I wish I could just freeze time on Lucas and keep him the way he is right now. He's getting too big too fast.
Evidence:
- He doesn't look like a baby at all anymore.
- When we first moved to our apartment in March, I could still hold Lucas like a baby when I'd rock him before bed time. Now he's too heavy and his limbs are too long and gangly for me to hold him in my arms.
- Between March and his birthday in October, he grew nearly 3.5 inches. And he seems even taller now.
One of the things I'm OBSESSED with is the way Lucas talks. I just want to bottle up his little words and expressions and keep them forever and replay them over and over until my heart explodes. I adore it THAT much.
So for the purpose of preservation (and so I can read this and cry in a few years - or months! - when he sounds totally different), here is a short guide to the language of Lucas:
- "Gopper" = Diaper. Gopper! As in "Gopper is keen [clean]. I keen, Mama." I wish he would always, always say "gopper." Always! It kills me.
- "Woosie song" = Ring Around the Rosie. There is absolutely nothing, NOTHING like a cute little kid coming up to you, pulling on your fingers and saying, "Woosie song! Woosie song, Mama." How can you resist?
- "Me-a-help" = Help me. I debated including it on the list because I hear it about 20 times a day. But it would be so sad if I ever forgot it.
- "Perc" = Glasses (the kind you wear on your face). How on earth he came up with "perc" I will never know.
- "Budnun" = Button. It's just cute.
- "I do!" (sometimes shortened to just "do") = yes. Sometimes "I do" works in context: "Lucas, do you want some more milk?" "I do!" But often it doesn't: "Should we go to the park?" "I do!"
- The sound you make when you pull something = Pull. He'll come up to me, pull my hand and say, "I huuuuhhhhll, Mama." Or when we were reading a Richard Scarry book and pointing out what all the animals in the pictures were doing: riding a bike, swimming, running, huuuuhhhhll! (playing tug-of-war).
- "Timas" = Christmas. Lucas loves to point out all the lights and decorations and excitedly yell, "Timas!" It's pretty great. He also has been saying a lot: "Kay! Timas!" (meaning, I'll see McKay at Christmas).
- "I suck" = I'm stuck. Yes, we do sometimes agree with him when he says this one. :)
- "Ay En" = What you say when you finish a book.
- "Awharoo?" = Where are you? Actually, he has been saying this a little more clearly lately. But he loves the game of saying, "Where are you?" and the other person says, "I'm here." Sometimes he says both parts himself.
- "I did it!" When he accomplishes something, he loves to congratulate himself.
- "Make up!" = Wake up! He loves to play the game where you pretend you're sleeping and then he says, "Daddy, make up!" Or when you're just trying to get some real rest after being up during the night with a newborn: "Mama, make up! Get out the bed. Mama! Out!"
- "Yay!" Said after you sing a song. Best moment was when he yelled it out loud during church in that quiet moment after a hymn finishes. It was on the Sunday when Annie was blessed, so the whole family got to witness it.
- "Bwew away?" = Blew away. He got a helium balloon and the string unraveled from his wrist. He still talks about it. "Boowoon bwew away?"
- "Ont dat" = I want that.
- "Happy day" = If he's not talking (which is most of the time), he's singing. And 9 times out of 10 his little made up songs include the phrase "happy day."
- "Dirteen" = Every number that comes after 12 until 20.
- "My." He says "my" before everything lately. Usually when he's asking where it went, as in: "My baby bear?" "My Daddy?"
- "I vinky vaar" = I'm drinking water. 'Nough said.
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