Luke the artist

Luke loves to color and do art projects. Everyday when Halle goes down for her nap I try to make it fun for him and we get out the markers and he colors. He loves to draw smiley faces and just the other day he started to draw them so legs coming out of the bottom. It's really cute, it looks like a smiley face with legs coming out of it.

I get him stickers and he loves to make cards for people. He'll make cards with stickers and color them for all his family members - Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles, etc. I can usually find stickers for the different holidays so starting with Halloween and ever since he has been into card making. He also loves playing with play dough and making animals with the playdough.

Sweet Lukey Guy

Luke is such a sweet boy. I feel like he is at a really cute, sweet age right now. He is still so innocent but he talks and has full conversations with me and says the most sincere things in the cutest way. It melts my heart everyday! Halle is really into hitting right now and we're trying to get her to stop but Luke is really good about not doing anything back to her. He just sits there and takes it! Once and awhile he will do something to get back at her when he's really tired or upset but for the most part he is very patient. He gives her lots of hugs and kisses.

Luke plays pretend

Luke rarely calls Halle by her name anymore because he likes to play pretend and Halle is usually a part of it. I'm starting to wonder if it confuses her just a little J. It all depends on who he is at the moment...or I should say who he's imagining he is.

He still loves Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer so he often pretends he is Rudolph and Halle is Clarice. Oh and I am Fireball. Every morning he has to get the red marker and draw a red nose on himself. Markers are the first thing he asks for in the morning so he can draw his red nose. So pretty much everywhere we go he has a red nose lately. I don't fight it, I figure he won't do it for forever!

Luke also likes to play Winnie the Pooh. If Luke is Pooh Bear, Halle is Piglet. I'm usually Darby (from My Friends Tigger and Pooh the Disney Show) and Daddy is Tigger. He has also declared that Grandma Lori can be Rabbit, Grandpa Sheldon can be Eeyore, and Aunt Jamie can be Kanga.

Lately he loves "The Land Before Time". I know if I hear him making a high pitched sort of screechy sound he is pretending he is Little Foot and making dinosaur noises. He likes to say he is going to the Great Valley and has to go on a whole trek to get there through a big tunnel (our hallway), climb over a mountain (our bed), and finally into his room which is the Great Valley.

Luke says the funniest things

Luke has been saying the funniest/cutest things. I have been jotting down some of them over the past month or so. Here are a few of them...

Luke came out into the kitchen on day with his blanket wrapped around his neck and said, "Mom, look at my scarf. It was way cheap, like ninety five bucks!" The night before I had been talking to my mom about a sale and how cheap things were that we had gotten, his radar ears picked up on that and before we knew it he had a "cheap" scarf.

One day Luke was helping me throw something away and I thanked him for helping me. Luke responded with, "My treasure." I wasn't sure what he meant or if I had misheard him. So I asked him what he said. He responded with, "It was my treasure, mommy." Ohhhh. He meant “My pleasure!” Such good manners...but I have to admit I didn't teach him that one. He must have learned it from a TV show or something! :)

Halle has been getting into trouble more and more lately and has decided she loves drawing on the walls, even though we have told her many times it is a "no no" and given her plenty of time outs for it. The first time she colored all over a wall it was at the bottom of the stairs and Luke was the first to discover it. I had no idea she had done it and they were both on their way down to the basement to play. Then I heard Luke say in a very calm and sincere way, "Uh oh, Halle. That is a very pretty picture you drew, but we don't color on the walls." I was cracking up, it was so cute how he said it. And I was amazed at how he worded it. I had said those same type of words to him a long time ago when he first colored on a wall back when we lived in my Grandma's basement probably about a year ago. Unlike Halle, Luke did it once or twice and after us telling him “no” and a time out he never did it again. So I really hadn't said anything like this to him since then. I couldn't believe he remembered my exact wording! It was really cute and really surprising to me how much they remember so young!

Grandma Lori says...

Luke is funny. He likes to use marker to color his nose red so he can be Rudolf (Lindsay makes sure they always have markers that can wash off easy so it will come off after he’s done).

So here is a Lukey story. Lindsay showed up one day and I had left 2 cough drops on my night stand. I saw luke hide behind the ottoman and he had something yellow in his hand that I thought was probably a cough drop. He was trying to sneakily open it. I told him that I didn’t think it would taste very good and that I thought he might choke on it so I made a bargain with him that if he gave it to me I had a yummier treat for him. He obeyed me and then he said, “Granma, you shouldn’t have left that where I could find it.” Oh my goodness, little smarty pants. He is right, of course, but I didn’t think he could articulate that so well.

February pictures

Halle thinks it's really neat that Luke is wearing underwear and keeps wanting to put it on!

Playing on the stairs

Mommy's birthday

 Messy Halle hair and Luke with his marker Rudolph nose. He's still doing this and we're two months past Christmas!

Meet Nemo and Rudolph

Our first pets. Luke is very excited about them. He earned them for doing something that's a very big deal. To do with the toilet. It starts with a P and ends in a OOP.

The reward for conquering this fear first started out as a sucker. It kept escalating until somehow it turned into a fish (my sister has fish and he loovveesss them). This tank was hand me down from her so we really weren't into it that much.

We were going to only get one fish. Luke had been talking about how he was going to name his fish Rudolph for days after Rudolph the reindeer. But when we went to buy Rudolph I felt bad for him to be all alone in the world so we ended up getting two. Fish #2 is orange and Luke, of course, decided his name needed to be Nemo.

So now we have two fish. The kids love to watch them and feed them. We officially have our first pets!