Down on the Farm

Last Saturday we took Lukers to Stade Farm in McHenry, IL.  Aunt Diane & Uncle Garry had invited us to this nearby farm to spend the day enjoying the children's activites and the antique car show.  We're so glad we went!  We had a beautiful, warm day and it was nice to hang out with Diane & Garry, and Donna & Emil.  Luke had his first pony ride in addition to such fun activities as the corn maze, tractor train ride, giant slide, petting zoo and a few other things.

The big news of the day I think has to be that Aunt Diane taught Luke to drink out of a straw!  I had been wondering how one teaches a baby how to suck from a straw,because we had tried a few times and he just wasn't getting it.  When I asked Diane about it she showed Luke how her cheeks sucked in when she drank and after a few times he up and did it himself.   So proud of him! Once he got some of our lemonade with his new straw drinking, he decided he liked that much more than his sippy cup of water.

In the corn pit - he LOVED this.

We couldn't put him down b/c the goats would swarm him!

On the spider web net play area - also a big hit with Luke.

Giant Slide with Daddy

Maze in the old cattle trailers - we did it!

How cute is this?

Corn Maze

 We had to hurry home from the farm to get Luke a nap before his big outdoor 1 year photo shoot.  This is the first time we hired a professional photographer instead of going to a portrait studio.  Shutterwinks Photography (also know as Stephanie Stanger and her assistant for the day, her husband Mark) did an awesome job!  We can't wait to see the rest of the pictures she took.  She let us see a few teasers that got us really excited to see the rest in 2-3 weeks.  Luke did so great, he was smiley for a lot of the shoot.  Steph couldn't get over Luke's big blue eyes.  We think they showed up pretty nicely in the pictures she took.

Sunday we didn't do too much.  It was a nice, sunny day again so we took advantage by spending most of it outside.  It may have been the last pool day we have of the season!  I also got to go on a beautiful bike ride with my friend Katherine.

In Luke development updates, other than the straw news, nothing much to report.  Sleeping is good, eating is good.  He has a few more words like "wa wa" and "ba ba".  Isolene says she has heard him say "ma ma", but I haven't heard it yet.  He officially has a 5th tooth, with the entrance of his bottom right tooth.

Here are a few other cute ones from the week.

Stinkers strikes again!  Unrolling all the TP rolls - new fave activity.

He loves all his new toys, especially his trucks!  He is such a big boy, he  pushes them around the floor and it is so cute.

P.S.  Does anyone watch House Hunters International on HGTV?  We LOVE it!  How am I just getting into this?  Seriously it is my favorite show now, and I can't get enough.  Highly recommend it!