Little Pitcher

You all may remember how much our Luke loves to throw things.  Doesn’t matter if it is a ball or a car, if it gets in his hands…at some point in his play it will more than likely wind up getting thrown against the wall or over a chair somewhere.  Well my husband likes to play “ball” with Luke and our little girl.  We’ve trained our daughter to “fetch” so that when Luke throws she goes after the ball.  It works out pretty good that way.

The other night we went through the usual routine: bath time with mommy washing and daddy drying, followed by daddy getting Luke ready for bed while mommy gets our little girl ready.  I was blow drying our girls hair and I heard laugher, when I looked daddy and Luke was throwing a ball back and forth.  Luke was in his bed ready and waiting for mommy and sister so we could pray before bedtime.  While waiting my husband decided to get a ball and “play” with his son.

So when I finished drying our girl’s hair, she ran into brother’s room to join the fun.  By the time I got everything put away and joined the “fun” I couldn’t help but laugh.  There was Luke throwing the ball right on target to daddy and then daddy gave the ball to our girl and she climbed up the steps and gave the ball to Luke with the instructions to “throw brober throw”.  Like Luke really needs help knowing he should throw a ball.

I grabbed the camera and was able to catch part of the fun!

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I tell ya….I’m so glad that Luke is getting stronger each day.  But, there’s always a “mixed blessing” when it comes to Luke and his “new tricks”.  Most kids learn to walk, talk, get into things all in the first few years.  I’m learning that with Luke all those things are drawn out, so each time he learns or is able to do something new…there he is getting into something else and we have to find a way to “block” his efforts.  Like with the whole bed thing, finding a perfect solution for him so he could use this new bed took a while.  Then, when he learned to cruise furniture we had a whole new range of things we needed to put “up”.

Well, Luke has learned something “new”.  I was getting ready the other day in the bathroom.  I got to the point where I was trying to do my makeup and here comes Luke.  I figured he would just come in the bathroom and play with the door while I stood at the sink.  No…Luke has something else on his mind. 

Instead Luke came in the bathroom and shut the door.  There I was putting on my makeup and all of a sudden I felt something on my elbow.  I look over and there is Luke standing up at the sink!  Well before I could really process this, the lights went out!  No….the power didn’t go off…Luke got the light switches!  I was so proud of him, but I told him to “knock it off, mommy needs to see”.  Did that stop him?  No…of course not…he continued to turn the lights on and off….it was a good thing that this particular day I wasn’t in a hurry.  It took a long time to get my make-up on with the lights going on and off the whole time!

This was a couple weeks back, but Luke continues to do this.  I’ve had to “kick him out” of the bathroom a few times because I didn’t have time to let him turn the lights on and off while I was trying to get ready.  After all….its really dark when the door is shut and there are no lights….or windows for that matter!