Santa!

So, I’m not a huge one for the whole “Santa” thing and didn’t really think about taking the kids to see him, but one day my husband comes home and says “we have to take the kids to see Santa!”  I have to admit, I was a little shocked by this.  So I asked him “why would we do that?”  Then he told me where we would take the kids to see Santa, at the new Bass Pro Shop!  Yep…the Bass Pro Shop was going to have Santa and we just had to take the kids!

So the day came and we took the kids to see Santa.  We were walking along the line to see Santa so that we could get in line at the end.  Luke was in his walker and we were going along just fine when my husband says “help your son”.  I look down and Luke is standing there and his pants are around his ankles!  Yikes!!  The lady by us that was standing in line said something about him streaking….boy was I thinking I was the worst mom ever! 

Turns out that the inside adjustable waist button came undone…so the pants just dropped!  I’m glad that Luke is too young to remember the embarrassment of the whole thing.  The good part was that the kids both didn’t scream at Santa and sat nicely for a picture.

Silly Daddy!

I know I usually talk about how silly Luke is…well sometimes I think I’m pretty silly myself.  Although the other night I couldn’t help but think “silly daddy”. 

My husband and I were doing baths.  As usual we split the job, I washed Luke and handed him over to daddy.  Then I washed our baby girl and finished getting her ready for bed.  By the time I finished with our baby girl and we went in to Luke’s room so we could pray together before going to bed, I found an “interesting scene”. 

Before entering the room I heard Luke’s laughter along with my husbands, but I figured Luke was being his normal silly self and trying to bounce up and down or something.  Although when I actually got to look at what was going on, I found something I’d never seen before.  Luke was laying down and then sat up, but once he did and his daddy put his hand out…he fell back and laughed.  When looking at the scene at first I thought my husband was pushing Luke back down with his hand, but actually Luke felt his hand and fell back on his own.  It was pretty funny.

I managed to catch this on video.  

Silly Girl!

Today I have to talk about our baby girl.  She has been doing some of the silliest things lately.  The other day was pretty funny, so I have to share it.  We were all in the kitchen, and all of a sudden our baby girl decided to sit on the floor and use her feet to move herself in a circle…all while keeping her “behind” in the same position.  It was so cute and funny!

Of course I tried to get this little “act” on video and she didn’t want to perform for me…although I caught her starting to do it!

Light

Have you ever stopped to think about names and why you might have the name you have?  When you chose names for your kids, what led you to pick that certain name?  Do you ever think about how a person’s name seems to reflect their personalities? 

When my husband and I picked out our kids names, we didn’t look at the “meanings” of them.  Instead we went through lists of names we liked and found a common ground.  When we decided on Luke for our son’s name I remember my husband and I talking about it on the way home from church (about a 25 minute drive).  By the time we got home we were in agreement.  My husband liked “Luke” because at the time he was watching all the reruns of the “Dukes of Hazard”.  I liked the name “Luke” because of the Biblical connection and that on my side of the family we have a Mark and Jon, so why not Luke too?

Our daughter took longer to name.  We debated back and forth for a while.  I liked the name Leah, but my husband was afraid that it would be too close to Lea, like Luke and Lea from Star Wars.  Then my husband liked the name Daisy, and I was not going to do that to our baby girl.  So then we looked through a baby name book for ideas.  Finally we agreed on Faith for a name. 

A few months ago my husband and I were looking around a bookstore and I saw a book of “name cards”.  You know the ones that say the name of the person and underneath it has the meaning?  I was curious so I looked up “Luke”, and there is was….Luke means “light”.   Wow…I didn’t know that and remember thinking at the time how true it is.  Luke is a light for sure.  His personality and smiles light up a room.  It amazes me how our names seem to “fit” us so easily.  

I'm a big boy!

Luke decided to surprise me the other day with a “big boy” act.  I went in to get him up for school and there he was, looking at me so innocent.  Luke had one arm out of his shirt while the rest of him was still in it.  This was the first time Luke has gotten himself out of his shirt…even a little bit. 

When I saw him I said “wow, look at you!” and Luke just looked at me and smiled real big like he was just the greatest thing ever! 

About a week later he did it again and one morning I went in to find Luke’s pants off!  He hasn’t done any of this consistently.  Still it is a great sign that he is figuring some things out and is getting to be a “big boy”.

Creativity

Some kids struggle to find creativity while others have a wild imagination.  I’m not sure yet what Luke has, but I do know that he gets pretty creative at times.  Sometimes he is simply hiding his toys in new  places and other times he comes up with new ways to get something.

The other day I was in the kitchen and heard Luke laugh…at first I ignored it…then he laughed again.  I couldn’t ignore it anymore, I had to know what he thought was so funny.  I walked into the living room and saw what it was.  Luke was sitting behind the recliner and throwing his toys up and over the chair…the result was that the toys were all sitting in the seat of the recliner.  Luke definitely found a new creative way to get his toys where he wanted them.

I tried to get this on video, you can see what I am talking about….but Luke also didn’t “perform on command”, in that he started “missing” his “target” and started to get upset about that.  So his creative activity was funny when he did it right and frustrating when it turned out wrong.