The tractor

Whenever Lucas looks outside our window, he sees the tractor... It belongs to my cousin's kids Kevin and Dominic and is standing in their garage. Usually the garage door is open, so Lucas has to check every day, if it's still there. Last week I finally went down there with him and let him sit on it. He can't really drive it, because his legs ain't long enough. But he sits on it for a couple of mintues. It's about the only time he actually sits still for a longer time... ;-p

Arranging his cars once again

Lucas having a blast

Auntie Jess and Uncle Steve on RnR

Jessica and Steve were home on R'n'R during the past two weeks and we were really happy that we were able to meet up with them three times during that time. Lucas really loved his uncle Steve and auntie Jess. Sadly they left again today to go back to Iraq and Kuwait. But we're very looking forward to see Jessica back on May first and Steve will be back for good in July. YAY!!

Here is a couple of pictures I took last Saturday, when we had them over for dinnertime. Lucas had a blast playing ball and having Steve read a German book for him

Help!!!

Why won' t Lucas take his afternoon nap anymore? I have no clue what I can do, to make him sleep. I know he needs it... He started not sleeping anymore about two weeks ago. He falls asleep in my arms (don't ask me why, because at nighttime he always falls asleep on his own in his bed...). Anyhow, he actually falls asleep in my arms after about ten mintues, the minute I put him down in his crip, he wakes up and starts screaming. So I try to soothe him and bring him back to sleep... he actually falls back asleep but it's the same procedure once I put him down. So I think, maybe I should let him cry for a couple mintues and he'll fall asleep on his own.... wrong thought. He will cry so loud and long, I don't feel good leaving him in there. Sometimes he's so into it, that he sounds he's about to throw up, so I go in there every two minutes or so to calm him down. That game takes about an hour and then I think it's too late now anyhow and he's wide awake again.

I really don't know what happened. I don't know if he's old enough already to skip his naps around daytime. Usually he wakes up around 6.30 am and I would try to put him down again around 12.30 pm and he goes to bed at night around 7 pm. So I thought that was a really good cycle and he was very good with it for a really long time...

I'm still hoping that he might change again and he'll start taking his day nap in a little while. I really need a break of an hour during the day as well and I'm sure it would do him really good as well.

Scrapbooking

I just wanted to show some of my scrapbooking pages on here. I know, I'm still new to it, so they're no actual masterpieces just yet. But I guess some of them turned out pretty nice

Lucas' language part two

Here are just a couple of new words that Lucas' is using now

opo - Opa - grandpa
kiki - Kinder - kids (my cousin's kids upstairs)
raror - Traktor - tractor
hubo - Hubschrauber - helicopter
mi - Milch - milk
Raura - Laura


that's all I could think of right now

An exciting Sunday afternoon for Lucas

Yesterday, my parents and their friends decided to walk from Bruehl to Ketsch to the "Leistungsschau" (basically some local businesses were there to present their services). It was the warmest day of this year, so far. I really wanted to spent most of the afternoon outside with Lucas, so we decided to join them. I'm not really used to walk that far anymore, nedless to say to sports of any kind... hahah. So it was really nice, but also a little exhausting at times. Lucas had a blast of course, as we passed horses and goats and saw all kinds of vehicles like tractors etc.

Most of the show was being held inside a hall. Lucas was going crazy when we passed one stand that had a big remote truck standing there. He wanted to get off my arms and play with it right away. Then we let him walk for a little and he started taking off. He ran straight towards something and didn't care about all the feet around him. All of a sudden we saw, that he was going for a poster that had some cars printed on it. He was hilarious! Even other people stopped, watched him and laughed at him. He started shouting and talking to the cars. We just had to stop him, because all of a sudden he ripped a little part of the poster. Thankfully the men that worked at the stand were busy with customers and didn't see it.

The most exciting thing of all, was the helicpoter outside the hall that took off and landed about every 10 minutes though. Lucas was really fascinated and couldn't close his mouth anymore. He wanted everyone to go outside with him. First he asked me, then he wanted to go on Bettina's arms and told her "hubo" (Hubschrauber - helicopter), so she went out with him. Then it was grandpa's turn and on and on it went. I forgot to take a pic of that though.

When we walked back home, Lucas was little fuzzy in the stroller, but about halfway back, he finally gave in and was hanging in there really beat.

Look Mama, CARSSSSSS

Soooo thirsty, but Mama knows I just want it, because I can actually drink out of the bottle