Nelle News: Comings and Goings

Luke came home on Thursday evening with his Mammie. She actually came and stayed for the weekend so that she could spend some time with Will's brother Stephan (Luke's uncle that he calls Joe). Stephan has been in summer school and has missed out on all these family get-togethers. Luke ran up to me when he got out of the car and said "Hi mommy, hold you!" reaching for me to pick him up. He gave me lots of hugs and kisses so I felt pretty confident that he did indeed miss me, at least a little. Though Im not sure he missed me as much as he missed his toys. He spent the whole night going in his room and pulling out every toy he owns into the living room. I guess he wanted to make sure it was all still there! On Friday night we went to the Great Texas Balloon Race and watched the Balloon Glow. Luke was a little scared when they fired up the torches and clung to us asking to "Go to car now?" But once they actually go up and going he was more interested.

We had 2 birthday parties on Saturday, one was for Luke's friend Gracie. Her mom worked with me at the vet clinic before Luke was born. Gracie turned 1 and Luke had a great time playing at the park. They even let him eat a cupcake early since we had to leave a little early to get to our second party. It was for his friend Ryan who goes to church with us. Ryan turned 2 and they had a little pool with a slide for the boys to play in. Luke, for some reason, was not really interested in swimming which is not like him at all. I think he may have been a little overwhelmed with all the people at both parties. Once we went inside and started eating cake and opening presents he seemed to be himself again! This week has been and will continue to be pretty quiet with us mostly staying home which Im glad for. We have Mommy and Me swimming lessons starting Monday for the next 2 weeks but Im hoping to keep things low key other than that. We have had enough activity to last us a while!

I have posted some pictures of Luke's visit with Mammie and Jagen (a.k.a. Granddaddy. After trying to get Luke to say Grandaddy for about a year he randomly started calling him Jagen. We have no idea where this came from but Luke was very adamant that this was what he would call him! His cousin Layne has shortened it to Jay-Jay). They went to Freedom Fest on the 4th with Luke's Aunt Ye-Ya (Andrea) and his cousin Layne. Uncle Jon plays the drums in a christian praise band called Ornan's Floor and they were playing at the Freedom Fest. Mammie said that the boys had a great time dancing to the music, eating candy and playing!

Here is Luke with his Mammie (and a ringpop)...