Texas my Texas

Luke and I packed up and headed down to the Lone Star State last week for a visit.  Grams (aka.  Gigi) decided to come all the way from Florida at the last minute which was such a treat!  It felt so good to be back in Texas with my family.  Here's a recap of our weekend in pictures and captions: 

Queso baby! 

Working with Billy

Kisses for Aunt Becky (he said her name perfectly clear.)

Luke and the GGPs (great grand-parents)

Riding Abby

Just hanging out

Jumping on the bed

Some Aunt Lisa Lovin'

I wasn't kidding

We've had some naysayers that didn't believe Luke could actually toot on command so Michael insisted I post this for all to see.  I promise this is not my proudest mommy moment but it is pretty funny!  :)   (sorry for the wobbly camera work. Luke likes to see himself while he's being taped so we can't see what's in view) 

Luke Speak

Luke has been cracking us up lately and I decided a few days ago that I need to start writing some of these things down so I don't forget what a fun stage this is.  I wish the video camera was constantly going these days, but then I'd have to be reminded of all of the time outs and not so fun stuff.  :) 

A few nights ago Luke was walking around saying "toot" and then proceeded to toot on purpose three times in a row.  I thought it was so funny (I know I shouldn't have encouraged it) but I said "Luke, can you toot" and he did it AGAIN and laughed his little head off.  He is ALL boy.  

He is talking a ton too, but a lot of what he says is in Luke speak.  He says gibberish with such inflections in his voice that it actually sounds like a language sometimes.  It's gotten to a point where I can understand a lot of what he means since I'm with him all day but many times Michael has to ask for a translation.   

Here are just a few of the funny ones:

Macaroni- macker

Computer- peter (personal fav)

Pumpkin- punker

Basement- basey

Pizza- pizzy

Yogurt- yobi

sandwich- sammer

Mickey Mouse- Mic mou

chips and ketchup- keps

banana- bendi

doing some work on the "peter"

More pictures :)

One thing I know for sure, the grandmas will be happy with the plethora of Luke pictures I've been posting.  :)  The weather turned out gorgeous yesterday after what seems like months of rain and clouds so we had fun raking and playing in the leaves before nap.   

 

Our little monkey

Hope ya'll had a fun and Happy Halloween.  Just had to share our little monkey with you!  

Happy Halloween

This morning after a fiasco with the carseat being in the wrong car that I won't even go into,  (Michael's on call until tomorrow am) I took Luke to get a Halloween donut at Krispy Kreme.   Here's what he thought of it:  

Don't blink- second edition

Remember this?

Nine days later it's bald.  

It is a sure sign that winter's right around the corner and that it's time for us to break out our rakes.  :)  I'm sure we'll get used to this after we've been here a little while, but a true Fall is such a novelty to us.   I've been in denial about the snow until recently. Not so much anymore.