Our Party of Five: Toddler Fun & Lucas-isms

We have been having lots of fun this fall with Lucas. It never ceases to amaze me how much he has changed and grown up in such a short period of time. Our little two year old is a heap of energy, curiosity, wisdom, and endless love all rolled up into one!

A few of his favorite things:
Trucks- of all kinds!!! Construction and rescue are by far at the top of his list. He has lots now and plays with them all of the time. Not only does he play with them like a mad man- running up and down the hallway and through the "1st floor loop" but, he LOVES to talk about them and tell you every detail about the type and use of each. For example, here are some Lucas-isms (AKA- phrases we here quite often that only a sweet toddler could come up with!)
- "Mommy, I saw a front (with the biggest F sound) loader, it pick dirt up!" after he gets home-they drive past construction on the way home.
-"go see digga truck?"- if you happen to not drive past the excavators.
- "I'm gonna go fast with my dump truck!", " see mommy I go fast!"- as he tears down the hallway!
- "fire truck gonna go help somebody", " fireman climb up ladder", as we play with his new fire truck.
-he also loves to correct us and friends on the correct truck type- which is hilarious! He apparently caught poor Shannon at school when she was trying to play with him- "no, das a front loader, not a dump truck!" :) and he caught me last night while we were watching Bob the Builder. me: "Look Lucas there is the tractor!" Lucas: "No mommy, das da rolda truck (that's the roller truck), not a tracte!(tractor). Well then! :) I had been trying to teach him that the other day but he kept calling it a tractor, so I figured- we'll go with that for now...Proved me wrong!! Geez mom!

Books: he will bring me LITERALLY- like 20 + books a day to read. And this just isn't at bedtime folks, it is ALL DAY. See, when you are confined to the couch or a bed, you are in the perfect position to read books with your little one! Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it and snuggling with him. But I must tell you, I can read Go Train Go, Elmo on the Farm, Let's Be Helpful, and Go, Go Fish without even looking at the page!!! He can too actually!! He tells me what is happening and repeats the words- SOO FUNNY!
- I am pretty animated with most of these so he really gets into that- "look mommy, the storm is coming!", "he got out of da boat" (as Jesus walks on the water), etc. I'll have to try to get a video of this....:)
- "sheep are not nice, day (they) not listening, bad sheep", "milk comes from cows mommy", "dare are seven eggs in da basket- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...(pause)8,9,10"- yeah, he can get a little carried away! :)

It just amazes me how much he has grown up, what his little brain has absorbed, and how much he LOVES to talk!!! There is more favorite things and Lucas-isms to come, but I am sure that you are tired of reading at this point! I'll be back with more soon ;) Promise!! But to wrap this up, here are a few pics:

I haven't been the best at having the camera around and ready to capture all of our fun times but I did manage to get a few.

Thanksgiving Fun

Or...not so fun! He was worn out and wanted his paci back, but I insisted at least one picture without it!

he made these hats at school during their Thanksgiving fun. Mockingbird was his Native American name-mommy didn't know this.. The week before I asked him what his name was (we have been working on that) and he looked at me with such conviction- "Mockingbird!" Huh??? Turns out they all got Indian names while they were learning about Native Americans at school. Oh, now I get it!