Kid Stuff

10 months

Luke is now 10 months old. At 9 months and 30 days, he was still toothless. And then on the eve of his 10 month mark, I discovered a tooth had finally broken through. Though for all intents and purposes, he is still toothless, at least there's a glimmer of a tooth. And he is as cranky and feverish as an old coot, so I think that the other bottom tooth can't be far behind.




He's walking around the furniture and pulling up on anything he can find. He crawls on his hands and knees as well as army style. When he wants to go fast he drops to his tummy and slithers in super speed. He babbles alot , mostly saying dadadadada (you know Dan is thrilled about that!).

His appetite is insatiable and really just wants to eat big people food.

Black bean face

Ava can make him laugh like nobody else.

And sometimes when Ava is on the couch, Luke likes to crawl over and try to bite her toes. They both think this is absolutely hilarious.



And he LOVES the tub.




Ava, for the first time in about 4 days, is finally not as cranky as an old coot. Her sunburn is fading and the pain is gone.

This is how she looked when we got home. I knew she was burned, obviously.

But when she couldn't fall asleep, and kept crying in her bed (which is unlike her) and I went in twice, both times she requested a drink. And the third time I went in to tell her I wasn't coming back in anymore, etc. She finally began to sob and said, "Mommy my back hurts"

Dan had run to the store so we'd have aloe for her in the morning, but I went ahead and got her up as Dan was walking back in the door. We greased her up and here is what she looked like.

The part that broke my heart was when she gingerly poked at her eye and said, "My eye hurts. Maybe an ant got it, Mommy?" I had to explain it was a sunburn. We just felt terrible for her, and let me tell you she was miserable.

(And in our defense, I watched Dan liberally apply sunscreen all over her. Our guess is that she was too sandy and when the sand washed off in the ocean, so did the sunscreen.)

She still asks to go to the beach everyday. Some other things she's said this week that I want to remember:

In her nightly prayer, she said she was thankful for "swimmin nesson's and thankful for Mr. Rudy"

In the bathroom at the store she was doing her bidness, and as she usually asks me to read her a story while she goes #2, she looked up at me as she hovered like a little spider on that big potty and said, "Mommy, you got a book in your purse?"

I told her that I would be going to the temple with the Young Women and she said, "Oh, you gonna go get married?" Then she added, "To daddy?"


And this was about a month ago but Ava and Luke were in the family room playing with toys while I was in the kitchen (basically the same room but I think she felt like I wasn't listening to her) She started singing and dancing around. And I melted at the lyrics of her song. She was singing, "Oh, Baby Duke, I love you! Oh, Baby Duke, I so happy you my brudder. I'm so happy, I'm so happy! I love you!

That one just reminded me of her frequent requests for me to "take my brudder to my room, Mommy" I carry him into her room or closet (which has toys in it) and she kindly asks me to leave and tells me, "I come tell you if he cries" And they proceed to play together(usually involving Ava the Princess, Luke the King, and some sort of mean witch or monster.)

She doesn't say "Mama" for grandma anymore. That makes me sad. But she still says "boobie" for movie and that still makes me laugh!