Easter zoo

Luke and mommy have been very busy lately.  On Tuesdays we have swimming lessons at 9. Classes last till 9:30, but they say we can stay and play however long we want.  So we stay and play around.  Then we go to Babytalk at 10:30.  It lasts till 11:00.  On Thursdays we go to Kindermuik which Luke loves.  It starts at 9:30 and goes till 10:15 or so.  And then the rest of the week, we grocery shop sometimes, go out to eat, or whatever else I can think of to do. 

Luke's first swimming class was this Tuesday.  To say he loved it is an understatement.  He is not the least bit scared of the water.  He took to it like a duck.  He will even stand on the edge of the pool and jump to me.  On one hand this is good, on the other it is bad because of the pool we have in our backyard.  He will have lots of fun this summer swimming and mommy will be worried about him because he is not scared at all.  He is just going to have to live in his life jacket for the summer! 

He is very active and into EVERYTHING these days!  He doesn't sit still unless he's asleep.  He pushes his CAT truck around the house a thousand times a day.  He can walk by himself, but at this point he wants to either crawl or push his truck.  He's so funny walking though because he holds his arms straight out and looks like a little zombie.  All the kids in his kindermusik class can walk and I think he wants to walk but just isn't so sure about it yet.  I'm sure one day he will just take off.  He is going to be quite the climber too. 

Over the Easter weekend, we went to a free Easter egg hunt at the zoo.  To say it was a zoo is an understatement.  Some of the "finer" people in Decatur ran around the 0-5 year old section dragging their kids practically pulling their arm out of the socket just to try and find eggs that rattled to get a free Easter basket.  Luke found one, sat down and started chewing on it.  Good enough for me.

Waiting to hunt for eggs

Love his little face

All denim lady was the one I was talking of earlier

Got an egg!

  The zoo was free that day too (I've decided I would rather pay and avoid all of the annoying people)  Luke rode the carousal.  I don't know he knew what to think of it.  He rode the cheetah

He loved to look at the animals.  I would point them out and he would look at them.  But he really liked the petting zoo.  There were goats running all over the place.  He was very interested in figuring out what these things were.  There were two baby goats and they were hiding (for good reason).  He did pet them.  The girl in the picture was going to just take his hand and take him away.  It was funny.

We also rode on the train which he just sat and looked around. 

On Sunday, the Easter bunny came and left some eggs in the yard and an Easter basket full of fun stuff.  He got a lawn mower, some Sesame Street books, an Elmo sippy cup, a big Easter bunny (which he wanted really bad when I put it in the cart, but didn't really care about it when he got it) and a popper pushing thing.  He liked hunting Easter eggs.  He walked around and picked them up.  He was very good at spotting them in the yard.  He even crawled in the grass, which if you've seen my other blogs, you know he's not fond of grass.  So we had a really good Easter.  I can't believe that in less than a month he is going to be a year old, which reminds me I need to get invitations out. 

Just a couple of days ago he really started saying "mama." And now he says it ALL THE TIME!  He walks around, pushing his truck just saying mamamamamamamama.  So cute!  He says random words like all gone Sunday when he was sitting in bed with us.  I have no clue what was all gone, but he sure said all gone.  He says "dada" too.  We're working on Elmo, and Ball.

Well my cheese sticks are here so I'm going to go eat.  They are not on our diet, but Joe and I have been sick this week and haven't worked out (yet I've lost 2 pounds and ate crappy....)