Where has the time gone?!?

Lucas is 5 months already, and I just sit and think about when he was just born. It is crazy that he has been with us for 5 months and I do not remember my life before him!!! The funny part is I don't want to. He has made me so happy and everyday with him has given me a new found appreciation for Abraham also. I still see the two of them together and my heart just melts, and I absolutely KNOW that I am the LUCKIEST girl in the world, to have to guys that I love so much.

Lucas is sitting up all by himself now. He likes to sit and play and laugh with me. His little belly laughs are so adorable, it is something that I could listen to all day long. He has had a couple of little falls backwards, but for the most part he is doing really well. Lucas is also starting to enjoy peek a boo, he will wait for me to pop out from behind a blanket or my hands and just giggle.

He is getting so big and chunky, we will go to the doctor in a couple of weeks, but i think he is pushing 20 lbs. We are hoping to start him on green beans this weekend, since he already eats two large bowls of cereal a day, and seems like he could do more, but I don't want him to learn to over eat. We have been really amazed at how Lucas has turned out because it is not exactly what we expected. He is a very routine kind of baby (and anyone who knows me knows I am so scatter-brained that routine is really not my thing), he even prefers to sleep in his crib (we have tried putting him in the bed with us but he doesn't like it. He even puts himself back to sleep when he wakes up in the middle of the night =) I just don't know where this came from, maybe Abraham because it wasn't me.

Abraham is going for his surgery on Wednesday and I am going to be left to do everything, this

is going to be really hard, but I know it will be better for our family in the long run. ~Valarie

Busy baby

This beginning of the school year has been very busy for our little family. Abe has been doing so much with school and work, and this year has been a little crazy for me at work to. I make it a little harder on myself though because the way that I see it is, if I am going to give up my time with Lucas to be at work I am going to make it count. We have also had a lot of things going on in our personal lives, so the weekends are full too.

This past weekend we went to Leo's birthday party at the pumpkin farm. Lucas was loving it, he was just watching everything that was goi

ng on, it was like he wanted to get down and run around with the other kids. He went on his very

first hay ride and was picking up hay, he also got his very first pumpkin from grandpa Gordy.

Lucas is growing big! He is doing good with his cereal, bu

t we are not sure at point we should move him to twice a d

ay (we will figure it out). I am nerv

ous to give him any other food because it makes me feel like he is growing to fast. He is also loving his bouncy toy, he is already jumping so high. Lucas is sitting in a tripod position, it will be no time at all until he is ready to sit up all by himself. It is funny to watch him when he is on his belly because he is getting his legs under himself and doing giant pushes forward, he just needs to figure out how to get his arms into the right position and he will be ready to crawl. All in all, I just love him so much and I am enjoying watc

hing him grow so big!!! ~Valarie