Bull

There is a bull head on a building that we drive past on our way to church. Kurt looks for it every week. And we have to moo for him when we pass it. He thinks a cow moo is hiliarious. We went a slightly different route one day and he couldn't find the bull head (we hadn't gotten to it yet). He was very upset and said, "The bull blew away!!!"

Roller Skating

One of the rec centers had roller skating so we thought we'd go try it out. Kurt was pretty wobbly and wary of the whole thing. But by the end of 5 minutes he thought was done but had fun.

Two Boys

Unfortunately this is the only picture that turned out...the camera is getting old. Brandon even went solo a few laps and I couldn't get anything to focus. I guess he's too fast to be caught on camera :)

Lap #1 - Pretty sure he doesn't like this...

Lap#2 - Got the hang of it and thought it was fun

Sunshine AND Warmth

And now we have 70 degree weather. For today anyway. But we won't complain - we'll take it when we can get it. So we took of the sun and went to the park.

Kurt loved it because there were so many kids to play with. He says, "Hey kids! Here I come! Wait for me..." As he runs up to the play ground.

Luke wanted to do so many things. But I wasn't able to let him. There were so many kids at the park, I was having a hard time keeping Kurt in my sights. And since the small child activities are on the other side of the structure, I couldn't let them both play at the same time.

Perhaps I'm too uptight and protective, but I do not know how parents are able to relax and chat when there are so many other people around. The memories of my recent disappearing child act experience could also be adding some fuel to that fire, but let's be honest, I was like this before he became Houdini.

Climbers. How did I get 2 of them? They will climb anything and everything without fear

"I know I can get to the top too..."
Sliders. I'm sure they think real slides are better than our stairs
Head first - practicing for the major leagues already...The downhill just gives him added speed.

Brothers - Is there anything better?

The things I find in our many boxes of stuff

I don't even remember what I was looking for in the first place. But I found this straw in a box of things from college. I don't know why I had them, or why I saved them. Perhaps I thought - one day, your son will think these are the funniest things he's ever seen. Or maybe they held some "super important" sentimental value. :) Okay, probably neither of the two. Nonetheless, we had fun with them tonight.

Sunshine

Today dawned beautiful! The temps weren't super warm, but it felt really nice and we had to take advantage and get outside. We pulled out the car and bike and had some outside fun. It's a difficult age for Luke because he wants to run and play and do all the fun things, but he's not quite that capable yet. So I hope he can fly solo soon, for his sake.

Kurt still loves the driving his car

Kurt is still having a hard time accepting some things about having a brother. Now that Luke's old enough to play, Kurt still thinks that everything is his. It took a lot of coaxing to allow Luke to sit with him.

And then even more to let him have his own turn...

But Luke was sure happy he did. He LOVED driving himself around. He can scoot himself all over the patio as long as he drives in reverse. :)

He's still working on the bike so it's not so much of an incentive to trade for the big boy bike. But he poses a good smile for me when I ask.

Darn Barn

Kurt and Luke had been playing with our barn and the roof had been knocked off. So Kurt was trying to put it back together before Luke knocked it off again. Brandon picked up a balloon and hit it at him. I think he may have done it again and Kurt says:
"Don't do that Dad. I'm trying to fix this darn barn!"
Insert our attempt at stiffled laughter here
Brandon: "What are you doing?" (Just to make sure we heard him correctly)
Kurt: "I'm just trying to fix this darn barn!"
Yes, we had heard him correctly.

"One Small Step for Man..."

While Luke took his first step 2 month ago, he hasn't really walked anywhere yet. Today, he woke up from his nap before Kurt so we went downstairs to play. When Kurt woke up, he just started playing in his room. So I called up to him to tell him that we were downstairs. Kurt came running out of his room and started down the stairs and called out, "Mommy?"

As soon as Luke heard Kurt's voice, I swear he said "Brother" in some little baby talk way. Then stood up (from my lap) and very excitedly walked 8 steps to the doorway so he could find his brother.

I was able to get some good footage on our video camera of some more walking after that. I think the record was 12 steps. But since I don't know how (and have never taken the time to learn) to transfer video from that to the computer, I tried to get some more just on the digital camera. He wasn't really in the mood and I couldn't keep him motivated anymore for marshmallows.

He's still not walking a ton - crawling is faster (and in his mind I'm sure safer). But he does venture off every now and again.