After...
It was high time. Luke was looking more and more like a hobbit to me with his shaggy hair around his ears and neck. He is now shorn. He hated it. We did Julio's first and kept saying how much fun he was having but Luke wasn't convinced. He did lots of crying and freaking out for the 5 minutes or so it took to cut it all and so now you see why we buzz it so short and let it grow so long...the fewer the haircuts the better.
On to other things, Luke keeps making me laugh with all the funny things he says and every time I sit down at the computer I forget them all, but there's a few that are fresh in my mind so here it goes:
Yesterday while playing hockey downstairs with him I got a "jood (good) job Babe"! Now, I'm sure there are some refined, proper people out there that can not imagine anyone letting their toddler call them babe, but I find it way too amusing and so I let it slide. He knows it's funny too because he always says it with a smile. The boy is addicted to nicknames. I'm mom, Corinna, Auntie Corinna if we've been around the cousins, Momuel (like Samuel), and one day he even called me darling. And Julio gets the occasional "Julelo" and I feel like we named Samuel just for Luke because there are three names in one with that one - Sam, Sammy, Samuel and they all get used regularly by our sweet Luke.
While we're still on the "babe" subject, when I was overdue with Samuel I had a few weepy moments just wanting to be unpregnant, and one time Luke looked at Julio and said, "Babe wants baby out, hey dad?"
This morning he looked at me and said that he wanted to do puzzles, and then he informed me that today was "puzzle day...BIG puzzle day"! And often I hear that it's "blocks time" or "movie time" or some other kind of "time".
We went to the library this evening with the kids and looked around for a while and got some books, and then while I was taking them out Julio and Luke went downstairs to look at the kids books. Luke looked around and asked Julio where the toys were. And then he saw some styrofoam ball with stuff sticking out of it and said, I want that! So glad to see he's really embraced the concept of a library. (He actually really does love books, just for the record...)
The other day we were at the mall and all of a sudden Luke says to Julio and me, "I check someping (something)" and runs down the hall saying "bubbles"! Sure enough, down at the end of the hall was a big picture of a grandma, mom and daughter all lying in the grass with bubbles all around. I guess he just had to check that it was still there! It had been weeks and weeks since we'd been there too!
This morning we were getting ready to go and Luke was playing with his dump truck and I said, "okay Luke, it's time to go". To which he responded, "No! I trucking!"
I think my favorite thing in the world right now, though, is how much he loves Samuel. This morning I got him out of bed, went to do something and then went to look for Luke and found him lying in our bed beside Samuel just talking to him. And Samuel gets an abundant amount of kisses and hugs from Luke, all gentle surprisingly enough, which of course just melt my heart. He talks to him in the car too and I love eavesdropping on all the things Luke talks to him about...it's all mostly about the tractors, trucks or cars Luke happens to see.
That's all my memory and time are allowing me for now...
Here's Samuel at 4 weeks (he's amazingly fun too by the way, even if he doesn't talk. His soft baby hair makes up for it though):
