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“A blueberry and a strawberry and me and my daddy holding hands under shooting stars. And daddy has a belly and I have no belly. And hearts, and butterflies, and darkness, and we can touch the sky… And that's all” – L

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Exchange between Lucas and Daddy while telling jokes tonight:

Matt: "How do you get an elephant in a refrigerator? - Open the door, put the elephant in, close the door."

Lucas: [uncontrollable laughter]

Matt: "How do you get a kangaroo in a refrigerator? -Open the door, take the elephant out, put the kangaroo in, close the door."

Lucas: [uncontrollable laughter]

Lucas: "My turn! Ok, how do you get an elephant, a kangaroo, an ostrich, a giraffe, a tiger, a bat, and a flamingo in a refrigerator?"

Matt: "Um... I don't know."

Lucas: "No, I'm asking you!"

Matt: "Um, get a bigger refrigerator?"

Lucas: "Ok, I got a bigger refrigerator... now what?"

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L to his Uncle Michael: "You live on a different planet? "

Later that day in a different conversation:
L: "I live in Rainbow Moon in my rainbow house."
[Oh the imagination. I'm glad I know where he lives now next time I try to find him. He is an excellent hider. Earlier today I found him in the guest room bookshelf -- quietly all tucked in. ]

You Know You Have a Three Year Old When...

He says at dinner: "I love Ketchup on bread"

He adds the word "bananas" into almost every sentence just because he thinks it's funny.

Your conversations go something like this:

M: Don't get leaves in the car, Lucas.
L: Why don't we get leaves in the car?
M: Because the leaves are dirty.
L: Why are the leaves dirty?
M: Because they're leaves.
L: Why are they called leaves?
M: Um, because the leaves are leaving.
L: ...Why are the leaves leaving?

While getting Burritos and Quesadillas at Moes:
L: Why doesn't mine have beans on it?
S: Quesadillas don't have beans but you can have some of mine.
L: But I don't like beans.

While spending the weekend at his grandparents' house:
Nana: Lucas, if you do that again you'll have to go to timeout.
Lucas: What happened to one, two, three?

He learns to color in the lines!

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Randomly while building trains with his daddy:
L: Sometimes I say "hip hip banana"

A few minutes later, I sneezed and
L like a good Southener: "Bless you, honey"

Boy is never lacking for comic relief.
Love him.

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Lucas: Mommy, you're the princess, daddy is the milk carrier, and I'm the Booya.

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Overheard today:
L: Hales, I am so proud of you.

Love my sweet boy!

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Walking by Victoria Secrets:
L: Mommy! It's a pretty store for you.

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At dinner last night:
L: "When I is big, I'm going to be a prince and live with mommy and daddy."

Prince in his castle:

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You know you've been drinking too many Blue Moons when your toddler says:

"Mommy, I need orange in my milk"

Cheers!

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In attempting to get Lucas to bed tonight, I gave him three choices (trying to use my pediatrician skills of good parenting of toddlers -- giving toddlers choices that you can live with rather than open ended choices).

S: We need to brush teeth, put on pajamas, and read books. What do you want to do first?

L: Play.

L:1; S:0 = mommy fail

It's all easier in theory.

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We've been practicing names and since Jenny is visiting us right now we had even more names to work on:

M: What's mommy's name?

L: Mommy

M: No, what's mommy's name?

L: Steph-hon (yes that's what he calls me since Matt always says, "Steph"..."Hon")

M: What's daddy's name?

L: Matt

M: What's Jenny's name?

L: (thinking) Maybe grandpa? (It was a trick questions... I know).

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Lucas watching Matt paint our stairs.

L: You making it pretty for mommy.

M: Yes, Lucas

L: Uh, Mommy love it!

A few minutes later:

L: Mommy, Daddy making mess.

A little bit later out of the blue:

L: So proud of you, mommy.

(can you tell we've been doing a lot of potty-training; with a lot of success might I add)

Trying all the new big boy underwear on at once

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L: Mommy, want banana

S: We don't have any bananas, sweetie. They're all gone.

L: Need Nana. Nana buy more bananas.

The life of a child with working parents. Mom apparently doesn't go grocery shopping. So funny. :)

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Two Christmases ago I turned this picture into a coaster for Matt. I couldn't resist.

Today when Lucas saw the coaster:

L: Baby drink milk. Baby no drink beer.

Smart kid. ;)

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Upon finding his bed nicely made up this evening with extra blankets folded and his animals nicely arranged on his pillow:

L: Uh, uh. What happened?

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At CeCe's (our favorite ice cream store) the other day:

CeCe's girl: Would you like to sample something?

S: Lucas what would you like to try?

L: Chocolate (or something similar sounding)

CeCe's girl gives Lucas a sample

Lucas (with huge brown eyes looks up): Thank you very much for ice cream

CeCe's girl about melted. But who can blame her? I think he could have eaten his way through the ice cream store at that point had we let him.

Outside of CeCe's

We teach him a lot of things, but I might have to credit the daycare for those manners. Can't remember teaching him to say thank you very much. "Thank you" yes... the "very much" he came up with on his own.

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At dinner with friends Mercer and Emily last night:

L (to Mercer completely out of the blue): Uhhh, new shirt... beautiful new shirt.

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L: "I need sunglasses."

(Puts them on)

L: "I look awesome"

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M: Who does Daddy love?
L: Luca
M: Who does Mommy love?
L: Luca
M: Who does Lucas love?
L: Emma

We now know where we stand. ;)