Updates from our family...

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Luke is 7 months old!

Our sweet Luke is now 7 months old! He continues to be such a joy and is growing up way too fast. Big news: tooth number 1 is on the way! Both of our sons are teething at the same time, actually. Daniel recently lost two more teeth! :)

In the last month, Luke has become a lot more active, looking around and trying to grab and reach out at everything -- and put it in his mouth! He is getting stronger while sitting, but still tumbles. He has started turning in his crib and sleeps on his tummy sometimes. When we go to pick him up after we wakes up, he's often doing push-ups and greets us with a big smile! He can scoot a little when on his tummy... I think we are only a few weeks away from crawling. Most days, especially when he is at the day care (which, thank God, we are so happy with!), he takes 3 naps a day (two shorter ones there, and one long one when he gets home before dinner). Today at home he had two long naps only, so maybe he is starting to transition... He is now having 3 meals a day and has started having whole milk yogurt in addition to all the vegetables, fruits and chicken that he has been eating. He is a great eater since he hasn't refused any food we have offered. Oh, and another big recent development is that he has started to make consonant sounds: his favorite right now is "ne, ne, na, na", but has also said: "da, da, ba, ba, ra, ra, la, la!" He is indeed very vocal! And he loves it when we sing to him or make funny sounds.

Enjoy the photos of our sweet boys!

You can just about see his first tooth coming out in this photo!

Big brother happy to participate in the photo-shoot!

Just LOVE seeing them together!

Iron Man is always close by to protect Luke!

More and more hair!

Luke is very well protected: Bumble Bee Transformer, Iron Man and Batman!

Luke was wondering, who is that?!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

It's Spring Break!

This is our first official "Spring Break", since Daniel started school this past year. Schools are closed for a week and so we took advantage to take our first vacation as a family of four. We are currently in Williamsburg, Virginia, for the third time since moving to the U.S. (almost 11 years ago!), and we just love it here. It's nice having a place to come back to and to build our own family traditions. Thanks to my mother, we get to stay at a lovely timeshare resort! Daniel has his own bedroom and so does Luke, since we converted one of the large bathrooms into his bedroom and it has worked out great! Parents who get to sleep well means a much happier family!

This week is all about enjoying one another and we really have been doing so. Our normal lives back home is so hectic and it's just so nice having this time together. Because Luke is only 6 months old and still naps 3 times a day, we are keeping things simple and just hanging out around the resort or Jonny and I have been taking turns spending time with each kid. The last couple of days were really warm and Daniel even got to go swimming outside! This morning I took Daniel out shopping for shoes and ice cream and this afternoon, Jonny took him to Colonial Williamsburg, or as Daniel likes to call it, to "the older days." He came back so excited and said he had gone on "time travel!" He loves history and was really interested visiting the Governor's house, etc. Tomorrow I get to take him there again myself and Jonny gets to enjoy Lukinho! :)