While I was Blogging

Yesterday while I was blogging Luke was getting into the Cotton Candy,

and Kai was tying himself up with exercise bands.

That's real awesome guys.

Also, today is our 1 year anniversary of moving into this house.

Happy Housiversary!

Toy Story Three Party

Today we had a party for Luke and his friend Josh. They both love Toy Story 3 so it was decided that would be the theme. Elisha and I talked about doing a combined a party, but just decided for sure to do it on Friday morning. Thank goodness some people could still come and make their birthday's special. But that gave me a little over 24 hours to get it together. Elisha made the yummy cupcakes and ice cream, and I was so grateful because that is always my least favorite part! HA

Here is how it turned out!

The front door Andy Sign

The whole table display

The baby boys Andrew, Luke, Josh, Pete, Eli. We were missing Ethan!

Singing to the boys!

The most hilarious thing is that the present that I got Josh and Elisha got Luke were exactly the same. Buzz Lightyear toy, and green bubbles!

This is my favorite picture of the day. I love these 4 cuties!

Toy Story Tent...HOLLA!

Birthday Boys!

It was such a great party! Happy 2nd Birthday Lukie & Joshie!

One Year Older

At dinner we all went around to say what we love about our little Lukie!

Kai: He is the best baby brother in the whole world. It is his Birthday today and I love him.

Brian: He is super sweet and very strong. He is very smart and can communicate very well. I just love him to death. I love giving him kisses after he falls asleep. I love how excited he gets every day when I come home.

Danae: I love Luke's sweet kisses & his great big hugs. But most of all I love when Luke says "Love You Mommy."

Ethan: I like him because he gets me hugs and kisses. I love his dances. He is cute and nice. He turns off the lights at church.

Olivia: My best thing about Luke is that he plays with us. I like watching TV with Luke.

Happy Happy Birthday Luke

I cannot figure out how 2 whole years have past. All I do know is that I am head over heels in love with this baby. He has come so far from the baby who wasn't gaining weight to the hefty little man he is now. Luke pretty much spoiled rotten by all of us. How we got so lucky to have his as part of our family I will never know.

Likes:

Toy Story 3 aka to Luke as "THREE"

Most all foods

Playing outside

Dancing

Trains

Dislikes:

Mashed Potatoes

The word "NO"

Dear Lukie,

I said if I didn't cry this whole day it would be a miracle, and looking through all your baby pictures isn't helping my cause. You are the sweetest baby. You have such a great personality and usually just go with the flow. You can be loud but you have the cutest little voice, and are usually just trying to be heard. You call your self baby and I love it. Whenever I say "who did that?" you say "baby" and point to yourself. Last night Daddy was vacuuming and he knocked a picture off the table and you ran over to me and said "not baby, daddy" it was the cutest. You are such a happy little guy, and loving being around people. You are finally starting to go places with other people without crying, but you usually just want to be with us. You are such a smart baby and surprise us with the things you say and do all the time.

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love you. You make everyday around here so fun. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father sent you to our family, we just love you up. You make us all so happy. I try and treasure every little thing you say and do because you seem to be bigger and bigger everyday. Happy Birthday my sweet little Lukie!

I love you!

Mommy

Headed to Ohio

We recently got our Temple switched from the D.C. Temple to the Columbus, OH Temple. The drive to D.C. is about 4 1/2 hours, and Columbus is about 3 1/2 hours. The Youth had their assignment Saturday morning at 9:30 so we decided to just make a weekend of it. We left right after the kids got home from school. I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I wanted but it was a great weekend. Right when we got to the Hotel the kids got their swimsuits on and were headed to the pool. The water was FREEZING but that didn't stop us from having fun.

I really wanted to get some pictures of the kids out front of the Temple, but it was so cold outside and snowing very hard. So hopefully I will get some next time.

I did get this picture of Luke waiting to leave. He was ready to go a good 20 minutes before I was. I think he was getting a little annoyed me me!

Boys at Target

Today I took the little boys to Target for lunch and some shopping.

Luke's Doctors Appointment

Luke's appointment with the specialist was today. It seems like it has been forever since he got hurt.

Here he is playing in the waiting room. He just crawled around everywhere. He hasn't walked since the mirror incident.

But he was very happy with all the trains.

After we got back to see the doctor he looked at Luke's leg and then at his xray. He said that he has an interior fracture of the tibia. They gave him this boot that he has to wear all the time and can only take off for baths. He has to have it on for 3 weeks and then we will go back for more xray's.

The good news is that he loves it and says "mine boot" all day long. He still isn't walking and the doctor said he doesn't think he will for a while. That little boot is the saddest thing on the planet. I hate that he is hurt and every time I see him struggle to do something because of his hurt leg it breaks my heart!

After his appointment we did what we do almost every Tuesday night and went to Lone Star. Our friends the Steinhafel's met us there and we had a blast. Luke was happy to see his little friend Ethan.

It was a good ending to our day!

Boy vs Mirror

Exhibit A: The Boy

Exhibit B: The Giant Mirror

At approximately 3:12pm on the afternoon of January 19, 2011 Exhibit B came crashing down with Exhibit A under it. Some how Exhibit A ended up on the right side of the now face down Exhibit B, but Exhibit A still seemed to have been injured.

I saw the mirror falling and rushed over to Luke. I have no idea how he ended up on the side of the mirror and not underneath. He was of course screaming bloody murder. I called Brian to see what he thought I should do since I was in panic mode. After 10 minutes I did a check of Luke, moving his arms and legs and squeezing the bones. He seemed to be favoring is left leg/foot area but was still so upset I really couldn't tell. I set him down to see if he could walk and he couldn't. So, I called Brian and told him to come home so we could take Luke to the hospital.

I dropped the big kids off a my friends house after they got home from school and met Brian and Luke over at the hospital. Luke isn't a big fan of people he doesn't know so having doctors and nurse poke and twist him wasn't his favorite. He went in to have some xrays which he hated even more then the poking and twisting.

The doctors came back and said that nothing was broken but if he still isn't walking on Monday they would refer him to an orthopedic doctor in the area.

How sad does he look

Luke's Birthday Party

Since Luke loves anything with wheels we decided on a Cars theme for the party.

Luke wanted nothing to do with the hat but I tried to keep it on him

In the end he won the hat battle

Me and my sweet baby

Luke wasn't too sure about the cake at first but Olivia's excitement eventually rubbed off on him.

Luke was hilarious once he got a piece of that cake. He looked at it and picked the plate up and moved it around for about 5 whole minutes before he took a bit. It was crazy because he eats EVERYTHING and wouldn't touch that yummy cake.

Finally he dug in and ate it up

After we cleaned the cake up and got the kids in the PJ's we headed to the family room for presents.

What a sweet little cute pie!

Happy Birthday my Sweet Lukie Baby! I love you so much!