Birthday bash

Lucky to celebrate the big milestone with friends and family in California.

Your world is about to change forever 

A slow start as Charlie looks on in anticipation

Digging in

Sugar coma

One of my favorite things to do after coming home from vacation is looking through all of the many memories captured.  So stay tuned....

Guess who turned ONE?

You guessed it...

And, he even has the pointer finger correct!!

More water play

Spent lots of time outdoors, so had to share all of our fun times!

Sweet Lukas

 Looks like trouble brewing ...

 

Direct hit!!

 

 

 No match for papa moo!

Reloading...Lukas is taking it all in.

 

Cousins!



Water Play

Lots of outdoor water play on our trip to California.  The weather was hot and the water cool.

 

 

Adventures in Eating

Look who's learning how to use a spoon to feed himself!!

Outdoor play

The weather was perfect to spend lots of time outdoors today...

Afterwards, we spent some time relaxing, 

and cleaning dirt out of places you never thought it could reach!

Look Mom - no hands!

The last few weeks Lukas has been letting go of things to stand.  He always seems so proud of his effort!

He squatted here for about 30 seconds!  Buns of steel!!

And, when I saw him today in this position it reminded me of an old baby picture of me.  When I pulled it out, I was even surprised to see overalls!  What do you think...

Some more comparisons - this time of daddy...

Memorization

Charlie has a great memory - only took him a few days of practice at dinnertime to get this verse down pat. Boy was I was impressed!!   This is the second verse he has now memorized.  My heart is so happy when I hear things like this.

Cherry Hoarder

Just try to lay a finger on my cherries...

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July!!