Lucas 3 Years
Old
He is such a sweet little boy. He says please and thank you and lots of I love you! He gets so excited about things, and
has a smile that can melt us instantly.
He loves snuggles!
His favorite shows are “Mighty Machines,” “ Dino Trux,”
“Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally,” “Bob the Builder,” “Rescue Bots,” “Super
Hero Squad” and anything else with trucks or dinosaurs.
He loves trucks, tools, and dinosaurs more than anything!
His favorite color is ORANGE!
He loves to play in the sandbox, and can spend hours outside
with his diggers, tractors, and trucks.
He thinks all toys should be able to go into the sand and then back into
the house without a problem. He
has me give them a “bath” if they are too sandy. He talks and shouts and plays with the trucks.
He talks pretty well, but always confuses pronouns. I still think it’s cute, so I’m not the
best at correcting him! “Me fine,
Him do that, Me need flatbed truck,” and so on! He gets caught up on his words when he gets excited and
tries to speak too fast.
When he sees a little and a big of something in the books we
read he always says the little one is Lucas and the bigger one is Mommy!
He LOVES tools and if he finds an unattended screw driver he
will take as many of his toys apart as he can until we take it away. That is usually followed by crying and
huge disappointment. He likes his
play tools too, but the real ones are better! He loves to do jobs and work with Daddy on anything that
uses a tool or a machine that makes loud noises!
We say, man he is cute, multiple times a day. He just plain is CUTE! Matt says, love that kid, multiple
times a day too.
“Mommy, you snuggle me.” “Daddy, you want to play with me?”
He seems ready for potty training, but with the new baby I
haven’t been up for pushing it.
Sometimes he is excited about sitting on the potty, and has gone a few
times, but most of the time if you ask him if he wants to try or if he has to
go potty he says, “no thanks, I fine!”
He still sleeps in his crib with the crib tent. It has helped him to sleep longer, and
he still takes naps. We will move
him into a bed soon when we move Kaylee out of our room and into the crib.
He LOVES his binky and blanket. When he gets upset he always wants both of them. He will say, “I need my binky, it calm
me down!”
When he gets mad at one of us he says, “You being mean to
me, you not my friend.” It is
usually because we will not let him have another treat, or do something that
will get him hurt. We are mean
like that! You have to be careful
what you say to him because he repeats everything. He was mad at me so he started pushing me. I said to stop it because he was being
a bully. Then he started saying,
“Mommy you mean to me, you a bully!”
Most of the time he tells us how much he loves us and pats
us on the back when he gives hugs.
He tells Matt, “You my best buddy!” and he tells me, “You my friend
Mommy!”
When he coughs he pats the back of his own head. It’s the cutest!
He has started to throw more tantrums when he doesn’t get
what he wants. He has been an
almost perfect baby, one and two year old, so we can put up with a few tantrums
from the terrible threes!
He still has a lot of food allergies. The list right now is wheat, oats,
corn, eggs, peanuts, coconut, almonds, beans, sesame seeds, and milk. We have been cheating on corn lately to
test it, and he has been doing pretty well. It would be nice to knock that one off the list. Even with his milk allergy, he has been
able to eat a little cheese or yogurt, but he gets a really sick tummy for days
if he has milk or ice cream. When
he sees things he wants to eat he sometimes says, “I can’t have that, it hurt
my tummy,” which is heart breaking, and sometimes he says “I have that, I be
fine.” The poor kid misses out on
a lot. We are getting better at
knowing what he can eat, and less scared to try things out. The only anaphylactic food that we have
found so far is still peanuts. We
carry benadryl and an epi pen with us everywhere just in case. We have never needed the epi pen, but
have used the benadryl multiple times for reactions. Now that he is three we will retest again soon. He eats a lot of rice. Rice, rice cereals, chocolate chex are
his favorite, rice milk, rice bread, and rice noodles, are his daily
foods. Luckily he likes a lot of
fruits too.
His best buddy is Owen, my friend Ashly’s son. They are six days apart in age and act
like twin brothers. They can get
into some serious trouble together and also be the cutest of cute together! He talks about him all the time, and
loves their weekly play dates. He
also says his cousin Abby is his friend, “Ryan my friend,” and “Katie my
friend.” Ryan is my friend Amy’s
little boy that used to live in our neighborhood, and Katie is my friend Leah’s
little girl that is in his playgroup.
He also says his grandmas are his friends, and so are Aunt Wendy, Uncle
Mike, and Uncle Chunk! He loves
all his aunts, uncles, grandmas, and cousins!
He still likes to have a bottle of rice milk before bedtime
and before naps. I’m thinking
we’ll have to stop that soon with potty training, but the snuggle time is hard
to give up. He loves to snuggle in
the rocking chair and have his bottle, sing songs, and read books before he
goes to sleep. It’s precious time
with him.
His favorite songs right now are “Wheels on the Bus,” “The
Wise Man Built his House upon a Rock,” “Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree,”
“Animal Crackers in my Soup,” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” If you sing and stop on certain words
he will fill them in for you. We
used to think he just didn’t like to sing, and had no interest in learning the
words to songs like most kids do, and then all of a sudden lately he has
started to sing along with us.
Apparently he was listening because he knows most of the words to the
songs we sing and sounds adorable singing them!
His favorite books are usually ones with trucks in
them. He loves to read all
different ones though. He even
loves this invention book that is meant for much older kids. The other day while we were reading it
he pointed to a man and told me “that Thomas Jefferson.” He was right! He can tell us about almost every kind of truck that we read
about.
He loves “whee whoos” and gets so excited when he hears
them. He runs to the window when
he hears the garbage truck or any sort of fire engine or policeman. He also loves trains. He is all boy when it comes to
vehicles!
The whole family gets so excited when we see trucks and
tractors on the road because we know they will make Lucas happy!
He loves his sisters, and his Mommy and Daddy. He loves when we are all together. He really is such a joy to be around,
and we have so much fun with him everyday. He is full of energy and excitement. We love our handsome, truck and tractor
loving, snugly, sweet, fun boy!
(Dr appt 12-1-15)
32.8 lbs 56 %
38.25 inches 62 %
(Dr appt 12-1-15)
32.8 lbs 56 %
38.25 inches 62 %
October 3
We celebrated Lucas and David's birthdays together at Grandma Barb's house. Megan was so cute to put together an adorable Lego party that would make both boys happy. Lucas turned 3 and David turned 10. We were in charge of invitations and lunch, and she put together the decorations, games, and "cake." Since Lucas can't have normal cake, she created chocolate covered rice krispies that looked like legos. It was really cute, and everything came together to make a really fun party. Lucas couldn't have been happier! My mom was in town for the blessing, so she was able to be there too, which made it extra special! Lucas loved opening presents. He got a dinosaur truck from Mike and Wendy (two of his favorite things together!), an amazing digging machine for his sandbox and a construction worker dress up from Grandma Barb, the cutest shirts from the Disney store from Megan, and sumo wrestling blow ups from Becky and Dave. He was a spoiled boy!
October 8
On Lucas's actual birthday we spent the afternoon at the Museum of Curiosity with Grandma Karen, and then met Matt at Tepanyaki for dinner. The kids are so well behaved there because they are so entertained! Plus it is one of the few places where everyone eats and is happy with the food. Even with Lucas's allergies there are things he can eat that he loves, so it made it the perfect birthday restaurant for him. He was so happy when they came out with a candle and sang to him. His face lit up and he was grinning ear to ear! We let him eat only a few bites of ice cream so he wouldn't be too sick, and promised him a sucker to make it up to him. He opened up presents from Grandma Karen and us when we got home. Grandma got him a dump truck backpack that he has been talking about for months, a helicopter, and a remote control car, all of which have been hits. We got him a drill and bolts set, Heat Wave the transformer rescue bot, and Rocko the Dinosaur dump truck. Rocko went straight out to the sandbox and has been well loved, and Heat Wave and the helicopter have slept in his crib with him most nights since! He was pretty happy about all his new things, and was so proud to have all the attention on him. He thinks birthdays are pretty amazing. He keeps telling people he got to have two birthdays! We love our three year old boy!
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