Rocketman

The video below was taken last night. I don't want to say anything about it before you watch it since it is amusing enough on its own.



Yes, this is what life with Lucas is like lately. Alliteration unintended.

My Prize Fighters

A portrait of mom and son, both missing teeth.


For those of you not aware, Marilu was born without a tooth up there and is in the midst of replacing her fake tooth with a permanent something-or-another.

Lucas speech update! Lately, it seems like Lucas knows 5 words: "yes" (almost always followed by "please," so at least he is polite), "no", "mine", and "more". He throws in a "ball" and makes animal noises from time to time as well, but those are the big ones. He understands a lot more words than those listed above, but I think he's holding off on saying any new ones until he has driven us crazy with those. Oh, lest I forget "mommy" and, to a lesser extent, "daddy" are quite common at 2-3 AM in the morning when he wants to come in bed with us.

Visit from grandma

Around mid-April, Marilu's mom came to visit for about a week. Now, the stereotype of the mother-in-law visit is usually a very negative thing. Not so in our house! Barb woke up earlier than I did and would take care of Lucas in the morning, giving me an extra hour or so of sleep, so as far as I'm concerned, she can move in and stay with us. :)

Here's a few good pictures of her and Lucas from the trip. We didn't get many on our camera since I think the majority were taken on hers.




And while we have a family theme going, here's a picture of Lucas and his cousin Megan hamming it up for the camera.

Scattered shots

Feeling confident in his bright red rubber boots, the young toddler surveys the pile of laundry in front of him, grins, and thinks, "Time to destroy."




Step 1 complete. "Step 2: Mowing the lawn" and "Step 3: Shoveling snow" to follow. Then daddy can relax completely.


Someone was having a tad bit too much fun eating chocolate.


Why use a storage bin to organize all his kitchen accessories (seen piled above his head in the picture) when he can instead kick back and chill in it? Living the baby dream...


Words fail me on this one. What the heck is Lucas doing? Or me, for that matter?


Speaking of words, Lucas has been talking quite a bit lately. He still can't really string together a sentence, but he knows several words. Just a couple of nights ago, we got him to say "touchdown" while also raising his hands the way refs indicate a TD. That's one of the bigger words he can handle, but don't get me started on his whiny "no." Ugh, that's annoying.

Another cute phrase he has almost went unnoticed. For a while, he would say "up" when he wanted us to pick him up--usually to grab something out of his reach. Then, he started saying "uppies," which we just assumed was a toddlerized version of "up." Eventually, we put two and two together and realized "uppies" is his way of saying "up, please." Very cute AND polite. He says "yes, please" quite a bit so hopefully we'll have a respectful kid who likes football.

Until he is a teenager, and then all bets are off.

Bluebeard

Last weekend, we went to the 2nd birthday for Thierry, one of Lucas's friends. I didn't think to bring our camera, but thankfully, Thierry's mom Tracey took some great pics. Here's my favorite one of Lucas, taken just after he ate his cupcake. I think the picture speaks for itself.


If you are interested, Tracey has a few more of Lucas (as well as the rest of the partygoers) over on her Flickr page here.

FYI

Lest the news get out through the grapevine, I just wanted to let it be known that I quit my job on Tuesday. Years of teaching the same training sessions over and over, as well as having customers who tended to be complete jackasses, took its toll on me, and I walked out of there during the afternoon (right after telling one of the aforementioned customers what I thought of them in no uncertain terms).

So, I'm jobless at the moment, but my full-time job now is to find a new one. I don't suspect it will be a huge challenge since I've dabbled in so many areas that I have a pretty well-rounded skill set. I'd prefer to get out of the technical fields altogether, but if that's not possible, I'll grin and bear it. I have more than just my mouth to feed nowadays.

All that said, this blog will continue unhindered. Heck, if anything, it might be updated more frequently since I have a little more time on my hands. :)

April! Finally!

As you've probably seen in past blog entries, Lucas does a lot of crafts at his daycare. At the beginning of April, he made a set of bunny ears. Unlike many of his other crafts, he hasn't destroyed these yet. In fact, he had them on briefly earlier today. However, these pictures are from Day 1 (circa April 1).



On April 2, we received an early Easter package from my mom. We saved most of it until Easter, but we let Lucas have the egg-shaped chalk. He had a fun time defacing the sidewalk.