September has been a fantastic month for us. Luke is thriving at preschool, and has begun a soccer program there once a week after class ends. I am really enjoying the increased productive time that I have now to run errands, cook, and spend time with Leah during those 3 mornings each week, and it makes me so happy to see Luke love his teachers, new friends, and preschool happenings. We've done several fun weekend activities with Luke this month, including going to see Sesame Street Live. He absolutely loved it, and we had great seats just a few rows from the stage:
The boys attended another "Touch a Truck" event last weekend, and this time they had a "brown truck", Luke's favorite! Every time the UPS truck drives through our neighborhood, Luke thinks that there is a present in the back for him. Needless to say, driving the "brown truck" was this little boy's dream come true:
There was also a helicopter at the Touch a Truck event, which landed in the field for all of the children to explore, which was really neat:
Our zoo continues to be a fun place to visit. Luke especially likes Baby Bob (an orangutan) and his family, and was thrilled with Bob's mommy came up for a close visit last week:
We had our first Family Movie Night with Luke this month, and watched the Disney movie,
Cars. When I pictured watching Disney movies with my children, I had visions of
The Little Mermaid and
Snow White, so this was a growing experience for me. Thank goodness Leah will indulge my Disney princess fantasy in a few years. I think the highlight of movie night for Luke was having popcorn for the first time, but he and Daddy seemed to be entranced with the race car scenes, too:
This is a typical example of Quiet Time at our house in the afternoons. Luke takes every stuffed "amidal" out of his closet, sits in his cozy green chair, and reads books aloud to them. I find this quite adorable:
Our little man keeps us entertained at home, too. A current favorite activity is "fighting fires" in our yard. The hours of fun with a plastic fireman hat and our garden hose are countless:
Luke also constantly reminds me of the joy and silliness that can be found in being 3 years old. He decided that this would be the outfit that he would wear to our friend's house for dinner recently. It was 80 degrees and sunny, but apparently rain boots, band-aid as accessory on knee, and no pants were the required dress code. Luckily our friends have young children too, and didn't mind the interesting wardrobe choice:
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September has also been a big month for Leah. Her 6th tooth came in, she is starting to be mobile, and she now eats tiny pieces of many solid foods. Leah learned how to wave "Bye Bye", does "SOOOO Big!", and consistently goes to bed at 7 p.m. (although she still doesn't sleep through the night). She is almost crawling, and gets into quadruped position and looks like she is ready to take off! Leah has mastered sitting up from a lying down position, and we've spent many nights this month putting her back down in her crib after she sits up in the middle of the night and gets stuck. She is starting to try to pull up on things, too, and has graduated to her "Big Girl" car seat and is out of the infant carrier now.
This month, our playgroup started getting together with just the little kids, now that all the older siblings are in school. These 4 are EXACTLY the same age as their big brothers/sisters were when we started our original playgroup in January 2009. We have a picture of the big kids on the same step when they were this age. Somehow the second time around, it's just as hard to get everyone to look at the camera & smile:
Nutty has enjoyed cruising around in her big girl stroller this month, and looks so long to me these days:
She also loves "Peek a Boo" and is such a smiley, silly girl:
Here's our sweet angel, all snuggly, soft and pink:
We love that toothy grin!
