This week Luke got a new backpack. It also has a leash on it, but right now we're just using it as a backpack. He looks like such a big boy with it on! Marinda could hardly handle walking him to school, holding his hand with his big stuffed dog's head poking out of his backpack... she thought he had a couple more years before that moment!
Luke's new pastime is expanding his horizons, reaching for new heights - and climbing onto the rocking chair in the nursery. He'll climb up with a book and just laugh and laugh. He had a friend over during the week and he sat up there laughing with him (we're hoping with and not at) while he was looking down at his friend from his perch. He thinks he is SUCH a big boy to sit in a chair like Mommy and Daddy!
Luke is getting a lot more used to daycare. When Amit went to pick him up this past week he smiled and just sat there eating his snack. Amit had to lift him up to get him to go. And now when we drop him off he wants to get in the classroom. He still cries when we leave, but at least he's getting used to his new teachers and friends.
Marinda found some board puzzles with missing pieces and decided to turn the pieces she did have into magnets for Luke to play with. Oh yeah, who's the best mommy ever? Luke loves taking the magnets off of the fridge, and carries them around and chews on them. So he doesn't fully understand them - yet. But one day, he will appreciate the fullness of the greatness of the magnets.
Luke and Daddy also have a new favorite activity... Amit was really getting into Dancing With the Stars last season, and after watching Ben dance he thinks it is fun to do the different dances with his partner Lukubarra. They are quite a couple, but Luke clearly favors the quickstep.
Luke also has a new favorite book. It's "It's Pumpkin Day Mouse." The plot centers on a mouse who has seven pumpkins to decorate. He paints a happy face on the first one, a sad face on the second one, then a silly face, then a surprised face. He then notices one of the pumpkins is missing. The climax comes when it turns out the mischievous dog had stolen one of the pumpkins and painted a scary pumpkin. The denouement is mouse and dog painting friendly pumpkins, which appear to be a mouse and a dog pumpkin, respectively. Luke loves the complexity of the book and gets very excited by the complicated nature of the plot. He smiles when he sees the silly face - we believe that he sees Mouses's inner silliness in the medium of the pumpkin. He laughs out loud, or lols as they say nowadays, when dog jumps out from behind the pumpkin and says 'boo'. Is he laughing because a puppy dog jumps out and has a silly face or is he laughing at the transformation of dog from a petty pumpkin plunderer to a perfect playfellow? We may never know. What we do know is this - he finds himself coming back to the book over and over again, looking for the hidden meaning in the text. Laura Numeroff (the author), what a masterful tale have you sown in the pumpkin patch of his little heart!
Luke's new pastime is expanding his horizons, reaching for new heights - and climbing onto the rocking chair in the nursery. He'll climb up with a book and just laugh and laugh. He had a friend over during the week and he sat up there laughing with him (we're hoping with and not at) while he was looking down at his friend from his perch. He thinks he is SUCH a big boy to sit in a chair like Mommy and Daddy!
Luke is getting a lot more used to daycare. When Amit went to pick him up this past week he smiled and just sat there eating his snack. Amit had to lift him up to get him to go. And now when we drop him off he wants to get in the classroom. He still cries when we leave, but at least he's getting used to his new teachers and friends.
Marinda found some board puzzles with missing pieces and decided to turn the pieces she did have into magnets for Luke to play with. Oh yeah, who's the best mommy ever? Luke loves taking the magnets off of the fridge, and carries them around and chews on them. So he doesn't fully understand them - yet. But one day, he will appreciate the fullness of the greatness of the magnets.
Luke and Daddy also have a new favorite activity... Amit was really getting into Dancing With the Stars last season, and after watching Ben dance he thinks it is fun to do the different dances with his partner Lukubarra. They are quite a couple, but Luke clearly favors the quickstep.
Luke also has a new favorite book. It's "It's Pumpkin Day Mouse." The plot centers on a mouse who has seven pumpkins to decorate. He paints a happy face on the first one, a sad face on the second one, then a silly face, then a surprised face. He then notices one of the pumpkins is missing. The climax comes when it turns out the mischievous dog had stolen one of the pumpkins and painted a scary pumpkin. The denouement is mouse and dog painting friendly pumpkins, which appear to be a mouse and a dog pumpkin, respectively. Luke loves the complexity of the book and gets very excited by the complicated nature of the plot. He smiles when he sees the silly face - we believe that he sees Mouses's inner silliness in the medium of the pumpkin. He laughs out loud, or lols as they say nowadays, when dog jumps out from behind the pumpkin and says 'boo'. Is he laughing because a puppy dog jumps out and has a silly face or is he laughing at the transformation of dog from a petty pumpkin plunderer to a perfect playfellow? We may never know. What we do know is this - he finds himself coming back to the book over and over again, looking for the hidden meaning in the text. Laura Numeroff (the author), what a masterful tale have you sown in the pumpkin patch of his little heart!
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| SUPER fuzzy picture of Luke with his new backpack! You can't really see it... he's not quite as cooperative as he was when he was 2 months old... |
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| We love how this daycare takes picture of Luke throughout the day! |
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