Cowboy baby

Skeleton

have you ever seen a skeleton with so much meat on his bones? In the 2nd picture the bones were glowing in the dark but i couldn't capture it without a flash.

SCREEEAAAAAAAAM

Luke has learned how to scream! Not so cute after a LONG day of 22 five year olds! (Sorry about the wrong angle.)

New Shoes

Luke's first pair of Converse.

Teething Biscuits

Very good and very MESSY!

Happy Birthday

Today is Baby Aiden Hamilton Trout's birthday! He was born at 3:08 this morning! We are so excited for Kim and Jay and can't wait until we can meet Aiden! Congratulations guys!

Eddie won't share :)

make that 5 teeth coming in! yikes, no wonder he has been getting up at night! we are now waving bye-bye (at his convience of course) and can do "so big". (I think you have to be a member of the schall family to understand that last one! :) )

Sorry for the lack of pictures lately, I am back at work. :( We are all exhausted in the evenings now!

Grandma's coffee table

These are the pictures of Luke crawling on his Grandmother Gail's coffee table. Initially he was after one of his grandmother's glass vases on the bottom but we moved it when he got too close. I guess he is getting more and more daring with his army crawling!

He also is able to go from a sitting postion to a crawling position most of the time without bumping his head. :) And he has also learned what we mean when we say "No No Luke". He typically looks at us and gives us a little whine when he hears us. But he does stop doing whatever he was doing so that is good.

This weekend

Luke has a few new tricks to report from this weekend. He has learned to pull up half way to his knees, crawl onto the bottom layer of his Grandmother Gail's coffee table, and he now knows how to take his diaper off. Yes, he took his diaper off one night! In addition to his new tricks, he has three teeth peeking through the top of his mouth so we have been keeping the tylenol close! No pictures yet, I will try to get those up soon! We are excited that his army crawling is getting faster and longer. But he still doesn't get on his knees.

I had to make this post two b/c for some reason I can't figure out how to put a video and pictures in the same posting. So the video will follow.
The desired object-my vera bradley camera case. He seems to love anything Vera Bradley: mom's wallet, purse, diaper bag, camera case, etc.


Finally, he got what he worked so hard for! :)

Army crawling

Here is the video. Luke is trying to reach the Vera Bradley camera case. Eddie is just there for support! :)

Big Boy Bath

Luke has grown out of his baby bath tub (a while ago, i am just getting around to posting it). He LOVES the big boy bath! He likes to sit up, lay on his back, and swim around on his stomach in the bath tub. Sometimes he even practices his crawling in the tub. He likes bubbles in his warm bath and of course toys. Bath time is so much fun now!

On August 6th, Luke turned 8 months old!!! I can't believe that he is 2/3 of a year old! He has changed so much in the past 8 months! Now, he is eating a larger variety of food other than the baby food. We have fun giving him new things to try and watching his reaction to them. Just yesterday we gave him his first taste of mashed potatoes. Of course, he loved them. He isn't crawling yet but he is doing a great army crawl. We have lowered his crib to the lowest postion and he loves playing peak-a-boo over the crib bumper. I love that he still wakes up with a smile on his face. Can't wait to see what he will learn next!

Grandma visits

My mom visited this past weekend. On Friday our goal was to tackle all the running around I had to do. By the time we made it to our 4th stop at Target, Luke was ready for a bottle. So mom and Luke sat in the "food court" at Target to enjoy a warm bottle while I did my shopping. Notice the position of Luke's legs and feet!

mmm...crackers

Luke has just started eating crackers and he loves them! He can even feed himself some. Check out the video and pictures below.

Messy hands but yummy crackers! Where did they go?

Kim and Aiden's shower

We had a great time at Kim and Aiden's baby shower in Columbia. We are all so excited to meet baby Aiden soon! Kim has 4 weeks left!