Grammie Linda!

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Note: This amount of adorable doesn't come cheap!

On another note, Luke really wanted to use the nose sucker on himself. He screams like banshee when we try and get his boogies out, but when it's on his terms, Luke apparently thinks it's fun. Who knew?

The Many Faces

I love to catch Luke's personality in all of the faces he makes. He has such a big personality that always gets a laugh.

And on drums . . .

Luke still loves the drums - this video is a little old (from this past summer) but he really does just adore playing his drum set.

Surprise!

After Luke's bath tonight, I asked him if he wanted to pee on the potty. And because he is a good boy, he dutifully sits on the potty. He never goes, but he smiles brightly and hopes that it will keep him from going to bed.

But tonight, he actually peed on the potty. Hooray!

Talking with a friend from the mom's group, when she trained her daughter, she never used treats or stickers or candy. She made the "prize" flushing the toilet and washing her hands. I thought that sounded pretty good (we can always go the treat route if this doesn't work) so every time mommy or daddy uses the potty, we get to flush and wash our hands and tell Luke that he can flush and wash when he goes to the potty.

He was stoked to flush the toilet. And when I said it was time for PJs, he said "hands" - he was not going to let me forget to wash his hands.

So a successful and surprising Columbus Day evening!

For the love of reading . . .

As we are a family of readers, we hope to instill that same love in Luke. The majority of his book choices focus on cars, trucks, boats, etc. Usually, he picks a book, then settles down with either one of us to read. This morning he just picked up a book, sat in his little chair and started looking through it. We were astounded and quite frankly, pretty proud parents. And he said "cheese" when he was asked to.


On that note, Luke kisses the cars and trucks in his books because he loves them so much.

I You.

Luke has become much more affectionate as of late, which is so thrilling for me. While pregnant with Luke, I dreamed of having a cuddly baby who wanted to snuggle with me during the winter (as he was a January baby). Of course with children, whenever you plan anything, it is destined to go in the opposite direction. Luke was not a cuddler. Ever. But now he's been giving sweet little kisses (on his terms only) and hugs.


Now when we say "I love you" he responds with "I you!" It just melts me. I you too, Luke.

Visit to Windsor

While Todd was out of town, Luke and I drove up to Windsor to celebrate Great Grandma's birthday with whole family. The Wine Country is so beautiful - we had never been to Windsor before. All of the family loved to be around Luke - he is so much fun, just a big ol' ball of energy. Great Grandma and Auntie Nancy offered to watch Luke for a bit while I went to a winery to at least have a taste. The winery, Russian River Hill, had the most gorgeous views - I could have stayed there all afternoon.



Luke did very well for Auntie and Great Grandma - he entertains himself so well, he didn't even miss me. Unfortunately, we were unable to spend the night, but I was so glad that we did have a little time to visit everyone, sing happy birthday and have Great Grandma open her gifts.

And as always, Luke just loves pushing a walker. Note: a walker is the toddler gift for this holiday season.