Love Them

These two have the sweetest relationship. Tessa adores her big brother and he adores her. Luke can make her laugh until she can hardly breathe. So cute.

When I get them out of the car, this is how I usually find them...holding hands. Luke loves to lay by her and read her books and hold her hand and talk to her and she loves the attention.

Preschool!

Luke started Preschool this week and he loves it! I can't believe that my little boy is old enough to be in preschool, crazy. He goes to Shooting Star Preschool and his teacher is Miss Mikell and he loves her. She really is great. I took him the first day and he walked in and said "hi my name is Luke" and then hugged me goodbye and off he went. He had so much fun and I think he just looks so darn cute with his backpack on. It is also kind of nice to have two hours to myself (with Tessa) twice a week:)

Tiny Tot Soccer

So Luke started soccer this past week and it was so darn cute! Talk about pure entertainment, watching a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds out on the field playing soccer.

Stretching with his team before the game.

Pregame cheer. Go Yellow Tiger Bee Sharks!

First time getting the ball

I guess we didn't do a good job of explaining that in the game the point is to try to steal the ball from the other team. This was Luke's reaction after the black team stole the ball from him. He came over crying and said "it was my turn and they took it away." Sad, but cute. We explained that that was the point of the game.

This was his reaction after scoring his first goal, priceless!

Of course Luke's favorite part of the game was the half time and after game treat!

Tessa's Blessing

We had Tessa's blessing on August 1st and it was such a great day. Barrett did such a nice job with her blessing. He blessed her with many things, but the thing that stuck out the most was that he blessed her that she would be a peacemaker. She already is such a peacemaker. She is such a sweet, calm baby and we are so blessed to have her as a part of our family! We sure do love her.

Thanks to our friends and family who came and supported us on her special day and HUGE thank you to my sister Karen for making Tessa's blessing dress, it was perfect.

Love This Face

Look Who's Three!

Luke turned three years old on July 10th, I can't believe my little boy is already three!
At three years old Luke:
*has a great vocabulary and if we say a word that he doesn't understand he immediately asks what it means
*loves to talk and talk and talk. If there is nobody around to listen to him he will just talk to himself. I think he loves the sound of his voice.
*the only thing he loves more that talking is to ask questions. He must ask me 50 questions a day.
*he loves to play with friends and cousins
*he has a great imagination and loves to pretend (he still has several imaginary friends)
*he is really into batman right now and loves anything batman
*he is a very kind child is always worried about peoples feelings
*he loves to go to nursery
*he is a super helper and loves to do favors for me
*he is currently saving up his money to buy an Itouch. We told him that if he saves half we will pay the other half. I figure he'll be about 8 before he gets his half saved up.
*his favorite foods are watermelon and quesadilla's
*his favorite restaurant is Wingers
*he loves to hang out with his dad and do anything that he is doing
*he knows how to call Barrett on my cell phone. Consequently, he call Barrett to tattle on me when I tell him no
*he is full of love and tells me that he loves me all day long
*we are so lucky to have him!
Luke is such a great big brother. He loves Tessa so much and always wants to be by her and kiss her. He is really much better with her than I expected him to be. Luke wanted her to watch a show with him here in this picture. Love these two!

For his birthday Luke wanted to have a superhero party. My sister made each kid a cape that said "super and whatever their name is" and then they decorated masks.

All of the superhero's

They threw water balloons at the Joker (my niece drew that Joker, isn't it awesome)

Played pin the spider on spiderman

And lots of other games, but Luke's favorite was spraying spiderwebs (silly string) at Barrett! He got lots of fun presents

and we ended with cake and ice cream!

So here is the superhero cake I made for Luke. Everything on it is edible except for the spiderman candle on top. This was my first attempt at fondant, it was fun but I'll do a lot of things different on my next try.

Love this kid!

I need to get caught with the goings on of this funny kid. I know I'm biased (I am his mom after all), but I think this is one amazing kid. He is kind, sweet and makes me laugh every day.

A couple of months ago Luke started to tell me about his friend Haula (pronounced like Paula but with a H, I can only assume he is Polynesian:)) I asked him if Haula was real or pretend and he quickly assured me that Haula was real and lived down the street with his mom or dad whose names are also Barrett and Becca. For the next couple of weeks he talked about Haula quite a bit and informed when Haula was at our house and would ask if he could eat with us etc. After a few weeks the Haula talk had died, he does resurface every now and again, as have a few other "friends" named deer (this one came shortly after Luke witnessed a cop shoot a deer that had been hit by a car in front of our house...side note...Luke now thinks that police men just give tickets and shoot deer), and another friend Calane. Where he comes up with the names I don't know but I think it's awesome and love hearing him talk about his "friends." I'm just hoping that it is a sign of creativity and not something else:)!

A week or so ago Luke and Barrett had a campout in our backyard. Luke was so excited he could hardly stand it. Due to some rain it wasn't a very successful night, but Luke still talks about it and how much fun he had camping with his dad.

Barrett's grandparents came up to visit and meet Tess. I love that Luke and Tess get to know their great grandparents, especially since all of my grandparents died when I was fairly young.

Luke and his buddy Pops, Luke sure loves this guy

On one of the very few nice days Luke and his buddy Tommy played in the water and had a blast. I love that you can Luke's ribs in these pictures because one day he looked at Tommy (who is on the skinny side) and asked him what those are, pointing to his chest. Tommy responded that those were his rib bones. Luke (who is on the more solid side) looked down at his own chest and said, hmmm I don't have any of those! Here is proof that Luke does indeed have rib bones (though you don't see them very often with his solid frame.)

Luke is the cutest big brother ever. He truly does love and adore his little sister. If he goes anywhere, the first thing he does when he comes home is to find Tess and give her a kiss on her cheek and then he asks me if Tess missed him because he sure missed her. He also calls her princess and his sweetie pie. I had to include all three of these pictures because I just love how much he loves her and the look on his face.