Oh Luke-a-book

Luke's cool new jacket for fall/winter/spring (aka rainy months)

Funny Luke-isms (and some funny pregnancy-induced comments from Marinda):

•After church today Luke was covered in mud and had a super-wet diaper. So we stripped him down so he wouldn't get the inside of the car dirty and Amit did a standing diaper change. He threw the old diaper on the ground in the parking lot momentarily while getting the new diaper on Luke. Luke started saying "Cars don't drive on my diaper!" because he was concerned that a car might drive on it now that it was on the road.
•Amit has been singing "If You Could Hie to Kolob" to Luke the past couple nights (most just the tune, since he doesn't have the words memorized). This morning after breakfast he thought it would be fun to play a video of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing it. But Luke got really upset and said "That's our song!" And later when he tried to sing it in the car, Luke said "We sing that song at home!" and got a little upset again. Oh to be two.
•On a related note, Amit sometimes sings "La-di-da-di-da" to the tune of a song if he doesn't know the words. So "If You Could Hie to Kolob" is now the "la-di-da-di" song.
•This story is about Marinda. Two nights ago she was...emotional. And like most pregnant women since the dawn of time she took it out on Amit. She was ranting about how hard life was (which is fair) and then got into a rant about Amit, during which she said "And then you yelled at me about my doctor's appointment and made me do math!" Amit, truly flabergasted, asked, "Wait, when did I make you do math?"Marinda replied: "You were all like 'this flight leaves at this time and costs this much' and 'this flights leaves at this time and costs this much," in reference to us planning out our graduation trip to Hawaii earlier in the day. Amit just started cracking up and couldn't stop for several minutes. While Amit was laughing, Marinda got even more upset and continued ranting and at one point said "Do you even have a soul?" Which, of course, made Amit laugh even harder. Disclaimer: Amit is not actually a terrible husband. Marinda is just pregnant and it was 10pm at night.  We would draw you attention to this old blog post in case you don't know what happens to pregnant Marinda after 9pm..
•Speaking of the word 'just'. Luke uses it all the time now. Any time he's doing something he's not supposed to do, he tries to justify it by saying "I'm just" followed by whatever he's doing, as if that makes it okay because he's just doing it.
•One day when Luke was being a handful, Amit said "Oh Luke-a-book" in a sing-song voice. Luke took off and started singing it too.

With other news, Marinda actually had a good week!  At 16 weeks, the nausia and pain were both down enough that she could do normal things - like have Luke suck the life out of her.  He was a real handful this week, culminating in her offering him for sale last Friday.  Something about spilling water all over the couch, crumpling chip crumbs all over the living room, and deciding that onions look really fun to throw around the house - just to name a few things he did in just one hour...  Then he proceeded to run over all the kids at playgroup.  Marinda did manage to get a pretty cute pumpkin handprint along with a more abstract piece that Marinda decided is a pile of leaves.

Luke's artwork from craft day!

That day Marinda was over her head and headed out that afternoon to go to QFC to get a frozen lasagna.  As she was checking out I guess she looked really out of it, because the checkout lady was really attentive and eventually got out of Marinda how hard of a day she had had.  Then with a  look of compassion most strangers never show to each other anymore, she asked if Marinda would like some garlic bread too and even offered to run and grab some.  Then while she was gone the bag boy gave Luke THREE stickers and played peek-a-boo with Luke.  Marinda was pretty close to tears by the time she left the store - it was just exactly the little bit of kindness that Marinda really needed.

Amit had another football game this week, and those young-uns they were playing against showed off their super fast running thing again and Amit's team lost.  But we're still proud of him!  What was hard about this game was that Luke could not be sedated with magical sugar circles this time and kept trying to run on the field.  Marinda and the other moms were joking that though they might be playing flag football on the field, on the sidelines we were playing tackle!

On Marinda news, she and her friend Kamie Bushman made their first real, super scary step into taking their novel writing from hobby "oh, I'm writing a novel" to the next "Oh my gosh this is real!" level.  One of Marinda's students who is already a published author took her to this meeting and they got to meet a real live agent from New York City who said told them to send in our query letters and first five pages!  AAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ok, now we just need to perfect everything in the universe and not freak out.

In Marinda's book corner, she read two books this week she would like to recommend.  One was for book club for their Middle Reader month - and Marinda thinks that it is pretty much the perfect book.  It is called Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool.  The other book is a romance called Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson.  So yeah, get off the internet and pick up a book!

Have a great week!