Samson gets a trim

Lucas has taken to fussing with his ears lately, due to his long curls tickling them. Last night he seemed more aggravated than usual with his hair, so we took a deep breath and gave him his first 'real' haircut.

He suddenly seems 5 years older, and doesn't look like a little baby anymore...sigh...we took a few pictures, although he kept trying to mug for the camera (which makes it hard to get profile shots)!

The Birthday Party

My goodness, but everyone had such a good time yesterday! Lucas (and Mommy and Daddy) hosted the second annual Lucas-palooza at our house, and we had a lot of people over for fun and bouncing.

Lucas feels that the party was a great success, and we had a gorgeous day for celebrating! The pool was cool and refreshing, the food was bountiful and tasty, and the blow-up bouncer was a smash hit (with the grownups as well as the kids)!

As always, we took a slew of pictures, and a couple of short video clips (here and here).

Thanks to everyone who could make it here, and special thanks to Mom Hudgins for helping to set up the bash!

And the first word is...

So there we were, using our time at a traffic light to admire a dump truck and line of school buses. Lucas used his patented "point n' grunt" technique to have me identify the vehicles, which (like a well-trained daddy) I dutifully did.

As the buses began to cross in front of us, I decided we would count them all. Lucas began pointing at the dump truck while I continued to count buses.

After frantic pointing and grunting, he opened his mouth and shrieked (as only an exasperated 23-month-old boy can), "DUM TRUCK!"

Okay, who had their money on 'Dum Truck' for his first word(s)? Yeah, me neither.

Believe me when I say that we're relieved the winner wasn't "No", "Dammit", or "Poop".