We are alive!

Hello my fellow blog followers! After being asked by three great people if I was still going to do my blog, I thought wow-it must have been a long time since I posted. I figured a month-long hiatus is long enough for you to really miss us. I'm now laughing out loud (to myself) because of course the main reasons I haven't posted in such a long time are as follows, in no particular order: 1) I signed up for, and consequently got addicted to Facebook; 2) we are crazy-busy, but seriously who isn't?; 3) work is draining my every last possibility of a free moment-for circumstances beyond my control (and beyond others' control as well); 4) every regular week is filled to the brim with stuff to be done, and 5) I just plain didn't make time for it.

Anyway, so how do you sum up a month? Since my last post, Lucas has grown even more-though that doesn't seem possible. Time is flying by and sometimes you feel like life just passes you by. I'm probably only saying that because work is draining me lately. I try to cherish every moment with my family, but it seems those "moments" are becoming increasingly fleeting lately. Okay, enough crying. I've decided with recent changes at work, I am going to conquer this recent problem by bringing work home. That way I can still spend time with my family, particularly when Lucas is still awake, yet get the work that has to be done taken care of. Luckily this situation should be for the next 2 to 3 months and is not supposed to be ongoing.

So, on to the family. Lucas now enjoys sitting up and watching everything around him. If possible, he'd actually prefer to stand and watch instead of sit and watch. He thinks he's so big! He really loves to just take everything in and smile at those that stop by to talk to him.

He also LOVES his activity gym that he got for Christmas from Grammy and Granddad! He grabs and holds on to the hanging toys and kicks the inflated ball on the activity gym and smiles and laughs while doing so. He can easily spend over a half hour and has been known to actually make one of the fish crinkle and the other fish play music without help. Of course, he gets a lot of help from his parents, too.

He also loves the Hop and Pop and can now make the lights and sound go off by turning the dial, as well as by bouncing.

He also laughs now when you play "Getcha." Decoded, that means I pseudo-tickle him and say "Mommy's going to Getcha, getcha, getcha..." I think everyone got the point there.

Let's see, he still smiles at everyone. That is, unless you do not make him a bottle the instant he decides he wants one. He also successfully rolled over onto his tummy on Monday morning-yea buddy! He's been rolling side to side and staying on one side since he was very young, but this is the first time he rolled all the way onto his belly. It surprised him and he got mad-he's not particularly fond of tummy time. It's amazing to see such a helpless infant start to develop a personality and begin to interact with his world-he is definitely a great source of joy in our lives. Anyway, that's about it for buddy boy.

As far as Jer and I--we've been continuing our Sunday School class, though we missed a few with visitors in town and then Jer being sick. We will be going back next week, where we start a series over a book entitled "10 Great Dates." This should be fun!

We are both greatly looking forward to Spring weather, Winter is dreadful!

To all of you who do read this, thanks for staying with me-I know I am not posting on an even close to regular basis. I just got done catching up on my sister's blogs from the past month or so-how pathetic is that?!? I am seriously going to make an attempt to do this more often. So here's to me actually posting another blog before April 10th. I'm not placing any bets though...

Finally, I've attached a few of our latest pictures from Sears. These were taken when Lucas was approximately 3 1/2 months old. We thought she did a great job!