Luke had his six month checkup yesterday. The poor kid got three shots and seemed to be fine, but woke up at 2:30 last night with a slight fever. He was also really restless and it took me until 6:40 this morning to get him back to sleep. This is honestly the first time I’ve had a night like that with Luke. He started sleeping through the night at seven weeks old and even when he did wake up at night all we had to do was feed and change him and he would go right back to sleep (I know, I know, we are so lucky).

I did my little math trick to see what Adam’s measurements were at Luke’s age and Adam would have weighed approximately 17 pounds 3 ounces and was 26 inches long. That came as a surprise to Dave and me (but I checked the math, twice) because we were convinced that Luke is much chubbier and bigger than Adam was.

My only explanation is that Adam’s ginormous melon gave him an unfair advantage, because while Adam’s head was in the 90th percentile (or higher), Luke’s is right at about the 53rd.

 “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'” 

Luke had his first “real” food for dinner tonight (if you don’t count the applesauce I saw my dad sneaking him at Thanksgiving).

It took him a little bit to warm up to the idea, but I think we can officially say that the sweet potatoes were a success.

Adam got a very special video emailed to him today. Click the link below to check it out.

Adam’s Message from Santa

I finally remembered to take a picture of Luke in the shirt I made for him to wear after his baptism.

Good thing too, since he’s almost outgrown it.

Also, he can still do that freaky thing with his big toe.

Lately Adam has been all about Papa.

When we drove out to see them on Saturday he kept talking on the ride there about how Papa was going to “save” him (meaning rescue him from his car seat where he was “stuck”). According to Adam, Grandma would save Luke, Stacy would save me, and Rob was in charge of Dave.

Monday while we were baking cookies I said, “Grandmama makes really good cookies, doesn’t she?” (Adam had been sneaking her Christmas cookies, or cut outs – whatever you prefer to call them, the day before).  And he responded with, “No. Papa makes good cookies”.

A different day earlier this week during nap time I covered him up with his teddy bear blanket and asked him if he knew who made it for him. He said Papa. I corrected him and told him that it was a gift from Aunt Lo-lo, but he insists that “Papa made it” (sorry Lo).

Watch out Aunt Stacy, it looks like Adam might have a new favorite…

Monday Dave took the day off of work so that we could bake cookies and decorate our Christmas tree.

Not bad for a little $13 after Christmas super clearance sale tree. It’s not the nicest tree out there, but it suits us just fine. It will be loads better once our tree skirt (if I ever finish it) and some gifts are under it.

In an attempt to get Adam to sit during story time today the librarian asked Adam to show her his lap. He responded by trying to take off his pants.

Sandy: We need to figure out how to not have adam wake when you leave for work.

Dave: other than rolling my truck out of the driveway in neutral, i have no idea

Sandy: Maybe you could sleep in your truck too? And then just leave from there?

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I’ll let you know if Dave goes for it, because Adam waking up extra early today after going to sleep extra late last night is not making for a fun morning so far.

Thankfully we don’t have too much going on today. I am hoping after story time at the library (our last for this year) and lunch we can have a nice long group nap.