stay-cation!

joel and i took this next week off, and we are super excited for a stay-cation! hopefully, it will involve lots of playing, swimming, and fun!

this morning (while it was still under 100 degrees) we went outside and played with bubbles! it was windy out, so they went all over the place. lucas liked helping dip the bubble wand, but couldn't quite figure out how to blow and make the bubbles appear. he did like chasing them.

"jackson"

most of you are familiar with lucas's inability to communicate. or, i should say, his love of exploring and running and climbing, and his boredom with actually trying to speak or point or tell me much of anything. sure, he says "key-cat" all day long , and really that's about it.

so, imagine my surprise when at my mom's house yesterday he all of a sudden said "jackson." clear as day. not sure if it was a fluke or what, i had to leave to go to work. well, apparently it wasn't a fluke because he continued to yell "jackson" at my brother when he went upstairs!

sure, he can't say bye bye, but jackson he masters perfectly. go figure.

happy 4th!

the fam had a great 4th of july this year. we started off the day at grandma sue's house. swimming, playing wii, delicious steaks. joel of course managed to get sunburned within 45 minutes.

then we went over to papa and grandma joan's house for dinner and sparklers. lucas was pretty wary of the sparklers, but loved eating the special dessert mom had made (from the directions from aunt cindy).

i love weekends when we get to hang out with family!

mom's birthday!

mom turned 50 last month, but because of her business with school and our business with all sorts of things, we weren't able to go out until this past weekend for all the celebrations. but we had a lot of fun on saturday to celebrate mom!

we went to pf changs (and were waited on by the lovely miss corey) where we had all sorts of yummy food. then we broke out the gifts. we each got mom a type of "bag," along with some money for her to pick out a nice new bag of her own! marcy and john gave her a "going out" bag. joel, lucas and i gave her a "mommy" bag. natalie and will gave her a "beach" bag. and dad and jackson gave her a "shnacky" bag. (dad even used markers and drew her a picture!) inside that bag, there were also green and gold m&m's with a special message for mom printed on them.

with cake from the cheesecake factory, it was a really fun night! we love you mom!





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oh goodness

oh goodness
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i just love this picture!

lucas has been practicing his yells lately, so he'll just for no good reason shout at the top of his voice. usually, he's running around while this is going on.

also, look at his crazy teeth! i mean, whoah.

where's daddy?!

where's daddy?!
Originally uploaded by alibean731

we spent a fantastic night playing around together. we all took turns hiding under the blanket and having lucas find us. so much laughter!!

imagination movers

the imagination movers are lucas's favorite show. he loves the songs so much, and they sing at least 5 times an episode. whenever they come on, he stops everything that he is doing and watches with a big grin on his face.

this is his favorite:
imagination movers theme

lately, we spend about 20 minutes every day watching videos of their songs online. watching this show is pretty much the only times he sits still and lets you cuddle! it's the best.