Babies Make Four: Hello Senor Grumpy Pants.

Oh, my word. Isn't it a little early to be having temper tantrums? According to our pediatrician, it's not. Last week when I took Luke for his 1 year well baby exam, we had a discussion regarding taking the bottle away. I told her about one day when I replaced only 2 ounces of Luke's formula with milk and he flipped out on me. Like, cried so hard he couldn't breathe. I finally just let him sit in the floor crying and went to fix a formula only bottle when I looked to my side and saw him crawling to me (still crying, mind you). He crawled to me, tugged on my pant leg and as soon and I looked down, threw himself on his belly and flailed about. Um, ok?

Our pediatrician suggested we read "Making the Terrible Twos Terrific." But he's only one?! She said her boys started testing their limits around the same time, too. Maybe she was just telling me that to make me feel better?

Anyways, Luke has been super fussy. I don't know if it's the weaning of the bottle, teeth coming in, a growth spurt or all three on top of each other. Either way, it's distressing.

We just spent over an hour trying to get him to sleep. We still rock him every night, which we probably shouldn't do, but usually he falls asleep within 10 minutes and then he goes into his crib. Now, he falls asleep and won't let us put him down. I think he must be going through his clingy phase. He didn't want me to leave him in the nursery this morning and church and even clung to me when I dropped him off at daycare. Hopefully it is just a phase because it is exhausting.

In between his grumpy spells, he is his sweet, happy self. He played a lot this weekend in his water table that was his birthday gift from Dillon and me. We worked on fixing the house up this weekend as everything is still on schedule for the big move. Except now it's been moved up a week. We started packing some things up and our house is a mess. If you stop by this house before we move, please don't judge the major disaster that it is.

We have 3 weeks to get everything in order. A tight time frame, but it can be done! We are so excited to get into our new home.

Sleepy Luke... right after waking up.

Pretty picture while grilling out this evening...

Dillon, grill master.

Come here, puppy!

He LOVES his water table. We have to clean it out every day though... it gets so gross.

Grandma came down and helped us out this week while Dillon traveled for work. Unfortunately, she received some of the "Grumpy Luke", but took it in stride. And helped him ride his trike.