Luke’s Birthday Breakfast!

For Luke’s actual birthday we let him have a doughnut from Krispy Kreme. He was excited.

He enjoyed smooshing it the most.

“I need another for my free hand”

Gwynn clapping for Luke’s birthday.

So far none of it has made it to his mouth.

“It’s just so goooood”

Finally he started eating it once it was broken into several pieces.

Gwynn demonstrating proper form.

12 months (Luke)

• Luke is a year old! We can’t believe it!
• Stats:
• Length: 31 inches
• Weight: 24.3 lbs
• Head Circumference: 19 inches
• He is very good at making the touchdown sign…just in time for football!
• When we are seated on the floor, Luke will walk backwards a few steps to sit on our laps…it’s so sweet.
• He brings us things all the time.  His favorite thing to do is get into the pantry and bring us cans of soup, syrup, and other things he probably shouldn’t have access to.
• He also screams “ma!” when he wants more food.
• Speaking of food, he’s a big fan. I can’t think of anything off hand that he won’t eat. His favorites are fruit, green beans, pizza, cheerios, goldfish.
• His all time favorite thing to eat is a cookie from Publix. The second we start heading that way he’ll start bouncing up and down and panting really fast.  If they ever run out of cookies I don’t know what we’ll do.
• Luke’s favorite things to play with are balls…footballs, baseballs, soccer balls, doesn’t matter. He even says “ba” when he sees one!  He even calls grapes and tomatoes balls!
• He and his sissy usually play well together, but he’s starting to really get mad when she takes something away from him. He’ll slam his hands down and start screaming…she better watch out because one day he’ll retaliate and it won’t be pretty.
• Luke loves to play in water. When we go to the Y he loves running in the kiddie pool and would probably dive into the big pool if we’d let him.
• He puts our iPhones and other play phones up to his ear and occasionally will say something that sounds like “hi.” He also will do the same with other toys though (trains, balls, etc).

Luke’s 1st Birthday Party

Luke had his first birthday party on Sunday. It was fun but very tiring!

Gwynn sees that Grandma came by to help get everything ready.

Both kids waiting on Grandma to come inside.

Grandpa (“Paw”) and Nancy came early too because they had a long drive down to Florida ahead of them.

Checking out the monthly pictures of Mr. Luke.

Gwynn fell asleep before everyone started arriving and was surprised to see guests in the house when she awoke.

Luke discovers the balloons.

One of Luke’s new toys is a hammer and blocks. Let’s hope he uses the blocks with the hammer and not Gwynn’s head.

The centerpiece.

The Chicken Coop was a egg hunt.

The Duck Pond was… a duck pond.

Here the kids went through the corn to find toys.

Some grub.

(They’re actually from Publix…shhh…)

This is what they feed chickens for KFC to get them nice and fat. I think it’s the M&M’s.

The “main” cake.

The smash cake. Or rather, the gently touch and eat cake.

Gwynn and Emerson putting farm animal stickers on the wall.

Party favors.

Luke wondering why everyone is outside and he isn’t.

Daddy learning why the A/C wasn’t working upstairs. It got fixed thanks to Uncle Jeremy.

Luke preferred grabbing the corn to grabbing the toys.

Everyone having fun.

Pigsty time. The kids put balloons with pig faces drawn on them into the pigsty as quickly as possible.

Luke excitedly opening up a present. He was disappointed that the present wasn’t edible.

Gwynn trying to steal some attention away from Luke. She got these cool glasses and her own balloon from Aunt Sherry.

Either Luke was really tired or he was playing Peek-A-Boo.

Trying to get Luke to smash his cake. He wouldn’t.

With some help from his sister and cousins the cake was quickly demolished.

Nom nom nom!

Even Emerson got into the action.

This picture summarizes the feeling of a 1 year old’s birthday party.

“Get me outta here!”

No party is complete without a little cornhole.