Happy Eight Month Old Day!

What a week! First, we have Valentine's Day, and today sees Lucas mark his 8th month in this wacky world. I'm going to go out on a limb and make the prediction that before his 9th month, you'll see video of the little guy crawling. He's SO close right now that I figure it can't be more than a week or two away. So keep your eyes peeled for that news. On a completely unrelated note, any idea where "keep your eyes peeled" came from? Man, that conjures up some pretty nasty images.

Here's a couple of pictures of Lucas from his big day.

I took Lucas for a ride down the stairs while he sat in the clothes hamper thingamabob. As you can tell in the following picture, he enjoyed the experience.


Later in the day, Lucas handled his very first football. Twenty-two years from now, when he's a star rookie in the NFL, he can look back to today as the moment the magic started. With any luck, when he's in the NFL, he won't attempt to eat the ball like he did today. :)


And finally, a video! Recently, our friends Wes and Kelly bought Lucas a little sports playset. Whenever you throw the basketball through the hoop, it plays some sound effects. Lucas hasn't really figured out the whole ball through the hoop thing yet, but he did realize that if you stick your hand in the hoop and push the lever, you can get the reward without any of that pesky work. Here we see him "cheating" at basketball.