Luke in St. Louis

Luke has been in St. Louis for the past two weeks, making memories with Grandma and Grandpa Siorek. Daddy is bringing him home today. Here are a ton of photos from his trip of some of the fun things he did.

The weather in St. Louis was great, so Luke got to spend
time outside playing in the dirt.

Sometimes he painted outside, too.

When it was warm enough, he went swimming.

He tended to pumpkins.

He slept in a biiiig bed.

Sometimes with Miss Kitty.

And he ate.

He played with Uncle Andy's dog, Perry.

And loved spending time with Uncle Mark.

Bowling was a big hit. We'll have to try that one in Portland this winter.

We'll need some indoor activities.

And he even wore a baseball hat, something he refuses to do at home.

One day, Luke and Grandpa took a train ride, just for fun.

He also played the electric guitar.

Slugger

Luke suddenly got pretty good at hitting a totball from the tee. Call in the scouts!

Busy Labor Day Weekend

September in Oregon this year has been great so far. We got a nice stretch of the hot, sunny weather we were missing in the early part of the summer.

On the Friday of Labor Day weekend Luke was off of pre-school, so we hung out in Lake Oswego for an hour before going to get his haircut in West Linn. The town of Lake Oswego is beautiful and dotted with sculptures. Luke had a great time finding and exploring the sculptures.

Then on Saturday we went to a vintage British race car show at the Portland International Raceway. It was great! Luke loved the races, even though it was super loud and he made us put our hands over his ears.

So many beautiful cars on display.

We spent at least an hour watching slot car races. Huge hit. I was glad Luke did not want to try this year. He would have gotten too frustrated and cried.

Hanging out by the starting line, watching the cars line up for the slalom.

Then on Sunday we went to a birthday party in a park.
Luke's friend Henry from day care was having a pirate party!

Waiting for turns to hit the pinata.

Summer of 2011

Here are some random summer pics I have been too busy to post.

We've gone to Wilson Pool a couple of times this summer.
Here is Luke lounging poolside with some popcorn.

A hot day, hot boy

A sleepy morning. Woke up early and fell asleep again

on the couch with his "best friend" Ro-ro.

Luke built this track all by himself without any help from mom and dad!

Stamps! A just-because present from Grandma Siorek.

Pickathon 2011

This Saturday we went to Pickathon, an annual Portland music festival on Pendarvis Farm. It's a three-day festival with camping and six music stages, food, drink, and lots of fields and woods to run around in. I can't believe we have lived here for 6 years and have never gone before! It was so much fun and next year we hope to go again and this time go camping.

These first two pics were taken while we were waiting for a puppet show to start.

My favorite stage was the Woods stage.
It's a beautiful, magical music venue set up in the woods.
Here is a concert going on.

And here we are set up on a blanket in the woods listening to the concert.

There are lots of kids activities, too. Here we are waiting in the line for face painting.

And after. Luke decided he wanted a snake on is arm.

Luke and Daddy. Luke was pretty wiped out by this point.

Happy boy with snake tattoo.