Crawling? Already??

Okay. So not techincally crawling, but scootching around like its going out of style. Sometimes we're doing a little army crawl, sometimes we're inch-worming it, but he gets where he needs to go. If mommy and daddy wouldn't keep putting things just out of reach.

I don't know why I'm encouraging this behavior. This place is really not baby-proofed. Except for a gate. I'm proud of the gate.

San Diego was a blast - I will soon be posting some fun pictures that were taken with the new fancy-schmancy camera. Wowza what a camera!

Sitting up!

Luke is doing so well at sitting up by himself! We still have a tumble or two if he gets tired, but I love the "plop and go!" I can sit him up, run and grab something and he's fine when I get back. Hurray! It won't be long before he starts crawling - he's already on all fours rocking back and forth. Any minute he's just going to launch himself forward. Oh, how quickly the baby gate went up!

Its been so hot lately, we've just been dousing him with water. These are the moments (few and far between) when we wish for the a/c of the old apartment . . . then we look around and are glad we are really "home."

Sure Luke looks like Mother Teresa, but it was a great way to cool him down!

And of course, he loves to go into the pool with Daddy. Well, Luke goes in the pool, Daddy sits on the lounge next to the pool. Luke actually started enjoying water being dumped on his head.

He's gotten so big - he's quite adept now at letting me know when he's ready for a nap. Poor kid - Mommy just wants to play all the time!

Welcome!

This is the place to keep up with all things Bickel! Well, mostly Luke. He's changing and growing so much that we need someplace to put all these pictures! There will certainly be more updates during the summer as the school year tends to get hectic. Enjoy!