Mr. Luker T. Dukerson

That is what we call Luke these days.  Lukers.  Luker T. Dukerson.  Mr. Dukerson.  Any number of variations of that.  Great fun.

We think Luke was experiencing a growth spurt the past couple weeks, which is why he was waking up so often to eat at night.  That seems to have been just a phase because, thankfully, last Friday he started sleeping through the night again.  Knock on wood, but for the past few nights he's only woken up once or twice per night (vs 6!).  We think the other reason he's sleeping better is that he's able to roll himself onto his stomach at night.  It seems to be his preferred sleeping position.  We put him down in the normal position on his back, and within minutes he is sideways (he just barely fits, he's as wide as the mattress) on his tummy sound asleep.  We'll take it!

Last weekend we pretty much laid low.  Saturday we went to little Drew Conklin's house to celebrate his 1st birthday.  On Saturday night Grandma and Grandpa Baranko babysat Luke while Matt and I went to a formal dinner dance for Matt's work.  It was at the Hilton downtown and was very fun.  Sunday Matt & Luke watched the Bears game.  Luke didn't care for the outcome, as you can see from the picture below.

Luke sitting quietly listening to Matt play piano.
Matt plays almost every night and Luke loves it!

Hanging around with Dad

Tonya and birthday boy Drew on Saturday

At Matt's work dinner - Jade, Jenny, Kelly, Dana

Look, my favorite ball.

He's getting so good at tummy time

Isolene is taking Luke to story time at the library on Fridays

 

Protesting the Bears' loss on Sunday

Scootching myself down in my chair and pretty pleased about it.

eating my giraffe, as usual

then my fingers

then my shirt