One Year Old Professional Pictures

A photographer named Kimberlee Edwards from Cary came to our house and took these pictures. We LOVE them! I hope everyone had a good long Thanksgiving weekend. I'll post pictures from our Thanksgiving adventures over the next couple of days.

Piano Man

The past two weeks have just been an explosion in our house of learning and saying new things. Most notably, Joseph has taken up piano. He goes and stands by the piano bench until you put him up on it and then he'll sit there and play for long stretches of time. I'm trying to teach him to use one finger and make music rather than banging. He's starting to get it. He certainly appears to have an interest in music so we'll definitely try to encourage that. (Or maybe he just likes loud things). His other new interest is climbing (and climbing, and climbing). He was playing piano the other day while I was working on the Lucas Family Christmas-Palooza that I am creating in my living room. I heard the "music" stop and looked up where I saw Joseph Lucas standing (yes, standing!) on the top of the piano grinning. He moves things so he can climb on other things and we're constantly prying him off of climb worthy objects. We've got a pretty substantial word bank these days, including "Kitty", "Hey Kitty", "Bark bark", "Bandit", "Bottle", "Mama", "Dada", "Door", "Go", "Bye bye", "More", "Eat", "Milk", "Diaper", "Sock", and the all-time favorite, "Ball". And a whole lot of teradactyl screams.

Joseph's Picture

Be prepared to read the sweetest thing ever. Are you ready? Okay. Joseph has certain "treasures" he carries around the house. Generally it's a Sharpie pen (cap on), his socks, someone else's socks, chap stick, my makeup, a sand sifter from his beach toys, or the remote control (which he holds like a phone and talks to another 13 month old somewhere out there). Lately he's been going into the living room - hesitantly since the lights in there are always off, and emerging with a picture in a red frame that sits on a low shelf. The picture is of me and Drew in more svelte years. Joseph toddles into the den carrying the picture and saying "Dah-dah", "Bah-mwah" (Mama). Then he, get this, kisses the picture repeatedly with wide open mouth slobbery kisses and goes "MMMWAAH". Don't you just want to come through the internet and kiss that face?

A clown, a pumpkin, and a pirate walk into a bar...

Oddly, Bernie Madoff was there, too.

Laughing Boy

THERE'S THAT PRETTY LADY!