happy bday grandma!

Since tomorrow is my moms bday we wanted to make a cake for her. I asked Lukas if he wanted to make a cake and he got super excited. He kept grabbing my hand and fingers and leading me to the kitchen. I was trying to finish a few things but he was to impatient to wait. So we baked a lovely cake that we will get to enjoy with Grandma tomorrow. Hope your birthday is fabulous. Thanks for being such a great mom and grandma.

Lukas enjoying the cake batter. I can't blame him it is super yummy!

We made a huge mess! Well Lukas made a huge mess. He threw coco on the floor and flour on the chair ect.

HA HA

I was on the computer while Lukas was playing. I heard him playing with his cement truck, but there was a lot of pauses in between pushing. I turned around to see Lukas riding it! First of all this is NOT a ride on toy. It is just a normal truck with some balls in the back to play with and push around. It dumps the balls out and so Lukas dumped the cement truck and sat on it. Second, how can that even be comfortable? It cracked me up. I have seen him sitting on it before but it usually only lasts a few seconds and he gets off it. This time he actually made it half way across the room just riding it.

What a mess

The other day I got a package (Some Christmas shopping down, and some things to orgainze and make a play room upstairs.) and it was full of thos packaging peanuts. I don't know why this was, because everything I ordered also came in its own individual box inside this big box. I opened it during Lukas's nap time and decided I would let him play in them. I knew he would have a blast! He did of course. They just made a huge mess. I knew they would, but I didn't envision such a big mess. I am glad he had fun though. I don't think we will do this again because it took me fourty five minutes to clean it up.

Gallbladder

Yesterday I started getting pains in my chest. I sort of just ignored it because I thought it was heart burn. I have never had heartburn in my life before so I had no idea what it felt like. It just progressivly got worse as the night went on. It got so bad that I seriously felt like I was having a heart attack! I called my mom to ask her what heart burn felt like and it didn't sound like it. I didn't want to seem like a woose so I hung up and tried to just deal with it. It just kept getting worse when I called her to come and get me and take me to the hospital. I didn't think this was heartburn. Dan met us there and while I was in the waiting room I started feeling better. However, I seriously think the pain I was having was worse then labor. While I was waiting for my mom it got so bad I started throwing up.People in the E.R. kept mentioning gallbladder since I was pregnant. After having an EKG and blood work done they did an ultrasound on my Gallbladder. We tried to get the ultrasound tech to let us have a peak at the baby but he wouldn't have anything to do with it. He even said that he could probably tell us what the sex was (at least a pretty good idea.) but he wasn't going anywhere near that area. Seriously this might sound stupid but I wanted to cry. I had just gone through all that pain and had been sitting in the E.R. for about four hours. I just wanted to see my baby so that something good could come out of it. Well they found gall stones three of them and so it is official I have gallbladder issues. There isn't much I can do about it. I just have to watch what I eat and hope that what I do eat doesn't cause an attack. I am pretty sure that the spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's that I ate last night was the major culprit of my attack. They don't usually take your gallbladder out until after you give birth. So six more months of hoping I don't have an attack and if I do just dealing with it. They did give me loritaps and said I could take them but try not to do it too often. They said a few throughout the pregnancy wouldn't hurt the baby. Hopefully that won't have to be an option for me though. I called my Drs. just to let them know and I have an appointment anyways tomorrow. So we are going to go over everything tomorrow. The nurse did say that she felt so bad for me because she had the same thing during her pregnancy and it was awful. She said she seconds my opinion on it being worse then labor. She had to have hers removed immideatly following the birth of her baby. So this might have to be an option for me.

Finally made it!

We made it to the zoo yesterday! We had such a great time. We went right when it opened expecting to spend the full day there. Lukas had other plans though and was done after two and a half hours. This was fine with us though, since we got there so early we saw everything quickly. It was nice and cool and we didn't have to wait in line to see any animals. Lukas loved the fox's of all things. He was laughing and giggling at them like crazy. When he saw the elephants his eyes got so wide and he just sat there and stared. It was hard to get a good picture of him though because he was always on the move.



This was my favorite animal. They have a alpino alligator on display temporarily right now. There are only ten of them in the world. He will be gone at the end of this month so it was nice to be able to see him.

Lukas and daddy. Yes we are one of those cruel parents who put their kids on a leash. Seriously though I don't know what we would have done without this. He immediatley wanted out of his stroller right when we got there. He is a pretty fast runner and we didn't want him to get lost in the crowd or taken by a stranger. We practiced with this back pack leash in advance and Lukas actually got attached to it. He asks us to put it on him all the time. He thinks it is fun.

Lukas loved the carasouel. The minute he saw it he ran right too it. He screamed and screamed while we were getting tickets to go on. When he got on it Dan put him on the lion and he kept saying "go please, Please go" until it started. When we got off he had a huge meltdown. This was the biggest hit of the zoo.

Change of plans

Yesterday we had BIG plans to go to the zoo. We have been wanting to take Lukas to the zoo since Fathers Day. It seems like Dan has pretty much had to work almost every Saturday since. They only Saturdays he seemed to have off were already taken for other things. We figured Labor Day would be a great day to go, even though we knew it would be crowded. Apparently we were wrong! We knew it was supposed to be a rainy day. We figured we would try to go anyways. We didn't make it very far. On our way it started raining cats and dogs and hailing. We had to turn around it was almost so bad we couldn't see. I was so disappointed. Especially when about a few hours later it cleared up and was sunny the rest of the day. Hopefully we can make it to the zoo soon. Instead we went and had dinner at the Olive Garden. We came home and spent a while outside playing. My mom came by and brought Lukas some gifts she got him on her trip to the Mt. Man Rendevous. She got him a cute bow and arrow, tomahawk, and an indian head band with a feather. Too bad he is scared of the head band and won't let it ANYWHERE near his head.

Lukas is so obsessed with balls right now. He is a great kicker, I am pretty sure we have a future soccor player on our hands.

Daddy and Lukas. Dans a great dad and loves to play with him.

The bow and arrow grandma and grandpa bought him. It shoots really far.

Lukas had a lot of fun gathering the arrows after they had been shot.

Who knew....

That a ball made out of tin foil would be so much fun! Lukas keeps getting into the tin foil. He freaks out when I put it back so I thought I would just bunch up some for him and he could use it as a ball. He and Dan played ball with it for a long time. Lukas thought it was really funny. They played with it for quite a while. Sometimes fun just comes dirt cheap!

Lukas thought it was funny throw the ball straight in the air and watch it fall to the ground.