One Crazy Summer!

So the summer of 2009 is rolling along, and on uncle Andrew's 18th birthday, little (or not so little) Luke celebrated turning 5 months old. While we hope Andrew did lots of fun stuff on his birthday, Luke took it in stride with some eating, sleeping, and unfortunately teething.

We have been paying dearly for all of the bragging that we were doing about what a great sleeper Luke was. He is having a rough time cutting these first teeth, we hope that they will be here any day now so we can all get back to a regular sleep schedule.

There have been a few other big events for Luke this month. He had his first ride on the Swing at the park, and although Rafa was nervous it was a huge success. Also, we started today with actual food, it was peas to start (pictures included) and he liked some bites but not others, it was fun for us so sweet potatoes are next!

In other news, we had a great time with our friends the Matheises from St. Louis, and Luke told me if it can't be the Mets running the National League we should just let Todd have some fun (also thanks for the hat, although after a 9-0 loss to the Mets, who would wear it?)

One month until we are headed to the east coast for some relaxation and Luke's first flight....worst case scenario it will make for a funny blog.

Enjoy the pics!!

- Chris & Jen

Summer So Far

For all of our followers, we apologize for going a month without posting. We would like to promise to be better, but Luke has been keeping us busy. He is doing great, doing new things every day and gaining weight like you wouldn't believe.

We left him for the first time this weekend with Jen's parents while we were off to Hingham to visit some friends from college. Although we had a great time in Hingham (thanks Dave & Kate) and Luke had a great time with his Nana and Papa, I think it will be sometime before we both leave him again.

We are looking forward to going back east and Luke's first flight this September, and hoping the water at Elephant Rock is warm enough for Luke to go for his first ocean swim....

Chris & Jen

p.s. Luke asked that we destroy the pictures of him in the Mets hat, but they were just too cute!!