3.30.2010

Retail Therapy

The weather has been yucky and I've been a little down so I'm giving my go at virtual retail therapy. Let's see if it will do the trick...







3.24.2010

Oh, sunny days...

We've been blessed with blue skies lately and we have taken advantage. Lucca loves to be outside and exploring.
It's official -- Lucca is a hoarder. I remember my sister telling me a story of Tate collecting rocks on the seat of her tricycle and every time she would try to sit they would all fall off. Tate would just get off and try again. We collect rocks in cups and often when Lucca bends over to pick up a new rock the ones he's already collected fall out. He meticulously picks them up and we start over.







I think Lucca looks like he's going to pick up the little girls in the background.





Shan did a 200K last weekend so Zizi (that's Tia Lulu's new name that Lucca gave her), Lucca and I went to Vashon Island for a little adventure. An adventure it was -- there were high points and low points, but we were outside, on a ferry and had a picnic so who can complain. Well, I did. The ferry was an hour late in both directions -- enough said.



Cheese anyone?!?

That last photo I LOVE!!! Doesn't that say it all. Those lashes are OUT-OF-CONTROL.

I love my boys!

This is what I see every night when I head upstairs to fetch my husband...


I realize it's not the best habit to rock him to sleep every night, but really?!? How could we resist. We both realize he won't be 13 and still want to rock to sleep, so we'll take it as long as he'll let us.

3.07.2010

This is for you Grandma and Grandpa

We bailed on Grandma and Grandpa this weekend for skyping, so this is to make up for being flakes. Sorry, Shan got home that day from NYC and went straight to bed (at 4:00). Guess a week of working hard will do that to you.

Here's Lucca on one of our many walks we went on while Papa was gone. Again, he refused to wear anything but his boots. He loves to be outside, so it's a good thing we've had such awesome weather.








Shan and Lucca had quite the reunion. We had a lot of fun playing at the park.









Learning how to skip rocks.




3.04.2010

My not so little boy


The last few days I've been hit with the realization that my little man is getting much bigger. It's such an awesome thing to watch him discover and communicate with this world around us. In an effort to preserve this moment, I want to share some of his latest antics.


First I'll start with what hasn't changed because there's not much:

1. He still wakes up and asks for bananas and vitamins first thing

2. He still snuggles with his mama every morning. I hope this never ends, it's one of my favorite moments with him. Now, he puts his head on my lips so I can kiss his forehead. Then he does this thing which really is like making out without the tongue. He puts his mouth on mine and just lays there. For like 2 minutes we just lay there mouth to mouth. Which if it weren't so cute could be weird, but I eat it up. He is SUCH lover and I'll give him a million kisses as long as he'll let me.

3. He still asks Papa for chocolate as soon as he gets home from work. Most nights he stands on the porch jumping up and down as Shan pulls in yelling "chocolate, chocolate".

4. He still eats a lot.

5. His favorite food is Thai, 3 stars -- "noo noo" which is noodles.


Now some of the new:

7. He's OBSESSED with cats. Every night we have to go on a walk to look for cats.

8. He talks a ton and just recently started putting two words together. He now says "Me too", "oh, good", "bummer", "pasta", "zizi" (that's Tia Lulu) and knows everyone in our extended family. He loves to go through the pictures and name everyone. I'm always amazed at his memory. He also says "Michael" just like an adult. Totally random but it's perfect.

9. He is already so independent and stubborn. Today he wanted to wear his snow boots (it was almost 60 and sunny) and threw a fit when I suggested wearing something else. So, we went to the park in the snow boots.

10. It was a big deal when Lucca went down the slide without wanting to hold my hand. Since then he has watched with longing eyes at the kids climbing up the slide. He's been working on it but hasn't gotten very far before sliding down. Today (maybe it was the lucky boots), he climbed all the way to the top. He was SO proud and I was both proud and sad. My baby boy can climb up a slide.

11. When he gets a burst of emotion, he holds my face in both of his hands, looks me in the eye and plants one on me. It's seriously the best little surprise.

12. I feel like we're already in the terrible two's. He does full on tantrums which I don't really know what to do with.

13. When Lucca is done eating there is about 10 seconds to get him out of his chair before he starts his antics. First, he starts the food dumping, then he starts playing with his hair (which wouldn't be so bad except his hands are always filthy and he has a lot of hair). He realized he gets a rise with the hair, so if playing with it doesn't work, he stacks food on his head. He got a fistful of pasta balanced on his head the other day before I could get over there. I was so mad but seriously how can you not laugh. Needless to say his hair is always so dirty, greasy, sticky and ghetto by the end of the day. Again, I don't know what to do with that?

14. Like his cousin Tate, Lucca loves to collect rocks. We collect them on rocks and then go home and he gets a cup to house them.

15. He loves to read and has memorized parts of "Llama Mama", "Skippy Jon Jones" and "He came with the couch".


How's that for an update. How lucky are we?