LUKE is THREE !

Our little Guy is a Big 3 year old now! We celebrated his Birthday with a few friends and a Cars party! I made a racetrack cake, stoplight snacks, and cardboard cars to run races in the sunny back yard.
With 3 comes lots of new things that 2 year olds can only Dream about. The top of Luke's Dream List: YLand! Since we have been going to the YMCA Luke has said "I can go to YLAND after my birthday!" its just an indoor play structure in a seperate section of the child watch area, but the kids have to be 3 to go while being watched, otherwise they have to have a parent. I am happy to say he got to go play at Yland the very day after his birthday, and although his excitement was priceless, it lasted pretty much just for that first day.

Another Big Kid activitiy limited to 3+yr olds is gymnastics. So actually on his BirthDay I signed him up for his first kids only (no mommies allowed) class. So far he loves it!

Other exciting 3 year old things:

• Potty Trained! WE finally nailed this one back in Febuary, and he is doing awesome. Of course there have been a few accidents, but he has it down!!
  


• Letter Sounds and Early Reading: Luke has moved on from learning to say new words to learning how to spell them. Full of interest he is in the habit of saying a word and then its first letter. Its really hard for me to believe it too, but often now he will actually read some words. He has always loved books, and this love has translated well into workbooks, you know fun picture ones where you match, color, count, continue patterns, write, etc. Lately, this one of his actvities of choice.



• He also is really getting into playing games, card games like memory, go fish, and a fun Thomas the Train game are among his current favorites.
  


• Along with games, books, cars, and cartoons, Luke still loves to play ball. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer. He has progressed from slamming the ball off the T to actually swinging and hitting pitches, and pretty much refuses to even use the T ( just in time for T-ball practice to start). His pitches are awesome too, for a 3 yr old I think anyway, awesome as in- protect your face mommy cause this will hurt!
  


• An active guy, you can see! So, we got him a bike and it took a day or two to get used to pedaling, but he is off and riding fast now.



• You'd think that as busy as he is we could keep the coveted Nap around just little while longer. but no, the Nap protests began a long time ago, and although I am not quite ready to let it go, Naps are now few and too far between.

There seems to be so much more to do as a 3 year old, and I thought the past few years were busy ones!! 3 year olds are busy! I can't say I can keep up, or love every minute of it. But, I look forward to all the new adventures this year will bring. Watching a child grow is an amazing thing.

Happy Birthday to my sweet little buddy.

Drew Month 4

Yes, my sweet itty bitty is becoming a handsome little boy, already a 4 month old! This month marked the start of a few new things:

Drooling: already putting things to your mouth to coat them in your drool, your favorites being your two fingers.

Rolling: you made your first attempts at rolling a few weeks ago, surprising us all with several tummy to back rolls over and over again. The last few days you have mastered back to tummy and after putting the two together you have quite literally been on a roll.

Sleeping: through the night that is, and the adult definition too- until morning. Although not something I am willing to bet on quite yet, you have made your moma happy more than a few nights by not waking till 6am for your wee morning snack (what had been more like a 3-5am waking) after which you happily drift back to baby lala land till closer to 8:00. Again, makes moma happy- keep it up kid!

Giggling: my attempts to hear that belly laugh of yours have been more and more successful, I have found the trick is repeating something fast and high like; so so so cute, or love love love you.

Oh the life of a baby, and the pleasures of a mom!