All Grown up

So for about a month now Lucas has been really funny about his feedings. He will NOT eat unless he can feed himself, therefore he's been making lots and lots of messes. Half the time most of his food is either on his lap or in his hair. He has gotten really good with a spoon though, he only has to learn not to twist the spoon before it reaches his mouth.

He looks so cute when he can actually get the food in his mouth. He is such a big boy !!

























The other thing he's been doing lately is talking on his "cell phone", he walks around pacing talking really loud, it's amazing how impressionable he is at this time. The other day he had two phones, one on each ear.

Bye Bye Bathroom !!!

So Wed. was a very sad, frustrating and semi-excited day. So the big event was the ripping up of the bathroom. Yeah I know this has nothing to do with Lucas, but I thought I'd share it with you all anyways.

It really all started on Sun. Chris Adam came over and helped Peter with the demolition process. He tore the closet and the sink apart. Oh they also took the water heater out and put it in the basement. I know what you're all thinking "Where are they going to put there toilet paper now?" well I think we'll manage.

So that was Sunday. Monday and Tues. were days of bucket baths, but hey at least we still had a tub right? Not so much on Wed. that went out the window along with the floors and my walk in closet in the living room. So right now we really don't have a bathroom, so if you come to visit and we don't smell to good you know why. :) JK, it's nice having your in-laws live so close, we went their to shower, they also offered to let us live their for a while til this project is done, so I guess we'll think about it.

This is what used to be the walk-in-closet, I don't know if you can tell but there is a 14 in. drop where the floor used to be. Everything is pretty much gone, what you see at the bottom is the bare floor that the house is built on.

So this is where everything that was in the closet ended. It really looked like the closet threw-up in the living room, stuff was and sort of still is everywhere. I really don't know how some ppl actually live like this, it is driving me crazy.

Here's our beautiful tub :) It sure won't help us now. I can't wait to get a new one .

Ok I had to put in a picture of Lucas in this. Here are my boys looking cute as ever.

Last but not least, our toilet. Doesn't it make you want to use it? So this said when you think you have it bad, just look at our bathroom, smile and thank God that you can at least take a hot shower.

Puppy Love

I can't believe how blessed we are to have such a lovable, happy, easy going baby. Here are the Dozer and Lucas having a grand old time "playing" together. Dozer is so good with Lucas, he's such a gentle dog, here Lucas is basically suffocating him and he's not even minding it one bit.

Growing up

So our little Lukie is growing up. As of yesterday Feb. 15th he really started walking, and I don't mean take a step or two on his own (which he's been doing for about one month now) no I mean walk. We went to Blue rocks campgound for Abby Woods third birthday, that's were he found his new found freedom. He was walking all over the place and loving it. It's great to see the fun that he has with it.

Here's our little walker, struting his stuff in the kitchen tonight. I tried getting him on video a couple of time, but every time I got my camera out he'd go down on his butt.

It does break my heart a bit that he will not depend on my finger anymore to get around, but I guess we all have to grow up at some point right.

Dare Devil

So here are a couple of pictures of our little Dare Devil son Lucas.

Here he is kneeling on his little toy drum, at one piont he fell into it and was sitting inside it.

Here he is crawling over his other toys to try and get into his toybox. Once he was in he could get himself out so Mommy had to help him out.

What you don't see in this picture is the radiator that Lucas is standing on while trying to get into my planter. And that you see there is one of his diapers, he was taking them out of his bag and putting them in the planter.

Birthday Pictures

So here's a picture of the Hoffman family minus G-pa of course, but hopefully soon we'll have him with us.



Lucas really enjoyed his cake, at first he didn't quite what to do, but after a while he got the hang of it and made his mess.



He sure loved being the life of the Party.




Here we are trying to blow his candle out, he would have much rather put his finger in the flame.

Birthday Party

So yesterday was Lucas' first birthday, YAY!!!! He was so excited, OK maybe not really, he had no idea what was going on, but I'm sure he had lots of fun.


Well the day started out with going to church, where Lucas took a 15 min nap, by the way that was the only nap he took all day. After church we came home to got ready to go to the Campground, we tried putting him down for another nap, but it didn't work out.


Well the party went great, Lucas really did have fun and he loved making a mess with his birthday cake. He didn't get cranky all night, it was amazing. I don't have to many pictures yet, because Joy was my official photographer, so she'll get them to me later, at which time I'll post more pictures.



Here's Lucas in his favorite gift. Mom and Dad Hoffman gave him this wagon, it's their traditional first b-day gift, he really loves it.

This picture is really cute. Chris was giving the kids rides around the pavilion, they were having lots of fun, especially Lucas.
So I'll post more pictures later.