Commercial Appeal

I really want to be a blogger that updates every few days. Not that anyone cares to read about our non-adventurous adventures that frequently. I just enjoy it. And if I blogged that frequently, it wouldn't be so hard for me to piece together the little things from our lives that I'd like to remember to compose one coherent post. So, this post will be anything but coherent.











The other night Luke found these Halloween stickers, because my house is so incredibly organized that Halloween stickers are sitting around in February. He sat quietly on the floor putting them on his face and pajamas and said, "Hey Mom, look at me!" And for reasons I can't explain, at that moment all I could think was "Thank you Lord!"






Several things lately have brought to mind Luke at age 3, when he was just beginning preschool. I remember Luke's very first IEP meeting. He had to come along with us because little Maggie was being born and Mimi and Papa were in Oklahoma for her birth. And there was no one I could leave Luke with without him screaming the entire time.




During the meeting Luke was wandering around the room, and likely because he was feeling anxious said, "Mama . . . . Come!" It was the first time he'd ever asked me to come.






I think the magnitude of his delays at that age has only recently hit me. Probably I just didn't let myself think about it at the time. What good would it have done? And so thinking how far he's come, considering the considerable developmental delays we began with, I'm just so thankful.




And yet after Lamar working all weekend, which means he is gone 5:45 a.m. til about 8:00 p.m., if I hear, "Mom will you please come?! Mom!!!! Mom!!!!" one more time . . .

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Luke's got a new 'do! I think I may have finally found THE person to cut Luke's hair. It was just a couple of months ago that Luke got his first professional haircut (since he was a baby). Since that cut, I've been trying to find someone that will cut it short without using the clippers. He absolutely can't handle the clippers. I can hold his head still for the sideburns, but he simply cannot relax his neck when the clippers get close. The last time we tried he got nicked. So Luke had the long little boy haircut. Which was kind of cute, but it grew so fast he needed a cut every two weeks! Thank you Jeanna at Great Clips for finally getting it and not being afraid to cut some hair!




Luke looked at himself in the mirror this morning and said, "Mom, thank you for my haircut!"




And I'm thinking about painting our living room that blue color in the photo above. Thoughts? I'm expecting tons of comments on that. The last comment I got was spam in Japanese (maybe) except for a certain word. Anyone know how I can delete comments? Anyway, I painted a small section of the room this blue while I decide. I asked Luke today if we should paint the whole room that color. He was playing Wii at the time. He immediately paused the Wii and said, "Oh yeah! Let's do it right now!"

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Luke and some friends playing a game show. I think this was Catch 21. The boy in the yellow hat had just been eliminated.







Luke as Bob Saget before we played 1 vs 100. He insisted on the glasses.

He hasn't watched any GSN in about 2 weeks. I wonder if the game show phase is on its way out. I won't be sorry, though he really hasn't obsessed to the same level as past "phases" with this one.

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I may have blogged before about Luke's love for commercials. He begged me to buy Glucerna and Elations at the grocery store the other day, though he's not diabetic and I'm pretty sure his joint health is good. They advertise heavily on GSN. I'm thinking the average GSN viewer is a little older than Luke.

He frequently suggests I go to Wal-mart to "save money, live better." He often requests I buy him some Listerine. I can only imagine what he would do if he ever put Listerine in his mouth. He is so scared of dogs but the other day he told me he wanted a dog so we could buy Kibbles and Bits and Beggin' Strips.

I don't think I ever blogged about a shopping experience just before Christmas. I ran in a grocery store on our way to Wednesday night Bible class to pick up a treat for the children in my class. Luke was begging for every item he recognized from ads. As I was trying to rush out he pulled a box of Splenda off the shelves. He insisted we needed it. I didn't have any artificial sweetener in the house, and I knew we were having company soon who would like for coffee. So I found the smallest box of Splenda and headed to check out. Luke carried the Splenda, holding it high above his head and announced, "SWEET!" to every shopper we passed. Just a few days ago I saw a Splenda commercial and they do exclaim "Sweet!" repeatedly.

Hope all had a happy Valentine's Day! I enjoyed the day with my SWEET! boy.