Monday, January 31, 2011

My 3 year old Lukester

Today is your birthday Luke!

I can hardly believe how fast you are growing! 
You are:
so smart
patient
loving
caring
helpful
hilarious
clever
talented
understanding
sweet
very energetic
wiggly
creative
curious
eager
silly

We are so happy that you are a part of our family and love you (and all your little animal friends-that he named) so much!


Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, January 24, 2011

.mih evol I

Matt is the best.
No, seriously.
(sorry for the ooey-gooey post)

I love this guy. 
He is:
 super good looking
funny
happy
driven
adventurous
loyal
honest
a little wild
a great provider
 caring
goofy
creative
mellow
never gets angry (seriously-I'm not sure if this is normal?:)
a wonderful dad
even better husband
a traveler
did I mention fun?
talented
a great cook
intelligent
ambitious
 loving
and just simply wonderful.

I love you Matt.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

4 months already!

Devin is so cute I can't get over it.
We hit the 4 month mark at the beginning of this week. He also had his 4 month check up and he's 15lbs 6.4oz! He's also like 26 inches tall. He's my big baby! He is healthy and happy, couldn't ask for anything else!


Somethings he's doing these days:
trying SO HARD to roll over, he's so close-just needs to get that last umph to flip over.
drooling like crazy-no teeth yet-hooray for me.
playing with toys.
putting everything in his mouth.
smiling all the time.
giggling often.
laughing and talking to his funny big brother.
talking loudly and constantly.
sleeping a lot still, yay.
makes great eye contact and follows people around (which is something my doctor says is really good-so that's good).
he's just mellow.
doesn't cry very often.
arches his back all the time, he's so wiggly! 
sleeping in his crib.
loves and always has, taking baths.
loves his mama.
loves his lukey.
and mostly loves his daddy, but get's frightened by him often, when he comes home and goes, "boogalaboogalaboogalaa" in his face and makes him scream (thank you dear).

Luke already treats Dev like his little buddy. It's so cute. Today, while we were making blue pancakes he whispered to Devin, "Mommy isn't bery good at flipping the pancakes Devin" followed by some giggles. 
And it's true.
He's always so concerned about him. If he's awake or asleep or crying or hungry. Another story, he was crying a few minutes after he ate and I was saying to Devin, "What's the problem buddy?" and Luke said, "Mom, just feed him again. He's hungry! Feed him so he stops crying."

You can really tell the difference in this picture. Luke's olive skin tone and brownish (as it grows) hair. Dev's fair skin and strawberry blond hair.
This last picture is priceless! I promise I did not set this up or have Luke does this for the picture. Sadly, my camera wasn't on the right setting so it isn't great quality, but I had to post it anyway, because it's adorable!
I love how he's holding his hands too.
Brotherly love. 
I was worried (and I'm sure I have some things to worry about in the future) about having 2 boys, but so far it's a lot of fun to have 2 little brothers.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A few family pictures from forever ago

Several months ago a friend took some family pictures of us.
I kind of forgot to post them. Devin was only 6 weeks old after all, so I was still (and am most days) quite scatter-brained. Here are a few of my favorites.
My face is still quite round. Gotta love that baby weight!
By the way, the little onesie Devin is wearing, it fit Luke when Luke was 8 months old! Devin is only 6 weeks.



January is the most boring time of year I think. Good thing we have Luke's birthday approaching us. I guess I just don't have much to blog about. I will take more pictures of Devin (it's true what they say, you take less pictures of all your other kids, but the first has millions!) and post them. He just hit his 4 month mark!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Oh and a Happy New Year!!!!

2010 was a GREAT year for us!
We matched in Cleveland, bought our house (that we love), Matt graduated from Med school, had our cutest littlest Devin, had several visitors come to Cleveland and made a lot of wonderful memories!

Some things I learned in 2010:
I really DO like Cleveland. :)
I never want to be pregnant and move at the same time, ever again.
Having two kids hasn't been near as hard as I thought it would be.
Residency hasn't been as bad as I expected it to be either.

I hope 2011 is just as good!

What we have to look forward to in 2011:
Luke turns 3 and starts preschool!
Matt completes his first year of residency and starts his second (which is actually suppose to be the hardest year in his program-Awersome).
As of now, we're planning on putting a fence in this April when Matt has his last week of vacation.
Starting my first garden!
Me, not being pregnant this summer! Yay.
A much-needed trip home.
Devin turns a year old.
And hopefully we have lots more visitors to come!

Should be another great year!

One year older

Yesterday twas my birthday and it was awesome!!!
Matt was post call (just got off a 24+ hour shift), the poor guy was exhausted, but he wanted to make sure it was still a special day. And it was. He's the best. 
My friend watched Luke while the rest of us went to PF Changs for lunch and it was, as always, AMAZING! I love that place.
Then we hit up some sales at Nordstrom Rack.
Picked up Luke.
(Matt) napped for an hour.
More shopping at Target. (Where I scored on the clearance racks, 4 pairs of shoes, a sweater & jacket all for around 60 bucks!).
Came home and Matt threw me a little birthday party right before Luke went to bed.
He put a candle in a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Gave me a cute new journal.
Sent me on a little treasure hunt.
1st stop-3D glasses (which really didn't have much to do with anything).
2nd stop-tickets (like the kind you get at the carnival).
3rd stop-binoculars.
Final stop-tickets to...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's coming to Cleveland in April.
I am so excited!! I haven never seen it before, but he really likes it.

I figured the seats weren't great, since he gave me binoculars, but they are actually pretty good seats.
I can't wait! 

Thanks to all my wonderful friends and family who called, texted and left birthday wishes and for all the great birthday gifts!!!!