New Camera

We bought a new camera, so here are some new pictures of Lucas.

Lucas fell and hurt his upper lip at the playground. It healed quickly but he had a swollen lip for a day or two.

Watching cars go by.

Eating "junk."

Licking frosting.

Riding his scooter.

Duck helmet.

Brown Car at Wegmans.

Tired at Wegmans.

Taking out the trash.

Cabin Fever

It's the end of February and it's still very cold outside (14° as I type this). At least it gets a little warmer during the day so we have been walking to the Elmwood strip again. Can't wait until it is warm enough to hit the playground! At any rate, on to the pictures.

Here is Lucas eating a lime popsicle.


Somedays he'll eat them, others he couldn't care less about them. That's the way he is about eating anything these days, which makes cooking food for him a very challenging mind-reading game.

In school they tell us that his favorite activities are gym and music. Clearly he gets his athleticism from his parents, but no clue about the music.


Lucas has many toys, yet rather than play with all of them he chooses one and finds creative ways of playing with it.


Not content with just putting his head in the box, he has to raise the stakes by running around with it on his head.


Lucas biting a straw...not much to explain other than he looks cute and full of trouble!


So I leave you with Lucas playing a song on his tiny viola (not a violin). If you can't hear the tune... be grateful cause I hear it all the time!

Xmas in GA

Here is Lucas shoveling snow before we flew down to Georgia.


It was quite a bit warmer in Georgia.







It was nice to get away from the snow and frigid weather. I think Lucas appreciated the warmth too.




First present, Xmas morning:


He's got the gift unwrapping part of the holidays mastered. Since his birthday is shortly after Xmas, he did tons of unwrapping over a period of about a week.

Back in Buffalo:


Nothing better than your own Junior Helper Carpet Sweeper. It actually works which is great!

Green Hair

Lucas came home from school today with green hair.



And here's his latest self portrait.

Cute, no?

Splinters

We recently had 10 face cords of wood delivered and let me tell you, that's a lot of wood! I was hoping the delivery truck would fit between the houses to dump all the wood behind the house, but alas it didn't so it was all left on our driveway. The thought of moving all that wood by myself made my back ache so when Lucas offered to help I accepted.




All that child labor wore him out.


I mentioned in a previous post that Lucas "learned" how to use the camera and is very enthusiastic about getting his hands on the camera anytime he sees it.

Here is one of his many shots. Gotta work on that auto-focus.


And finally a bonus video, Lucas in his mother's shoes.

October Pictures

Okay, so I didn't actually post this on October 31, but all the pictures are from October...plus I didn't want Lucas to have to undergo psychotherapy in his thirties because his father didn't post in October of his second year of life! Now that I got that off my chest, here are the pictures:

Sleeping with toys

He loves his Sit 'N Spin. Please don't let him know that with batteries it also plays music and makes all sorts of sounds!

When I went to upload the pictures to the laptop I noticed it was taking a little longer than usual. To my surprise there were a ton of pictures on the camera, but I had not taken that many pictures. Seems Lucas figured out how to use the camera! Some pictures are curious...

...but some look kind of neat.

Here's a great picture of Lucas relaxing, probably watching TV.


He bumped his forehead on the leg of a piano (how musical!) a couple of weeks ago and ended up with two black eyes.


And of course, you can't have an October post without Halloween pictures!


Though it looks like an alien or something, it's a frog costume. He wore it for about an hour before he wanted out. I took him trick or treating, which he enjoyed, but he kept on giving people candy instead of taking it. He would reach in his pumpkin and hand candy to the person that answered the door. Nice to see him share, I guess.


So there you are, October pictures. (Bunny, happy now?!?!)

School

Lucas started school in September! Yay! Here he is on his first day of school.

Nice shirt! We prepped him a few days in advance so he wouldn't freak out on his first day. He was pretty excited. Here he is walking to school with Ellen.

Once in the room he has to wash his hands. It's school policy. I am actually more concerned about washing them AFTER picking him up!

He didn't really mind being left at school. After all, they have toys!!!


Ellen picked him up from school and it seems he really was into painting. Notice the paint on his brow (it was worse before his teacher cleaned him up!).


He really likes school. For the past week he seems to only nap on school days. Hmm...note to self: Sign Lucas up for school 5 days a week...

Now that he is in school we may have to get another fridge to handle the constant influx of artwork!! Here's his very first one.


In other news...Lucas tried an onion recently. Not sure if he liked it or not. I tried telling him he wouldn't like it but he wouldn't listen. He was taking bites out of it. Yikes!



He's also taken up photography. Here's a self portrait.


And finally, nothing like dancing in your father's shoes wearing underpants!!!