was his first time really getting sick and gave him meds and his temp when down, but he still didn't feel very good at his birthday party...Here is the setup of things before everyone arrived. 

"Clouds" in the "sky"

Luke's Month Clouds

I had such a great time doing it all even though it was a lot of work! thanks to all my helpers Beth, Gi, Jassy, David and James =) And because we had so many awesome decorations here are the close ups!

Jassy's AWESOME cake!

Gi and James' airplane fruit basket

Luke's Airplane (by Daddy)

And everyone recieved a Pilot's License as part of thei favors. Here is Luke's Great Grandad showing eveyrone how it's done!

blowing out his cake! He got a little overwhelmed when everyone was singing to him so we had to turn him around so he wasn't facing the big crowd

 

To everyone that came, and even to those who couldn't make it, thank you for helping us celebrate Luke's first birthday!!! We hope you all had a great time! Until next year....

Present time

The many faces of Luke =)

February has come and gone....time is sure flying this year!  Luke has been getting bigger, more active and a lot more animated!  From the books we've been reading we are now in the "honeymoon period"; meaning at this age this is when babies become more responsive and do a lot more than eat and poop =)  Let's take a look at some of his more "animated" expressions:

 

He does "suprised"!

He does "oh my gosh!"

Here is "I'm annoyed with this thing!"

And his "playing with you face"

We have "what the heck is that?" face

Here he is thinking "Just had some milky...life is good..."

 

he is looking at me and saying "Why do you make me do this???"

And so many more that we just can't capture on camera. Hope you liked the many faces of Luke!

 

Milestones in Janurary and 3 months old

So being new parents we are always reading all these parenting books just to make sure we know what we are doing.  Let me tell you, not everything you can learn from a book...a lot of it is learn as you go, especially because each baby is different.  This month Luke did hit a couple milestones that we were so excited about!  Some were very simple, but then again when he just smiles everyone gets all giddy over it!  With all the new research on SIDS it is a known rule now that it is "Back to Sleep" Because of this new rule babies don't spend as much time on their tummys like they used to.  Now as parents we have to allow our babies some tummy time so they can workout their neck muscles to hold their head up and keep it steady.  This is NOT one of Lukey's favorite past times...he usually would last about 30 seconds until he was crying and whining facedown on the blanket!!!  We would still try a couple times a day to get him to work on lifting his head and the time would gradually increase....but he still is not a fan.  So early January I do tummy time with him and see this:

then slowly this:

and then all the way up!

I was soooo excited and happy for my strong boy that I must have taken a million pics of the same pose! LOL...talk about mamarazzi! And just because he gets better everyday he still can only do it for so long, but here is another pic to enjoy of Luke and his tummy time.

and this is how I know he has had enough...(I know I'm mean =P)

Another milestone that we were excited about is he can now grasp things...and bring them to his mouth! I know, I know...not that big...but for us it was, so we documented it with pictures =)

In this picture he is looking at me like "what are you doing?"

And I just had to get a close-up of his chubby little hands grabbing his toy.

And this is just a start to the many more milestones to come!!!
Here are a couple shots of Luke for his 3 month "photo shoot" at Auntie Beth's house, he is getting so big!!!