Luke the devious.

Tuesday evening I was out with friends for a bit of a "Luke break". Kyle was home with Luke. Luke likes to pull open the velcro on the back of Kyle's recliner. He did this Tuesday evening. He got sent to time out. He got out of time out, and pulled on the velcro again. Back to time out. When he got out of time out this time he went and got his pull helicopter. Kyle heard him tell his helicpoter to "sit". "Cute!" he thinks. Then Luke comes and pulls on the velcro AGAIN. Back to time out for the 3rd time. Then Kyle hears Luke's helicopter playing music. Then he realizes...hey, Luke must have that in time out. Sure enough! He got out of time out, went and got a toy, put it in the time out room (laundry room) and then went and pulled the velcro, that way when he got sent to time out....he'd already have a toy back there to play with.

I think we're fighting a losing battle.

Seen and heard.

"In order to help get my cardio in every day, I've decided to walk to work."

--Kyle Soper

Says Luke

Luke takes his afternoon nap at 12:30. Yesterday at 12:15 he crawled up into my lap, put his arms around me, laid his head on my shoulder and said, "Night night mama. Bed."

Updates.

Kyle: Has been working on the playset. He has had help. My dad helped over Memorial Day and then he worked for an hour here, 2 hours there as he could fit it in. But then our friend Johnny came and stayed with us a couple of days and they worked a lot and got it finished. Kyle would have finished the playset eventually, but I know it wouldn't be done yet....THANK YOU JOHNNY!!!

Johnny brought his boys out a couple of the days and Luke had so much fun playing with them. He still asks about Damian. Damian and Isaac, like Luke, loved the 4 Wheeler.

Luke: Luke got a new life jacket for the lake. Just look at that HUGE 20lb "fish" Kyle caught!

Luke also loves to play in the sprinklers every chance he gets...which is basically however often I will let him. He loves it. The water is freezing and comes out really hard, but he doesn't seem to mind at all.

Plus, playing in the sprinklers means you end up covered in grass so you have to have a bath, the only thing that will get Luke inside without a fit. The promise of a cookie or a snack works too. Our friends the Hayes had their baby so we took them supper one night as a bribe to come over and gawk at their baby. Luke loves Karter. We had to limit his "holding Karter" time. He can only be gentle for so long.

Luke was so sweet and would kiss his little forhead and give him sweet hugs that quickly turned into bear hugs that just might squish a new baby in half. Luke also enjoyed the lake last weekend and liked to see all the other boats out on the water. "Bo" and "wa-wer".
Me: I've been feeling okay. No throwing up so not horrible at all. I have been very tired and have needed a nap every day. Luke and I go down everyday about the same time =). I'm teaching a 5 day a week 3 week long boot camp from 6:30-7:30 in the morning. So, I'll be headed to bed extra early tonight so I can be up at 5:30 tomorrow. However, I don't know if I'll make it until Luke's naptime tomorrow. I might need a morning nap as well.

Recipes for Tara

Beef Queso

4 oz cream cheese (reduced fat works well, too)

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 1/2 lb velveeta

1 can Rotel

1 lb browned ground beef or sausage

Combine all ingredients and heat. Serve hot with tortilla chips.

Texas Caviar

2 cans black eyed peas, drained

3 avacados, chopped

3+tsp minced garlic

1 small red onion, finely chopped

1 can chopped black olives

1 medium bell pepper chopped

1-2 jalapenos, seeded and chopped (optional)

1 small bottle zesty italian dressing (fat free)

Make and refrigerate overnight. Cerve with chips or crackers. Keeps well in fridge.

Meal Plan

I've already started on this meal plan, but have yet to do the grocery shopping that goes with it, so I'm limited in my choices.

French Bread Pizza

Shish-k-bobs (marinated 24 hrs in Chicago style steak marinade)

Grilled Chicken

Grilled round steak

Audra's Chicken and Rice (had this tonight...made it in the crock pot since I knew I'd be at the Dr)

Audra's Swiss Steak

Spaghetti

Macaroni and Cheese

Cheater Chicken Divan

Broccoli Tuna Casserole

Feta Stuffed chicken breasts (doubled) Having the neighbors (Rick and "Dia" Davida) over for supper.

Extras include: cheesecake (rick and Davida), bundt cake (traver's birthday request), cookies (take to a cook out at Travers) and meat for a neighborhood cookout at our place after our neighborhood clean up day.

And I'll probably make pizza sometime. Because it just makes Kyle so happy.

This past meal plan I made pizza, chicken strips and french toast, so I was able to really stretch it out. Normally I buy a couple loaves of sliced sourdough, but I was at Target and the sourdough didn't look large enough so I got white panini bread and it made really good french toast. We had that for breakfast when Doug, JoAnne and Jimmy stopped by on their way home to Houston and JoAnne even asked what kind of bread I'd used, so I might just have to permanantly switch.

From the mouth of babes....

Hey dude

Chill out!

Daddy work

playset

Le-lurd = leopard

He's also started saying things like :

Mommy's chair

Daddy's chair

Luke's chair

Most frequent words:

bye bye

daddy work

Audra

Solomon

Audra night night?

Solomon night night?

cookie

Karter

Bandin = Brandon

Shanna

eh lo = hello

Rick Dia = Rick and Davida our neighbors