Father's Day Collage

Luke and I decided to give Landis a collage with a few pictures showing Luke's favorite things about his Daddy.  Here are the pictures that were included in the collage (along with a few extras that we would like to call the "out-takes"). :)  Luke is not a fan of pictures so I did use some minor bribery to get his cooperation - I allowed him to have a few M and M's after each picture and he was able to mess around in the woods and around a creek in between "takes."  It ended up being a lot of fun. 

Enjoy the pictures...

(1)  "Daddy...I love you THIS MUCH because...."  (notice Luke stretching out his arms as wide as he can...this is what he says and shows daddy often).  

 (2) "You tickle me and make me giggle."  Luke loves it when Daddy tickles him.  This was one of my favorites that was included - this is genuine smile from Luke (not a cheesy one).

 Luke being silly in between pictures....

 Still being silly....

 And, finally, the picture I wanted....(3) "You get the monsters off my teeth."  One of Daddy's daily jobs is to brush Luke's teeth at night.  While Landis brushes Luke's teeth, he tells him that he is looking for monsters or monkeys to get off his teeth.  That makes Luke tolerate teeth brushing so much more!

 (4) "You give the biggest bed time hugs ever!"  Before Luke goes to bed at night, he asks Landis for a TON of hugs...Landis will give him a BIG hug that "will last all night" and then walk out of the room. Within seconds, Luke is begging for "one more hug from Daddy."  Daddy NEVER turns down the 10 extra hugs...even though bedtime is stalled for just a few minutes, it is too sweet to stop!  :)

For this picture, I asked Luke to hug a tree...he tried his best! :) This is the picture we used for the collage...

 But this was a cute one too...

And, before I go, I had to put a few pictures of Luke playing at the pool.  Luke is NOT a fan of the big pool at Founders yet this year. Right now, he prefers the little pool and that's okay because while in the little pool, he entertains himself quite nicely.  Even though it was quite chilly on Friday, we went to the pool for about an hour and the whole time we were there, Luke swam around the little pool on his little boogie board.  He would throw these tiny sharks into the water and then swim over to get them.

As you can see in this picture, Luke took it very seriously...see Luke's face as he checks on one of the sharks???

 Swimming, swimming!!!

This weekend, I was able to accomplish my first summer project - get the 400+ pictures downloaded onto my computer. There was NO way I could have ever posted all those pictures on this blog so I just decided to start here with the most recent.  Because Luke and I have begun our summer schedule, you know that we will be visiting at least one park each week and then we will save one day each week for a road trip to a museum or other fun place.  I will TRY my best to post the pictures quickly so I don't get behind again.

Sitting here on Sunday night knowing that I have the WHOLE week this week and many weeks here after to spend all day, everyday, with my favorite 3 year old makes me smile.  I am so appreciative to my heavenly Father for the blessing of a career and job that allows me to have this time with Luke.  I pray daily to take it all in - moment by moment - and make sure to give thanks to Jesus every step of the way.

Check back soon for updates on our summer!  :)

Toddy