Luke is already 4 months. We really can't believe he's ALREADY 4 months and yet we also can't believe we ever somehow existed without him. Does that make any sense?
Luke Duke, as we all call him, is the happy spot in our family. A true measure of joy and the perfect caboose to our clan. Gosh we love him so much it is all kinds of corny, sappy, and silly.
He is rolling and eating solids and responding to his name and verbalizing and still nursing probably way more often than he "should" and sleeping right next to mommy every night.
I am truly busy savoring each day of his infancy before it is gone. I know all too well how that goes.
So please pardon my absence...I'm having a love affair with baby Luke and cannot be bothered to clean my house or blog.
{First bath with the brothers}
{"Goo!"}
{Sitting in the Bumbo chair}
{Well, that explains a lot!}
Anyhow, I have big plans. An image in my head of my four precious boys in a picture together. Getting back to regular updates. Maybe keeping this house in less chaos....maybe. But for now I am a teenager doodling "Luke" in the margin of my notebooks and feeling all lovestruck and consumed.
Updates all around:
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Warren had a rocky start to 3rd grade behaviorally but is so on track the last two weeks. I am trying a supplement with him from Whole Foods and have an appointment scheduled for next week with a holistic pediatrician in Denver to talk about his hyperactivity. He is such a SMART boy academically and is proving to be a real stud on the football field too. Sometimes I think there's just so much awesomeness bundled into that boy it is overwhelming and cannot be contained. I rely on him every day for his help and humor and brains. The world is so much better off with him in it I am sure.
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Jack. Oh Jack. My romantic boy. Comes home most days and writes me love letters. Equally smart and loving first grade. Doing flag football this season and way more interested in making friends and practicing than actually making an impact at the games so far. Loving Legos more than ever. Jack is doing SO GOOD in school; reading up a storm...he is an "enthusiastic learner" according to his teachers. Jack regularly throws his beloved blankie in the trash proclaiming he no longer needs it, only to rescue it a couple hours later and spend a few hours snuggled up on the couch with it. He is such a man/child and seriously could not be any cuter. Jack is our perfection.
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Nolan Patrick is in preschool two days per week now. He doesn't ever want to go. I am partly annoyed by his proclamations and yet I partly revel in them knowing he would rather stay home with me. Nolan is ever a Mamma's boy still. He knows so much more than he lets on and his verbal skills are exploding this year. He is the only one in the house who doesn't coddle Luke, and that is valuable too. He can ride his balance bike without putting his feet down for long stretches now. He finally quit drinking milk out of a bottle over the Summer cold turkey thanks to Daddy. I might have let that go on to age 12 if he hadn't intervened. Nolan is the kind of boy it's hard to say no too...at least for me. He's got a healthy self esteem and rightfully so in my opinion. I have a real soft spot for little Nolan right now.
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Us. We have the Madonna concert this month and a trip planned for just us in December and we are surviving. Not great. Not the best place we've ever been in our relationship but this is hard work and we sometimes blame each other for all the imperfections of life, when in reality we know that if we weren't so tired we could see they are just the perfect imperfections and no body's fault. We are not fully matured at 32 years old and that's okay. No body's really mad for reals. No body's going anywhere as far as I can tell and we are a big crazy family that most people probably cringe at and we somehow like it that way. Watch out, the Lawsons are a party of 6 now and we are LOUD and messy.
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