We Love Shoes

Lately, Luke does not want to take his shoes off. Ever. He likes to put them on the minute he wakes up, and has even resorting to sleeping in them if we'll let him. He has us put them on over his pajamas.

Christmas 2010

We had a really great Christmas! Luke's at a super fun age, and even though he didn't really know what was going on, he had a good time playing with his new toys. We spent the 23rd with my family in Marble Falls and toured the lights. My sister Katie was in town and gave Luke his first pair of Air Jordans. He's going to be a basketball player for sure!

My grandparents even made the walk with us. Last Christmas, Michael proposed to Suzy under these lights.

I think Luke wanted to run faster, jump higher in his new Jordans, not sit with Mom and Dad on this silly oversized chair.

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas with the Scotts, and boy was it crazy, but so fun! Kathy says she wrapped 75 presents! It looked like Santa threw up in their house. Since Adam has four brothers and sisters who have families themselves, there are a lot of us!

Adam got me the Nook Color for Christmas. Luke and his cousins are kids of the 21st Century, for sure. His cousin Katie had never even seen one and was showing him and me how to use it. It has a feature that reads children's books aloud. (That was really the selling point for Adam -- otherwise, I don't think I'd have gotten it).

Lanie got the boys some bubbles that don't pop and they loved them! Endless entertainment.

Luke and his godfather, Adam's brother Eric.

Luke and Grandad.

Stuffed with Blueberries

This morning, I thought Luke was doing a great job eating his blueberries with his breakfast. They all disappeared! And, so fast! Little did I know, he was stuffing them into the cab of his little truck. I couldn't even get mad because it was so funny!

"Agua!"

Luke's saying a lot of words lately -- "tuck" (truck), "baaa" (bird and ball), "woofwoof" (dog), "dada" (Adam) and now "agua". For a couple of weeks now, Adam and I have wondered why he kept saying "agua" when pointing to his water cup or to the water spout on the fridge.

"Is he saying 'agua'? Spanish 'agua'?"
"I don't think so ... are you teaching him that?"
"No, are you?"
"Hmmm. I'm not sure what he's saying, then."

Today, when I picked him up from daycare, I noticed that he said it again when he pointed to his water bottle. Finally, it dawned on me! I asked his teachers, and they said that one of the teachers started saying it and it stuck. So, interestingly, Luke's learned Spanish "agua" before he learned English "water".

Maybe I'll dust off that Spanish minor I have and start some bilingual lessons with Luke ...

Truckin' Along

To say Luke likes trucks is the understatement of the year. I think it all started around his birthday when Grandmother gave him the big firetruck to ride in and Grammy bought him a hand-me-down $2 dump truck from Savers. Since then, trucks have been the center of his universe.

We've acquired a small fleet of trucks -- dump trucks, firetrucks, ambulances, you name it. This picture only shows half of them. There's a bus missing (it's at daycare because he took it there yesterday), a tow truck (it took a bath with him tonight), and a Ford F150 (it's in the car so he can hold it while he's in his carseat).

In his room, I decorated a small Christmas tree with Adam's old truck ornaments. Each year, Adam's mom gives each of her kids a themed ornament, and Adam's theme is coincidentally trucks. Worked out perfectly! And, it's kinda sweet that Luke's tree has his Dada's ornaments on it. Every night when we light it, he says, "Tuck!"

Little Helper

Like I mentioned in the post below, Luke likes to "help." He was Adam's assistant today when Adam put latches on the cabinets. Luke spent most of the time emptying the cabinets Adam was working on, but he was a good helper, nonetheless ...

'Tis the Season

It's starting to look like Christmas at the Scott house. Luke "helped" me put the tree up, which basically meant he touched the lights and yelled some sort of gibberish at the tree. I think he was just excited to be doing something that seemed to be of some importance. I've noticed that that kind of stuff seems to interest him -- he'd rather play with anything of mine or Adam's that seems to be useful than with his toys or he likes to sit in our laps when we're working on or fixing something.

The tree's decorated half-way up to keep the ornaments away from little fingers. Two already fell to their death and shattered into a million tiny pieces. What a mess.

And, we visited Santa at Nolan's school. Nolan and Luke both decided they don't like Santa this year. You couldn't stop the tears from rolling down Nolan's face, and Luke just looked at me like, "Are you crazy, woman?! You're not leaving me with this old man."

Tonight, we went with Michaela, Ryan, Nolan and Olivia to see the Zilker Tree lighting. It was a lot of suspense and waiting around, but the boys seemed to like the lights. And, it got me excited for Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2010

Needless to say, we had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving! Most importantly, Luke was better! He got his PICC line out the Tuesday before, which meant that we were finished with antibiotics.

Sister Suzy and her husband Michael flew in from Seattle for the week. Sister Brooke, my parents and cousin Bob came over for dinner. (Mom and Dad left early the next day to see sister Katie who couldn't leave North Carolina. Her coaches scheduled practice Thanksgiving afternoon, and her team played Duke the next day).

Adam shoots the turkey with some sort of secret turkey sauce.

Cooking dinner is a lot of work! This is the first year that I've actually cooked the dinner, and I really didn't even do anything. Suzy did most of it -- I just made the salad and a pumpkin pie. The boys drank beer, fried the turkey and drank beer, and the women-folk got the sides ready. That's the hardest part! We had to time everything around the dang turkey.

Somehow, it all got ready at the same time and it was delicious! I liked having it at our house, but figured out that there are a lot of "extra" dishes that I don't have -- gravy boat, turkey platter, butter dish.

I think Luke was the only one who got a nap in. Suzy and Bob took him on a walk after dinner, and he didn't even make it around the block before he fell asleep. He does look a little crazy in his outfit, but whatever -- he was warm.

In the Clear!

Adam took Luke to his last and final doctor's appointment today. The orthopedic surgeon said that he looks great and doesn't need any physical therapy! He is walking normally, and you'd never know that anything had been wrong. We took him back to daycare this Monday, and his teachers said that he jumped right into the swing of things.

The only thing that he's been fussy about this week are the teeth he's getting on the bottom. That might explain his sudden boycott of food. He was going crazy before this! Eating everything, which was great, and a nice end to the antibiotics, which by the way, we're sooo glad to be done!

We tried to time the antibiotics when we thought he'd be sleeping (6a, 2p, 10p), but sometimes Luke would wake right up when we started them (this usually only happened to me -- Adam didn't have this problem). So, we'd put his little backpack on, and let the 36 minutes go by. If anything, he looked cute, and it didn't even seem to bother him.

Needless to say, we're so happy to have this behind us and have our little boy back to normal. Thankfully, he won't remember anything about it, and he shouldn't have any long-term problems.