Silly Lucas

Lucas has done some pretty funny stuff lately.  He's always saying funny stuff and I need to start being better about writing it down so I can remember.  The other day I made myself a salad for lunch.  I started eating it and Lucas asked me, "you eating grass, mommy?"  I guess that's what it looks like to a toddler.

He's also been more interested in his baby sister lately.  I had been trying to get him to feel her kicking, but every time he was calm enough to sit and wait for it, she wouldn't budge, so I told him she was sleeping.  She's kinda lazy, she doesn't kick anywhere near as often as Lucas did.  He did finally feel her kick the other day for the first time.  He seemed pretty excited about it at the time, but hasn't been interested in feeling her kick since.  Lucas does ask me now all the time if baby sister is awake or sleeping, though.  The other morning he asked me if she was hungry for breakfast.  He also likes to read book to her, which is just the cutest thing in the world.  I hope he's this nice and attentive to her after she's born.

The other day while we were at the store shopping, Lucas saw a little wooden birdhouse and decided he wanted to get it and paint it.  It was only a dollar so I went ahead and got it.  Here he is painting it.

And here he is with the finished birdhouse.  He was SO proud of himself.

We've gone out to admire the birdhouse 5 times a day since he made it.  He had so much fun painting it, and it took up a good hour.  There's not many activities we've done that have lasted that long, so I was pretty happy about that.  Best dollar I ever spent!

Lucas has started being even more of a dare devil lately than he used to be.  When he rides his tricycle he takes his hands off the handle bars and tries to see how long he can go like that.  He's always climbing up on the couch and trying to jump to stuff.  And the other day I realized that he can climb up onto the counters without a chair.  I took video of it to show you all how much like a monkey he's become.  The first climb is pretty straight forward, but the second one he gets pretty creative.  My rock climbing relatives should be pretty impressed.  I think he's ready to take it to the next level, we might have to make a trip to the rock climbing gym when we visit next.