6 Years Ago...

this boy joined our family and we haven't been the same since! Luke was very excited about turning six and I can't believe that day has come!

Some memorable things about today:

Luke requested Lucky Charms and Fruit Loops for breakfast. Last night he informed me he wanted them in bed. According to him- Mom gets to have breakfast in bed on Mother's Day and Dad gets to have breakfast in bed on Father's Day so he should have breakfast in bed on his birthday. So he did and he loved it!

He got to go to a sports shorts class with Andrew. At the end, his teacher let him (and Andrew) pick something from their treasure box.

We had planned to go to a friend's house but ended up going to Chuck E Cheese to play their games for an hour. It was a hit.

Luke requested Mac and Cheese for lunch with Cucumbers. He also had grapes.

Luke got to skip quiet time. He built Legos with Mom and we played Battleship. Then he played his new Wii game (lego star wars).

Two friends came over for Luke's smaller party. We had pizza, cucumbers and carrots (at least Kiley and I had those!), and watermelon. We finished it off with cake and ice cream.

We went to U bounce for 2 hours of open bouncing. When we got there we found out they had buy 1 get one free coupons there. Nice surprise. The boys had lots of fun and especially enjoyed the dodge ball.

Luke is sufficiently worn out and needs a good nights sleep to recoup from his crazy day!

A few things about Luke:

He has really come out of his shell in the last year. He gets up in front of groups, volunteers to help, and loves playing with friends!

He is soooooooooooooo ready for school. He continues to love numbers and is also a good little reader. His favorite books to read are the Elephant and Piggie series. He LOVES to hear the Magic Tree House series. We have the books on CDs from the library and he listens to them at bedtime and quiet time and lots of times in between. We always have 50+ things checked out from the library at once!

Luke is a caretaker and always looking out for his brother. Sometimes we get to remind him that we want him to be Andrew's brother not a third parent :) He builds awesome train tracks for Andrew to play with.

He got lots and lots of Legos for his birthday as well as several games. He is a real game player which his Mom and Uncle Uriah enjoy!

Luke is an attentive listener at church and we hope that carries into school too. He is excited to play soccer again even though he will be in a different division than his friends.

Luke's favorite church song is "I love to see the Temple" but he's done great learning the other songs too!

Luke's very favorite past time is the Wii. He would play it day and night if we let him. I'm willing to bet Lego Star Wars is now his favorite Wii game. Transitioning off the Wii doesn't always go very well...

Luke still likes to give big hugs and Mom still loves to cuddle with him.

Happy Birthday Luke- we LOVE you!!

Luke and Brady

Luke and Noah

New Favorite Wii Game

Mom and Luke on their date Saturday- a 90 minute horse back ride on Mt. Charleston. We loved it! Luke was on Tinkerbell and I was one Cole. Both our horses kicked another horse several times. They wanted their space!