Here is Luke's rocking horse that grandma and grandpa made him! It looks perfect in his room! I found his Patriots winter hat upstairs and it fits him now!! He looks so cute!

We put the winter hat on for part of the Pats game with his "uniform." Here he is playing basketball with dada...Notice all ofhis new toys in the background! He is in heaven!!

At bathtime tonight, Luke wore his new fireman bath towel/robe that he got from the Rhode Island crew! He looked so cute in it!!
He tried his best to stay awake to see if the Patriots are going to make it to the playoffs, but he just went to bed. I will have to tell him in the morning if the Jets won or not!

i can drink out of a sippy cup!

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First Word!!

celebration at applebees for luke's first word.... "apple"

2nd Attempt

Luke really liked this box.. it has a bunch of different things for him to play with. Also, a winnie the pooh stuffed animal and a little glow worm toy Grandma and Grandpa got him this stand up activity table

Here is his brand new basketball hoop!! The activity box and the ring stacker. The top of the activity box has little animals that slide on tracks and each side of the box has a different thing. You can see the xylophone and the peg board.

With grandma and grandpa and cousin Avah

Group shot

Hanging with Uncle John

He did such a great job opening his gifts! He loved the tissue paper! Hanging out with Grandpa

Sitting with Aunty Dee

I got a few minutes of cuddles too

He liked it when Grandma was being silly

Here is Luke playing with the sleepy-rocking Santa Here is his Christmas outfit that Grandma and Grandpa picked out for him... he looked very handsome :)

Big boy playing with his new activity box toy, and standing up all by himself!

Playing with his new cell phone in his new hat!

Playing with his xylophone

Christmas!!

OK this post is going to be out of order and sort of messed up because I can't move the pictures around for some reason...


Here is Luke on Christmas morning... looking pretty tired haha... but he was really excited and playing with his new toys. The crawling winnie the pooh that Nana and Papa got him is next to him, he loves it!

Here he is with his new clothes this morning

and here he is trying to open a present... he actually did a pretty good job and got it almost all the way open

Luke and Dada relaxing before church on Christmas Eve

Hanging out with Aunty Drea on Christmas Eve in his PJs... probably WAY past his bedtime

Hanging out with Aunty Deb after opening all his presents

Cuddling with Uncle John

Papa and Luke playing before churchTrying to open a present on Christmas Eve Luke got a really nice quilt from aunty Dee and Uncle john:A super cute hat from the Gap and a matching sweatshirt from Aunty Drea

He had so much fun playingHere he is first thing on christmas morning with dada... I think Luke was more awake than Rick was

happy boy on xmas morning!

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Luke Meets SANTA!!

Friday:
I closed the office early (good call!) due to the snow storm. We were able to squeeze everyone that wanted to come in, in the morning. I left there at 1245 and was home well before the snow started. Rick left for guys weekend in VT just after the smow started falling and I guess the roads were pretty bad. Luke and I had fun home alone together He is doing so well eating solid foods and he LOVES eating with a big boy spoon!

He has been rolling over for a few weeks and still loves his toes

The past few days he has gotten really good at sitting up unsupported! he is pretty proud of himself too!

Saturday:

Luke thought it would be fun to wake up at 545 am play. I was able to get him back to sleep from 7 to 8 (thankfully). We got up and headed out after breakfast. My original plan was to go to the salem mall to meet Kim and Sebastien but when I headed out, the roads were still pretty bad from the 12 inches of snow we got Friday night. So, we headed to the Manchester Mall instead and got some last minute shopping done. NO ONE was at the mall at 9 am.. it was great! When we finally left the mall at about 11, the roads were much better, so we decided to go visit Nana and Papa. I picked up a pizza for lunch (they still had no power) and headed over there. They had gotten a pay as you go cell phone (still had no home phone) so I helped them activate that and we had a nice visit. They were very excited to see Luke and he was happy to see them too (see picture uploaded via cell phone of him holding Nana's face :) ). We left there in the mid afternoon and headed home to wait for Rick to get home from skiing.

Sunday:

At the church near our house, they had a Santa's helper Santa come to visit the kids! So after mass we went downstairs and enjoyed some coffee and donuts and then Luke got to sit on Santa's lap. Overall, he was not too impressed, but at least he didn't scream!! Lots of other kids had their lists for this Santa to pass along to the real Santa. We left church just in time because the roads were already really bad. We ended up getting close to another foot of snow!! We relaxed for most of Sunday and watched the Patriots game. Rick got a coat of paint done in the basement and I made a few batches of baby food for Luke.

Monday:

Rick went skiing again, so Luke and I were able to get the rest of our Christmas stuff done. We met Aunty Drea for lunch and then ice cream (yum!). Then we went to the mall, which was PACKED! Our quick trip took a couple hours. When we got home, he was sleeping so I was able to get most of our wrapping done.

Rick, Duke and Ryan should be home soon from skiing so we are going to get some dinner and Daryl is coming up too. yay! I havent seen Duke since we were in San Diego last January and Daryl... I dont remember when!

loving nana

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i am wearing my full body bib!

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Time with Nana and Papa and Luke meets Daryl!!

Nana and I played some Wii on monday while Luke napped. She did great! She bowled a 96, then a 102!! She seemed to enjoy it, and had a pretty good workout too!Luke had so much fun hanging out with Nana and Papa, but they had to elave to go home on Tuesday :( Rae and John brought up a generator for Nana and Papa and got it hooked up for them ... So they were able to head for home on Tuesday morning. They still don't have power, as far as I know, and now we are getting a snow storm! joy!

Yesterday, Uncle Daryl came home from the air force for Christmas! Luke got dressed in his air force flight suit for him...

The boys all went to the mall and did some shopping (I am assuming for me :) and Daryl's GF) and had fun together.

Luke was happy to meet his air force uncle and hopes he gets to see him before he leaves again!

Luke in his flight suit daryl gave him

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messy eater

santa boy