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| Go Chiefs! |
Sunday, September 30, 2012
I understand it's football season, right?
Grandma brought Luca a present from her visit to KC and we tried it on last night before bed. I like to call this picture "Even football players get sleepy."
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
18 month pictures
Little man is a terrible picture taker and it's always a pain in the rear (not to mention expensive) to get his pics professionally done. So when it came time for the 18 month pictures, I was thinking to myself: "I have a nice camera and an understanding of how to shoot it outside of using auto, why don't I take them!" I even went so far as to think: "Surely with me taking them it will go so much smoother and he will smile and it'll only take 10 minutes!"
But, a couple different spots, some awesome fall props and about an hour
and 70 pictures later, there are a dozen or so that turned out really
well.
And can I tell you the story about what he's wearing? I didn't have anything I liked for pictures, so this morning I figured we'd find something in Target's clearance, I've had good luck there before. Nothing. So we went across the street to babies r' us, found a plain shirt. Figured for $2 I could add a little something to it. Then I saw a vest and thought "YES! Exactly what he needs!" They only had 4T. Being the crazy person I am, I figured I could find a free pattern on the internet, how hard can it be to make one myself? So I go to walmart to buy fabric, and my walmart doesn't sell fabric. Look for any clearance clothes that I could chop up, ended up finding a shower curtain with a cool pattern. Luca takes a nap and I get to work. Don't have extra fabric to line it, so cut up one of the shirts that was in the Donate pile. It took forever, and it doesn't fit quite right since I couldn't try the pattern on my sleeping kid. BUT, it worked for pictures, and I'm going to try again since there's plenty of shower curtain left... Oy.
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| Yeah... not so much. |
And can I tell you the story about what he's wearing? I didn't have anything I liked for pictures, so this morning I figured we'd find something in Target's clearance, I've had good luck there before. Nothing. So we went across the street to babies r' us, found a plain shirt. Figured for $2 I could add a little something to it. Then I saw a vest and thought "YES! Exactly what he needs!" They only had 4T. Being the crazy person I am, I figured I could find a free pattern on the internet, how hard can it be to make one myself? So I go to walmart to buy fabric, and my walmart doesn't sell fabric. Look for any clearance clothes that I could chop up, ended up finding a shower curtain with a cool pattern. Luca takes a nap and I get to work. Don't have extra fabric to line it, so cut up one of the shirts that was in the Donate pile. It took forever, and it doesn't fit quite right since I couldn't try the pattern on my sleeping kid. BUT, it worked for pictures, and I'm going to try again since there's plenty of shower curtain left... Oy.
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| Look at all those teeth! |
Monday, September 24, 2012
What I've been up to
Grammie's birthday was last week, and of course she needed birthday cookies, so that's what she got! Balloons and I Love You hands all in a basket.
I've also been decorating the house since it's officially not summer anymore. Is it too soon to put the electric blanket on the bed? Wal-mart has their Christmas trees all up and for sale, and Luca almost convinced me to buy a giant blow up airplane with Santa driving and spinning propellers. Anyway, it's fall, and my mantel agrees.
This next bit is the most exciting thing that I've been up to. We are taking a big family vacation in December, and it will involve a multi-hour plane ride with lay overs. So, I was thinking of what would entertain Luca and not be annoying to us to carry around, or upset TSA agents. Obviously, a difficult set of criteria to work within, since it's annoying to carry a lot of stuff around, and you never can tell quite what will upset the TSA. Because I love to dive into giant time and labor intensive projects, naturally I decided I should make Luca a felt Busy Book entirely by hand and without patterns! Great Idea! So I've been at it for about a week. I've finished three pages and my mom took a couple pages with on her trip out of town and has finished them. I'm so proud, just hope I keep momentum and do all the other pages! It's something that I can add to with pages that teach more difficult concepts as Luca gets older, eventually going all the way up to SAT vocab, I imagine.
So, there's a page with Jude. His collar buckles, his front ear flaps, and down the road I'll add a bit of a leash so he can clip it onto the D-ring. Then there's a page with a fish tank, the front is clear plastic and Luca can put the fish in and out of the bowl. Next is an artist's palette with a paint brush. The little paint blobs have matching blobs with a bit of velcro on it so he can match colors and "paint" with the brush. I'll put up mom's when she's back in town and I get pictures!
I've also been decorating the house since it's officially not summer anymore. Is it too soon to put the electric blanket on the bed? Wal-mart has their Christmas trees all up and for sale, and Luca almost convinced me to buy a giant blow up airplane with Santa driving and spinning propellers. Anyway, it's fall, and my mantel agrees.
This next bit is the most exciting thing that I've been up to. We are taking a big family vacation in December, and it will involve a multi-hour plane ride with lay overs. So, I was thinking of what would entertain Luca and not be annoying to us to carry around, or upset TSA agents. Obviously, a difficult set of criteria to work within, since it's annoying to carry a lot of stuff around, and you never can tell quite what will upset the TSA. Because I love to dive into giant time and labor intensive projects, naturally I decided I should make Luca a felt Busy Book entirely by hand and without patterns! Great Idea! So I've been at it for about a week. I've finished three pages and my mom took a couple pages with on her trip out of town and has finished them. I'm so proud, just hope I keep momentum and do all the other pages! It's something that I can add to with pages that teach more difficult concepts as Luca gets older, eventually going all the way up to SAT vocab, I imagine.
So, there's a page with Jude. His collar buckles, his front ear flaps, and down the road I'll add a bit of a leash so he can clip it onto the D-ring. Then there's a page with a fish tank, the front is clear plastic and Luca can put the fish in and out of the bowl. Next is an artist's palette with a paint brush. The little paint blobs have matching blobs with a bit of velcro on it so he can match colors and "paint" with the brush. I'll put up mom's when she's back in town and I get pictures!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
A Year and a half!
Just like that, 18 months have gone by. Unbelievable. It's been a big month for the little man!
He is officially a walker. He only scoots if he's picking up a couple things (like acorns) and the up down up down is inefficient. I assume that he's thought out that line of logic, anyway.
His vocab grew a lot in the last month. He now says up, mommom, da, alex, shoe, off, nigh-night, Jude, sit, 'scuse (for "excuse me"), ball, and a couple days ago added "more." Random assortment... I'm trying to teach him to say "treat" so we're ready for Halloween =)
When we're eating if you say "Cheers" he will raise his cup to clink with ours. Again and again. He really likes that one.
We don't really watch TV, but I did get Disney's Earth and Chimpanzee movies and he really likes them (for about 5-10 minutes at a time). He'll point the PlayStation controller at the TV (we use the PS3 as a DVD player) and make monkey noises when he wants to watch the Chimpanzee movie. Clever, that one =)
For a snack I often give him goldfish, and he makes fishy noises whenever I say fish. So now when he's hungry he makes fishy noises. I'm an accidental Pavlov... He also noticed that they are kept in the pantry, so he tries to open the doors and take them off the shelf, all while making fishy noises. At my mom's the doors are levers instead of knobs, so he can open her pantry door. I turn around for a second and next thing I know he's got the bag with the clip off making fishy noises and pointing to a bowl.
His 18 month doctor's appointment is next week, so I don't know the official numbers, but when I weighed him a couple days ago he was 22.9 pounds. Still growing, I think now he's at the average weight of about an 11 month old. Little man is still in his infant car seat and only just recently outgrew the 12 month onesies (for length) but is still comfortably in 9 month pants.
All 8 of his front teeth are in (four top and four bottom) and all four of the first molars are poking through. We had a miserable couple weeks, but pretty much back to normal now.
He has a new noise. He made it in the car one day and I thought it sounded like a dragon. So for the next day or so if you asked him what a dragon said he made that noise. But then he started making it all the time, and in different ways. He calls for me with the voice (it's sort of a throaty growl), and he uses it to make chomping sounds. It's pretty darn funny!
He's got three basic dance moves and he'll dance to anything with a tune. This video is his favorite this morning (we watched it 12 times in a row.) He does the Starting the Lawn Mower move, where he swings his right arm in front of himself (looks like he's starting a mower). Then he's got the Hippie where he raises his arms high over his head and sort of snaps his fingers. And of course the standard White Boy Dance where he bounces up and down. He'll rotate through all three in any song. It's super cute.
And, just because it seems wrong to put up a post without something showing Luca, here's a video from dinner the other night. Josh blows over the top of the bottle making it whistle, and then Luca tries. And then he decides to make silly noises.
He is officially a walker. He only scoots if he's picking up a couple things (like acorns) and the up down up down is inefficient. I assume that he's thought out that line of logic, anyway.
His vocab grew a lot in the last month. He now says up, mommom, da, alex, shoe, off, nigh-night, Jude, sit, 'scuse (for "excuse me"), ball, and a couple days ago added "more." Random assortment... I'm trying to teach him to say "treat" so we're ready for Halloween =)
When we're eating if you say "Cheers" he will raise his cup to clink with ours. Again and again. He really likes that one.
We don't really watch TV, but I did get Disney's Earth and Chimpanzee movies and he really likes them (for about 5-10 minutes at a time). He'll point the PlayStation controller at the TV (we use the PS3 as a DVD player) and make monkey noises when he wants to watch the Chimpanzee movie. Clever, that one =)
For a snack I often give him goldfish, and he makes fishy noises whenever I say fish. So now when he's hungry he makes fishy noises. I'm an accidental Pavlov... He also noticed that they are kept in the pantry, so he tries to open the doors and take them off the shelf, all while making fishy noises. At my mom's the doors are levers instead of knobs, so he can open her pantry door. I turn around for a second and next thing I know he's got the bag with the clip off making fishy noises and pointing to a bowl.
His 18 month doctor's appointment is next week, so I don't know the official numbers, but when I weighed him a couple days ago he was 22.9 pounds. Still growing, I think now he's at the average weight of about an 11 month old. Little man is still in his infant car seat and only just recently outgrew the 12 month onesies (for length) but is still comfortably in 9 month pants.
All 8 of his front teeth are in (four top and four bottom) and all four of the first molars are poking through. We had a miserable couple weeks, but pretty much back to normal now.
He has a new noise. He made it in the car one day and I thought it sounded like a dragon. So for the next day or so if you asked him what a dragon said he made that noise. But then he started making it all the time, and in different ways. He calls for me with the voice (it's sort of a throaty growl), and he uses it to make chomping sounds. It's pretty darn funny!
He's got three basic dance moves and he'll dance to anything with a tune. This video is his favorite this morning (we watched it 12 times in a row.) He does the Starting the Lawn Mower move, where he swings his right arm in front of himself (looks like he's starting a mower). Then he's got the Hippie where he raises his arms high over his head and sort of snaps his fingers. And of course the standard White Boy Dance where he bounces up and down. He'll rotate through all three in any song. It's super cute.
And, just because it seems wrong to put up a post without something showing Luca, here's a video from dinner the other night. Josh blows over the top of the bottle making it whistle, and then Luca tries. And then he decides to make silly noises.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Soaking up the end of Summer
Luca loves to be outside, and on days like today, we try to spend a lot of time there. So I brought out a picnic blanket and a stick of sidewalk chalk and knew we'd be good for a while. Luca colored on the patio for a little bit, and then moved on to coloring on the picnic table, lounge chair and himself.
Then he found the cherry pits that the birds left behind and started adding them to a bucket. And taking them out of the bucket and throwing them on the patio. And then getting them and putting them back in the bucket again. Little man is a busy busy fella.
Then he grabbed Jude's leash and went looking for the dog. Or anything to clip. He figured out that the end of it fits in the rain gauge and had fun dunking it in the gauge and then using it to make little water spots on the patio.
Eventually he just wandered around the patio and yard, enjoying the weather and his new skill. It really was a pretty day, we went back out after dinner for a while too.
Then he found the cherry pits that the birds left behind and started adding them to a bucket. And taking them out of the bucket and throwing them on the patio. And then getting them and putting them back in the bucket again. Little man is a busy busy fella.
Then he grabbed Jude's leash and went looking for the dog. Or anything to clip. He figured out that the end of it fits in the rain gauge and had fun dunking it in the gauge and then using it to make little water spots on the patio.
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| Looking for something to take on a walk. |
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| A good day =) |
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Spy training
Every so often, Luca has super secret business that he needs to do. Remember this conversation in the phone booth at the Little Red Schoolhouse? Now he's taken to carrying around a little silver case...
Oddly he doesn't seem to mind when pictures are taken of his conducting super secret business. Either he's still in training and hasn't learned that part yet, or it's all part of an impressive plot to throw the trail off of some other super duper secret business that he's doing...
It's hard to say for sure what that kid is up to...
Oddly he doesn't seem to mind when pictures are taken of his conducting super secret business. Either he's still in training and hasn't learned that part yet, or it's all part of an impressive plot to throw the trail off of some other super duper secret business that he's doing...
It's hard to say for sure what that kid is up to...
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