Trip to Atlanta

Luke, Noah, and I went with Josh on his first round of interviews for his fellowship. He had two interviews in Atlanta, one at Emory on Friday and another with a private practice on Saturday. It was quite an adventure traveling with both Noah and Luke. While Josh was at the Emory interview, I had to check us out of the hotel and then I walked around the campus for an hour and a half with Luke in the stroller and Noah on the leash until Josh was done. We were able to spend Friday night and Saturday with our friends Danny and Regina and their little boy Preston. Luke and Preston had a good time together, Preston was studying Luke's crawling moves and it wasn't long after we left that Preston had it down! Luke got his first busted lip on this trip, he was trying to use Noah to stand up and Noah scooted away too fast for Luke to recover. He was a trooper though, a little ice cream and he was all better!


Luke's busted lip


obligatory embarassing tub shot

Computer Problems

Hello for all of you who check out our blog (and thanks to you!), I just wanted to take a quick minute and post that we are having virus related problems with our home computer. We have lots of new pictures and a few videos of Luke to post, but we are reluctant to use the aforementioned computer to do anything other than what is completely necessary. Not to fear, we plan to get a new computer (or will fix the one we have) soon and will be back with some new pictures of Luke.
Until then, know that Luke has his first tooth! It came in at the beginning of the month and is the top right middle tooth (odd location I know). The one next to it is working its way in now. He is an active crawler and pulls up on everything. He is trying to cruise around the furniture and even stood on his own without holding on yesterday for about 5 seconds, and then realized what he was doing and sat down. He has started chasing Noah now and Noah thinks it is a game, it is pretty funny to watch the two of them. Noah will run off and Luke will chase him, Noah circles around behind Luke until Luke realizes he is there and switches direction only for Noah to circle around again!
Love to you all!

New Picture

Luke came in to work with me on Saturday, Josh had to see a patient and then we were going out searching for a coffee table or ottoman that Luke can't hurt himself on or crawl under. Still haven't found one, so let me know if you have any suggestions. Anyway, while Luke and I were waiting for Josh in my office, we played with the camera on my Mac. Here is a fun picture I got of the two of us.

Crawling...attempt #2

I tried opening all of the blinds and turning on all of the lights, but the video is still not very bright, but I think it is at least better than the last one. Luke is a lot faster now and we went out today to get a few more gates to keep him from the stairs. He can pull himself up and stand now, but I haven't been able to catch that on video yet.

Vacation in North Carolina

At the beginning of the month, we went to Fontana Village in North Carolina for a family reunion (my Mom's side). Luke and I got to spend nearly a full week there relaxing. Josh had to work and go to a seminar in Fort Worth, but he was able to join us for the first few days. We had a great time and Luke got to meet more family, including his Great Grandpa and Mummu (Finnish for grandma). Anyone know how to say great grandma and grandpa in Finnish? One of our favorite things to do was to go the pool and float around in the lazy river. My mom and dad bought this little turtle for Luke to float in and he loves it. It keeps him mostly shaded and he can enjoy the water.

all the playing in the water tires the little guy out
We went and visited the Fontana Dam, one of the many dams built by the TVA during WWII, Luke slept through most of that trip :-)

Luke with his grandpa and great-grandma

Luke with his great aunt Lynn and great uncle Victor

The best thing about the trip was getting to see my grandpa play Table Tennis. I had heard stories from my Mom growing up about how good my grandpa was at table tennis, he once was the champion of the upper peninsula (or the 'UP') of Michigan. He's still got the skills at 87 years of age!

Crawling and chasing Noah

I took several videos this week of Luke crawling, unfortunately when I loaded them on the computer just now, they all turned out pretty dark. I'll post this one anyway for those of you who'd like to try to make out his moves, but will try to get a better video soon. He pretty much army belly crawls and although he's not super speedy yet, he is proficient at getting where he wants to go!

Incision at 2 weeks

Here is a picture of Luke's incision 2 weeks post-op...yes he is in the bathtub, but it is a tasteful picture :-)