Little of both

It was a busy weekend at the Ward's. Lukas came for his first visit to Grandma and Grandpa's. Here he is toasty and warm in his car seat.

It was Valentine weekend and even though he was sound asleep Grandpa had a present for him. He will have to grow into it but both mom and dad loved it. Remember we are preparing for the 2034 Tour de' France.


Aunt Sarah said she saw these and just could not resist. As long as Lukas was sleeping he didn't seem to mind. She tried them on later when he was awake and I am not sure he was that fond of them!! Aunt Ann Hahn was holding him and took care of the hand signs for him.

Here is Lukas in what Jesse and Amy call his grandpa Dave shirt. That is because ,as we all know Dave doesn't wear anything but polo shirts and they have to be striped. I am styling now aren't I grandpa!!!

Mom decided it was tummy time and so she and Aunt Sarah put me down on the floor. As you can see it was not my favorite thing right then. You would think they would have some compassion........

But NOOOOOOO, instead they mocked me!! The whole time grandma was trying to rescue me.

I was much happier being held and fed. This was also the day that I broke in both Grandma and Grandpa. Which one do you think handled it better??? I will tell you that everyone and I do mean everyone was brought to tears, they were laughing so hard when it happened to Grandpa!!! All in all it was a great visit. Grandma tried to steal me but dad and mom insisted that I be returned.

Now for a little owl update.
Monday I was out doing some owl hunting. I walked the driveway and looked in the woods around the east side of the house. I sort of pride myself in being able to spot them in the trees, even though they are hard to see. I saw no sign of them. Then I was at the kitchen window a few minutes later and spotted Hootie in the tree near the box. Can you see it?? Just a little above the middle of the shot sitting near the tunk of the tree.

Zoom in a little closer...now can you see it?

OK ,so if you can't see it now!?!?! you would never spot it in the yard.

I could zoom it more but I am pretty sure you can see Hootie now. I was standing in the same spot for all the pictures so you could get a sense of where they are. Dave and I are a little bummed because we are now sure we can not get to the box to fix the camera. When I took the pictures she was in a tree about 20 feet from the box and just above it. I suggested that Dave could wear his bike helmet, and a lot of padding and still make an effort to fix the camera, but he declined. So it looks like I will just have to watch the box more closely from the outside.

This morning when Dave was leaving for work both Hootie and Blowfish were " monkey chattering " just outside the garage. It sounds just like what you would hear in a old Tarzan movie. This is definitely mating season. I am a little better at the tecno stuff now so even though I don't have the camera in the box I do have a lot of video and pictures from the past that I will try to fill in with this year.