slacker blogger

Sorry to those that have been checking and checking and have seen no new posts. I have been a true slacker. The holidays are over now...Brandon is now officially back to work everyday....and I have still been slacking. Our computer upstairs isn't letting me get on the internet...so I have no new pictures of the rest of our Christmas and New Year's and such, so...just my writing will have to suffice for today.

Luke has seemed to really "grow up" these past couple of weeks. He is starting to talk more and more...and say more things which is a great thing. I think his speech once a week is really helping. We have our 6 month evaluation for that coming up at the end of this month, so it will be really interesting to see how he was 6 months ago and compare it to how much more he is doing now. He is putting more 2-3-4 word sentences together and sometimes even longer, but it's hard to understand because he talks so fast. He is even starting to use possessives and talking about himself. He has also learned a new sign "my turn" and uses it A LOT. He is repeating so much more now, of course, on his terms and when he wants to, but he is doing it! And trying to make all the different sounds. It's so neat to see his world becoming more exciting through his vocabulary. Man, I'm a dorky teacher aren't I?

It's like he has grown into this little boy now. He is taller, and outgrowing his clothes even from his birthday at the end of September. He even has put on 3 lbs since then too! It's crazy. He loves "choo choos" and "car cars" and could play with both all day long. He will also sit through a whole movie now! Just 3 months ago he couldn't do that....or wouldn't. His favorite movie he askes to watch every day is "Cars". and he likes to watch "Ice Age" over at my mom's house.

He has become very independant too. He can now dress himself, well, he still wants us to put his shirts on him, but everything else he can do. And if you start his coat zipper, he can zip it all up byhimself. He loves to do his hair, which entails wetting down the wildness and then putting hairspray on it just like daddy does. and brushing his teeth. This kid could brush his teeth all day long. He picks out his own clothes and some days, he will absolutely refuse to put on anything else but his jammies. I don't know how many times I have taken him out of the house with his jammie shirt on under something or just in his jammie shirt because I have learned to pick and choose my battles. Who am I to tell him he can't wear his "gicky" (mickey) jammie shirt over to Grammy's to have lunch? What's the harm in that? I have learned.....NOTHING! It is perfectly fine.

He is definetly 2. and people always call it the terrible twos, but we don't see it as that. He is learning who he is....what he likes, what he doesn't like, how to do things on his own, and how this crazy world around him works and what place he fits into it. It's amazing to sit and watch...and seriously over the past few weeks, it has unfolded before our very eyes. We still can't believe this little man is ours....our son....our big boy now. Blink and he grows. Blink and he learns something totally new he wasn't doing yesterday. We are loving every. single. minute.