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BOY!
Yes, we're having another little boy and we're excited!
(Lucas would be too if he really got what we were talking about).
I'll spare you the pictures that prove it!

Lucas's 2nd Birthday!

Last Friday, January 15, our cute little boy turned 2!

He had a couple of shindigs for his birthday.
The first was a little early at our cousin Shalece's house. There were lots of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandma and it was a party, complete with every Lightning McQueen thing known to man.
Blowing out his candles

His awesome Lightning McQueen cake
pointing at his cake
Opening his presents, this one is a McQueen sleeping bag
Opening again
Lightning McQueen Book!Here he is clearly telling his sweet cousin Summer not to touch his book

Here he has relaxed because his uncles assured him she did not want his book.
Lucas with his birthday haul
Eating his cake. He really likes cake.So on his actual birthday, we went to hike in Red Rock with a bunch of friends but before we could even start, he fell down and cut his lip pretty bad. Here he was actually saying "Cheese" and attempting to smile. Very sad.

Here he is getting ready to blow out the candles again. We had a party for him and a bunch of his friends came over to play. That is Bryn behind him (you may have seen her in previous posts). (Also note the swelling in his lip went down.)
McQueen cake #2. Decorating almost exclusively courtesy of Jared.Opening his presents. It was hard to get a shot because everyone was so excited.

This one is from a different day. Lately he has been playing himself to sleep for his nap. But I thought it was appropriate here.

Christmas!

Wow, a lot has happened since I last posted and I feel bad it has taken so long. Hopefully I will be able to do better in the near future at posting our cute little boy's adventures.

This was just a few days ago. Lucas really likes his Lightning McQueen chair and has gotten very creative with it. He puts it on like this and then dives onto the floor. It's pretty funny (mostly because he hasn't hurt himself doing this yet.)

Christmas Eve wearing his Christmas jammies and cuddling with Daddy.
Mater Pancake (see previous post about McQueen Pancakes)

We raked up the leaves and Lucas loved running around in them. In fact, they have been raked up several times since this and they still haven't been bagged because he likes it so much.

When Jared's family was here we went up to Zion National Park one day and did a couple of hikes. This is at the end of one. It was cold, but very pleasant for the end of December.On Christmas morning, Santa gave Lucas a drum set with a harmonica and maracas and a tambourine. He loves it (and isn't driving us crazy with it either).

He is pretty good at the harmonica.He can also play several instruments at once.

Lucas's Aunt Chrystal made him an AWESOME Car's playmat for Christmas. The whole thing is handmade and a perfect replica of scenes from Cars. It has pockets on the side for his cars and whole thing rolls up so he can take it with him to play!He really likes it!

He also really liked all of the candy that was around.He loved all of his presents and Christmas in general. It was very exciting!
Ok, this is not Lucas's first time ever in the snow, but it is his first time in snow since last Christmas and it was his first time LIKING snow, which is a big deal.

His first time going down the sledding hill with Kobe (cousin). He climbed off and said, "Again."
Daddy and Lucas going down again. And again. And again.
See? He's smiling! He liked it!

Jared helped the boys build a snow cave. It was awesome and huge and the boys (cousins) all really enjoyed it! That's Chandler (cousin) with him who helped him the most and was very dedicated to completing it.New Year's Eve.
Lucas was asleep already because he wasn't feeling well.
Oh, and if you noticed the new baby ticker on the side. I'll get to that soon. I just wanted to get a post up! :)

Food

This first picture is just because it is ADORABLE. He is so funny. He still thinks this thing is a hat. I have tried to give him actual hats, since this won't fit soon, but he still wants to wear this toy.

Now that it's cold, he has decided that wearing a bib is better than getting his shirt taken off. He calls bibs "shirts" and he likes the one with the cake on it even though it's not his birthday.He's eating a Lightning McQueen pancake made by his daddy. Jared has been spoiling him with awesome pancakes lately. He also made several Mater pancakes that I still need to upload the pics of.

Lucas slept through Thanksgiving dinner, so here he is eating his meal very seriously. He loves mashed potatoes, stuffing, and corn, so he was in heaven.

See?

Natural History Museum and Dairy Trip

A couple of weeks ago Lucas and I went to the Dairy and the Natural History Museum with our friends. The kids had a really good time, so here are some pictures of our adventures.

Lucas and Cody in a submarine. Lucas and Cody are best buds. Lucas even has a "happy to see Cody" dance that he does whenever he sees him. He calls him "Coggy".

Lucas really liked the fishtanksComing out of the submarine, they were in there forever!

He liked roaring at all the taxidermy animals, but when we got to the dinosaur room, some of them would roar too and he wasn't so sure about that.

More fishtanks

At the Dairy they had a really cool presentation and tour explaining where the milk comes from and what they do with it. This was Calcy the Cow who moved and talked and told the kids all about the dairy. (That's Cody and his sister Bryn and then Lukie in the back)

The dairy tour was really interesting. This is the room filling up the milk containers.

The Chicken

For anyone who has heard the saga of the chicken, ours was the little brown one in the middle. If you haven't heard it, you'll have to ask me sometime, but I have to tell you, it was a much better story when it was happening because when I'm worked up about something I am at my dramatic best. I think my mom got the best (most passionate and energetic) version of the story and she didn't stop laughing for a few minutes after I had run out of story. So this is for the people that I called that day who know all of the hilariously awful details.

She sure looks sweet, doesn't she?
She is, the problem was sweet or not, she is still a chicken.
(Also, disregard any past tense uses. She is still very much alive, just no longer at our house)

Lucas's New Room

I have wanted to give Lucas a really cute room since we moved into our new house last year, but I wasn't sure on what kind of design I wanted or theme to go with. Then as it got cold we realized that two of our three smaller bedrooms are over the garage making them very cold in the winter and terrible rooms for little guys that don't sleep with covers on. Anyways, that lead to the quandry of if we stay in this house for a long time, it needs to be a gender neutral room because this one will always have to be the nursery. Therefore, after a lot of ok ideas and driving my family nuts telling them all of those ideas and asking opinions, I finally put the finishing touches on it today (Monday). I started on painting on Wednesday, so I am pretty proud of myself.

This is the room where he has been for the last year:

This is the room he moved into before I painted. It is hard to tell, but it was purple, kinda grayish purple.Note the VERY white ceiling fan:
Lucas's first night in his new room
At first, all he wanted was out
Here are the chinese lanterns we put inPainted ceiling fan, hand painted spots, and new curtains

Shot of as much of the room as I could get at onceHe dramatically fell over all goofy in his crib and smiled at me. I shot this in the dark, I couldn't even see that he was smiling.
He has started saying cheese and posing. Also, you can see the King and McQueen (from Cars) in his hands. He has to have them to sleep.