Happy 1st Birthday Luke!!

Luke turned ONE last Friday! We can't believe our baby is already one year old...time flew by! Luke has his one year check up today and has to get a few shots. :( He's a trooper though. Here are some pictures from Luke's bday!

Eating his favorite breakfast - muffins. (His first helping he ate in his highchair, then when I was eating breakfast he decided he wanted seconds)

Getting ready for a bday walk w/ Jim, Alfred and Tara


Lauren and I decorating Luke's Blues Clues cake

Birthday boy!!

Showing that he is "one"

Showing off all his presents!

He loved his new ball

He didn't even want to try his cake! He was getting pretty tired at this point...

Luke was a pro at tearing off wrapping paper - christmas will be fun! :)

Second try at the cake...."no thanks"

Luke likes taking things out of boxes...drawers...cupboards

Luke took all the ornaments off the bottom 1/4th of the tree :)

Luke's BFF :)

Last weekend Luke got to go see Danny Meyer (my friend's Kacie's 8 month old son) in Iowa City. They had lots of fun playing together! Luke has had a cold the past few days but he seems to be feeling better today. This week we have Thanksgiving and then Luke's first birthday on Friday!! I can't believe he's a year old already!

Playing tug-o-war w/ the ball

Luke was happy to share his food w/ Danny! Ha!

Luke loves to pull things out of our tuperware cabinet.

Here's a video of Luke having fun pulling things out of the cabinet

One week and Luke will be a toddler!

Here are some new pictures and videos! Luke will be one year old in a week, I can't believe it!!
He loves going for walks while holding onto our hands. He'll stand by himself but when he realizes it he gets scared and will grab for something or sit down. Pretty soon he'll be walking all over the place!

GO Iowa!

"What happens at Grandma's house, stays at Grandma's house" :)

I love when babies sleep with their butt in the air! (sorry it's rotated weird!)

Here are a couple videos for you to watch....

When Luke gets tired he will lay down on the floor for a few seconds and tuck his arms by his side. It's so cute :)

Here's a short video of Luke finding his hat. I would put it on and he kept pulling it off.

Fall fun

I combed Luke's hair so it was sticking straight up :)

Helping Mommy make muffins, which Luke loves eating! The poor guy has swollen lymph nodes, you can really tell in this pic.
Luke loved playing in the leaves before Jim raked them all up. He liked crunching them...

We've been practicing making the "one" sign to show he is (almost) one year old.

"So big!!"....and throwing leaves up

My two sweeties

Luke thought his dad's gloves were pretty funny

So precious!

Halloween

Here are some pictures from the past week!

Luke was a puppy dog for Halloween

Helping mom and dad winterize the yard. (Kristen, Parker and Owen - Thanks for the Hawkeye windsuit...it's been great this football season!)

In front of our burning bush

Helping mom unload the dishwasher

We brought Luke into work for employee's trick-or-treating...he was a hit!

Luke and Grandma Jo - this was after Luke fed Grandma his food :)

Baby's first Halloween!

Luke in front of a pile of leaves that Jim and my dad raked...filled 30 bags!

Dancing Fool

Here's a video of Luke dancing...he really gets his right leg into it! Lol, it's too cute. :)