Busy Days

Susan was nice enough to get the boys a Big brother, Little brother shirt for the boys. Lucas was so excited that he and Noah had matching shirts. I didn't get one with both of the boys, Lucas was done with pictures, so he took one of Noah and me. He wants to take pictures when he can now. And not with his camera, our camera so we will keep them and put them on the computer.

We have been spending a lot of time at the Fugate's swimming this summer. Both Lucas and Noah enjoy the pool. I love the fact that they like to swim and are not afraid of the water since I am such a fish and will take any chance I can get to go swimming. Lucas is jumping into the water now with his life jacket and going under. He keeps getting braver every day that we go out there. He was just using arm floaties a few times, but I think trusts his life jacket a little more.

Last but not least Noah is on solid food now and is going well. He has so far had cereal and green beans. Some days he likes them, other days he just doesn't know what to think. He has to do each for a week since he was having the allergies with the formula, we don't want to take a chance and be allergic to something else and not know what it is.

Happy 4th!

Hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July. We all had such a great time again at the Luetkenhaus house. I unfortunately missed the fireworks show since I was inside putting Noah to bed, but I hear it was great like all other years.

Everyone except Jake, Noah and I got in the pool, we were the smart ones. Lucas had to get out a little earlier than everyone else since his lips were turning blue. Lucas did swim with just arm floaties yesterday, which is a first, since he didn't have his life jacket. He is getting so much better at swimming, he is going to be a little fish like his mommy. We have a hard time getting him to come out of the water.

Hope everyone had a great 4th. We did. Unfortunately we did not get a group picture, yet again. Guess we will try again next year.

Pictures

Noah and Sean

Sean and Goofy
Lucas and Noah watching a movie

Talley's 4th of July party
Lucas's first 4 wheeler ride and he loved it.

Lucas "chillaxin" after his ride

Too cute, that's all I can say.

Thanks to the Talley's for the 4th of July party, we all had a great time. And thanks to everyone who had a hand in the firework's show. It was great.

Lots to report

We have had quite a busy week as always. Noah went for his 4 month checkup on Wednesday, he is 15lbs 12oz, and 25 inches. The doctor saw his exzema and said that Noah is probably allergic to milk, so we had to switch to soy formula. In just a day we could see a difference in his skin. He also has bad cradle cap and the doctor had a few suggestions to get rid of this which are working well. And while I was at the office I found 2 teeth coming in on the bottom. One has pushed through as of yesterday. He is not doing too bad, just a little fussy at times and has a hard time sometimes. But other than that he is still the little laid back baby that he has always been. Doesn't complain too much. So that brings us to today, Noah rolled over from back to belly this morning for the first time, he was close for a few days and finally acheived his goal this morning. Luckily I was up in time to see it.

Yesterday Lucas and his grandad went to the museum of transportation and the zoo, which was cut short due to the rain. But he did have a great time, that is all he was talking about when he got home. And how he got to touch an airplane which he thought was just awesome.

Good times this morning just chilling with the family. Now we are off on our seperate ways. Me here to clean, Jake in the garage, Lucas with daddy "helping" and Noah is sleeping.

4 MONTHS!

Noah is 4 months old today. Time sure does fly, I know this already since Lucas will be 3 1/2 this month. I don't understand how when we are young our youth seemed like it went on forever. Now that we are older it goes by in the blink of an eye. Anyway... happy 4 month birthday to Noah!!

Here you can see just how much Noah loves his brother, he is always looking around and listening for him. He gets so excited when he hears Lucas in the room.

Summer

Here I am again playing catchup with the blog. I will say that it is going to be difficult to keep up with this over the summer months. We are spending a lot of time at the Fugate's in their new pool. Lucas just loves it, I can hardly get him out of the pool. He is already swimming around the pool by himself (with a life jacket) and jumping off the side, with someone there to "catch him". He still goes under and pops up. Mommy is so proud. Noah went to his PT appt on Thursday and the knot in his neck is gone and he is turning to the left a lot more now. We still have to work with him at home because it is a little tight still in the back, but all looks good and he should not have to go back.

Jake must have taken this picture and I just love it, he is such a good big brother. So what has happened in the last couple weeks? Lucas graduated "pre" preschool. He will be moving on to preschool next year. He will be doing 3 days a week instead of 2 since mommy waited until the last minute to sign him up. Imagine that. :)

Then last saturday we had my sister's graduation party, she graduated college and is now an RN. Congratulations to her. And then Sunday we went to a birthday party for one of Lucas's little friend Gabby. They had horse rides, a donkey that pulled a wagon and a few other animals that they could pet.

This weekend is busy yet again. Today we are going to see Kung Fu Panda and then the boys and I are off to the Fugate's again for swimming. Jake and Jeff are going to see Dave Matthew's at Busch Stadium tonight. And then tomorrow we are going to the Zoo. My work got all the employees who wanted to participate free train rides, children's zoo and lunch for tomorrow. It is going to be crowded and hot. So I am sure after the zoo we will be off to the pool again.

Memorial Day weekend

We spent a couple days with Jeff, Kim and the girls just hanging out over the weekend. We had a small birthday party for Jake since his birthday was on Monday the 19th. The boys and I got him tickets to Dave Matthews at Busch stadium. He and Jeff will be going to the concert on the 7th, I think.

Although Sunday started out rainy and nasty we still got to get wet later in the day. At one point all had a water gun fight which was loads of fun. When we finally got to get in the pool it was so cold that it took your breath away. You got use to it, but the first few minutes were rough.

Here Kim is helping Lucas learn to kick his feet with a swim board. We need to get some swimming lessons for him. I have been talking about that for a while now and have never gotten around to setting it up. Put it on the TO DO list for this week.

All week we have been working with Noah to get his head to turn more to the left. I think it is helping out a lot. I took a few pictures to show the physical therapist on Thursday in case he will not do it for her. Lucas will even talk to him on his left side when we tell him to since Noah loves hearing Lucas talk to him. He follows Lucas around with his eyes already. Brotherly love :o)