The one with Lucas skills.

Luca loves to carry things around like phones, and say "hewwo" over and over again.

I brought Grandma Mary's coffee table inside to see if I liked it enough somewhere to keep it, and it has become Lucas favorite toy ever.  He hides things in it, and climbs in it, through it, on it and anything else he can do.  He has been most recently using it as a stool to climb over the back of the couch.

On pioneer day people were doing fireworks when Luca went to bed, and really needed to see them--he stood there watching forever, and then would lay down, and more would go off so he would peek again.  Luckily he still falls asleep with them going off every few seconds.

Whenever I can't find something I look in the table first now, usually its a winner.

Luca has also been dragging the yellow dishes out of the cupboard all over the house.  But he has progressed to the entire stack of bowls.  He also likes to line them up all nice and neat around the house, I haven't remembered to take a picture of that yet.  He may be crazy, or just like mommy.  Who knows.

We are working on colors, he basically uses "wellow" as his word for color, if he is the one describing it.  If I ask him to find colors he can usually find real yellow, blue and red.  

We went on a visit with the sisters to my friends house the other day, and she was making cupcakes while we were there, and gave luca the spatula to lick, and then her husband gave him a whole bowl full.  He was crazy wild after a while.

This was actually our 3rd trip to Lagoon--I think I was wrong on the other post.  We finally got Kate to ride Cannibal, and she LOVED it, of course.

Always the swings.  I would be happy only riding those the entire time.

And all our picture fails.  Whatever.  Its hard when you're moving constantly!

^^I spy Kate the creeper.

Luca has been taking selfies lately, thats all he wants my phone for now a days.

We facetimed kenz, tony and baby Lyla yesterday, Luca wasn't super impressed, but he remembered mackenzie name, and Tony's after we reminded him.

We roasted marshmallows with the girls after Luca went to bed, man oh man was that eventful.  Luckily we didn't catch anything on fire except our sad marshmallows.  That was a lot of fun, a lot of laughter and a whole lot of smoke.

Today was so dang nice outside, overcast and like 70 degrees and it made me so happy and feel fallish, so instead of getting all the fall/halloween decorations out already, Luca and I compromised by watching Frosty.  It works in my mind, don't worry about it.

This is what happened after he said no when I asked him if he was ready for a nap.  Pretending to sleep counts right?

Luca is in the hardest stage of toddler-hood so far--I'm sure it will get harder--but he is also at the prime of wanting to learn!! I love when something new clicks and he catches on.  He is like a sponge.

He still loves letters like crazy, and knows about half of them by sight, and will repeat the whole alphabet when he feels like it.  He knows A, C, E, D, H, I, L, M, N, O, Q, R, S, T, U, W,  and X.
Currently M and O are his favorites.

He knows lots of words, and says more every day, he is getting giant.
These are the ones I can remember at the moment.

Please--peas
Ball--Baw
Mine--MINE (always yelled) Yellow--Wewo (which is his word for any color) Blues clues--Bues cues Car--tar Juice--jish (with the sign for Juice) Shoe--Shh Fish--ish Jesus--es-us It's hot--ISH HAW (also yelled) Who--ooo Oww
Cheese--chez Pool--poo Pizza--iza Ana--Nana Nicole--Icole Sara--ara Grandpa--gapa Grandma--gama Dada Mom Shhhh Elmo--Memo Balloon--baoon Tie Hurts

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