28 Months Old

Lucas just turned 28 months old and it is just absolutely amazing what he is doing now! Here is a just a sample of what he does:

• He likes to put his blue hat on and pretend to be a mailman by delivering letters and boxes to us. He also knows how to say the word pretend and use it in a sentence.
• Favorite phrases: "No wanna do it!" "I do it!" "Go away daddy!" "Go outside with mommy" "Play with bubble gun outside" "How about..." "I want some nem nems! (M&Ms)"
• He also knows how to play hide and seek. Yesterday he said to me, "Daddy, go play hide and seek. You hide."
• He also tells me bedtime stories now. He would say "One upon a time, princess and horse..."
• And, he likes to get measured for his height. When we marvel how tall he is getting, he would run to the door where we mark his height and stand there to wait for us to measure him.
• He also loves going to school. In the mornings when he is ready he tells his mom "I ready mommy. I want to go to school." He knows the names of both of his teachers and all of his classmates.
• He is very imaginative. When I tell him a story that I made up, he listens intently and remembers it the next day.

He is eating much better now. He is still drinking his Pediasure with his milk, which helps to fill in holes in his diet. Also, just last night he started sleeping in his own room. We outfitted his bed with Cars sheets with Lightning McQueen (his favorite character right now). He sleeps around 8:00-8:30 at night after about a half hour of reading books and storytelling. He wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 in the morning and takes his nap at noon until 1:30 - 2:00 pm. He loves to play with his water gun and his bubble gun, and enjoys running through the sprinklers in the backyard. He likes watching Caillou and his Mighty Machines on TV (he can't get enough of the firetruck episode). We've started to potty train him now so we will see how that goes. That's Lucas at 28 months old!