Christmas Festivities

Luke had an eventful Christmas holiday season. December 23th we went to his great grandma Pat's for a family Christmas on Dana's side. He met Grandpa Dana for the first time as well as everyone else who was there! He looked very cute in his Santa Baby onsie our neighbors bought for him.

Christmas Eve we had Kyle's mom and husband, sister and her family, and Grandpa Wilbur and Georgeanne over for supper. This was Luke's first time to meet his Grandma Vicki.

Christmas Day, Kyle's sister, Bridget and her family, who had been staying with us left and we had Christmas day together, just our little family. We tried to open presents with Luke, but he fell asleep so we bravely carried on with out him.

Luke is also getting very good at holding his head up during "Tummy Time". He can get his little chest all the way off the floor and his head high enough to look you in the eye! He's playing with his Kangaroo toy he got from Traver.

Today, the day after Christmas, Luke's Grandma Olson is coming AND it snowed today! Kyle took a video of Luke and I out in the snow. He threw his first snowball and made his first snow angle.

I also included a bath picture, just because it was cute.

2 moth Dr. Visit

Luke was 2 months old on the 18th. So today, the 20th, we went to see his pediatrician, Dr. Stephens. It was a good visit. Luke is growing along. He now is 22 in long and weighs 11lbs 4oz. We talked about night sleep schedules. At any point I'm ready I can start letting him cry it out at night and make him sleep all night long. He's started waking up once to eat at night ( most of the time anyway!!) and I'm doing fine with that so I think we'll coast here for a while. Perhaps after the new year we'll try for all night. Luke also got 3 shots and one oral. Dr. Stephens said he'd prolly be fussy and feverish. Well he was right. Poor baby has a temperature 99.8 and is fussy when not asleep. Good news: he's been sleepy today!! I thought I had infant Tylenol at home so we didn't pick any up while in town. However, we got home and I realized I'd bought Childrens Tylenol (ages 2-11) ...which is not for Luke. So Kyle went back into town to get some medicine for Luke and he's feeling much better. He is able to deal with lifes struggles, like tooting and burping, diaper changes and moving around.

The Sandovals are coming over tonight for supper and to exchange gifts. Cindy's bringing me her shirts that she wore while she was nursing her boys that no longer fit. I'm excited. Maybe I can stop buying clothes that I KNOW will be too big when I'm done nursing!!

Luke's a big boy!

Yes it's true. Luke is no baby any more. Yesterday morning I decided to put Luke down for his first nap upstairs in his crib. Then I came downstairs, looked at his pack n play in the living room--where it's been for 8 weeks--and decided I couldn't look at it there another minute. So, I took down the pack n play yesterday. Luke slept upstairs in his crib for all his naps yesterday...not a first. AND! slept up there all night last night. After we laid Luke down for the night, and began our nightly huge fit throwing, we adjusted the monitor in our bedroom to the quietest level that we could, while still being convinced we'd hear him if he cried. Well, I can still hear him sqeaking through it, but no more than I could when he was in the living room. We were both a little nervous to have him upstairs while we slept for the first time, but it went very well.

Luke had another first last night. He only ate ONCE during the night. He ate at 1:45am. He started squeaking, grunting and fussing around 4:30, so I went up and patted him until he went back to sleep. I figured it wouldn't work or last, but it did! He did some more grunting at 6:30 this morning, but stayed asleep until 7:30 when I woke him up for his "morning" wake up time.

The Big Weigh In

I took Luke to the Pediatrician to get him weighed. You can do this anytime, I found out on Sunday. You call in and get a "Weigh Check" time and then show up! For FREE! So Luke and I went today and he weighs 10lbs 11oz. He'll be 7 weeks old tomorrow. My little guy is getting slightly less little.

Thanksgiving!

We had a great extended Thanksgiving holiday. Mom and dad got here the 16 and dad left the 18th and then came back on Thanksgiving Day. They both left the 25th. Michael, Audra and Solomon got here on the 20th and left on the 24th. Mom and I got quite a bit done Monday and Tuesday before everyone got here. It was nice to have the help.

This was Luke and Solomon's first time to meet. Luke didn't notice much, but Solomon was so excited he konked Luke in the face at their first meeting. Solomon is 5 months older than Luke and has many more tricks. He tried out many of Luke's things. The biggest hit was a Taggies ball. Solomon is teething and he chewed and sucked on those tags like there was no tomorrow!

Thanksgiving day we went to Ponca City and Luke met Great-Grandma and Pappaw Key for the first time. He also met his Great-Aunt Marjorie for the first time. Luke was a hit. Of course everyone thought he was cute and tiny. And he is!

First Smile!

We had our first smile this morning! Kyle was at the gym so he missed it. However, it turned out that after Kyle got back, and Luke woke up from his nap and had a snack, he was ready to smile again! We got several out of him and Kyle did a great job getting really good pictures of the event. Here they are!

Baby Dedication

Baby Dedication went very well. Luke was awake for the entire dedication and then fell asleep as soon as we sat down and slept all the way through church. We went to class as well as church and were 15 minutes late, but I thought we did pretty well considering it was our first trip to church. I got to be in class for about 15 minutes and then I went to feed Luke so he would be a happy baby for the dedication. It worked out quite well.

One couple with a new baby as well, are professional photographers so they took family portraits of everyone, and we all get one 8X10 for free, with the option of buying more, of course.

A friend from Body and Soul got Luke his first rainboots. They are toddler size XS, but still way too big for Little Luke!