Lucas: Three Months

Lucas is three months old!!!

 

 

Unofficial weight: 14 lbs

 

At three months of age, Lucas has started rolling over from his tummy to his back.  As you can tell from the photos, he has definitely continued to work on adding to his thigh rolls, too :-D

 

But the MOST exciting milestone is that Lucas is sleeping through the night!!! Mommy is VERY happy about this milestone, especially since Noah was over two-years-old before he started consistently sleeping through the night :-)

 

 

 Noah had to jump in the photos, too  :-)

Ha! He was trying to make Lucas smile :-D

 

Lucas is definitely a long guy!

I guess Lucas wasn't really feeling the photos this month ;-)

 



 

 

***Thanks to Aunt CiCi for taking the pictures for us this month!

Christmas Carols with Noah

Noah's first Christmas performance

 

At least the kids have Jingle Bells down :-)

 

Noah does much better with solo performances ;-)

Christmas in Kauai (part 2) visiting Santa

MWR created "Candyland" at Shenanigans for the kids this year.  They had several activities including crafts, decorating sugar cookies, a s'more station, and a visit from Santa!

Noah the elf

 Decorating sugar cookies

Making a Christmas picture frame

"Santa selfies"

S'mores bar

Ely, Matt, John & Abby

 

Santa arrived on a fire truck and Noah ran right up to him and immediately started asking him for a forklift and garbage truck (every time he saw Santa he asked for the exact same two things!)

Lucas's first time visiting Santa, and he was not impressed!

I took him back later to try and get a better picture...at least he wasn't crying this time!

Noah loves Santa!

 

MWR also had a Christmas light decorating contest and one of the neighbors elicited Santa's help! Noah and Aunt CiCi ran across Santa and Mrs. Claus when they were riding around :-)

The MSO (Military Support Organization) also had a Christmas party for the kids at the playground, so Noah got to ask Santa one more time for a garbage truck and forklift :-D

Noah also got to play musical chairs for the first time. He didn't quite understand the concept of rushing to an empty chair when the music stopped, but he had a great time dancing around the chairs!

 

Ironically, Noah got second place! Every time the music stopped, the older kids would all fight over the same chair and all the spectators would tell Noah where the empty chairs were (since he would just stand there when everyone stopped moving) so he would eventually just walk right over to the empty chairs :-)  This happened every single time!

 

 

 

Christmas on Kauai (part 1)

There were several Christmas activities on the island this year that we got to attend!

 

The first activity was Noah's school Christmas program at Shenanigans. The base had a tree lighting ceremony and asked the CDC kids to sing a few Christmas carols before the ceremony began. The CDC did not spend very much time working on the songs with the kids beforehand, however, (I believe they started practicing two days before the ceremony) so the program was a bit crazy! Most of the kids didn't know all of the songs they were supposed to sing, including Noah, so they just stood around on the stage and goofed off.  It was pretty entertaining!

 

Mr. Cheeseball

The toddler and the Pre-K class combined

 Noah pretty much just stood around during all of the songs until the last song when he finally got to hold the microphone! However, once he got the microphone he didn't actually sing into it, he just waved it around! I will try and get the video uploaded later :-)

I don't know too many places where you can end your Christmas program by playing on the beach as the sunsets!

 

We also attended a couple of Christmas parades again this year

 

Lights on Rice

 

One of Noah's favorite floats

Lucas was very excited about his first parade...

Noah was very excited about his balloon on a stick!

The Navy float with the SEPTAR boat carrying Santa

 

 

MWR had several holiday activities this year, and one of the activities was a scavenger hunt for the  

Menehune Santa.  Each day they posted a clue for the location of the Menehune Santa, who was hidden somewhere on the base.  I had been reading the clues every day but none of them were really detailed enough to narrow down a place to look and since Ely was gone, I decided not to bother just randomly wandering the base (but there were still a ton of people searching all over the base around places they thought would be good hiding places).  However, the clue on day 5 mentioned something about "not all being as it seems" which made me think of the fake tanks near Majors Bay, so while Ely was out of town and Noah was at school, Lucas and I decided to head out and look for Santa.

 

Not to toot my own horn, but it turns out I'm a genius ;-) I found the Menehune Santa on my first attempt and won $300!

 I was pretty shocked that I actually found him!

 

 

 Noah's class went caroling to the assisted living facility and the hospital in Waimea :-) 

Luckily, this was a couple weeks after their Christmas program so the kids did a much better job singing! 

 

Christmas Cards (1st draft)

Heidi took some great photos of Lucas that I thought would be perfect for our Christmas card this year!

Unfortunately, I didn't have time for her to get a picture of Noah that would go with it, so we attempted to take one of Noah on our own...since we didn't have a lot of time once I finally decided to try and take Noah's picture, the lighting and backdrop were not up to Heidi's quality and as you all know I ended up going in a completely different direction with the Christmas cards.  But I thought you would all still like to see the pictures since Noah still looked cute :-)

Daddy trying to show Noah how it's done ;-)

(I think Noah actually requested that Daddy pose for a photo, too)

Kayaking with Aunt CiCi

During Sara's last visit, Ely & Noah took Aunt CiCi (Ely's sister Sara) kayaking on the Wailua River in an attempt to reach Secret Falls.

Unfortunately, it was too muddy for them to make the hike to Secret Falls, but they still got to enjoy the nice views as they kayaked down the river.  I also heard that Noah got to spend a lot of time skipping rocks :-)

Noah was very excited to help get the kayak set up



And they're off!!!

Everyone made it back in one piece!!! (although Noah is actually fast asleep in this picture, haha)

Army/Navy Game

This year for the Army/Navy game, the boys actually had proper Naval Academy gear thanks to Uncle John!

Mommy really wanted a picture of both boys together...

...but Lucas really wanted to eat and Noah really wanted to watch the TV

Eh, you win some, you lose some.



 Luckily, Navy won!

Much happier guy with a full tummy!