Happy Dance Request

Luke's cousins figured out that he has a unique "happy dance", and got excited about asking him to perform for them. They all stayed together with Grandma and Grandpa the evening after Thanksgiving while Nathan & I and Matt & Tara went to celebrate our friend's engagement. Apparently, when they asked him during dinner if he would do his happy dance, he would respond, "Um... no." But then after dinner, they decided to ask again when they were down from the table and playing, and he would happily comply! Here I captured this interaction during Sophia's birthday party the next day. His response here is, "Okay."

"Yes, please"

This recent politeness from Luke is definitely worthy of capturing on film - so cute! When I ask him if he wants certain foods, or even asking if he's all done, he'll often respond with this: "Um... yes, please!"

Luke's Nativity

This is Luke playing with his new nativity that my grandma sent him for Christmas. It's a nice wooden set that a friend of hers on Etsy sells. It's nice for him to have some Christmas decorations he can interact with. :)

Hannah Playing the Violin

Here's our oldest niece, Hannah, playing the violin on Thanksgiving. I only captured the very last part of her song on video cuz I was taking pictures, too, but you get the idea. :)

2009 Film Festival Bloopers

I actually had several silly clips that I didn't include in the "nice" movie for official submission.  So, I made a "blooper reel" of all of those.  I actually ended up liking this movie even better than the original one.  :)

2009 Hughes Family Film Festival

This is the first year the Hughes family decided to do a family film festival at Thanksgiving.  Every family produces a movie and we all show it after dinner during our Thanksgiving get-together.  This first year, Luke wasn't big enough to do any acting, so I just made a video montage of clips I'd taken throughout the year.  Enjoy!

Happy Dance!

Here is Luke's signature "happy dance" that he does ALL THE TIME! I realized I had never gotten a video of it, so I wanted to make sure to capture this for posterity's sake. I'm pretty sure he won't be dancing like this when he's a teenager! :P

Bible Reading

Here's Luke interacting with some of the stories in his Bible: "The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes". Pretty cute. :)

Alphabet Puzzle

Here's an example of Luke playing with his alphabet puzzle. He knows most of the letters by sight as well as what object they stand for in that puzzle. :)

Reading Thomas

And here he is looking through his "Thomas at the Docks" book that he got as a party favor at one of his cousin Owen's birthday parties. :)

Reading Grover

Looking through his "Monster at the End of this Book" book starring, lovable, furry old Grover. This used to be my book when I was a kid. :)

Songs

This was just after the Lego video, and I separated it into it's own video because it's completely different content. Here, he's enjoying dancing and signing to songs. :)

Lego Tower

It's fun to watch Luke putting legos together with those chubby little hands. :)