New Kitchen (for Lucas, that is)

At the end of March, we decided to pack up a lot of Lucas's loose toys from the part of the first floor that has become his play area. Since that left a fairly large hole in the area, we replaced the toys with the kitchen set that he really enjoyed at cousin Megan's birthday party, seen here.

As you can see in the following pictures, it was a wise purchase. However, a word of warning to anyone planning to buy this. It's the single most frustrating thing I have put together in the last 5 years. The barbecue and every piece of furniture in his room was a breeze next to this infernal hell toy. If he hadn't liked it, I may very well have sacrificed it to pagan gods in the backyard. Suffice to say my relationship with Little Tikes has not improved since last year, when I dealt with the swing with the missing piece (which we eventually returned).




And finally, a video from right after he woke from his nap, where he sees the kitchen playset for the first time.

Quick picture update

It's amazing how clever kids are today when it comes to technology. Lucas watched me use my iPod Touch a few times, and now he has no problem unlocking it and getting in there and pushing the buttons. He doesn't really have any idea what he's doing, but he does know how to start it, which is pretty impressive considering he's not even 2 yet.


Just a happy picture of the little squirt.


Little Devil vs The Huggies Beast From Beyond.


Mistakes were made.

5 second update

Very busy week. I'll try and get some new pictures up tomorrow!

More March Madness

I just realized that this is my 401st entry on this blog. Man, that's a lot of drivel that I've written. Hope you've enjoyed the pictures. Now, on to more random photos from March.

Back toward the beginning of March, we were having problems getting Lucas to eat dinner, which led us to many different ideas in trying to get him to eat. This one worked for about 5 minutes before he realized his stuffed animal Cow was not, in fact, eating dinner with him.


Right in time for St Patrick's Day, Lucas made this shamrock hat at daycare.


Here's Lucas doing his impression of a pretentious Hollywood agent.


Yeah, not really a big fan of this photo.


Wow, that bring us up to March 20. Keep in mind all those photos a while back from Montreal and the Museum of Nature were in March as well, which helped us fly through the month. That's all I have for now since I'm tired as hell and need to go rest.

Onwards to March...only a month late!

Here are some random pictures from early March. In the first one, we see that sometimes a kid just has to kick back, relax, and toss back a cold one.


Trendsetter DJ 2 Small unveils what all the cool people will be wearing this fall.


We bought a new storage unit for Lucas's closet, and while I tried to put it together, he decided it made a better playset.


Does TV rot the brain? It sure does capture a kid's attention as we can see Lucas transfixed by whatever happens to be on (probably Madagascar 1 or 2, based on that timeframe).


Speaking of rotting brains, let's rot daddy's too! (I really like this picture of the two of us, by the way.)


Especially when you see what I was watching.

Easter 2009 Videos

In case you haven't seen it already, the post immediately before this one includes pictures from Easter 2009.

As promised in my last entry, here are a few videos of Lucas during his Easter egg hunt this morning, up to the point where he finds his basket. Cute stuff.

Happy Easter!

Last night, before we went to bed, Marilu and I placed a bunch of eggs around the house so when Lucas woke up this morning, he'd have something to look for. We weren't sure how much he'd be into it, or if he'd even notice, but it ended up turning out pretty well. Once he realized that the eggs contained something (Smarties, peanut free!), he was on the lookout for them. Here are some pictures from the hunt.





Eventually he wandered into his play area and found this waiting for him on his table.


Elmo lover that he is, he then proceeded to read the Elmo-themed Easter book that Marilu bought him.


This last picture has nothing to do with the events of the morning, but it happened today so I figured I'd include it. While Marilu and her mother were at church, I was in charge of watching the little man. I can't remember why, but I had to leave the room momentarily, maybe to use the bathroom. I was gone for maybe a minute and when I came back, Lucas had migrated to the kitchen and this was the scene.


For those of you without kids, as you can see, they can definitely be a handful. :)

I took a bunch of short videos during the Easter activities this morning, and if they look good (I haven't watched them yet), I'll include them in a follow-up entry to this post. That should be up sometime later tonight if they are decent.

Finally finishing February!

It's never too early to give your toddler a steak knife.


Not one of Lucas's best pictures, but I thought it was cute in context. This was taken at his cousin Megan's birthday party at the end of February. He loved this kitchen playset so much, we ended up buying one for him a few weeks back. Eventually, I'll catch up to March and you'll see those. Funny enough, last year we bought him a swing/slide set that we first saw at Megan's birthday party last year. I guess whatever they have new for her next year will be his next big gift.


Later that day, he hams it up for the camera while playing with Play-Doh with mom.

Lucas and his uncle

Back in late February, we got a visit from Marilu's brother Steven and his girlfriend, Katie. Here's a couple of pictures from that visit. The first one came out real well since Lucas actually decided to participate.


Playing in the living room with Uncle Steve.

Recipe for Disaster

Ingredients

• 1 curious toddler
• 2 parents who need to check something on the computer "real quick"
• 1 open door to the laundry room
• 1 open bag of flour

Doesn't matter how you mix the ingredients. The result remains the same.





FYI, this was from about 30 minutes ago. Interesting start to the weekend.

Dentist? We don't need no steekin' dentist!

You're never too young to floss. Someone might want to bring up the concept of moderation to him though.