Wow! It’s been forever since I sat down and did a little
updating. First off let’s explain the new blog. I originally started The Start
of Something Special when we found out we were going to be parents. Then that
took an abrupt change when Luke was born. Since then for the first 2 years of
Luke’s life and especially the first year of his life I gave more minute-by-minute
updates. I feel like that time has come to a close and it’s time to move to
Luke’s big accomplishments and issues that come up occasionally. So this new
blog was formed. I came up with name a good couple of months ago, but with
everything else that was going on around her I just didn’t start it up. So that
time is now…
A quick update of the family as a whole: Jonathin has a new
job as of mid December. Instead of driving to Bremen he now drives to Niles, MI
Monday through Friday. No more weekend work and it is normal schedule…woot woot!
Around the same time Jonathin switched jobs I finally finished my degree and I
am DONE with school! This now leaves me
looking for a job in an area I like, and a schedule that can adapt to Luke’s
schedule. Other than that the regular life is pretty regular.
Now lets get to the star of the show…LUCAS! Can I just say
HOLY CATFISH! All of a sudden these past 2 weeks he has been making leaps and
bounds around here. He has begun putting
things where they actually are supposed to go. For example: puzzle pieces and
parts of toys. I know this doesn’t sound too exciting, but around here it is.
From a kid just a couple months ago that only threw toys across the room to now
being able to control his motions. He can now hand us things and control his
movements. This has also carried over to eating. He now wants to feed himself
with a spoon. Wow, can we say messy. At one point I just had to let him go with
his spaghetti and I poured myself a glass of wine and watched. It is just the
clean freak in me I guess.
Along with eating we now can order him food at restaurants.
It might just be French fries but it something. He likes to sit there and eat
right along with us. He does so much better in restaurants if we just let him
be also. He doesn’t want us messing with his food. He is funny like that. Once
it is in front of him it is his, don’t touch!
He is standing more and more each day with our help and the
help of his awesome IU AFO’s (leg braces). I think they just give him more
confidence each day. He still fights it at times, but then he realizes he is
standing and starts to enjoy it. He also has realized he needs to protect
himself when he falls, but now he uses his arms. This is big, before he would just fall.
The biggest news here lately is that he is getting up on his
hands and knees by himself!!!! HUGE HUGE HUGE!!!! I think the first couple
times it was by accident, but he is doing it regularly now and just looks at us
and laughs. The first time he did it Jonathin was the only one home and he
thinks Grandma helped Luke up. Jonathin thinks my grandma is being sneaky and
giving Luke a little help since she was so adamant about getting him sitting
and crawling before she passed away. I wouldn’t put it past her. He is so close
to the point of crawling. I would say within the next month or two he might
just be leaving rolling in the past and moving forward…literally. Hopefully I
caught everyone up around here. We’re
trying to get a new schedule going around here so when I do start working it
won’t be too much of a change and hopefully I can then update more often again.
