End of August

I guess that summer is winding down. Our leaves are tipped in red and yellow and the little kids are back in school. While Luke is in "school" all year round, I took advantage of the back to school sales and have been scooping up fall clothes in 3T sizes no less.

Luke has taken some sort of growth spurt and I can feel the difference in his weight now and I'm struggling to carry him anywhere. His legs dangle down to my knees now whenever I carry him.

His vocabulary has taken off, through the roof and he talks non.stop.

We're looking ahead to the fall and I've asked Luke what he'd like to be for Halloween... Sometimes I'll get a "yes" for railroad conductor, construction worker, fireman, and dinosaur. I'm not sure he understands the concept still even though I've tried to explain it to him.

We're slowly getting back into the routine of not having my mom and dad here. I'm having to cook the meals and do the laundry again which is a real bummer! I always look forward to the fall because of all the fun activities that start and go through the end of the year, but it also means that we'll be crazy busy. I'm already starting to think about Christmas. Not cool.

We've been a little boring here of late, so I hope you'll forgive my slacking in writing skills and of posts. Hopefully, we'll be more exciting soon!

His legs are a little long for 2T pants and short for 3T...

It's hard to catch him standing still. This is how most of the pictures look! But this was Luke looking like Colonel Sanders.

And probably the best picture I've ever taken of Luke that was totally a fluke. He wouldn't sit still and sat on my lap so I held the camera out from us and took this. Ha!

We really like reading books right now... I think we may take a trip to the library one day after work.

That's more like it!

August Catchup

Last week was a little hectic. My mom and dad closed on their home two Thursdays ago and we took a quick trip up to load up the last of their things to store in our basement. Except sometimes things just don't go so smoothly. My mom had complained for a few weeks of random breakouts of hives. Thinking that it was nothing more than stress, she wouldn't go to the doctor and felt a few benadryl would fix the issue, Only it didn't. We got home late Saturday night and she was covered. An upset tummy topped off the issue and it only got worse. Sunday included a trip to urgent care and the drugstore with no relief. Finally, last Monday, my dad called at work and said mom wasn't feeling any better. An evening in the ER, some fluids, antibiotics and major anti itch medicines and she was admitted to the hospital over night. I took the next day off work and Dad and I spent the day waiting for her to be released. Following that day, an appointment with an allergist and some more medicine to help and she was much better. Whew. I'm so glad that she's much better and that we've got to enjoy some of our time together. They'll be staying with us until next Monday when they head to the beach for 2.5 months (yes, MONTHS!) and will return to Candler with a new house.

I've enjoyed having them here at our home. They've cooked our dinners and cleaned for us, bought our groceries and helped with Luke. It's been good!

We went to a baseball game this weekend and Luke's enjoyed playing with my old play kitchen. Luke's now obsessed with baseball and loves wearing his baseball cap and yelling "You're outta here!" Luke also moved up to the "big boy room" at daycare, as we call it. He's now in a room with 2-3 year olds and he loves it! He does bike riding days and Bible studies in his class. He's growing so big, I can't believe it. Mom and dad brought down a bed that they weren't going to use and it's now Luke's big boy bed. He has so much room now in his bed that he doesn't hop out in the middle of the night to come to bed with us. We've had a few rough days and I think his molars are coming in, he's literally had a lake of drool under him some days. And he talks, and talks, and talks. We always said we couldn't wait to hear what he thinks and now we know!

It's been a good few days, even better now that my dear mama is feeling better. We'll enjoy this time and then head down to GA for a few days in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to the last few summer days and the beginning of my favorite season, fall!

A quick visit to Pappaw Eddie on moving day...

In the big boy bed!

And nachos at the baseball game!

Baseball player...

On the move, always...

Dear gracious, why do you look like a kid, not even a toddler anymore :(

Luke was playing with bubbles in the sink one day and just went full on and jumped in!

We like playing in the Thomas the Train tent!

crazy Dillon

Mom's birthday cake!