Luke at 18 months!

We can't believe that Luke is already 1 1/2 when I feel like we were just celebrating his first birthday...although the squishy newborn days seem like forever ago!!!!!!  Luke's well baby check up went great and he is meeting all of his milestones, but he's still pretty tiny for his age.  He's 22 lbs and is only in the 14 percentile for height!  He's still a quite demanding baby compared to the girls, but I'm thankful I have so much help from them.  I totally blame his teeth for his fussiness as they are soooooooo slow to come in and still are coming in one at a time verses in a set.  I think he's working on some eye teeth now and the last of the first 4 molars.  The terrible two tantrums have already started when he can't have what he wants (usually the iPad or something the girls have) and I pray that his strong will serves him well later in adulthood!  Lol!  He takes up as much of my time now as he did as a newborn, but I'm treasuring every precious moment I get to spend with him because it's an understatement to say how fast time flies! 

 

The sweet little man at birth, 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months.

Some silly extras ones...

He got tired of my photo shoot and moved on to Mr. Potato Head

He loves, loves, loves to play Little People.  The little boy in the bottom right picture frustrates him because the soccer ball won't come off! :)

Connect Four with Kailee

Silly boy...

I love when he gets down on his belly...

He loves to build and stack things and you'll notice in the bottom right picture that he'll usually create something after he finishes a meal.

He's not the best eater in the world but does a little better when he's not confined to his highchair (boo...bad habit!)  He also doesn't drink his milk from a sippy cup!  Ugh, that was one of the reasons I kept him on a formula bottle for so long.  Weaning him had nothing to do with being the baby of the family but everything to do with simplifying our life!  Lol!!!!  Constantly on the go and busy, busy days made keeping that bottle around so much easier!  He was taking one or two throughout the day and did well at going to bed without one, but it was the 5am bottle that guaranteed a few more hours of sleep that don't necessarily happen now!  Boo!  For about 2 weeks he was up for the day at 5:30am, but has now pushed it to closer to 6:30-7:00.  If he's up before 6:30, he's grumpy and won't let me get on with my morning routine which makes it tough to get Hailey off to school.  His doctor says that I shouldn't worry too much about his milk intake because he drinks a ton of water and loves yogurt, cheese and spinach smoothies.   

 He loves bath time...not too many toys, just usually a cup to fill with water keeps him happy! 

He cracks himself up...

I'm not posting this picture on here to embarrass myself at my mess of an office, but to show what a little booger his is!  You'll notice the chair is up on the cabinet on the right because he'll climb on that and onto the kitchen counters!  We now just turn that office chair up on it's side on the desk to deter him.  We are child-proofing day by day!!!

 

Kailee had cleaned up her tea set and stacked everything neatly in the middle of the table and Luke came in and made himself a tea party! 

And some fun videos...

 

It cracks me up that he can punt a ball!  He better make us rich one day! LOL! 

Random fun...

 At Kailee's soccer practice on a ridiculously gorgeous fall day!



Everyday fun....

I'm behind (thanks to a certain 18 month old that never allows me to sit at my computer...unless he is here with me pressing all kinds of keys!) on about 5-6 posts that I'm hoping to get to over the next week, ha! We'll see!  This one is a generic blend of everyday fun since school has started! 

 

We did another Sister Swap sleepover with Ava and Ella...I had the littles this time!

Eli and Kailee get together often during the week while the big siblings are at school...

I'm finally in a solid workout routine walking every morning immediately after we drop Hailey off at school.  Kai keeps herself busy with the iPad and Luke doesn't seem to mind just sitting there looking for dogs, crows, and airplanes!

A random art project...a mask for her baby

I haven't done a post yet about soccer and Hailey's season finishes up this week!  This picture was taken after our first game where she scored the first goal of the season!!!!  #5 represent!!!!!

Kailee is also doing soccer with the ProSoc Academy like last year...she loves it and gets to see her buddies, Ella and Eli.

Rare moment of Luke sitting still!

Chillin!

Reading with Hailey

I love Kai's expression!

Doctor turned Mummy!

Not sure Leila wants to participate

Great behavior at school!

The girls are in the same gymnastics class at Ramstein

Our Fall has been fairly decent...not too cold and not too rainy...

Man, I so wish this wasn't blurry!!!

Leila girl....

Trains....we have a train table in the attic that we are going to finally pull down as one of Luke's Christmas presents.

A unicorn

Somehow we became a Converse family over night...I found some used ones on Bookoo for Luke and the girls batted their eyelashes at Daddy and came home the next day with some of their own! ;) 

Good dog while Luke eats his breakfast...

Awana lessons...

Quite the tea party!!!!!

Ewwwwww

Funny sister snuggles...he's so demanding and it's a big problem when 4 people give him what he wants! :)  He wanted Hailey to hold him standing up!

A little soccer at the park while we were waiting to get Hailey from school

Our dinner guests...

Playtime in the attic...friends of our from church moved in right behind us...they have 2 boys and a girl who is about the girls' age. 

We attended a friend's promotion ceremony on Ramstein and it was held at the Berlin Wall Memorial.  I didn't even know this was there!  Pretty cool...

The back side was the East side of the wall and of course didn't have any graffiti because it was guarded so people didn't try and escape over to the West.