Toddy: Family Fun & Luke's 1st Haircut

On Friday, August 19th, the Bumgarners had an old-fashioned family fun day....a whole day of just hanging out, running errands, eating meals together, and lots of having fun. Mommy and Daddy took the day off of work and focused only on us and our little boy. Such a fun day!

We began our morning slow - playing around the house - Luke rode Thomas, his red car, his bicycle and we let Max and Madi out to play awhile. Luke and I also took turns pushing the popper, the mower, and pulling the phone and the dog. Luke likes for me to push or pull one thing while he pushes or pulls something else. We call this a "parade" and then when he's ready to switch toys he will say, "trade". :)

After some playing at the house, Landis dropped me off at the Nail Salon for a quick nail fix while he and Luke visited his granny, whom Luke calls "Tia" (it's really Granny Otelia). :) They picked me back up and off we went to Evolve Salon in High Point where my super sweet hairdresser works - but, only this time, I wasn't getting my hair cut, Luke was....Landis has been against getting Luke's hair cut for weeks now, but it had to have some type of trim. The back of it was like 4 inches long....it looked terrible. When we arrived at Paula's, she agreed with Landis that Luke would look much better by keeping his shaggy hair do, so the only thing she trimmed was the 4 inch long pieces in the back. It was so NOT dramatic. It took like 30 seconds and she didn't even charge us. By the time Luke got finished looking at the penguins on the cover up, Paula was done. We took some pictures and saved the first piece of hair that was cut so we can remember this milestone in years to come.

After the hair cut, we ate lunch at McDonald's. Luke was a little bit wild by this time - he giggled and laughed and literally planted his face into Landis' ice cream cone. It was fun just hanging out with him in such a good mood. :)

On the way home, Luke fell asleep and ended up sleeping for almost 3 hours. :) While he napped, I had the chance to finish up some school work.

After his nap, Luke was in a super mood! We played around the house. One of the new things that we did was attach the little dog that Luke usually pulls to the back of his red car so it looked like the dog was chasing the red car. Luke loved this! :) He thought it was so neat - and, to be honest, it was quite cute!

Then, my favorite part - I soooo wish I had the video camera running - Luke asked to do the Elmo Slide so I turned it on the TV. You should have seen Luke breaking it down. Landis and I laughed and laughed. Luke actually slid during the sliding part, he flapped his arms, he jumped and turned around in circles (just like the song says) and then during the end where they say "Elmo Slide" over and over, he slid himself backwards all the way around the couch with a huge grin on his face. It was hilarious! I got out the camera to see if he would do it again, and, of course not, he was done! :)

Around dinner time, we headed to Olive Garden in Winston. While we waited for our table, Luke walked around the trees and the rocks and played. Then, we sat down for dinner. Luke was fairly good during dinner. He did a couple of super cute things. One time, all of a sudden, he looked over at a bus boy and waved - the bus boy smiled and waved back. He did get a little impatient waiting on his pizza and yelled out "eat pizza" pretty loud several times. Landis sternly reminded him that he needed to be quiet. :) Keeping him quiet was kind of difficult because he was in a talking mood - he repeated everything we said, "ice water", "drink", and one time, he even mocked the waitress when she laughed. The waitress did have a very funny, fake sounding laugh and it was quite loud. So, when she laughed one time - Luke looked at her and said, "ha, ha, ha". Landis and I were a little embarrassed but had to smile - it did sound exactly like her laugh. :)

After dinner, we stopped by Costco and while I shopped, Landis and Luke explored the huge store. They found a toy section that included a ton of toy bulldozers and dump trucks. Luke would run up and down the aisle pushing all of the buttons. We ended up going home with one of these bulldozers. :) The store was not very crowded so Landis and I let Luke lead us to the cashier. He, of course, ran as fast as he could - I love watching his little feet and his arms swaying as he runs as hard as he can go. :)

After loading the car and heading home, we ended our night with some Thomas rides outside and playing with his new bulldozer. It sure was a nice night to play!

When I put Luke to bed we talked about our day and we both smiled! It's not often that we all three get to spend the WHOLE day together and it was a great day! :)

Enjoy the pictures of our family fun below....

This is Luke drinking some milk out of a grown up cup...

Here is Luke playing with Daddy's work hat and vest...

Here is our new fun trick...the dog is chasing the car...

Now....these are cute pictures. While we played outside, I checked the mailbox and I put the two magazines (a People and a Parenting) on the steps. Well, Luke went over, picked up the Parenting magazine and started "reading" by pointing to pictures and naming them. There's a super cute video of this at the bottom.