10 months

Well Luke, another month has come and gone.

You are just the goofiest little character. It is as if you have so much personality trapped in your little body, and you just have to be going ALL THE TIME in order to get it all out!

We finally got you back to sleeping through the night - getting 4 teeth at one time was deadly for everyone involved.

You learned how to open the cabinet doors the other day - what a treat!
I think I clean up tupperware at least 6 times a day now.



This is what you did with the bowl today....You sat there like this screaming into it. I think you liked the echo. And that we laughed.

You learned how to roll your "r's" too. You just crawl around going "r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r" all day.
Sometimes it is loud, and sometimes it is quiet - it just depends on your mood I guess.

You are quite the opinionated little man. I wish you could use your words instead of just screaming when you don't get your way. You know what you want and you do whatever you can to get it!
We are working on the word "please".

You are working on standing up - finally. Your balance is good enough to do it - it just freaks you out to let go and do it on your own. You will let go occasionally until you notice, or someone else notices and makes a big deal about it.

You are still not one to show off...whenever we ask you to do all your tricks for people, you just grin as if we are just so ridiculous for even asking!

You learned the concept of "catch" too - you used to not like it because you were worried about not getting your ball back. We now play catch often. You growl often too.

When we ask "what does a monkey say?" you say "who-who-who" or sometimes just one really long "whhhoooooooo".


You know how to give five, say mom, dad, ball and WOW! - always sounds excited too, clap and say "yay", you dance ALL the time. You hear the beat and stop what you are doing to shake it. It is so great.

Your favorite place to play is under the kitchen table - you can fit just perfectly under there. There have been a few times that i've had to get you out when you get stuck in the bars under the chairs. You don't really appreciate that.

We went boating with Chris, Sandy, Kylee, Travis, Kat and Amber the other weekend - it was your first trip on a boat. You handled it surprisingly well. You only hated your life jacket for a few minutes at first. You slept for a bit and LOVED playing the water! you laughed and squealed and kicked and splashed the whole time!


You are learning so much and becoming such a great little boy. We love watching you grow and explore your environment. We love you lots and lots!


Love
Mom & Dad

for the out-of-towners

Ok KATY - here are the apartment pictures that you REFUSED to wait for any longer!

Above you will see our Family Room (as seen from the front door) the Kitchen (as seen from the eating area) and the Eating Area (as seen from the family room).

This is Amb's room and bathroom - hopefully you can tell the difference.
Her room has this fantastic purple wall...I couldn't capture it's greatness in a picture.

This is Luke's "I Believe In Super Heroes" bedroom.

This is the Master Bedroom (ie Megan & Cory's room). It is ginormous and has really great dark wood floors. LOVE. Then this is our bathroom...nothing overly exciting really.

And Last But DEFINITELY Not Least.....the closet. the wonderful magnificent walk-in closet.
CHECK OUT THOSE SHOE SHELVES!!!
I know...right??? It is a freakin dream come true.
Pretty sure I'll never be able to have anything less ever again.
I don't know what Cory is complaining about...he has room for all his 3 pairs of shoes. Such a whiner.

uneventful

So ENTIRELY uneventful.

This is the life we lead these days.

Luke is still as crazy and funny as ever. Now if we can only convince him to let go of the couch and stand up - we'll be moving on to the next phase of his life.

Our new apartment is seriously as fantastic as ever. I keep saying I'll post pictures, and someday I probably will. I keep waiting for it to be empty and spotlessly clean......that hasn't happened yet. So, when it does - you'll know.

I turned 24 last week (I'll post more about this - with pictures - later)...what happened to the last like 10 years of my life? Ok...even like the last 5. It has been so busy and changing every day it seems. No wonder the time flew by.

We are starting to experience "fall" weather. I am not loving it. It is getting to be only around 75 or 80 every day and that feels cold. I need to invest in some sweaters or something.


Is it odd that I almost wish our life was NOT uneventful? I mean, uneventful is nice - things are going along smoothly and easily. TOO EASILY. It freaks me out. In the life of the Christensen's that has simply come to mean that we are being prepared for the disaster to strike. Ugh.

I'm off to clean my house and do laundry....the typical wednesday. Wish me luck....

9 months - pt. 2

luke...I feel like your last blog didn't do your 9th month of life the justice it deserved. chris, sandy and tyler all came over while i was in the midst of typing it so i got distracted.

a few things I forgot:

dancing - while amb and i were in st george dad taught you how to dance. it is so cute. you sit on the floor and just rock back and forth. if we say "dance dance" and you are standing, you sit down and start rocking back and forth.

screaming - you have found your high pitched voice. it's like the sissiest girly scream ever.

sharing - you now share everything. whatever you eat, you show the people around you and hold it in their face until they say "numnumnum" like they are eating it. haha. you are so funny.

the best part of all of this, is you do it on command. we say "shake it" and you shake whatever toy is in your hand. we say "dance dance" and you start dancing. it is so awesome.

and last but not least...teething. you have gotten all 4 of your top front teeth and i'm pretty sure you are getting your canine's now too. let me tell you, it has made for some seriously rough nights. you still only have the two front ones on the bottom. your smile is getting pretty cute with all those teeth though!

9 Months

Dear Lukey...

Well, you have been here with us now as long as it took to make you inside me....(minus one week but we won't go there). Let me tell you, 9 months of you went by way faster than 9 months of pregnancy!

When I look back at what our lives were like 9 months ago, it was so entirely different. The freedom...the late nights...the independence. I wouldn't trade you back for any of it!

You have gotten to be SO much fun. I swear in the last month you have just come into your own and are so your own person.

Here are a few things you learned this month....

growling. it is so funny - you just sit in the back of the car talking away to yourself and you throw in a growl every once in a while.

clapping. this one took you forever to learn!

you totally know who mom and dad are. whenever one of us is not around you don't stop saying the other person's name (when mom is gone you just say "mamamamamamama" and if dad is gone you say "dadadadadadadadada")

you LOVE your ball. and i mean LOVE. that's your other word - bahbahbahbah - that's how we know you want your ball

you love to drink out of water bottles and don't really care for your sippy cup

you still love amber probably at least as much as you love me and dad.

you force laugh. oh my gosh this might be my favorite thing. we start laughing (or amber walks in the room) and you force out this "ha. ha. ha." and then look back and forth between everyone in the room just to make sure we are all still laughing. it usually just makes us laugh harder, so it is a downward spiral.

We moved to a new apartment this month too. Our new place is about twice the size - you love having so much more space to crawl around and play. Moving with you around was quite the experience. I never realized how much STUFF you have! man alive. and you think you are so helpful...trying to pull everything out of the boxes I put them in. I really appreciated it....

I also left you for the first time this month. Well, for more than a few hours at least. Amber and I went to St. George for the weekend and I didn't see you for 3 whole days! Ok, well two half days and one whole day, but still. It was so long! I missed you like crazy...and slept until 10am every day. Which I loved.

As you can tell by the fact that we have only two pictures of the last month of your life, you can probably understand how busy we have been!

This picture I took of you makes me remind you of your dad. You are definitely just like him!

We love you lots and just love watching you learn and grow!

Love, Mom & Dad

out of touch

Ok it is somewhat amazing how out of touch I have begun to feel without having my daily dose of television and the internet!

We have been in our new place for just over a week, and I L O V E it. Seriously. We have about twice the space we used to have....and (no offense amber) but a built in babysitter too!!

Although I try not to take complete advantage of that, it is difficult not to.

I am lucky to have such a great sister who is willing to help out in whatever way she can.

Thanks sis!

Now...on to more important things.

First of all, I am totally the worst friend ever. Cotter...Happy Birthday a few days ago. I know, I fail miserably! I am going to call you today. For real.

Second of all, Mom - Happy Birthday a few days ago! I know, I haven't devoted an entire blog to you. However, Amber said everything I would have said. And she did it with her usual wit and charm. Way to steal my thunder Amb. Thanks a lot.

I will post pictures (mainly for my mom since she's one of the very few people who haven't seen it already) on Wednesday or Thursday. After a few angry phone calls and Cory being great for handling them all, we are (FINALLY) getting the internet on Wednesday. Thank goodness!

Anyway, hope all is well in the blogging world - I have missed you dearly.

anxiety

Do you ever have those days when all of life suddenly hits you and you spend your day debating whether you would rather use the curl-up-in-bed-until-it-all-goes-away approach or the make-a-list-and-conquer-the-world approach?

Today I am having that debate.

We move next week and basically nothing is ready. Granted, I'm not really a pack-and-move kind of person. Especially because we are moving about 15 minutes away from where we live now. It's much easier to just throw the clothes in the car and go put them in the new closet (walk-in, if I might add) rather than take them off the hangers, put them in a box, take them to the new place, un-box them and re-hanger them. Such a waste.

Does anyone else ever feel like they can't get a single thing accomplished when there are other people inside their house?

It is a weird phenomenon.

And don't get me wrong, Cory is great - and generally a good helper........if I give him a detailed list of instructions. And tell him the bathroom needs to be "megan clean" not "cory clean" because seriously, they are different.

Anyway, that's not the point. The point is, I feel like a bad mom/wife for thinking I want to kick my husband and son out of the house for a day so I can get something accomplished. When it is Cory's only day off during the week and we could spend it having fun-happy-family time.

So which is better?

Spend time with your husband and son for the day while I have the chance but then have to pack everything on Monday after a 6 hour day at work, with Luke there to "help" me, and Cory at work?

OR

Have your husband spend some quality time with his son while his anxiety-clad wife accomplishes something with her day and eases the anxiety - therefore being able to have some fun-happy-family time tomorrow?

Tough decisions really.