Belly Laughs

This past weekend, our dear friends (and bridesmaids!) Fran & Meredith visited with their 1 1/2 year old daughter, Lucia. There will be more posts highlighting the various and sundry festivities that occurred, including Luce's slow warm-up to Baby Luke, but this one deserves its own post.


In college, Mer & I dubbed Fran "Fran Life of the Party Infantine" because she is one of those people that EVERYONE finds fun & funny to be around. I mean, Mer and I are pretty fun people to be sure, but I was never a DJ for the Masses... True to form, Auntie Fran got Luke to show off his laugh for his dad for the first time. (Paige had seen it before while Paul was out of town, but he hadn't busted it out since)

Don't worry, while you can hear Fran threatening to share Embarrassing Paige Stories with Luke, she KNOWS I have equal dirt on her to tell Lucia one day...

Happy (Belated) Mother's Day, Grandmas!

Since Paige got a Flip video camcorder for Mother's Day, Luke created a special Mother's Day greeting for his grandmas.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Grabbing!

Luke just realized that he can touch things, and they will then move. The natural progression is that he can grab things and hold on to them, generally until his hand gets tired.

With a little help from Dad he got his hands on the pineapple from the playmat and held on until it got boring.

Rock & Roll Baby, Part 3: You ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend?

This qualifies as "rock and roll" since (despite that some people might get it inexplicably confused with Bob Dylan) the song is "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel (immortalized by Stephen Wright in Reservoir Dogs).
And because Paige cannot help but stage photos, here is Luke with Paul's two childhood friends, Luke the Bear and Curious George...

Thanks, Aunt Lisa!

Rock & Roll Baby, Part 2: Big Day Coming

This is probably the only time Luke will suffer matching outfits (at least with Mom).

8+ months pregnant Mom didn't make it past the opening act during Hanukkahpaloozathon this year (she tried...Lord, she tried)*, but she made sure that Dad came home with the t-shirt & the onesie.

*Though he missed Big Day Coming and Little Honda Luke did stay long enough to enjoy the song stylings of Flying Nun stalwarts and opening band The Clean while in utero, thus either making him cooler than other babies, or just marking his mom and dad as lame alterna-parents.

Baby Ambassador of Hoboken

In the past few weeks, Luke has had the pleasure of visiting with lots of new friends in his newfound capacity as Baby Ambassodor.

He and Ronan Scott enjoyed an afternoon meeting in Hamilton, NJ while their moms enjoyed one of Sarah's gourmet lunches (mmm...pistou!).

This was apparently Ronan's first run-in with a newborn - he was a true gentleman, letting Luke get in a snuggle with his Mom...

...And he gave Luke some thumb-sucking pointers while giving him a gentle rock in his car seat.

Luke has also had some quality time with fellow Hoboken resident and trendy hand-me-down provider, Ben Kornbluh.

They had a baby summit in Luke's room, where Ben convinced Luke that he should make his activity mat work for him.

Ben was unrelenting in his assertion that the mat is a happy place - once you learn to control your hands.

Look out lady babies of Hoboken, Ben & Luke are a charming team!