Quick Trip

We just got back from a long weekend trip to Indiana so I wanted to post a few pics quickly. We wanted to pack a lot into a short time so we flew part of the way there, Luke's first time in an airplane! He did great on the way up, just nursed and slept the whole way, and soon we were there with Mimi and Pawpaw waiting to pick us up!

The trip was really good timing, it just happened to be the weekend of the MCC sale so we caught up with a lot of friends there. We also ate a lot of really good food there. Several of the local churches had food booths there with foods from different countries! And of course there was Greg's favorite, Apple fritters!

Luke really likes playing with real things, no more toys for this boy! Below are Kevin, Jen and Kevin's mom. Greg is hidden behind Kevin I think and Kevin's mom's partner was there too. Kevin and Jen had driven up for a wedding that afternoon so getting to see them was a big bonus!

The main reason for the trip was the wedding of two good friends, Andrea and Zac. They had a beautiful and very intimate ceremony at a Japanese garden. There were about ten chairs for grandparents and others who needed them and everyone else either stood or sat on rocks or grass.

Afterwards there was a meal at a little cabin on the river a short distance away and then the happy couple was off!

Luke had a lot of fun playing with cousins, aunts and uncles and of course Mimi and Pawpaw. Unfortunately he is getting into the stranger danger stage a little bit and about half way through our visit his gums started bothering him pretty bad so that made him even more of a mama's boy. Mimi was ready though with Biter Biscuits! He really enjoyed them and got really messy!

When he was done gnawing on them we decided the best way to clean up would be a bath! Anna and Isaac had a lot of fun helping him with all the toys and showing him how he should be playing with them, not eating them!

Then it was their turn...
On the way home Luke didn't do quite as well on the plane, due to the teething mostly I think, but we did meet the power lifting team from India as we were going through security! They were just going home after the world competition. Unfortunately no pic to prove it, but there were at least ten very large guys in sports coats that had an emblem on the front and the words "POWER LIFTING" and "INDIA" on them. (-: They seemed to enjoy Luke and were trying to tell him to go into power lifting!
Safe and sound back at home Luke is still very clingy. I spent most of the day today at my mom's making apple sauce. Luke was really happy when we got there so I set him down in the middle of the living room with a basket of toys and walked a few feet away to sit on the couch. He started fussing and crawled over to me to be picked up again so I brought the toys over close to the couch and set him down at my feet. He was ok there but he had one hand holding onto my pant leg while his other one picked up toys to look at. After a few minutes he forgot to hold on but still didn't want me to go very far. I think his mouth is still hurting him, no teeth have broken through yet so I'm hoping it happens soon and we can be done with this for a while again.

I took a very sweet video of Luke playing with a toy my sister made on our trip home but I'll post that next time. It's late and I'm exhausted!