luke is 11 months old! 9.6.10

we sure do have one happy little boy on our hands. it is so hard to believe that there are only 4 more weeks until luke turns 1. where did this last year go?

eric and i did a little reminiscing about what was going on in our lives one year ago around this time - before we even knew that baby j was indeed a boy and before God blessed us with our precious little luke. we had just taken a few days of "babymoon" at the w hotel downtown and were just about to gear up for a major construction project in our home to get ready for baby j. wow. that seems so long ago, yet it doesn't. i sometimes wish we could just stop time. especially at this fun 11 month stage with luke. we love him so much!

luke's first beach vacation - charleston, sc

at the end of august we took a vacation to the isle of palms, south carolina just outside of charleston. we went with our good friends, brian, katie and will bridges. you may recall them from earlier posts. luke and will are just four days apart in age. the bridges family currently lives in greenville, sc and we met them through our church small group back in 2007 while they lived here in chicago for a year. we continue to be great friends as we raise our boys miles apart.

bridges/johnson family vacation 2010.

luke and will checking out the beach. and by checking out, i mean eating the sand and scanning the sky for birds.

luke and his momma watching the waves roll in.

luke catching some hang time with daddy.

johnson. party of 3.

will and luke were each other's wingman. one of these days they'll be fighting over who is goose and who is maverick.

proudly wearing our vacation t-shirts. the back of the shirts said (vacations used to seem like...vacations). that certainly rang true as there was no sleeping in or even sleeping through the night on vacation. we were convinced the boys were scheming against us. we staged a "parents take back the control" intervention one night but it didn't quite work out in our favor. i guess there's always next year! thanks brian, katie and will for a wonderful week! looking forward to many more to come.

blueberries, cheese, and cheerios. oh my!

just to name a few of luke's favorite foods! he's getting quite proficient at self-feeding these days. he LOVES to eat and now he's got 7 teeth (3 top, 4 bottom) to help him along (i just found his two newest ones on the bottom today)!

please don't stop the music

luke loves his wiggle worms class and the opportunity to play the guitar at the end of class. we just finished up the summer session, but signed up for the fall semester. let's keep the music alive!

you know you live in the city when...

we are trying to teach luke some sign language as we go about our day to help him be able to communicate more. most of the time the sign language is focused around eating (since luke does a lot of that), but today we were at the park taking our daily swing, and luke took some interest in a nearby pigeon (also known as a rat with wings - i have a strong dislike for pigeons). since we really hadn't seen a bird together recently, i decided to suck it up and make the sign for bird every time the pigeon walked by (eww, gross). only in the city would i need to do that to help expand his vocabulary! i'm still kinda grossed out by it.

luke says "hi" while spending time doing is favorite summer activity.

luke is 10 months old! 8.6.10

so we now have a little boy who is in the double-digits! happy 10 months mr. luke!

luke has a new toy!

since luke is getting more mobile these days (cruising the furniture and pushing diaper boxes around the house) we thought he was ready for an actual push toy! apparently he knew just what to do! enjoy!

my boys

luke + meal time = messy

LOVE!