Louis is 20 Months Old Today

This month Louis has been so much fun! He is starting to say words more frequently - hi, bye, rock, car, mine, uh-oh, thank you, puppy. He can identify lots of body parts on people and on his stuffed animals. He LOVES his stuffed animals now, especially his puppy. He tries to give his puppy his cheerios and milk and he pets him so gently, and he makes him bark. So cute! He also loves toy cars and trucks (as well a real ones) and he will play with them all day making a "shooo" noise to make the car go! His new obsessions though are sticks and rocks. Every time I pick him up from daycare he is playing outside and he has as many sticks in his hand as he can hold! It is always a fight to get him to put the sticks down so we can go home and usually we end up taking a stick or two with us along with a melt down. I now find sticks and rocks in my purse, car and scattered around my house. Today at daycare they told me they can't believe how much Louis eats and that he eats as much as a preschooler. Ha- he takes after his mommy! They do however tell me that he is eating his veggies and for snack they give him pureed veggies and rice cereal. One of the girls told me that the other day they were having a birthday party and Louis didn't even know that the kids were having cake so she fed him his spinach instead! Poor kid!

Camping at Birch Bay

This weekend we headed up North for a night of camping at Birch Bay State Park. Our last camping trip was a disaster with a crabby, teething toddler so we were hesitant about trying it again. This time was A LOT better, but was still hard. Mr. Louis would not go to bed in the tent so once again we didn't get any peaceful time to sit around the fire make s'mores and play cards - sad! We did however have fun playing at the beach, making burgers for dinner and Mike made pancakes and bacon on his Colman stove (which about 20 months ago he would have sworn he would NEVER own)! Louis actually slept in Sunday morning which was great since it was raining and he awoke just as the rain stopped! Louis had a great time playing with sticks and rocks (gocks) but he would get mad because he would try to hold every stick in the entire campsite in his arms all at once and then he would drop one or two! Oh yeah- I now see a problem with cute fuzzy mice depicted in most of his kids books because on Sunday morning I saw him with something fuzzy in his hand and when I asked him to bring it to mommy he happily brought me a real mouse head!!! I was completely panicked and freaking out! Gross!

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Louis Goes to the Zoo

Today I met my co-worker and his wife at the zoo with their kids, Izzy who is almost 3 and Issac who is 1 week old! The kids had a blast playing in the water fountain, looking at the aquarium and feeding the goats!

Nana in Town

This past week we had Mike's mom in town for a visit. During the week she spent time with Louis while Mike and I worked. On Friday I was off work so we took Louis to the Tacoma Children's Museum - which was basically a big play area for kids but Louis had fun. They had a play farmer's market with fruit, baskets, cash registers and even an apple tree! On Sunday, which was Father's Day we went to Northwest Trek, which is a large park that contains local wild animals in their natural habitats such as bison, black tailed deer and moose. You get to take a 50 minute train ride around the park and see all the animals. You can also hike various trails to see other animals such as bears, lynx and wolves. Unfortunately it was 54 degrees and raining the whole time. We ended up eating the picnic I had packed back at home! We spent the evenings with Nancy eating fun meals we had cooked and watching movies! We we were sad to see Nancy go but she is coming back for another week of fun at the end of Aug! This is really embarrassing but apparently no one took any pic's of Mike's mom -ooops!

Crazy Hair Day

Today was Crazy Hair Day at Daycare. I tried to use Mike's hair gel and Spike Louis' hair! He was not happy with me because I asked him to take his pacifier out for the picture and he did but he gave me this look!

We are Back

Well, sadly we haven't updated our blog for many months, mainly due to the fact that Mike has been working 60 hours a week and hasn't had time. I am embarrassed to admit this but until last night I did not even know how to take a picture from my camera and put it on the computer. Pictures were something that Mike always took care of and so I never learned. However, I had a crash course on blogging last night and now I can do very basic things. SO....I am going to be in charge of the blog for now and I am going to try to at least post some pic's weekly. We haven't had too much exciting stuff going on lately (except our trip to Hawaii in April) but we do have some cute pics.

We did rent a canoe one weekend and Louis LOVED it - even though it rained the entire time so we decided to buy a canoe on Craig's List, since Mike Loves being on the water and I can't exactly kayak with him anymore. So now we have something we can do as a family!

Louis is 19 Months Old

This month Louis has perfected his walking skills - Finally! He can even walk down inclines and he can almost run! Louis loves playing in the cul-de-sac with his Little Tyke's car and ride-on dump truck. This month our little guy has been consistently sleeping through the night, yeah! Unfortunately, Louis has been boycotting veggies. Sometimes I don't even know how he knows it is a veggie and not something else especially when I put butter and salt or sugar on them! We tried getting out the potty chair and after a few days Louis decided he didn't like it anymore so instead of making an issue of it I put it away for a few months. I am just hopping with the cloth diapers I can get him potty trained early! I love picking up Louis from work and taking him to the park now that he can climb up the steps at the park and go down the slide all by himself! Louis love playing outside so much so we try to spend as much time outside with him as we can.