Tonight I was working on some journal updates for the boys' journals. I thought I'd post here as well.
Wow, time has flown by!
I’m feeling the “mommy guilt” for not writing in Luke’s journal
more frequently! Luke is such a fun little
boy. He’s got a super active mind and
always has a plan.
Luke is in his second year of preschool at Grandwood Park
Preschool. He really enjoys his
teachers, Mrs. Terlap and Mrs. LeClair.
He likes his classmates too. He’s
a smart little boy and has a great memory like Nick.
Luke’s latest interests are playing Super Nintendo—Nick pulled
it out a couple months ago and it didn’t take Luke long at all to get the hang
of it. He likes to play Aladdin, Donkey
Kong, and especially Super Mario. He’s
actually pretty good too. He loves to
have someone to play with him or watch him play though. Sam’s a really good sport and will watch him
for quite a while. It’s cute to hear Sam
say, “Now go down that tube!” Or, “get
that mushroom!”
Luke and Sam are best little buddies. Luke is our early riser and Sam likes to sleep
in a little bit. Every morning Luke will
ask, “When is Sam going to wake up?”
They love to play together. Sam
usually wakes up around 8am. They
currently share a room and they love it.
I asked if they wanted to sleep in different rooms a couple weeks ago
and they both said, “NO!”
Luke has a great imagination and loves to listen to or tell
stories. He tells Sam very fun stories
about camping, tornadoes, monsters, etc.
He gets this from Nick. The times
when he asks me to make up a story for him I feel like my creative juices are
zapped. Nick is much better at this—which
he actually gets from Grandpa Bill. Grandpa Bill can tell great stories too.
Luke is going to be Batman for Halloween this year. He wears his costume quite a bit—around the
house and occasionally out on errands. I
let him wear it to get his flu shot this year because he said it would help him
to be brave. It sort of worked…he still
cried but I think he was less anxious about it than he has been in the
past. Poor Sam didn’t even see his flu
shot coming and thought he’d been skewered.
Luke will have his first part in the primary program this
year. All the primary classes were
assigned a topic and then asked to come up with their own parts this year. The sunbeams were asked what they like about
their family. Luke’s part is, “I like to
play legos with my family”. Surprise,
surprise.
Luke is very interested in babies right now. It makes me excited for our baby to come because
he’s really sweet with them. He loved
holding baby Wesley last weekend when they were here visiting and we’ve babysat
a 3-month old a couple times this week and he just loved it. He loved feeding
him his bottle, burping him, helping change his diaper, and just holding him.
It was so sweet.
Sam is changing so much and I want it to stop! He’s getting taller, thinning out, etc. We had Jill and Brad’s family up to visit
last weekend and Uncle Brad was talking to Sam and said, “Sam, you’re getting
skinnier these days, what have you been eating?” Without skipping a beat Sam said, “Candy
corns, tootsie rolls, and chocolate eyeballs”.
Hilarious.
He’s such a fun little boy. ALWAYS talking. Seriously, both Luke and Sam are non-stop
chatting machines. I know I’m going to
miss it one day, but the other day while we were driving I really wanted to pay
them both to be quiet J I have to make them take turns talking to me
because they will talk over each other and they both get very frustrated. If Luke’s talking, Sam will say, “Now it’s my
turn!!” and vice versa.
Anytime I go anywhere with Sam I get asked “How old is
he!?” Everyone is super impressed and
surprised by his vocabulary and how much he says. I get stopped by at least 2-3 people at the
grocery store or wherever we are because they hear him talking to me. As soon as they ask me how old he is, Sam
will interject saying, “I’m two and a half!”
And then he’ll say, “And Luke’s four and a half!” (he’ll say that even
if Luke isn’t with us.) He’s not shy
about talking to other people and once they realize he will talk to them they love
to visit and ask him all kinds of questions.
Luke and Sam are best little buddies. Luke is our early riser and Sam likes to sleep
in a little bit. Every morning Luke will
ask, “When is Sam going to wake up?”
They love to play together. Sam
usually wakes up around 8am. They
currently share a room and they love it.
I asked if they wanted to sleep in different rooms a couple weeks ago
and they both said, “NO!”
A funny story—the other day I had snuck a bite of
cookie dough out of the freezer and had just finished eating it when I went to
help Sam on the potty. I bent down to
his level and all the sudden he sniffed and said, “It smells like cookie dough…” I couldn’t believe it! Busted J He’s got a pretty great sense of smell. He’s the first to smell anything unusual
outside and he’ll announce it loudly.
He’s going to be a bear this Halloween (his choice). Whenever anyone asks him what he’s going to
be he’ll say, “I’m going to be a bear costume.
I bought it at the resale store with my money.”
Also, anything that has happened in the past—whether it
was 5 minutes ago or 3 weeks ago is “yesterday” according to Sam.
Sam is very interested in “helping” with anything in
the kitchen these days. He can climb to the top of the counter, with or without
the help of a stool, and demands to have a job helping with something.
