it's shower time

So I'm a little tardy, but I give myself a bit of grace these days:)

My sweet aunt and her daughters threw us a "welcome Joshua" shower a few weekends ago and it was wonderful! We got to show off both our sons to the whole family (which, for those of you that don't know, my mom is one of six daughters plus two sons so family gatherings are always chaotic, amazing and just the way I grew up)...a few photos from that day:

His two hostesses, who loved on him from the very second we walked in the door...aren't they gorgeous, btw...I can't believe that they're heading to and finishing college this year...makes me feel old:)

with his great grandmother...I treasure this!

And these ladies aren't really family...but they might as well be...I felt so honored that they came!

morning activity

Today was such a lovely morning, I felt like I should blog about our very ordinary, yet very wonderful day:)

My son Robert could be found in our TV room:
This photo is hilarious to me, let me explain: If you can tell, Robert doesn't have pants on because he's decided that he wants to only wear big kid pants from now on...no more diapers for Robert. So, to potty train we have placed beach towels in the rooms we play in to catch any possible accidents...as a result, Robert decided he wanted to protect our TV room's carpet in case Sabre decided to pee on it...he used almost all my dishtowels to protect the carpet from the dog:)

Reason number two that the morning was wonderful, Roberts actually using the potty...three times this morning in fact...and seems genuinely committed to the process...praise the Lord and we're running with it.

Reason number three:
my little man is a sleeping champ! You'll notice that he isn't swaddled and those of you who have young ones are probably saying...WHAT!! no swaddle!! Well let me just explain that my boys hate swaddling...and push against it form day one...we managed to keep Robert swaddled for a bit longer, thanks to the "summer swaddle" technique, but still found our son like this more often than not:

so while we may be the only parents on the planet not swaddling at three weeks...I'm ok with the fact that Joshua is already exhibiting typical Luck boy behavior:)

Three weeks in:)

Things are starting to calm down in the Luck household made ever easier by the dinners being provided by our friends...its amazing how much less stressed you are when you don't have to plan dinner while also playing trains with a two year old and feeding an infant!

Robert has become, for the most part, my big helper, most often when we run errands, like at the grocery store:

Now he asks to push the little cart all by himself at all the grocery stores...too bad Kroger hasn't jumped on the little cart bandwagon yet.

He has also fallen into the pretend play phase, which is awesome most of the time and exhausting the rest of the time...thank goodness for grandparents who are willing to play train and ride on it for hours...thanks mom:)
When we aren't playing train, he's playing his "new banjo" and obsession dating back to our visit to charleston earlier this summer...my amazing husband convinced our son that this was his banjo:
and so he plays it...constantly...singing the same song at the top of his lungs:) God love him.

And Joshua, well at this point he is content to eat, sleep and look so very handsome all the time...he's such an easy wonderful baby so far, we feel so blessed.

family resemblance??

So lots of people ask who Joshua looks like, and we have a good idea...you be the judge:

little Robert:
and Joshua:



keep in mind that the photos of Robert are from two weeks old while the ones from our Joshua are only a few days...that should explain how shocked and surprised we were to have an eight pound baby after my little Robert!

one week in...going strong, sort of.

One week in to life with two and although having a newborn is tough and draining physically, my sweet toddler is the one turning the house upside down...in many ways we are a bit shocked because really...he's a great kid, but at the same time, we prepared ourselves for meltdown central for a few weeks. He has his moments though, reminding us how wonderful he is...primarily when there is a grandparent here to play with him:

and he can be outside with his trucks and lawnmower..I swear if there were one toy that you couldn't pay me to give away, it would be this one:

Our littlest man has been growing and sleeping and eating like a champ...I had forgotten how much babies change in just one week, but he is wonderful and easy and we couldn't ask for a more content newborn:

We have very few delivery room photos because well, there wasn't time to grab the camera and I'm not a fan of post-birth photos of myself...but here's our guy a few hours old:

and now one week in:

There are few things that warm my heart more than the following two photos:

life in the Luck household is a blessed one....

welcome to the world little brother:)

We were caught off guard when our second son decided to make an early appearance into the world late thursday night/friday morning!

Our family of three is overjoyed to introduce Joshua Dennis to each of you:

Born 2:34am, weighing in at 8 pounds 1 ounce and 21.5 inches long:)






More photos to come...thanks for all the wonderful thoughts and love:)

charleston

For our second beach vacation of the summer we traveled to Charleston, SC to spend the week with my parents and see my dear friend Owen get married. We joke that he was the only boy at my kindergarten birthday party, but that explains the length and depth of our friendship...I couldn't be more thrilled for him and his beautiful new wife.

My son was in seventh heaven with his papa and grandma, while Robert and I loved being able to head into downtown Charleston for a date night at a fabulous, amazing restaurant.

My dad loved matching with his favorite little guy at the rehearsal, and my son developed an obsession with bluegrass and more specifically the banjo:

Robert and his daddy went hunting for alligators at the reception:

Since it was a south carolina summer wedding, the men all wore seersucker...my son loved posing like his dad and papa:
Let's not forget our beach time too...we had some awesome time early in the mornings and then, my favorite time at the beach, post 5pm...Robert enjoyed the coolest fort on the beach shown here before it was attacked by several young children all hoping to play in his special fort built by dad: