Lucas has reached a whole new level of independence lately. He thinks he can do anything and everything himself. Saturday he was walking up the stairs, using the handrail like a good boy. I was behind him, with my hand on the railing so if he fell backwards, he would fall into me. He saw my hand and slapped it to get me to let go. I was stunned. He did a similar thing last night at Dave and Busters. He was sitting on a stool looking at a video game. I was behind him and had a hand on the control panel of the game. Lucas kept telling me "no", taking my hand off the panel. He thinks he can do it all now . . .
We were in Buffalo last weekend for some family fun. Lucas was so good while we were there-he makes a good travel companion. Since he is still fascinated with trucks, I showed him the truck yard at the rest stop. He was a bit overwhelmed because he just looked-didn't say anything. He LOVED playing in the yard at my parents-they had a pool, and bikes and chalk and lots and lots of things to explore. He and my dad did two outlines of the dog. My dad was in awe of how much he talked-even if it was just made up sounds. He calls Lucas Niki Niki now-I guess at some point that is what he said to my dad.
Lucas even got to ride on the subway-my mom and I went to the Allentown Arts Festival. It is so much easier to park and ride the subway down. He was good but wasn't too sure about it all. Just looked at everything. But we did see lots of babies and a few puppies while we were there.
Good times were had by all!
And then I come back home and begin to struggle again with this balancing thing. We had a crazy weekend-I got home from a conference on Friday, started a week's plus worth of laundry, went through a week's worth of mail that had been piling up and tried to plan the next two days of grocery shopping and celebrating Father's day. There were still tons of things I needed to get done at home-stuff I just was too tired to do last night.
Monday, June 22, 2009
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