More From Luke

He's just too fun not to share.

Duplo Antlers

Fast asleep at 7:40 after an exhausting cousin dinner.  Sometimes I forget
that until just a few months ago he took a 2-hour nap every day.

"This is called weight-lifting!"

I walked with Luke while practiced his bike-riding the other day.
He also did this.

Luke tagged along while I was helping a friend organize her basement
and happily enterteined himself with the stash of toys for the grandkids.

Yesterday a friend asked me to go to the BYU Museum of Art to
see the M. C. Escher exhibit in the afternoon.  I was nervous about
bringing Luke, but he was great!  He even told his siblings this morning,
in a slightly braggy tone, "I went to an art show yesterday!"

On Monday morning Luke excitedly reported from the back seat of the van,
"Mom, I can finally roll my eyes!"  And a minute later, "Mom, I pretty much know everything."
If he didn't have teenage tendencies before...

Luke's favorite name right now is Michael.  He names things Michael.  He changes things that already have names and renames them Michael.  His superhero name is Michael (not the alias - the actual superhero name - as in, "It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's MICHAEL!").  And Eliza helped him write "Michael" when they were playing school the other day.  This afternoon when we visited Oma, there were several little chicks on display and Luke named two of them.  One was Big Foot and the other was Michael.  (By the way, have you ever heard of Naked Neck Chickens?  Yeah, they're weird.  Oma was afraid they were cold.)

Luke's other favorite word right now is spleen.  He hurts his spleen all the time doing various everyday activities, and he points to a different part of his body every time.  I think this originated from a Studio C sketch but I don't know which one.  I kind of love it.

Last night the kids were playing Monopoly and every time Luke was paid rent for his property he happily exclaimed, "I have all the monies!"  And when he found out that he would lose the game if he did a certain thing, he confusedly asked, "Wait, this is a loser game?"

Over the weekend Jack really wanted to watch one of the Harry Potter movies, but the rule in our house is that we won't turn one on if Luke is around, so the kids only get to see them if Luke is in bed for the night.  When Jack chose to disregard the rule and ask yet again if we could watch the movie in the afternoon, Luke immediately replied, "That's not an option."