Happy 23rd Month Birthday

Celebrating these monthly birthdays doesn't seem like that big of a deal now that we are fast approaching Lucas' second birthday but they are still fun. Last night Marc said to him, "sometimes we forget because we don't make the big sign anymore and take your picture but we still love you." Lucas wasn't even paying attention to him. He has become quite the little independent thinker these days. He doesn't like to hold your hand when we are outside anymore but that means he needs to be carried-believe me, everyone would prefer it if Lucas would just hold our hands and walk. He is into trucks, buses and firetrucks BIG TIME. He gets upset when we don't see any one the roads. Lucas now likes to run and will say, "I walk, I run" and take off down the hall. He is clearly going to get his logic from my side because he knows you need to walk before you can run;) Lucas still has a love hate relationship with Jeff. He calls for Jeff as soon as we get into the house but some days he doesn't like it when Jeff smells his toys. That is enough to send him over the edge.

Lucas recently discovered pianos-he loves to play the one that is part of his music table. He even pulls up a toy or ball to sit on while he plays. I can't wait to start music with him again in January.

And he has a temper-I think he gets frustrated and doesn't know how to tell us what is wrong so his solution is to throw things or hit. We are trying to stop this behavior and pray that the terrible twos aren't so terrible.

Lucas continues to be the extrovert. He loves to say hi and bye to complete strangers. On the way home last week he tried to get the attention of a man in a pickup truck to say hi. While we were out to eat on Sunday, he waved bye to a group that was getting up to leave.

I never thought the time would come when Lucas "caught up developmentally" but he has-the last six months have been just incredible in all the things he has learned.

This is finally getting to be fun for me . . .