From the Mouth of Luke

As soon as we get in the car these days - "Tinkle Tinkle Little Star song Mommy" quickly followed by "Turn it up!"

"Why?" followed by "Why?" followed by "Why Mommy?" Clearly my answers aren't satisfying him :)

"Yes" - he hasn't said "yeah" in almost two weeks. All of the sudden on New Year's Eve, he started saying "yes" all.the.time. This is not in place of "no" unfortunately - that word can still be heard from him quite frequently.

"Boogies Mommy, only one tissue" This was after he started grabbing handfuls of kleenex at daycare and was told to only take one.

He brought Barney in the car with him the other morning. He lifted Barney up to the window and said, "Dook Barney, fire. Hot. Don't touch." This was when we were driving by a building that constantly has smoke (pollution) coming out of it!

We drive by a train station and right along with the tracks every morning. When he sees a Metra train traveling, he says "Hi People (while waving). Go to work in Chicago."

Mr. Manners

Luke is a very polite boy these days.

Please ("peazzz") follows just about everything he says. I have a feeling he thinks "as long as I say please I will get what I want". Unfortunately that is not the case, but I do appreciate the good manners!

Thank you ("tank u") is also being heard more and more around here. Many times you still have to ask him, "What do you say?" and then he will say it. Other times, he says it with no prompting at all!

Excuse me ("scuse me") is used often and appropriately!

Sorry ("sowwy") is said on his own occassionally. Usually though, we have to ask Luke to apologize if he has done something wrong (ie. hit Nala). He says it very sweetly!

In other Lukey language news, we are beginning to hear some sentences form. For example he will say "I did it." or "I see it." anything along those lines.

He is also using the possessive form quite often. For example when we pull up to the house on our way home during the week, he sees Uncle Will's car and says "Willy's car". He will do the same for other objects like "Daddy's shoes."

He say love you "uv u" to us when we say it to him and always has a cheerful good morning for us "morneen".

We definitely need to watch we say or what we are watching/listening to these days. Luke pretty much repeats the last word or two you say. He is definitely a little mockingbird!

Luke's language has expanded so much - he knows soooo many words. He is a smart little cookie with a cute little voice too :)

Lukey Language

Luke is full of words these days - I tried to list all of the ones I could think of right now. They are in no particular order and I am sure I am missing quite a few. He also has his own little language going on...it's adorable, but frustrating at times when we don't know what he is talking about!

Mama
Dada
Papa
puppy (pu-pa)
Paci (bobi - no clue why he calls it that)
milk
car
water (wa wa)
bubble (buba)
please (sometimes says it, mostly just signs it - or his version of the sign)
more (mo)
shoe
broom
shirt
bath
diaper
bye bye
boat
fish (fishy)
no
book
baby
tractor (ak-tor)
yogurt (o-gur)
outside (ow-si)
inside (in-si)
bowl
helicopter (copa coper)
walk (sort of sounds like a word that rhymes with truck - yikes!)
truck (similar to above - yikes again!)
garbage truck (gaba gaba)
bus
train (shrain)
choo choo
bird (bir)
Mickey
yes (iiiisss with a big head nod!)
all done
all gone
up
ball
baseball (bball)
Go Cubs!
golf
go
let's go (i-go)
bread
cheese
zoo
juice (shuice)
duck
flower

This video is just plain cute to Wally and I...for those of you that don't know, Yo Gabba Gabba is a ridiculous children's show. Kids seem to be mesmerized by it and adults seem to think that these people must have been high when they created it LOL

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Name Dropping

Yesterday morning when I was getting Luke ready to go, I was saying some of the kids names from daycare and he was repeating them. So after supper last night, I thought I would give it a try with the camera in hand. He said most of them. I just love his little voice :) Oh and Jack is by far the best one he says...it's so cute! And of course the last part is great - we need to make sure that Cubbie Blue is running through his veins at all times ;)

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Lukey Language

The other day Luke was drinking some milk from his sippy when he said (imagine the cutest little baby voice, pouty lips, and puppy dog eyes), "oooohhhh mama all gone". [Does that count as his first sentence?!?! :) ] He then brought his sippy over to me still looking so sad...it was one of the most adorable things I have ever seen (and Luke does a lot of adorable things in one day!). Wally and I just looked at each and started ooohing and aaahing over how cute Luke is :) Lately he has been doing a lot of "oooooohhh-ing" with those super cute pouty, pursed lips. It is usually when he drops something, can't reach something, etc. Sometimes it even sounds like he is saying "oooohhh boy".

Here is a picture of his "oooohhh" face!

In other Luke language, his favorite word is definitely "puppy" (puh-pah). We have quite a few dogs in the neighborhood so there is usually some barking going on. Luke hears them, yells "puh-pah" in a SUPER high-pitched, excited voice and then goes "ooo ooo ooo" (his version of a dog barking), and then he is on a mad search to try to see the dogs.

Wally and I seem to say "whoa" a lot. We say it when Luke is being crazy, falls down, and apparently in a lot of other instances because Luke has started saying it now too when he is

crazy, falls down, etc. It is too funny!

He is starting to repeat more and more of what we say. It is so exciting to watch him pick up all of these new words. He might repeat a word, but never use it again, but his vocabulary is definitely growing and even if he doesn't have the words, believe me, he has no problem getting across to us what he wants :)