Addendum to "I Sorry"

Yesterday when I went to drop off Luke in the childcare at the gym, he wrapped his legs around my waist and gripped me harder than I think he has ever done before. When I tried to detach him he started chanting, "I sorry. I sorry."

All of a sudden, his little phrase was not at all funny. I felt terrible. I kept wondering, "Does he think I'm abandoning him?" I tried to reassure him that it was going to be fun, but he didn't calm down. He just kept saying that he was sorry, and I almost felt like crying.

He had always liked the gym childcare before. He'd run in and join up with a little friend and they'd push cars around or whatever. I told the workers to come get me if he cried for more than 10 minutes. They never came to get me, so I assumed he had calmed down. What he did was fall asleep. Not normal for Luke. NOT normal at all. He's not running a fever, he's eating, and he's sleeping. So what's wrong?

I Sorry

Luke uses the phrase "I sorry" to express anything he doesn't like. When he wants to use a "toy"-- usually a kitchen appliance that he isn't allowed to have, he expresses his displeasure by saying "I sorry." He also uses it when he bumps his head or gets hurt any other way. It's really cute to see him rubbing his head and saying "I sorry." He says it when he's being restrained, like when we make him sit for scriptures. And he also says it when I try to get him to say please. It will go like this.

L: A bowl! A bowl!

S: Say please. Pppppp Please.

L: (Louder) A bowl! A bowl!

S: Luke, say please and Mama will give you the bowl.

L: I sorry! I sorry!

S: Luke, you're not in trouble. You just need to say please. Say please.

L: (Almost crying) I sorry! I sorry!

At which point I feel so bad that he doesn't understand what I want to do (and also his sorry face will melt my heart) that I give him the bowl. I'll even let him have a spoon. But he's banned from having cereal in the bowl. (See "If you give a Luke a bowl" post below)

He sounds so miserable when he says it! It's really adorable. I'm going to finally succeed in capturing it on camera one of these days.

His Father's Son

I know I posted about Jared's meatloaf sandwich several months ago. People who have ever come to dinner may have also witnessed Jared dumping applesauce and yogurt on pancakes or dipping oreos in cranberry juice. Just over a week ago, he talked a few people into dipping oreos in lemon yogurt.

Luke obviously takes after Jared in his culinary experiments. For dinner, he had chicken nuggets dipped in cherry applesauce. Yum!

Verbs

Luke now says 2 (and only 2) verbs. Can you guess what they are?

cook

and

stir

The Pack N Play

Sometimes we keep the pack n play up in our room after we have friends over for a visit. This is because Luke loves to play in it. We pile in the pillows, and he throws himself around.

He also likes to look through the mesh.

This is Luke's favorite book right now. We get to read it to him at least 6 times a day-- always at least twice in a row. Then we get to listen to Luke read it. He reads it something like this "Yes! a moon. Yes! penguin. Yes! sheep. Yes! (mumble mumble) Yes!" and so on. This was never my favorite Eric Carle book because it is sooooo repetitive. But I think that's why Luke likes it.

Cake-Cakes and 'Gurt

Luke loves breakfast for dinner-- pancakes and yogurt. Yum!

When Did Luke Turn Into a GOOD kid???

The answer is last week some time. I don't know which day precisely but one day he just started to LISTEN. The first time I noticed it was when he saw a garbage can across the street (a yucky, if you will) and he ran forward to go see it. I yelled, "Stop! Wait for Mama!" and he DID. In the face of a yucky, he stopped and waited. He also started holding our hands and putting away toys without throwing a fit. His favorite chore of all is taking something to the garbage can. He does that when we ask him. He also started bringing us things we ask for. All this in the space of one week. What a good boy! Oh, and he's also started folding his arms and won't throw a fit as long as the prayer is a short one.

And because everyone likes pictures, here they are. You'll never guess what he's doing in all of them.

I'd Rather Be in Time Out!

Luke, as you may be aware, has a tendency to run from one thing to another. He is pretty good at making messes, but he's also old enough to help pick them up. Luke doesn't always think he should help, but Jared and I do. And since we're bigger, we make the rules.

The other day Luke wanted to play his bucket game, but we told him he had to pick up all of his food first. He picked up one or two pieces and then refused to do anymore. I told him, "Luke if you don't clean up, you have to go to time out." He looked at me with this "Oh yeah?" expression and went and sat down in his corner where he happily began counting. It was as if he was saying, "I'd rather be here than cleaning. I like my corner anyway." Jared and I both had to hide our faces so that he wouldn't see us laughing. We knew he couldn't think that we thought he was funny or he wouldn't learn. We decided that since Luke liked it in time out so much, he could just stay there for awhile. After about a minute, Luke decided he didn't like time out anymore and he started to cry when we wouldn't let him leave his corner. After 2 or 3 minutes, we let him out to clean.

He put all his food in the basket.

Random Videos

Here are a few videos of Luke collected throughout the past two weeks.



This is Luke "cooking" in the kitchen



This is Luke "cooking" in the living room. He gets distracted by my feet. Listen for the sniffing. It's pretty funny.



More of Luke's cooking. Are you sick of it by now? Surprisingly, I am not. I think it's adorable.



Finally, this is our inflatable mountain which permanently resides in our house because Luke has started waking up around 5:30 every morning. We have found though, that if one of us goes into his room and lays on the mattress, he'll go back to sleep.