MORE ABOUT LUKE

Luke has grown so much. He is such a chubby little chunker... and it amazes me every time I look at videos or photo's of him, just how much he changes and how quickly he is growing. Luke has come a long way over the past few weeks. He has just recently started sleeping through the night which is just the greatest thing.

He has also finally, with some strong insistence, learned to take a dummy/pacifier, which has made him a completely different baby. He was never able to settle himself, or put himself to sleep. He would also wake up within minutes after falling asleep if we put him down, which was very frustrating because either Jake or I would always have to be holding him to keep him asleep. After we finally got him to take a pacifier he is now a changed baby... he will happily just chill out on the couch or in his bed when he starts getting tired and suck his pacifier until he falls asleep. He is a lot less cranky, and just such a pleasure during the day. We have also noticed that since taking the pacifier, he seems to prefer being put down to 'rest' or nap when he gets cranky, rather than being held constantly like he did before. It has just made things so much easier each day, as he isn't in 24/7 need of our attention, and we are able to get other everyday things done.
Since napping so well with his pacifier, he is also much happier in general, as he is far less tired.
We are just loving our sweet little boy. I feel like the luckiest person in the world, to have such a perfect family... a loving, caring husband and just the cutest, sweetest little boy.

Our Cute Little Happy Boy

Sweet Little Angel Asleep On Grandma & Grandpa's Couch

Our Newly 'Chilled Out' Baby, Hanging Out On The Couch...

Not A Huge Fan Of Getting Kiss Attacks, But I Can Rarely Contain Myself When I See That Sweet Little Face

The Proud Owner Of The Chubbiest Little Legs...
Funny How Having Rolls On Rolls Is Only Cute When You're This Big! :D

Recently, Luke starting realising he has a tongue... he now loves to wiggle it around and stick it out. Sometimes he looks like a little reptile alien baby with his tongue action. We get such laughs watching him sometimes.
Here is a video clip we got of him doing a little of the tongue wiggling.

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We went to Utah for 2 weeks in July. Here are the first pictures we have of Luke with his Grandma, Grandpa and his cousins.

Grandma & Grandpa Geddes With Their 5 Grandchildren
"Annabelle, Luke, Kaden, Hunter & Landon"

5 Cousins (lol... mom, you would appreciate that... )
Kaden, Hunter, Annabelle, Landon & Luke

Play Time With Cousin Hunter

PICTURE PERFECT

Tonight I was once again bathing Luke in the kitchen sink. Just before taking him out, I flipped him over to wash and rinse his back, and when I did that, he just made himself comfortable hanging over the edge of the sink. We just had to take a picture, and it came out just so adorable. I just have the most beautiful son in the world. He is perfect. (Perhaps the words of a biased mom, but you have to agree, that he is just darn cute. )

Lukes First Swim

A few days ago, Luke had his first swim in his grandparent's pool. He was a little hesitant at first, but our little water baby soon started to enjoy his swim. He loves the shower too, so we really weren't surprised at how much he enjoyed the pool.

Getting used to the water with daddy!

Enjoying his swim with mommy!

In the picture below, I was getting distracted, and didn't realise that poor Luke was silently swallowing the pool water. The little cutie didn't at all complain. LOL Poor thing!

A Little Bit of History...

The other day, we took a few pictures of Luke wearing a little white 'nightie'... they might seem random, but we wanted to take the pictures because they come with a little bit of history.

The white 'nightie' that Luke has on is almost 30 years old and belonged to Jake when he was about the same age... so we just had to get some pictures of him wearing something that was once his daddy's. Though I do struggle to picture Jake being this little and cute... lol :D

Buddha Baby

Luke has grown so much over the last couple weeks. He is the cutest, chunkiest little boy, and he has sooo much character.

He has a hearty appetite, and as a result, he has become our little 'Buddha Baby'... he has a huge pot belly, a set of 'moobs' and he has some porky little thunder thighs.

We are just loving our little chunker... chubby babies are just the cutest.

He has also started to sleep really well at night. About 2 weeks ago, so when he was about 6 weeks old, he started only waking up once in the night. He goes to bed around 9:30-10:00pm and usually sleeps until some time between 3:00-4:00am, and then goes back to sleep until 7 or 7:30am...
We have been so grateful for the extra sleep. Then, last night, he did even better.. he slept right through the night, from 10:00pm until 6:00am, and then he went back to sleep at 6:45am after a feed, and slept until just before 9:00am... it was wonderful. So, I think his hearty appetite and chubby baby fat storage are definitely helping him to be a good sleeper.

We just love him so much!

BUDDHA BABY

When Life Throws You Lemons...

Life has taken and interesting turn for our family recently. I am not going to say that it is a turn for the worst just yet, as I really think that somewhere amidst the chaos of what's going on, there is a blessing just waiting to reveal itself.

Last Friday, Jake lost his job. It didn't really come as a surprise because it is the 3rd time this year that his company has let people go, but it is still a shock to the system nonetheless.
The compensation he received isn't very good, and we have also lost our medical insurance, so things aren't great right now, but we are doing ok considering.

Jake has already applied for a few positions, both in Michigan and in Utah, and we are hopeful that something will come up soon.

Oddly enough, I am not feeling overwhelmingly worried yet... perhaps its because the severity of the situation hasn't fully sunk in yet, but I think it's more because somewhere in my gut I know that things will be ok, and that at the end of the tunnel, we are going to see a great blessing that has come from this all.

The timing in some ways is already a blessing. The company laid off people in Feb and April too, and I just keep thinking what a disaster that would have been, because we really needed our medical insurance then as I was very pregnant.
I also thought about the timing that Luke made... Jake and I were only planning on trying for children around the start of this year... but, Luke had other ideas, and decided he wanted to come sooner, so instead I got pregnant in August last year... as a result, he was born 7.5 weeks before Jake lost his job, and when we still had great insurance that covered my prenatal care and most importantly the very expensive delivery.

We are anxious, and feeling very unsure of the future right now, but I just keep trying to keep the attitude, " When life throws you lemons... make lemonade"... and I know that when this trial is over, we will be tasting some very sweet lemonade!