Luke's Glorious Ball Pit

So, if you know Luke at all, you know that he loves any kind of ball he can get his hand on. Basketball, baseball, tennis ball, bouncy ball, ball popper ball (a favorite), soccer ball - any kind at all and he is happy. In fact, these sporting goods have saved us many times from emanent melt downs. For example, the last round of vaccines - the crying was immediately mitigated by the presntation of a tennis ball. Mother's Day Out and Church Nursery nerves are calmed by "Luke, would you like to play with a ball?" And any time that "stranger danger" rears its ugly head, we know now to hand the new person a ball, and all is right again with the world.


Yesterday, my mom took her two hour tour to the grocery store and Walmart and came home with the mother of all gifts - an inflatable ball pit.

Luke's dream come true, an enclosed container with endless, colorful balls at his fingertips. To say that he loved it, would be the understatement of the year.

At one point he tried to hug it.

Andrew, to say the least, was underwhelmed.

Luke's First Day of School

Well, let's call a spade a spade here - it's not really "school" it's Mother's Day Out! But it feels like school! We pack his little backpack and lunch

and drop him off in his "classroom" (the "Busy Bee Class")

Where he plays with his friends and "teachers", while mommy goes home to clean and get some one on one time with Andrew. The first week or two he cried pretty hard when I dropped him off, but every week it gets better and now he seems to like going!