18 Months

Somehow our baby is already one-and-a-half years old — how can that be? At his well visit a few weeks ago we learned that Luke is now 33.5" tall (84th percentile) and weighs 25 lb. 12 oz. (49th percentile). This little boy is full of personality and sillies. He knows no fear and has SO much to say...

(at his Little Gym class)

Goodness, he's grown since his first birthday!

 I truly cannot imagine life without this precious little person. What an incredible gift he is!

Picture Overload

I realize that a single post sharing an entire month's worth of pictures is not really how blogging is supposed to work, but it is better than not sharing at all, right? The boys had a wonderful October filled with lots of time outside and plenty of costume wearing. Spooky Lukey learned to say, "Ghos (ghost) Boo!" and "Hoween." His version of "trick-or-treat" is a straight-to-the point "Treat!"

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Last weekend we took the boys to Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo. The weather was beautiful (so beautiful that it took us a very long time to find parking — many other Houstonians wanted to enjoy the day a the zoo, too!). Despite the crowd, we had a blast...

One tired puppy...

My mom's group at church hosted a family picnic at a local park a few weeks ago. While I didn't manage to snap many pictures, I did capture Super Nathan chowing down on his candy apple...

We also took the kids to Dewberry Farm in mid-October to carry on our pumpkin farm tradition...

(mining for marbles)

We stumbled upon a beautiful nursery one morning that had lots of pumpkins and even some animals. We stopped to look around and stayed for quite a while... 

Logan came over to play...

and we painted pumpkins...

  

I came across a box of chocolate graham crackers at the grocery store and thought it might be fun to turn them into haunted houses. (I think the scariest part about them was my terrible construction — yikes!) Nathan loved decorating his. In fact, I think each family member's house had several Nathan touches added to it — ha!

 

Luke just wanted to eat his...

The next day I walked in the kitchen to see Nathan using his LEGO men to play with the houses. Mysteriously, several pieces of candy seemed to be missing from each one...

Last night the boys finally went trick-or-treating. Our whole cul-de-sac of kiddos went out together as a group, which was really fun...

 Spiderman Nathan

and sweet Puppy Luke