Pumpkin Patch

I was able to pull Brent away from football for a few hours this weekend to take Luke to the pumpkin patch. I found a really fun one out in Medina, about 45 minutes Northwest of San Antonio. They had farm animals, face painting, pumpkin painting, and lots of other things that Luke is too young for.
We walked around for a while and took TONS of pictures of Luke in the pumpkins.
I bought Luke a little pumpkin costume for Halloween so I thought it would be fun to dress him in it...he was definitely the cutest pumpkin in the patch!

























a pooped pumpkin

Just for Fun

Some silly pictures of Luke...

His shirt got stuck on his head while we were undressing him for his bath...he looked so funny!






His first day of daycare...

Things I Already Miss

Even though Luke is only 6 months, there are certain things I already miss about him being a newborn.

Like how tiny he was and his teenie little outfits
(he only weighed 5lbs. 9 oz.).















and how he used to suck on my nose while waiting for his bottle



and how he would get cross-eyed when he was trying really hard to focus



and how he would smile really big at the lights above his changing pad (still not quite sure what that was about)




and how he slept in the bed with me because he hated sleeping on his back and I didn't know what else to do to get him to sleep! (don't have any pics of him sleeping on me.)
The thing I miss the most though is being off of work and spending every second with him!

Halfway to One

Our sweet Lukie is already halfway through his 1st year!
He has learned so much in his first 6 months and so have Brent and I! We have all of his cries figured out, when he's hungry, sleepy, or needs a diaper change; and know that when he starts sucking his thumb it's only a matter of minutes before he's off to dreamland.

He is so much more active now and keeping up with his curiosity has become quite a challenge! He's constantly reaching for and trying to eat things that he shouldn't - the remote control, our cell phones, the computer, my hair, Tobie's fur, magazines, paper, and on and on. And of course as soon as we take something away from him, he gets extremely upset!

And he is so interested in food! When Brent and I eat, he leans forward and opens his mouth wide and as soon as he sees his bottle, he starts reaching for it and will even cry if we don't get it to him fast enough. The teachers at his daycare say he does the same thing at school...they end up feeding him constantly because any time one of the other kiddos eats, Luke thinks their eating his bottle and starts to cry until someone feeds him...what a stinker!

In the last 6 months, our Luke has changed so much and so have our lives...I have loved every minute of it and can't wait to see what the next 6 months has in store.

Not-So-Sweet Potatoes

Lukie tried sweet potatoes for the first time.
He wasn't such a big fan of the sweet potatoes, but he loved playing with the spoon. Every time I gave him a bite, he would try to take the spoon from me. After fighting with him too many times to get the spoon back, I just let him have it and went and got another spoon to feed him. Of course, he then wanted that spoon too. We had sweet potatoes EVERYWHERE! He flung them all over the place! I tried not to laugh because I didn't want to encourage him, but it was so funny!
After it was all over, Brent asked me if we could hold off on giving Luke solid food for a few years :)

Hanging with Uncle Rich

My brother Rich came in town from Houston to visit.
He hasn't seen Luke since he was about 3 weeks old...he says he's grown so much.
They had a great time hanging on the couch and talking football.