Sun?

You think you know your kids, but they are always changing.  With Luke, its hard to even know about those changes since he can’t tell me…”mom, I don’t like green beans”…instead we get them thrown at us..or on the floor (even better).  This idea carries over into every aspect of Luke.  I’m learning his “preferences” because of his responses, i.e. when getting home from school he screams at me and hits his shoes…until they are finally off (including socks) and then he is “off” down the hall and perfectly happy.

Well, Luke started to do something at the old house a couple weeks before we moved.  I’m not sure if he was trying to tell me something or if he was just being a silly little guy…like usual.  In Luke’s old room there wasn’t a lot of space, which meant that the options for where to place his bed were only 1.  So his bed was against the far wall , the bad part was that he could reach the window curtains.  So he would often look outside and see what was going on or stay up and play with them.

A few weeks before selling the house, I found a new site for several mornings in a row.  I would walk in to Luke’s room to get him up in the morning and I would find the window curtains pulled all the way back and Luke would be in his bed with a blanket over his head.  It was so funny! 

I’m guessing that Luke would play with the curtains for a while at night causing them to be pulled back…but when morning came and the sun decided to peek in…Luke would cover his head so he could keep sleeping.  Silly guy wanted to see outside at night…but not in the morning I guess!

Weeeeeee!

Luke’s sense of humor continues to amaze me, especially since it has been rubbing off on his little sister.  Yesterday we were on our way to grandma and grandpa’s house, which is in the country.  As I was driving a long our daughter would tell me everything she saw, but Luke was quiet.  Then I hit some hills, and it started a cycle with the kids.

Every time I went over a hill, our baby girl said “wweeee!!”  Which then led Luke to laugh and then of course our daughter had to laugh too.  It was a cycle that seemed never ending (they did this at least 10 times).  Soon I found myself laughing with them.  Who can resist such easy fun?

Later on the way home from the grandparents house, by which we went a different way, they began to laugh and our daughter would say “wweeee” when I turned corners, i.e. getting on the interstate.  I’m not sure I understand that one, but as long as they were happy…I was happy.

The latest NASCAR Track!

If anyone wants to buy tickets, I can get you great seats at a new NASCAR track.  It’s a unique location….our new house!!  What I love about the new house is all the space we have so that Luke and our baby girl can have plenty of space to walk and play.  We are finally getting rid of most of our boxes which allows Luke to use his walker in the house!!

We let him have his walker in the old house…but only for a short period of time since he needed someone to follow after him and help him when he got cornered or aggravated because he ran out of space.  Now, at the new house Luke can walk in most places on the first floor…which is so great! 

What has really made me laugh lately though is our daughter.  I think she likes the space even more than Luke!  One day I heard pounding feet and looked to find our daughter running in a large circle around the staircase and wall to the living room.  She also likes to play “peek-a-boo” with Luke.  So she runs  in circles and passes Luke saying “found you brother…found you”…..all while Luke laughs at his silly sister who is running by.

She does it so often now that I’ve decided it must be the latest NASCAR track!  So if anyone wants to cheer themselves up they can come on over and watch our daughter race in circles.  (video 7-27-12)

Can't Believe it!!!

He all!!  You have probably given up on me doing a blog ever again.  It has been so long..and we’ve been so busy!!  We sold our house and moved into the new one in late June…and we are finally to the point that we are “mostly” moved in.  There are still projects to be done…but we can take a breather once and a while.  So I will endeavor to begin writing my blog again.

Just to prove how crazy busy we have been, I have to share what happened just this weekend.  The kids have been to the grandparents on and off, along with all the doc appointments and doing things on the new house.  Anyway…Sunday morning as my husband was feeding Luke, he said “I think Luke lost a tooth”.  I couldn’t believe it….I said “no way”. 

But sure enough, when I looked close Luke lost a tooth on the front middle…and not only lost one…but one is growing back already!!!  Luke’s first permanent tooth and we have no idea where the baby tooth went.  I’m hoping he didn’t swallow it!! 

No matter how busy we are, I’m going to have to start paying closer attention!!

Doors!!??

So most of you know that Luke loves his doors.  Doesn’t matter the size or shape…no door is too small or big for him to “obsess” over.  Luke has to have the doors shut all the way….and can only be open when he’s playing with them…which consists of his constant open and shutting of them.

Well we are in the process of selling our house and buying a new one…which means we’ve had to take our a LOT of our toys to de-clutter the house.  Of course most of the toys with doors had to go.  Poor Luke has been so deprived of doors lately. I feel like he is constantly looking around, trying to find some doors he can play with.

I caught him in his sister’s room the other day and he was playing with the doors to her nursery for her babies!  He was so deprived of doors that he had to go to his sister’s room to find one!

Then, just this morning I was getting breakfast ready and kept calling for him to come and eat.  Of course, he didn’t come…so I went in search of him and found Luke in his room with the door shut.  What did I find him doing?  He was playing with the only “door” he could find in his room….the wipes container.  When I walked in, there was Luke laying on his back and holding the wipes container and opening and shutting the lid!! 

Poor…silly little guy!!  He got mad at me when I made him stop so we could go eat breakfast.  That wipes container really meant a lot to him!  

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!

What do you think you're doing?

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!