Is that laughter I hear?

I know I have mentioned Luke’s sense of humor several times in the past, but once again he just cracked me up the other day.  He has been sick…again..so he’s been home a lot lately.  I wonder if being home so much…he got bored….or what happened.  Either way, Luke found something new and funny.

I was in the kitchen cleaning and I hear laugher.  (You know, one day I hope to have a kitchen that opens up to the living room, so I don’t have to always leave the kitchen just to find out what the kids are up to).  Anyway, I go in the living room and I hear a “thump” followed by a laugh.  I look to the recliner and there is Luke up on his knees playing with several toys, but then Luke lifts his arms high and drops them down to the recliner fast, “thump”!  Luke then laughs, because the result of his hitting the recliner is that all the small toys jumped up in the air!  He continued to do this for a good 10 minutes.  I tried capturing it on video, though he stopped laughing once I broke out the camera…he didn't stop hitting the recliner.  

                                                                             

Smart Little Guy!

First, for those of you who usually read by blog weekly…I apologize for slacking the last couple weeks.  Luke has been really sick and on top of that my husband has given me a long “honey do” list for the house.  I’m sure all moms/wives out there can relate!  Despite the list, that will take me months (literally) to finish, I will do my best to keep you all updates with the funny things our Luke is up to.

Just two days ago my mother, so Luke’s grandma, was over while she waited on grandpa to visit someone.  Anyway, the kids flocked right to her when they got up from their naps.  They don’t see this grandma very often since they live further away than their other grandparents, so I was surprised but pleased that they both wanted to play with grandma.

Anyway, I was in the kitchen getting supper ready when I hear laughter…so I went to investigate.  (For my “loyal” readers…do you see a pattern here?  They always do something crazy when I’m not in the room.)  Anyway, I turn the corner and I see grandma in the recliner and Luke and our baby girl are sandwiched between the recliner and the wall.  At first I thought they were just having fun in a new unexplored area, since we usually have two gates stored where they were at the time and have never been back behind the recliner before.  But…then grandma said “Oh…Oh…No” and reached over to grab her mug that held water.  I then saw Luke’s little hand extended out, like he was just getting ready to get the mug when grandma caught him.

I found this very funny and also great because grandma placed the mug towards the back of the end table so that the kids couldn’t reach it from the front.  So Luke didn’t take long to figure out that there was a cool mug on the table and if he wanted it, he had to find his own way to get to it.  And he did!

I’m very proud of his thinking skills, which seem to get better day after day…and I still find Luke quite the funny little guy.

New home for garbage can

Well, I didn’t do the duct tape idea.  Instead I tried to think of a way I could still easily use the garbage can, yet keep it out of Luke’s way.  So I looked around our kitchen, and our cabinets are too small to put a garbage can under the sink, like I know many people do.  It took me a while but I realized we had the perfect spot, on the small landing that is located at the top of the stairs to our basement.  The landing is basically part of the kitchen area, so it isn’t too far out of the way and we don’t have to keep our garbage outside…which this time of year would be just too cold, even in the garage.

So I put our garbage can on the small landing, only the second day I did this Luke decided to reach over the gate, located at the top of the stairs which leads to the landing, and pushed the lid open!  I couldn’t believe it!  So now the garbage can is on the landing but over just enough and at just the right angle that I hope will work. 

I forgot until writing this today that I caught Luke on video opening the garbage can and putting his toys in, so I’ll share that with you today.  He is so organized about it, that I can’t help but laugh.

Will the perfect trash can ever be found?

Have you ever wondered if there could be a perfect trash can?  I’ve been thinking on this a lot lately.  No…I’m not obsessed with trash cans.  But once again I find myself trying to come up with something that won’t be penetrated by my very clever 4 year old. 

At first I had to buy a new trash can because Luke had learned to lift the lid of our old one.  So we replaced the old one with a new trash can that has a button on the top that then releases the lid.  Well this worked for about a year, then Luke figured out how to push the button on top so that the lid would release.  So then I tried turning the trash can around so he couldn’t reach the button.  That has worked until this last week when Luke decided that turning around the trash can wouldn’t stop him!

Luke has learned to simply turn the trash can around and then press the button in order to open the lid.  Then he quickly throws a toy or his juice into the can and then shuts the lid quickly.  Amazingly he doesn’t this very quick, so quick that it took me a couple time to figure out that I didn’t leave the lid open myself. 

Silly guy!  So now I am trying to think of some way around this new predicament.  My husband says to simply put duct tape over the lid and side….maybe we’ll try that.  A quick fix…for now.

What's that?

So we all know Luke has an interesting sense of humor.  Well the other day my husband was playing with some of his new “toys”.  I got him some mini flashlights that were on sale at the Bass Pro Shop the day about Thanksgiving.  My husband was bundling up to go outside and had one of these flashlights in the palm of his hand.   I had my back turned to the kitchen and was microwaving some things, when I heard Luke laugh.  I turned and saw Luke sitting on the kitchen floor, looking towards the door to the garage and he was quiet.  Then he laughed again when a beam of light hit his face.  I then looked to the door and saw my husband standing there pointing the flashlight at Luke.  He continued to tease Luke by turning the light on and off.  Which Luke found to be hilarious.  Silly guys!  I tried getting some of this on video, of course Luke doesn’t always “perform on command”.

Oh My!

Speaking as the youngest of four, I know that siblings can be really fun or really obnoxious.  I love them all, but being the youngest I often was picked on, hung upside down and chased around so much that it became quite normal for me to be picked on.  I’m trying to keep this in mind now as I am encountering sibling relationships at a different angle.  I watch Luke and our baby girl get along great when they are hiding things around the house.  I also see them scream/cry at each other when the other takes something or does something the other doesn’t like.

A great example of this happened just today.  I was getting lunch ready when our baby girl came in the kitchen, I told her to get in her chair.  (She is about to crawl up and put herself in her booster seat, which is so great).  I went back to putting the finishing touches on lunch when I hear our girl scream/cry and I look and she is trying to push Luke away.  So I went over and told Luke to leave her alone, and even moved him to the opposite side of the kitchen.  I went back to getting lunch ready and I hear another scream/cry, and I look…and there she is trying to push Luke away again!  I think Luke was being a big brother and either trying to bully away her chair or try to help her up….which she didn’t want.  Finally, I just grabbed our baby girl and put her in her chair…then Luke started his scream/cry…so I put him in his chair too.  It was finally quiet and I was able to finish cutting up the chicken for lunch. 

But one of the funniest things I’ve seen happen between the two kids happened about a week ago.  I had given our baby girl a small bowl with Club mini crackers earlier in the day.  Usually she does fine and keeps the crackers to herself or sometimes she’ll even hand one at a time to Luke in order to share them.  Which is really sweet to watch by the way…except when Luke decides to throw the cracker after it has been given to him.

Anyway, on this particular day, I come in the living room and check on the kids and what do I find?  They are laughing, like they like to do…only when I focused in on what was happening, I had to laugh too.  Our baby girl was giving her brother crackers, only instead of handing them over she was putting them down the back of his shirt!  I was so funny.  I had to put a stop to it though.  When I changed Luke’s diaper later before his nap, guess what I found?  Yep…a mini cracker!  Silly kids!

Sweet Music

So our little guy just turned 4 years old.  I can hardly believe it!  One of his gifts was an electric drum.  Luke decided to rock out right away.  He pushed the pre-music rock button and started hitting the drums.  Our little girl decided to jump right in and play with him.  Thankfully there are two drum sticks so I could give both kids one so we didn’t fight over them. 

Luke’s always loved music…who knows maybe he’ll be in a rock band one day!