Preschool Christmas Party

Lucas's preschool class had a little Christmas party on the last day of school. Both Phil and I were able to attend. (Translation: show up, play with Lucas, watch him eat, go home. HAH!) I didn't get too many pictures, but wanted to share there. Lucas loves his school and his teachers, so we were thankful to celebrate with them :)

Lucas's favorite part of the party was the Capri Sun. He'd never had one before, and managed to completely drain two full ones while we were there.

Lucas's (CUTE) little friend Harper. She is apparently a chocoholic.

There were the "creepy/cute" angels the kids made. (That was his teacher's term...I can only imagine walking around a classroom with 8 of these little heads floating around). Anyway, Lucas's totally cracks me up, and it has a place of honor on our tree.

Visiting Santa

We made our first official "visit" to Santa on Monday. We had really been talking it up with Lucas, and he was all ready to ask Santa for a bicycle. (I wish I could type that word as cute as he says it!) Well, of course, once we got there, he was a little intimidated by the Big Guy. Here was Santa's solution...

I'm pretty sure it's been awhile since Phil got to sit on Santa's lap, so that was a bonus for our morning :)  Lucas DID enjoy eating the candy cane he got from Santa, and I am still trying to get it out of his pants.  Haha.

Our friend Ally met us at the Santa picture stop. As you can see, she really enjoyed seeing him, too.

Merry Christmas 2011!

Pregnancy Pics

So...I pretty much HATE posting pics of myself, especially pregnant ones, but since so many have asked, here are a couple pics from around 18 weeks...They are from our Christmas card shots, hence, the candy canes.

"The Shark", Junior

Lucas found an old hat of Phil's the other day, plopped it on his head and said "Lucas GOLF!" I have NO idea where he got the idea that it was a golfing hat, but we pretty much think he looks like Greg Norman, Junior. Hah!

I'm A Big Kid Now!

So...last year, I took this shot of Lucas standing with two snowmen while I decorated for Christmas...

When we were getting the decorations out this year, he decided to come and play with the snowmen again, so I just had to snap another shot to see how much he had grown!

Not a baby anymore!  He is definitely a big boy now! He has moved out of his crib and out of the nursery into his new big boy room. We got so lucky with him as far as sleeping goes. The transition out of the crib was a total breeze. He hasn't woken up or gotten out of the bed ONCE!  As soon as we finish getting all the decor up on the walls, I will be sure to post pics b/c I think his new room is CUTE!!! 

Just a couple other updates on his progress.  He knows all (the major) colors now and is working very hard on his alphabet. He knows all of the letters, but on any given day, he gets about 20 out of 26 right...it's never the same ones, though. We are pretty proud that he has learned them all on his own, though!  He loves to tell us what every letter he sees is called and describe all the colors of everything. He is starting to form short little sentences (and occasionally really long garbled ones that make no sense to anyone but him).

His favorite things right now are golf, "football kick", Sesame Street, reading dinosaur books, going to school, eating goldfish crackers, and milk. He does not like green food, being told "no, or when Phil leaves his sight :)

We are so proud of our big boy and can't believe that next Christmas we will have two little ones to pose with the snowmen!