He knows I'm taking his picture now

As you can see my his smile and pose, he knows what I'm doing. Silly boy!

"Look where I put the football mama!"

"Touch down!"

Great smiles!

How can you not love these faces?!?

And Lucas' silly smirk. 

Pancakes

Lucas's favorite food is pancakes and we enjoy our weekend big boy breakfasts. Today the boys sat at the counter to eat and Lucas was soaking it up, as you can see. 

Hard worker

I'm not positive but I'm 99% sure Lucas told me the other night that he'd finish my dissertation for me. He looks ready to go. 

Conference

Nathan and Lucas joined me in Chicago for a couple days of my annual conference. Besides the time change and early mornings we had fun. While I didn't get pictures of it, we had a great pizza lunch catching up with the newly married Katie and Ted Berger and I had a great dinner with the other new Chicago resident, Tera. 

My conference planning colleagues were so great with Lucas. They made him a name tag, let him check out the materials, and taught him to say touch down. 

We all got a cold and the boys were fighting it off with going to bed early so I snuck a shot when I got back to the room. So cute!

Trick treat

Halloween round II. Lucas went trick or treating with the Gentry's and Heuser's around the Heuser's neighborhood. It rained pretty good while we were out, but the little tiger had fun! Unlike earlier in the week, he was pretty into it tonight 

With Deb before leaving day care

We tried to get a picture of all four of the kids. Not really possible. Did get Lucas with a princess. 

Lucas got pretty good at saying trick treat. And said thank you after leaving every house. Such a sweet boy!

Also by the time he was on the porch he would have candy out of his bucket ready to put it in the peoples' candy bowl. He loved taking things in and out of his bucket. His treat when he got back was the Cheetos. Maybe because it was the biggest. 

And the whole crew.  This is really the best anyone could hope to do with a camera with these four.