Luke & Vijay Laughing

I finally managed to capture Luke and Vijay interacting with each other. They've done this for months - laughing and talking back and forth. It's pretty fun to watch!

Magazine

I was done looking at this decorating magazine, so since it was just destined for the recycle basket, I thought I'd let Luke play with it for awhile - he LOVES paper! He seemed to have lots of fun! :)

Pushing Truck

I didn't think I'd have to teach my boy how to play with cars and trucks, but he was treating them like any other toy - manhandling them and hitting them together/on other toys. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, but it's been fun to watch him figure out how to roll cars and trucks along the ground, after I showed him that's what they do (with "zoom zoom" sound effects). Here, he's playing with his cement mixer, having started rolling it without any advice from Mommy. :)

Luke Sliding Alone

This the first time Luke's gone down a slide this big all by himself! He's done really short ones, or has been held on to on the way down. He did pretty good!

Getting Tossed

Getting tossed in the air - something only Daddy can do! Just relish those giggles!!!

Flying Kite

Here's a little snapshot of our time at the park by Matt & Tara's house where we all went to fly their kite. I was just intending to get a video of Emma holding the kite string, but got bonus footage of Matt swinging Sophia around! :)

Bumpy Voice

On the way home from Matt & Tara's house, Luke was kind of bored and before he got whiny, he enjoyed listening to his voice bumping along. :) He's done this for awhile, like when he's being bounced on someone's knee, but it's still pretty cute. :)

Happy Walker Fun

I know I have posted quite a few videos of Luke using his walker, but he's SO CUTE when he uses it! He gets really happy and excited in this one. :)

Cracker

I have been pretty slow in allowing Luke larger chunks of crunchy things because he used to choke on the pieces pretty often. :( He didn't quite get the concept of chewing/gumming it up so that it was soft enough to swallow. But he's getting better now, and with his 8 teeth, he's enjoying learning how to use them! He can bite pieces off of the crackers that are a managable size (instead of trying to stuff the entire cracker in his mouth!).

Reading the Kitty-Cat Book

Luke has a library of little board books about farm animals (thanks Grandpa & Grandma Maloney!) and the other day, he singled out the book about cats. He started "reading" it! Naturally, I thought it was extremely cute and wanted to get it on video. What you see here is 6 minutes edited down to 1 minute. :P He ended up being pretty distracted by the music or turning the pages (which are cute, to be sure, but not the point of this video), so I cut it down to just his "words." Very fun. :)

Washcloth & Attacking the Camera

Luke had been happily playing with this washcloth for probably 10 minutes! He was throwing it on the floor, picking it up, putting it in the basket, then dropping it again - over and over and over. I was going to get a nice video of him demonstrating his superior bending over skills for you, but after doing it once, he of course sees me and thinks I'm more interesting than what he was doing! So, most of this video is actually him showing superior cruising skills, camera-attacking skills, and lion walker skills. :P

Cruising Outside

This Sunday, we arrived at Nathan's parent's house before everyone else after church, and since we don't have a key, we just enjoyed the shade in the front yard. Luke liked going back and forth along their little brick wall.

Remote Control

Luke discovered that he can cruise down the side of our bed to retrieve the remote control to the fan in our room. He gets so excited about it! I think he thinks he's on an adventure and gets the biggest kick out of me "catching" him. :)

P.S. The first time he got the remote, he immediately pointed it right at the fan! Smart cookie!

More Walker

Luke's getting better and more confident with his walker every day!

CD Player

He's become ENAMORED with the CD player recently! I moved the books that were sitting in front of it (and which were off-limits) and moved it foward a bit so he could get to it. He managed to hit the "skip" buttons a couple of times on accident (sadly not captured on video), but most of the time, he just fumbles with the display screen. Not too finely coordinated yet!

Swinging

Another cute video of Luke swinging - he gets going a little fast here, but there were some cute laughs at Daddy that I thought were precious!

Luke & Cinnamon

Luke & Cinnamon were both "trapped" in the bedroom with me because our guests were still asleep in the living room. Cinnamon wanted to get out - and away from Luke! - more than anything, and Luke was enjoying seeing her close up! There's a squeal towards the end that he was making over and over, which is what prompted me to get the camera - at least I caught it once! :)

Horsey with Uncle Andrew

Luke's testing out his vocal chords while bouncing on (soon-to-be) Uncle Andrew's knee. :)

Walker

Here's a little taste of his confidence with his walker now. He can stop it just about anywhere and go the other direction. He can also push it out of it's dead-end without our help, but doesn't seem to do that in this video. :)

Blocks Laughing

I captured a few hearty chuckles here while Luke was knocking down my block towers. :)

Legos

He doesn't exactly play with them conventionally yet, but Luke's new legos keep him entertained for quite a while usually. :)

Birthday Hats

This is at cousin Lauren's birthday party. I wanted to see Luke in a party hat, so I distracted him with a second one so he would forget he was wearing anything on his head - works pretty good! He figured out how to "bounce" the hat on the elastic string - pretty fun!

Drinking Milk

Luke's first taste of whole milk - I think it went pretty well. :)

Walker

Here's Luke on his actual birthday using his new walking toy. Nathan has already rigged the wheels so that they don't go as fast, so Luke walk behind the toy without us hovering next to him the whole way. We just have to turn it around when he gets to a dead-end. :)

Sounds Book

Anna got this book for Luke's birthday and he is playing with it for the first time here. I thought it was fun that he immediately recognized the cat in the picture! The next day, he even sounded like he said "cat" when he looked at that page, and then said it again when Cinnamon walked into the room shortly after - he hasn't said it again, though, so I'm not sure if he really knows it or not, or if he just figures he's learned that one and is moving on to other things now. :)