Pick My Nose.... Girls Like It

When I went into Luke's room to get him from his nap, I opened up his blinds and saw that he was sitting quietly picking his nose.  I gave him a "look" and he said defensively, "Picking my nose.... Girls Like it."  Ok, so I think mine and Bryan's message was a bit unclear and maybe got lost in his translation.  We've told him if he picks his nose... Girls won't like it.  Oh well....

No.. Hair BIG

Luke seems to be like every boy I've ever dated... The longer the hair the better.  Ever since Luke could talk if I had my hair down and then tried to put it up in a ponytail or my "signature" bun :) He would say, "No... Hair... Big!"  That still has not changed.  So today, I tried to put my hair in a ponytail while I was cooking and he stopped me and said with vehemence, "No... Hair... BIG!" But now he has gotten particular.  I wasn't able to just put my hair down out of the pony. He indicated that the hair should be on either side of my face too. So that I have hair laying over the left and right shoulders.

Good grief, maybe we have the next Ken Paves (hair stylist to the stars) on our hands!

Pretend Play

Ok... Another sign that Lukie is getting older.  He is doing pretend play now.  I'd been noticing things here and there, like he would feed Mickey lunch and try and put the whole can of tuna in his little puppet mouth.  But the first time I really noticed the extent of his pretend play was today.  He came up to me and said he had a package for me and told me to open my hands.  I opened his hands and he put in a "package" (which was a pretend package). He told me to open it and when I opened it he said, "AAAAahhhhh.... Cookies!!!  Eat it."  So I had to pretend to eat the cookies, as did he.  When I was done with my cookie, he brought me another package and asked me to open it.  This one ended up being peas!  I think I like the cookie package better... Shhhhh... Don't tell Luke :)

Fourth of July

We had a BBQ at our house to celebrate the 4th of July! The weather ended up being perfect! My family, Mom, Dad, Charity, Jeff, Jack and Amelia came over as well as some good friends:  Ali and Ashley Carter, Kristen Molten and her family (Braden, Drew, Reed and Blake), Deanna, Kevin and Tyler Carlisle.  We had great food, a little swimming in our "pool" and some little pop-it fireworks to end the night:

Luke loved the pool.  The water was freezing.  We didn't have a chance to warm it up first... So it was ice cold.  And Luke stayed in there the whole time.  Even when everyone was just jumping in and then jumping out.  He stayed in there. I had to convince him to get out when I noticed he was shivering.

Still in the pool, by himself... Everyone HAD been in there, but felt it was too cold and bailed... Not Luke:

The boys (Jack and Drew, KP's son) came back in to join him:

Now Tyler has joined in on the fun:

Pretty Amelia.... Crazy enough she was the ONLY little girl at the party... The rest were BOYS!

AliCa and me enjoying the sunshine:

It wouldn't be a holiday if the boys weren't fighting about gadgets :(   Good grief, is that already starting?!?

No surprise... My family enjoying the food :)

Independent Reader

Today we caught Lukie reading all by himself.  It was SOOOO cute.  Bryan and I were talking and then when we noticed we couldn't see or hear him our first thought was.. "Oh no... What has he gotten into." But today when we went to find him he was laying on the couch reading one of his books:

BUSTED!!! He caught us spying on him!!! :)