We're Back...

...from Costa Rica! Brian and I went on vacation with his family for his sister's 30th birthday. We had so much fun and I have a ton of great pics that I will post later. This trip involved a lot of adventure activities and we opted not to take Luke. It was so hard to leave him for a whole week, but he had the best time at Tula and Pop's, and everything went very smoothly. Thanks Tula and Pop for taking such good care of him. Ok now for some Luke pictures! Here he is right before Brian and I left for the airport. He had just woken up and it was so hard to leave this little face behind. Here is a picture that Tula sent me while we were in Costa Rica. Luke was loving an afternoon rain shower on the driveway.

We went to Austin before the big trip and here he is just enjoying Memaw and Pepaw's backyard.

Luke is now old enough for a big boy carseat. He loves facing forward and obviously is very comfortable. This is on our way back from Austin. Hank looks pretty comfortable as well.

I just love this!

Luke learned some new tricks while we were away. He can tell you what a doggie says, "Woo Woo". He can point to his nose. He will shake his finger at Ernie when we are telling Ernie "no". He will shake his head "no" when he knows he is not suppose to touch something. He also learned to "jump". Well he actually just bends his knees when you tell him to jump, but it is pretty darn cute.

Before we left on the trip, he learned to blow his nose. He saw me doing it one day and then went and grabbed some toilet paper off the roll and copied what I was doing. He now does this all the time and seems pretty proud of himself.

Oh and he will use any cloth he can find. Brian caught him getting into the dishrag drawer. He then nicely put it back in the drawer after he was finished. Don't worry we got it back out. =)

Luke also really likes to hug. This is his Bunny Bear. He sleeps with it and loves to give him hugs.

He couldn't resist giving his friend, Ellie, a hug either. =) She's not too sure about this...

This past week we tried our hand at crayons. I thought maybe he was too young, but saw on my friend Jocelyn's blog that her 1 year old was able to color, so we thought we would give it a try. This activity was suppose to take up some time, but unfortunately it lasted all of 5 minutes! Dang that boy doesn't stay focused for long. =) He did have fun though.

His masterpiece.