My birthday

Today was my 28th birthday. Ever since we got married the first thing that Mike does on my birthday morning is bake me a cake... always yellow cake and chocolate frosting, my favorite. This year Grant liked participating in the baking process but really just wanted to eat it. We were saving the cake to eat after dinner tonight so it was especially hard for him to see it all day and not have any. On the way to the restaurant tonight Grant said, "My tummy hurts me, I need some cake." Backing up a bit... Mike made me chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and Grant and I gobbled them right up. We went to church and had a lazy afternoon. Luke gave me a birthday surprise today. I went to get him up from his nap and he was standing up in his crib! He loves to be holding on to furniture and moving around some but I've never seen him get up on his own. Oh, and Grant also gave me a nice birthday "gift." He did not go pee-pee in his pull-up all day!! He was dry when we got home from church, after his nap and even after we got home from the restaurant tonight!!! All you mothers out there know how great that is! He told me several times that he had to go without me asking him. YAY! Tonight we went to eat at a great seafood restaurant and had invited some of our new friends to come too. They have 2 boys exactly the same ages as ours. SO, it was a little wild with two 2 yr olds and two 8 month olds but we still had a great time. Mike brought the cake to the restaurant so we all finally got to enjoy it! I wanted to get a picture of all of us but unfortunately it was impossible. By the time the cake came 2 out of the 4 were beyond fussy.

I did get a picture of Grant and his new buddy, Jet. They are so funny together and love to give eachother hugs. Usually it's Jet hugging Grant but this time it was Grant hugging Jet. They are going to be big buds.

8 months!

It's hard to belive Luke is 8 months old today. It has been such a joy to watch his sweet personality blossom and I know that with each month he's only going to get more and more fun. For the past week he's been scooting on his belly toward toys and things he wants but just today he has decided to venture out to bigger and better places... like the kitchen!



By the end of the day he was scooting all over the place. If he's like his brother he'll do this Army crawl for a long time before he decides to get up on his knees. Poor little guy is cutting his 4th upper tooth. He has cut all four within a few weeks time. He can be pretty fussy during the day but thankfully it doesn't bother him at night. Here are some pictures that have been taken recently...


Eating birthday cake for the first time


Bathtime. He loves chewing on this little Mickey Mouse toy.


Grant singing Jesus Loves Me to him. Grant has gotten in the habit of doing this after Luke wakes up from his naps. Luke really loves this and just sits as still as can be (which is rare these days)!


And he's off... better go clean the floors!

"My Favorite Book"

I know this looks like it was a staged picture but I promise, really, it wasn't. Grant came in to the kitchen yesterday holding this book that he pulled off our book shelf and said, "Mommy, this is my favorite book, I'm going to read it." So, off to his chair he went and I of course grabbed the camera! Did anyone of you have to study this book at Harding?? I did!
(I know you can't see the last word very well but it's the His Needs Her Needs book)