Category Archives: Luke

>Appeasing Everyone

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After dinner, Dave was paged and had to work. Luke went to the bathroom, I put Bean out, and put Jack on the jiminy and started the dinner dishes. I heard a thud and then a yell so I ran to the bathroom with a tiny ice pack in one hand. Luke had hit his head on the bathroom sink and he was crying. I gave him the ice pack and a kiss and a hug, but he seemed determined to see how loud his cries could echo off the bathroom walls. Since I thought he was being overly dramatic, I told him to lie down in my bed for a minute and I would be back to check on him because now Jack was also crying. I picked Jack up and went to check on Luke, who was laying in my bed, still crying and holding the ice pack to his head. He said,

“I think I have a bump.”

So I immediately went into panic mode and ran, with Jack over my shoulder, to get a better ice pack. I came back with a bag of frozen peas. An open bag of frozen peas. I handed it to Luke, who looked skeptical. I said,

“Just try it and see how it feels. I’ll be back with something better, because now Bean is barking to be let in.”

So I ran, with Jack over my shoulder, to get a better ice pack and to let Bean in. On the way back to check on Luke I heard,

“Mommy?”

And I said,

“The peas.”

Bean was a big help with cleanup, but I am still finding peas after 2 days.

To prevent future injuries we came up with the following solution:

>Luke’s First Powder Day

>Well, I wasn’t going to do any more posts until I had a chance to post Jack’s birth story, but I guess I am never going to get around to that, so I am just going to start posting things again.

We went to Eldora yesterday and Dave made this video. Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3062973019672002902&hl=en

>Dobbyhead

>We played dobbyhead today. To play, you get out the sorry board, and put the hot wheels shooter thing in the middle. One person gets two hot wheels to move around the sorry board. That person draws cards and attempts to make it around the board. That person is me. The other person, Luke, Tries to use the various hot wheels shooter mechanisms to shoot your car off the board.

We also played LEGOS and I was starting to worry that the only thing we do with the LEGOS is to follow the instructions to build something that LEGOS designed for you. And that there was no imagination and no creativity. I felt a little panicky about it. So I said, “Hey, why don’t we build something on our own, without the constructions? (aka instructions.) I built a house. (Boring.) Luke took the helicopter and the person we built and added another person and created a mom and a baby that could fly on a helicopter and had wings and could be super heroes. I quit worrying about creativity for the rest of the night. (his at least.)

>Today Luke said, “Why does it feel good to tell the truth?”
This may have been prompted by the fact that I mentioned it’s important to tell the truth after he said it wasn’t cold outside, when in fact we received our first snowfall today.

We talked about the conscience and how doing the right thing feels good and doing the wrong thing feels bad, and how that helps you know right from wrong.

Then he got sort of sad and said, “Whenever I hurt someone accidentally, then I cry.”

I told him that that is because it’s wrong to hurt people, and he feels bad even thought he didn’t do it n purpose, and that is how he know he is a good person. That seemed to help.