our april, part one...

hello! well, we had a wonderful time with our visitors last weekend and will be sure to share pictures of that soon. but first we are a little behind and need to catch up on the rest of our april. this first one of me is fitting, though, because it's a heart cookie i made for aunt aimee a couple weeks ago. actually, i ended up eating it myself, but i was thinking of her when i made it (and ate it!), so that counts. and i'm missing her now that she's gone, so that counts too...

here i am in my cute underwear anticipating the arrival of our visitors...

me and luke outside on the playground... he loves swinging just as much as i do, but you can tell in this picture that he was a little nervous about me pushing him i think!

momma loves the zip line the most, but on this day, i was having such a fun time with it...

(check out this face of excitement!!)

...that i then decided to try it all on my own for the very first time! usually daddy is right there with me, as you can see in the first picture. and although i am all boy about some things, i am in a bit of a timid phase about some new things, and so i liked daddy to be right there... until now!

that was so much fun! and as usual, i was so glad i went out of my comfort zone a bit and tried something new! luke, on the other hand, was not nearly as impressed...

did you notice his chunky legs in that picture?!?! can you believe those? (or can you believe that they've actually trimmed down a bit since he started crawling so much?) here's another look... momma has a hard time not munching on those all day, but she's had to stop teasing about that, because luke started a biting phase, which he thought was a game since momma "bites" him all day. whoops.

moving on... i can't remember if i've talked about how we started up school time again here... i think i did. we have a neat area in the playroom where momma and i sit down to work on things together. here i am practicing my letters...

i was required to include this picture because momma loves it so much. she loves getting a good, clean, close-up of my face, even if i'm not smiling... something about my eyes and that serious look on my face, who knows...

this is what luke usually does while we're having school time...

or he crawls over to see momma (he's cute, folks)...

you may remember our visits to the strawberry farm and pumpkin patch in a place not far from austin. well, we were excited to learn there's a similar (and even bigger!) farm just outside of magnolia too! we went to pick strawberries a couple weeks ago. truth be told, momma did all the picking, but luke and i did have fun...

okay, luke, not so much fun in this one... it was pretty hot that day and he didn't like being stuck in the wagon. momma did let him out after this and we crawled around in the dirt while she picked...
and i pulled the wagon all the way from the patch to the building where we weighed and paid - all by myself. i was very proud of that...

well, that's all for now, but stay tuned again soon for another look at our april fun, and then some pictures from our weekend with visitors! sorry to leave you hangin'!!! :)