While Dad's Gone

Well I came on here tonight to give you all an update in the life of Ted in Peru but I see that he already did yesterday. Woohoo! Saves me time.

So um... that leaves our post with a little update in the life of Erin and baby Lucas. Um... is pretty same ol' same ol'... except without the help of Dad.

Our goals continue to be to get me to work and Lucas to auntie Mallory's on time and in one piece. So far so good. Grandma and Grandpa Sibley (Dave & Nancy) came over on Saturday to play with Lucas while I returned to work at Uline for the day. Saturday night we went out for Valentine's day to Taco Bell: the most romantic place ever. It was to me anyway!! Free dinner and the ability to use my right hand to hold my fork instead of feeding Lucas with one hand and myself with the other at the same time.

Sunday I decided to drive out to Maple Grove to visit our old church (where Grandma and Grandpa are currently attending). We got to see some old familiar faces. It's hard to think that the babies we used to take care in the nursery are now in elementary school and our junior high kids are in college!! I AM OLD.

Lucas hung out and Grandma and Grandpas for a bit of the afternoon and I ran some errands. We hung out here last night. This morning we met another FANA family, the Como's at Rosedale for some play date time.



This was at Caribou at the mall where all of the kiddies were kind enough to pose. Ana is almost 2 (she's almost exactly a year older than Lucas so she's a good barometer of development). Joshua is.... Spiderman... and Solomon is a very mature and helpful big brother himself.

Everybody also wanted to be extra helpful with feeding Lucas' his Cheerios so he didn't get bored... this made me giggle :-)



All of that playing tired us out.



Since we've been sending Daddy pictures every night in an e-mail, I will leave you with a few of our random acts of craziness while we're home alone.





Lucas provokes the snake....



the snake fights back....



Wow that snake isn't letting go!!



It is clear that snaked picked the WRONG baby to mess with. Lucas secures his place as King of the Jungle Nursery. All of the monkeys, frogs, and random giant crab cheered in amazement!!!



Perhaps its clear I've been alone too long already!!!

Never fear, Grandma Holl will be arriving later this week :-)