Funny feet

As soon as it's relatively warm, I start wearing flip flops. I absolutely live in them in the summer. I bought Luke his first pair a couple of weeks ago, and he loves them as much as I love mine. I don't know why, but I think his little feet are so funny in them, and I laugh every time he wears them.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all our friends and family! We had a really nice day. Luke hunted eggs and opened his baskets in the morning, and then we headed off to church. Our service this morning was really wonderful; I can't remember a better Easter sermon. After church we went to my friend Adriane's parents' house for lunch. Luke got to hunt more eggs with the other kids, and he had a ball playing all afternoon. We skipped a nap thinking he would sleep on the 30-minute ride home, but he was so wound up from playing he never conked out. We still had a good afternoon, even sans nap! I'm so thankful to have such wonderful friends who open their homes to us and make us feel like part of the family.


Huntin' eggs!













Oooohhh! What's in here?














Yummy!














Ready for church.













Got one!

Pretty Easter eggs

Luke really enjoyed dyeing Easter eggs this year. He would pick a color and Gary & I would help him put the egg down in the cup. I'm continually amazed at how much fun all this stuff is again. Dyeing eggs by yourself is no fun, but it's loads of fun with a two-year-old! Picking just the right color!

Gary had as much fun as Luke.

Lookin' a little bored!

Spectacular!

Easter egg hunt

We had an Easter egg hunt at church today. The kids got to make a craft first, and then it was on to hunting eggs. Luke took off when we went outside and saw all the eggs. He loved finding them and kept counting them until we got to ten. There were all sorts of fun things inside - stickers, tattoos, bouncy balls, candy, ink stamps - and he loved all of them. Truth be told, I helped organized the egg hunt, and when we were picking out treats to put inside the eggs, I picked things I knew he would love because I figured if he loved them, most kids his age would, too. It was a beautiful day, sunny and about 75, so it was the perfect weather for an outside Easter egg hunt.

The glue expert makes a magnet.

On the hunt!

Treats!

Just a-swingin'

Have I ever pushed my child this high in the swing? Is it surprising that his daddy pushed him so high he could look over the fence into our neighbor's yard? Is it going to drive me nuts that now every time he swings he's going to insist that I push him that high? (By the way, the only question you should have answered "yes" to is the last one.)

More Luke-isms

Here are a few more of the funny things my child says . . .

-One of his favorite words is "probably". He uses it ALL the time!
Question: "Do you want a snack?"
Answer: "Um . . . probably."

-He's also started using "maybe" and often substitutes it for "probably".
Question: "Should we take Molly outside and play with her?"
Answer: "Maybe."

-He uses the word "awfully", but in a funny way.
Question: "Do you want to build blocks?"
Answer: (with much enthusiasm) "I awfully do!"
He also uses this word randomly. I just heard him say to Gary, "I awfully want to wear socks."

-Yesterday I asked him if he wanted to go play trains, and his jubilant answer was, "Hooray! I'm so excited! It makes me so happy to play trains!" There are lots of things in his little life that make him "so happy". I guess that's a good thing!

-Luke is all about putting "ed" on every past tense verb (what we professionals call the regularization of verbs . . . impress people at your next party with that one!) He has been known to say things like, "I hitted the table." He even puts the "ed" on verbs that already have it. For example, "I bounceded that ball!"

-"I yuv you, Mommy" remains my favorite expression. This morning he was in bed with Gary and me and he looked at us and said, "I love you guys." I'm not sure where the "you guys" came from, and I'm working on getting him to say "y'all", but it was sweet all the same.

The giver

This afternoon after Luke's nap, I decided to do some scrapbooking. I keep all my stuff on the dining room table (does that tell you how much we actually use it to eat?), and Luke likes to come sit with me and color or put stickers in a notebook. He brought his crayons in and the box was so full he had a hard time getting it on the table. He said we needed to get a bigger box, and I told him we just needed to get rid of some of the old crayons. Imediately he started to separate them, and then he told me he wanted to give the old crayons to children who didn't have any. My heart just melted when he said that, and so I told him we would. When we got up from the table, he asked me to carry some of the crayons he picked out. I asked if he wanted to throw them away, and he again said, "No, Mommy, these are for other children." What a sweet boy!

All aboard!

Yesterday we headed down to Grapevine for a Day Out with Thomas. This event was made for Luke Chumley! As soon as we got there, Luke started saying, "I'm so excited! I'm really excited!" We got to see Sir Topham Hatt, but Luke was content just to wave at him and didn't want to take a picture with him. Then we got on a real train with Thomas as the engine. There was even a conductor who greeted us with, "All aboard!" We sat in a window seat so we could see outside, and Luke was absolutely in heaven. He loved just sitting and watching the scenery pass by. We also got to take a few pictures with Thomas after the train ride.