Luke now. Josh (left) with brother Matt, probably a little older than Luke is now.
What do you think?
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
November catch up in pictures
He did this to himself!
Attempts at a Christmas card photo...and why you haven't received a card yet!
But unless I get something better you might be seeing one of these again :)
Some shots from Thanksgiving in Brevard, NC with Josh's parents and grandparents. We had a nice relaxing trip...that is after the nearly 2 hours it took to get out of Atlanta!
Luke donned great-grandpa's Duke hat (that shot is for you Carrie!) and we cheered on the Gators vs FSU. Luke was fascinated with the Christmas tree and said it was "Awesome!"
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
What's new?
*Originally written 12/2 (was going to add pictures but never got around to it)*
So what is new with the Elliotts? Not too much with me or Josh, although stay tuned for our announcement of where we'll be employed come next July. We are getting close to making a decision but nothing to announce just yet.
Really, all that is new is with Luke! He has definitely become MR. INDEPENDENT. He desperately wants to do everything himself, his favorite new phrase is "NO, my do it." Here is a little example. Yesterday I picked him up from school, and as usual the first thing he wanted was his snack. No "HI Mommy!" he just looks at me and says "SNACK!" Usually they have a snack to take in the car hanging from his hook outside the classroom, but there wasn't one there yesterday. I told Luke this and he immediately marched over to the door, tried to open it himself and when he couldn't said to me "Mommy, open this." I did, and he went right to his hook and looked for himself! Guess he didn't believe me :) So typically, then since his classroom is downstairs, I carry him up the steps (he has been known to occasionally walk up them holding my hand) and out to the car. Yesterday, nope, he had to walk up them by himself. He even got upset with me when he noticed I had my hands hovering behind him and promptly told me "No, Mommy, No, my do it." He did climb up all the stairs like a big boy, only near-falling once to which he said "Whoa!" and walked out to the car on his own. He has also started to try climbing in and out of the car by himself, but I think this has more to do with his fascination of sitting in the driver's seat to play with all the of car knobs and buttons and he thinks if he climbs in unassisted he can outsmart me and get to the driver's seat before I grab him to get into the carseat.
Seriously, he is so darn cute exerting his independence. I hope I still think he is this cute when he goes through this again as a teenager :)
Josh and I have been trying to get him to use his pacifier only at night-time, but lately he has been a lot more attached to it. Not sure what that is about but it is hard to understand him when he talks with it in his mouth. This led to what I thought was the best moment of my mommy-hood so far this morning, only to realize that I had misinterpreted paci-speak. Luke had his paci in and blankie in his hand this morning when we pulled into daycare. I was unbuckling him and what I heard was "Mommy, I going to miss you." My heart melted (since he isn't quite to the point where he will say he loves us without being prompted) and I replied "I'm going to miss you too Luke." He looked at me weird and then said his phrase again, then I realized he had actually said "Mommy, I bring these two" meaning the paci and the blankie which he knows he is supposed to leave in the car and he wanted to take into daycare. Got to admit, I was disappointed.
You can imagine what happened from there...removal of the blankie and paci...Luke screaming on the way into daycare...other parents giving me that knowing look while they are thinking I'm glad it is you not me this morning.
So what is new with the Elliotts? Not too much with me or Josh, although stay tuned for our announcement of where we'll be employed come next July. We are getting close to making a decision but nothing to announce just yet.
Really, all that is new is with Luke! He has definitely become MR. INDEPENDENT. He desperately wants to do everything himself, his favorite new phrase is "NO, my do it." Here is a little example. Yesterday I picked him up from school, and as usual the first thing he wanted was his snack. No "HI Mommy!" he just looks at me and says "SNACK!" Usually they have a snack to take in the car hanging from his hook outside the classroom, but there wasn't one there yesterday. I told Luke this and he immediately marched over to the door, tried to open it himself and when he couldn't said to me "Mommy, open this." I did, and he went right to his hook and looked for himself! Guess he didn't believe me :) So typically, then since his classroom is downstairs, I carry him up the steps (he has been known to occasionally walk up them holding my hand) and out to the car. Yesterday, nope, he had to walk up them by himself. He even got upset with me when he noticed I had my hands hovering behind him and promptly told me "No, Mommy, No, my do it." He did climb up all the stairs like a big boy, only near-falling once to which he said "Whoa!" and walked out to the car on his own. He has also started to try climbing in and out of the car by himself, but I think this has more to do with his fascination of sitting in the driver's seat to play with all the of car knobs and buttons and he thinks if he climbs in unassisted he can outsmart me and get to the driver's seat before I grab him to get into the carseat.
Seriously, he is so darn cute exerting his independence. I hope I still think he is this cute when he goes through this again as a teenager :)
Josh and I have been trying to get him to use his pacifier only at night-time, but lately he has been a lot more attached to it. Not sure what that is about but it is hard to understand him when he talks with it in his mouth. This led to what I thought was the best moment of my mommy-hood so far this morning, only to realize that I had misinterpreted paci-speak. Luke had his paci in and blankie in his hand this morning when we pulled into daycare. I was unbuckling him and what I heard was "Mommy, I going to miss you." My heart melted (since he isn't quite to the point where he will say he loves us without being prompted) and I replied "I'm going to miss you too Luke." He looked at me weird and then said his phrase again, then I realized he had actually said "Mommy, I bring these two" meaning the paci and the blankie which he knows he is supposed to leave in the car and he wanted to take into daycare. Got to admit, I was disappointed.
You can imagine what happened from there...removal of the blankie and paci...Luke screaming on the way into daycare...other parents giving me that knowing look while they are thinking I'm glad it is you not me this morning.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Super Halloween
Luke, being a full-time day care kid, had two Halloween parties at school. They do two so that part-time kids get to have a party. Luke dressed up as a cowboy at one party (no pictures because he wouldn't put the outfit on for me at home) and the other day as Superman. He did fine with Superman, but refused to wear the cape for me. They did tell me at school that he wore it for trick-or-treating. Luke was also Superman for the real Halloween, but the weather was awful here. We went to our friends house to watch the Gators vs Georgia game and to trick-or-treat. We kept waiting for the rain to stop but it never did, so Josh and I took Luke on a quick trick-or-treat trip to 4 houses. A man at one of the houses answered the door wearing a big head (looked like the old men from the muppets). It really wasn't scary, but when he got down and close to Luke, Luke backed up to get away from him. Then when he got off of the porch, he kept repeating "I scared, I scared." Here are a couple of pictures from that evening.
No Cape!
No Cape!
Snuck it on him
Nice try mommy
snuck it on him again and he either never noticed or gave up :)
Lets go!
Bath time
One night recently, I discovered I had left Luke's bath wash in the bath tub with the lid open from the previous night. That made for some huge bubbles in the bath tub for him to play with. (Normally I just use a little bit of bath bubbles because our hang down shower head is broken so I really don't have a good way to rinse him off at the end of the bath). Luke was really excited about the BIG BUBBLES. However, as soon as I got the video out, he tried to play it cool :)
Hmm, changed my blogging template recently and can't figure out how to post video. Will try to figure that out :)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Luke Speak
I've decided to try a semi-regular installment of the funny/cute things Luke says. Tonight's post stems from cheese. Josh made us salads and Luke wanted a piece of cheese off of mine. He took it, at it, and then said "I like cheese...I like it." He repeated this several times, eating another piece of cheese each time. It was cute. Later he wanted to slide down our legs (we lay on the ground with our knees bent and he slides down). However, he wouldn't get on unless we laid all the way back on the ground. He came over to us, put his hand on our chest and said "Lay back" while pushing us down :) Then he would slide. Too funny.
In sad news, Luke has been bitten twice this week. Once on Monday that went unnoticed at daycare and I discovered when I took his shirt off for bath time and again today. Both bites were on his left arm and actually overlap each other. Poor Luke! I asked him who bit him on Monday and today and got two different names, wonder what the reliability is for a 2-year old?
In sad news, Luke has been bitten twice this week. Once on Monday that went unnoticed at daycare and I discovered when I took his shirt off for bath time and again today. Both bites were on his left arm and actually overlap each other. Poor Luke! I asked him who bit him on Monday and today and got two different names, wonder what the reliability is for a 2-year old?
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Basketball diaries
Just now as they are playing basketball:
Josh (to Luke): You smell like poops, do you have poops?
Luke: No
Josh: DO you have poops?
Luke: No
Josh: Are you telling the truth?
Luke: No
Josh: Are you lying about your poops:
Luke: Not lying.
Clearly he does have them, but nothing can get in the way of the game :)
Josh (to Luke): You smell like poops, do you have poops?
Luke: No
Josh: DO you have poops?
Luke: No
Josh: Are you telling the truth?
Luke: No
Josh: Are you lying about your poops:
Luke: Not lying.
Clearly he does have them, but nothing can get in the way of the game :)
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