they grow so fast...

my little guy is growing up so much faster than I want him to, and I think that he wants to grow up a bit faster than he is able. ;) For lunch one day, he wanted to sit at the table in Taylie's chair like a big boy. I let him, and he actually fell off the chair a bit later. :(

He is so proud of himself!

but as we all know, with more privileges comes more responsibility and getting in a bit more trouble.

This is Luke in his first time out.

He was trying to get Taylie in trouble! He kept opening up the doors to the laundry/furnace room and taunting her to come in (where they are not supposed to be). When I went to get him out, he looked at me, smiled, shook his head 'no' and sat down. He actually thought he was pretty cool, walked over to the corner, sat down, and giggled the whole time he was there. He just needed a reminder to know who was in charge.... :)

So, my big boy finally got his first haircut!!!! It has been a long time coming and he was getting pretty shaggy.

Here are some before pictures:

(suckers make it all better...)

and here we go!

My best friend, Whitney, does hair and she said she would cut it for me. (she did Taylie's first cut and her trims too) She gave Luke a sucker which most likely is what kept him from screaming. Whitney also has dogs which Luke has taken a recent liking to. In the above picture, he is trying to share his sucker with Daisy the chihuahua.

and after!

Now he is trying to share with me...
He did wonderful and didn't really even know anything happened. It is not too much shorter, he can see and now I can actually see his eyes and he still has his cute little curls in the back. I was SO worried that they would be gone forever and that is why I waited so long to get it cut in the first place. But, the poor boy couldn't see, so it was time. Once I saw the little curls bounce back after bath time, I was SOOOOO happy!!!!


We stayed and played for a bit because Whitney has a girl, Brylee, who is 6 months younger than Taylie so they are good buddies. When her boy, Preston, gets a bit older I am sure that him and Luke will be good friends too!

But today Luke opted to play with the dogs. I actually surprised me because Grandma Brooks has a dog at her house and everytime Taylie goes to say hi to Sadie he screams at her and backs up far enough so Sadie can't touch him. He took to feeding Sadie the other day and since then has been all over anything with dogs.

This is Dewy. Whitney is watching Dewy for her mom-in-law. Luke was trying to share his sucker with Dewy when he fell over. There is a movie at the end with Luke playing fetch with him. Very cute!

This I had to put in for sentimental reasons. This is the SAME swing set that Whitney and I used to play on when we were little! Like, I was 5 and she was 4!!! The swing set survived and now our little girls get to play on it. Fun huh?

I have to thank Whitney for making my baby boy look like a toddler! He looks so cute, you always do an awesome job!

Here is some footage of Luke getting his little baby hair cut off!

This is Luke playing "fetch" with Dewy.

It goes something like this:
Luke throws the ball (as well as a 1 year old can)
Dewy gets the ball
Luke SCREAMS at Dewy until he drops the ball
Luke gets the ball and starts again...