Let the good times roll!

Rolling around so much he knocks himself into the side of his crib. Seems to roll with the punches though and starts to roll the other way.

Kind of a bum view! Trying to get his legs up underneath himself but really just cant figure it out yet. Instead he usually decides to roll over since he isnt sure what he should do after he has his knees up.

Having a great time playing with his dump truck. He can now push it to make the music go and likes to take the blocks out of the back and shake them around.

Having some good times with Ollie the Octopus - he has lots of legs to chew on.

Peter is starting him early on the beer. Feels good on his gums as well.

Super fan!!!

Taking a break from trying to learn to crawl. These fingers are just too tempting he can't keep them out of his mouth for very long.

And when he doesnt have his fingers in his mouth he has whatever else in reach. I don't think you can fit the whole thing in your mouth Lucas.

No this picture isnt upside down, Lucas is. This is the way we find him in his bed after most naps and sleeps. He loves to turn himself around in his crib. Doesnt matter which way you start him sleeping he always spins himself around. Most of the time when he is spinning he is singing away. He is always so proud of himself when you go in to pick him up - huge smile.

Lucas and Pee Wee his favourite Monkey

Falling Behind

We are still here and still doing good. Lucas is busy trying to chew his way through all of his toys. one of these days another tooth will pop through I am sure.

Today lots of screaming and chewing of course. I finally got him to sleep at 10, which is when we were supposed to go out. He had been up since 6 this morning. He had a dose of Bonjela (teething gel) and a dose of pamol (I think like childrens tylenol) and second feed. Finally calmed himself down enough to go to sleep. Poor little guy we even had real tears. He should be drugged up enough to sleep at least an hour, fingers crossed.

Not much development on the crawling front, still likes to sit in one place. He can roll over back and forth but doesnt always do it, he is also able to pull his legs up underneath his belly when on his tummy but most of the time I think that happens by accident so not sure he knows how to do that yet.

My parents have big news - they have bought a house ready to build on their property up north!! Looks awesome - will attach a link when the computer/internet is cooperating.

Sorry for some reason I have not been able to load up pictures today so I will have to catch up later.

Every day is a surprise

We have bought an 'umbrella stroller' (basically a buggy that folds up like an umbrella) for our trip back to Canada and I am trying to get Lucas used to the new buggy and hoping he will be able to sleep in it during our lay overs and other possible delays in airports as we travel back home. So today was the second time he had been out in it and no such luck with the sleeping. It lays down almost flat, it is the same colour as the mountain buggy, I have a shade over it so it is dark just like the other one and I go walkies just like the other one but no sleep - come on here give me a break kid what more can I do?

So since he didn't sleep in his buggy while we were out he fell asleep in the car on the way home. Great timing as I was just pulling into the driveway. Of course the car stops and he wakes up they he thinks his 5 minute shut eye was an actual nap so do you think he will go back to sleep, no way he is up and ready to play even though he actually has bags under his eyes and the fact that he needs to rub his eyes every couple of seconds keeps getting in the way of his playing he doesnt care he still thinks he doesnt need to sleep so no matter how much I try we had no sleep today he woke up early from his first nap at 8:45 and finally went back to sleep at 3:30 after his bath. hopefully that doesnt make him unable to sleep tonight be 'as they say' "sleep begets sleep!!!" I really hate that saying, I wish it werent true.

While I am on a rant I might as well continue last night didnt go to sleep until 9:30, we started at 6:30. Little greedy guts needed another bottle to finally calm himself down enough to close his cute little eyes.

On a more positive note, every once in a while Elissa comes over and makes us dinner - nice treat and last night she was here and made the most amazing hamburgers with all the fixins so much so it was hard to get your mouth around them, um um good. To use some Kiwi talk - 'they were beautiful'

Back on to Lucas but in a good way he is now trying to hold 2 different toys at once. He can actually get them into his hands but can't quite figure out how to continue to hold both so he will drop the first one and concentrate on the second. Once he realizes he has dropped that on he picks it back up and the cycle starts again. Funny to watch, you would think he would get frustrated but he doesnt seem to.

He is itchin to get moving although he does not know how and instead just does some leg pumps and shakes a lot but goes not where. That being said he thinks his crib is a jungle gym and barely ever stays where we put him. He spins himself around and pushes lots with his legs until he is either all the way at the top or the bottom. So far it hasnt seemed to change his sleeping habits (see above they were never good anyway)

Soon enough Sprague is going to have a little one of these guys, not going to be long now.

"Mommy what is this doing in my bowl full of blocks?"

Babysitting!!

"Hi Everyone!"

Elissa is on school holidays so since I had a doctors appointment today I figured it would be good to have an extra set of hands with Lucas. Turns out he decided to sleep so Elissa stayed home with him. Good little man slept most of the time and then had no problems when he woke up. I was a little worried since he played strange a little bit with her the other day. Hope it was just a grumpy day or something.

Lucas is busy growing his teeth. One has come through and many more to come. He seems to bee really bothered by them but only at times and other days it seems fine. Still doing lots of playing and getting a little more daring reaching for things a little further away from him. Lately he has been learning to take blocks out of a bowl which is lots of fun but a bit frustrating when Mom puts all the blocks back in again.

Elissa and Sean are getting lots of stuff done for the wedding and I thought I would share their wedding website with you if you are interested. I think they did a really good job. http://eands.wedquarters.com/

Yep he is in it backwards - seems to think it is a new toy that way and he likes to play with the label

Lucas enjoying his postcard from Grandma and Opa - not sure it was intended to be eaten but he thinks it tastes good

Happy Birthday Aunt Elissa

Toast for breakfast with Daddy on Saturday morning.


Breakfast at Mecca with Aunt Elissa and friends. The weather was amazing. Sunshine and some beach time.


Spending some time with Uncle Sean, Lucas really seems to like him. Good thing hopefully that keeps up and Lucas can spend some time with him on the plane on our long flight back home.


A little sleepy at the beach some nice cuddles with Mom


After a long day with friends Lucas had a hard time going to sleep so he spent some time playing on the couch while he calmed down a bit.

Moving on to Bigger and Better

A new toy for Lucas. Here it is another stage of development and yet more things to buy, I swear it never ends. This is a dump trunk that has noises and a little tune when you push it around. Supposed to make the child want to push it around. It comes with peek-a-boo blocks which are basically blocks you can see through that have different activities inside. I figure this should keep his interest for a while but what I figure never really is what Lucas figures so we will see. So far it is all a little too noisy and overwhelming for him. Lots of blinking and moving away from the truck at the moment. Although early this morning Peter said he did dump out the bucket (if that is what it is called) of the truck so maybe there is some interest.

Major scare the other day -I was sleeping so I really dont know how scary it was but it sounds scary. Peter was feeding Lucas breakfast and he started to choke. Peter being the calm cool guy he is slapped him on the back and out pops this thing. No idea where it came from or what it is. I have kept it as I figure I will solve the mystery some day and I took a photo of it in case it came from the can of pears he was eating and I can sue and get lots of money. Problem being he was eating a mix of pear, banana and apple. All home made except the pears and all had been cooked, blended and frozen seperatley so no idea where the mystery object was inserted into his food. Will be extra careful not to put bits of plastic in the next batch of food I make though.

Speaking of making food. Today I made 'Knobbly Mince' great name I know. Basically ground beef , carrots, potatoes and beef stock all cooked up and ground up nice and small. Thankfully lucas slept for most of the process ususally he wakes up just after I start and then cooking with one hand becomes a bit more of an effort than when you get to use both of your hands. Today while I finished cooking I kept him occupied in his high chair with a piece of toast, most of the toast ended up on the floor in a pile of soggy mush but he was happy - or at least happy enough that I didnt have to hold him there was a lot of moaning involved.

This afternoon Lucas took another big nap and I got into the tub and cleaned the thing until is sparkled. It may be one of the worst jobs in our house, you can't clean it unless you get in it and the lighting is kind of bad so you end up spending 5 minutes scrubbing at a dark spot that ends up only being my shadow and not dirt at all - frustrating. Oh well I can now give Lucas a bath without feeling like a failure because my bath tub is more than a little dirty. Clean enough Lucas can lick away without a worry.

I have signed up for GymbaROO this term. Will have Lucas swinging from the rafters and jumping into the bucket of balls in no time. Really looking forward to having some more ideas of what to play with him and maybe (cross my fingers) tire him out a little to get some more big naps.

Looking forward to another good weekend of sunny weather - we hope. Elissa is having a birthday and few of us are going out for breakfast to celebrate, really looking forward to it I like going out to eat.

He sure is a Matter

Man this kid can eat. He must take after his Dad's side of the family, I have heard a few of the Matters (Opa, Uncle Kyle, Dad) can eat their fair share and then some.

Today alone he has had 3 breast feeds, 2 formula feeds (250ml each), 3 ice cubes of pear, an entire piece of toast, 2 ice cubes of mashed potatoe, 3 ice cubes of broccoli, and a piece of apple to suck on. Most likely he will get up tonight as well for a little midnight snack. Where does he put it all?

He is growing though we have officially moved out of 0 - 3 month clothes and have moved into the big size of 3 - 6 month which is not all that big considering he is almost 7 months old and I still have to roll up the sleeves and pants legs so he is able to use his feet and hands to do stuff. It has been sad to see some of my favourite outfits put into the 'too small box' but we have so much cute stuff that I am excited to get him wearing.

He continues to change almost daily - today he decided that kicking is his new thing and tries to kick while he is sitting, that has resulted in a few bumps on his head as he is not able to steady himself at the same time. Good times in the bath though! He is a slippery little sucker.

Lots of talking going on lately but no words as of yet he almost sounds like he says yum but it really is more of a moan than anything. We have been playing lots of peek a boo while he absolutely loves - giggles and giggles like crazy, apparently I have a pretty funny face, hopefully that doesnt start to affect my self esteem.

He is still struggling to nap during the day but things are changing he almost is dropping a morning nap but is not quite able to make the whole time so he gets a little grumpy but soon enough I think he will be down to one morning nap and 2 afternoon naps.

We will see though. It seems as soon as I write things on the BLOG and tell about him he changes his ways. So maybe I should be using a bit of reverse psychology here and saying how he is not sleeping, not rolling, not reaching, etc, etc - we will see if it works.

Speaking of reaching he is reaching for lots of his toys but doesn't like to go too far because he knows he will fall over and he doesnt like to lie down so he tries his best to stay sitting as long as he can, sometimes curiosity gets the better of him but mostly he is stubborn and waits it out until Mom comes around and helps him out, he really has me wrapped around his little finger, one of these days that will have to change but I just can't resist him he is so cute.

Lots of kids in coffee group have started the backwards shuffle while laying on their tummy's and ending up in all kinds of interesting places, Lucas not so much. Every time he lays on his tummy he rolls over to his back instead - not his cup of tea. It would be nice for him to reach that stage in development when he can move but am also happy that for now our house does not have to be in lock down mode - soon enough.

Started to make a list of things we will need for Lucas when we come home at Christmas time - hard to imagine a snow suit and boots for the little man. Looked around here but Auckland's version of a snow suit is a full fleece sleeper type thing - that is not going to cut it, silly Aucklanders have no idea what winter is all about. Actually I feel that I have forgotten a little as well, could be a big shock for me - still looking forward to it though.

Helping out - cleaning off his face when breakfast was finished