dancing, snow, pictures

Life's been busy. Nothing exciting, but I had trouble remembering the correct order of these photos. That's how scattered I am. I can't remember what happened first.



Last Friday was the Rock N Roll Readathon at Luke's school. His class started their day in the sock hop. Well, his class and their buddy readers, who are 5th graders (those are not giant preschool girls in the background).






I decided to go to the sock hop with him. The music was pretty loud and it was a little chaotic. I told Ms. Judy I'd just take him to the room if he couldn't handle it. But he had a pretty good time, though he needed lots of reassurance that "it's gonna be fine." You see he even showed off some of his stellar dance moves.


After the sock hop I read to the class. I took a large book with fold-out animal pictures. They kids were so excited about the book. And Luke was just beaming that they loved it. I left the book for them to enjoy for a while.



Luke did great with the change and routine and me being there, even though he kept going over the order of the day. (#1 dance party, #2 Mommy reads to class, etc) He had his whole class "say bye to Mommy" as I left. I read to his class last year for this the readathon too. And Luke cried the whole time and had to sit in my lap. Good progress. It has changed our lives that he understands when I explain what the day will entail.






That day after school, Luke asked me to take a picture with his trains.




The picture posing continued Saturday night. Luke wanted a photo with Daddy, James and Percy under the blanket. Such an artist, that boy.





Sunday morning we woke up to a little snow on the ground. It was not good snowman making snow, but we still had a lot of fun with it.







After we got home from church, Luke asked to go outside again. He went to the window and said, "Where is the snow?" Doesn't last long around here. But he and Daddy had a great time playing kickball and whiffleball. I think this spring is going to be lots of fun. (And they're both wearing hats. I'm making progress with both of them!)


Luke continues to crack us up. The other day we pulled up to the ATM and he said, "Mommy, let's get some dollars." I had no idea he even paid attention at the ATM. Lamar handed me $5 as I left for work the other day (the only cash we had between us) and Luke said, "I want to hold the dollars!"

Luke is talking constantly. Like from the time he gets up til he goes to bed, chatter chatter chatter. I love it. And it exhausts me. He's going through a phase where he doesn't want to watch TV at all. He wants to play. He's up at 6 a.m. or earlier asking me to play. He slept til 6:30 today. Hooray! So as much as I love the interaction, I'm exhausted. I told him the other day I didn't do playdough before 7. I've been putting off most things like that til after school. And part of me feels just awful about that because we've worked so hard to want him to play. But I just can't do it all the time. And he has to know he's not in charge. As with all phases, I suspect we'll cycle through this one too. He's doing great, and still really challenging, just in new ways.