Our Last Full Day Together

Writing this entry finds me really quite sad this evening. I just put him down for the night and the house is quiet yet again, and as it will be for the rest of the week, days included. Now look it, I'm going to make myself cry. I've had a lot of fun with Lucas and although it's only been a week and I know I'll see him again, it still makes me sad. The things I'll miss: seeing him first thing in the morning, there is nothing like that smile right from the start; stopping to smell the flowers (literally) on walks--who does that? Lucas does; dancing around the table; shouting hooray and clapping for the most mundane of things--with a two year old, everything is worth rewarding. He's taught me to enjoy the simplest of things and I'm glad I had the opportunity to spend real quality time with him this week. I know there will be many more visits to come, and I will cherish each and every one. Haha, I guess I'm being a little sentimental here. Note, never write blogs when emotions are running on the surface!

Today was another adventure, starting again with the usual routine. I wanted to highlight on some funny stories from today. At breakfast we were talking and I got the hiccups in the middle of one of my words. Lucas thought this was hilarious and started laughing, which always makes me laugh. So I laughed into my arms on the table. He copied this and continued doing it every time he laughed during breakfast. At lunch I was giving him his medicine and a bit of it dropped on the ground. I didn't even have a chance to turn and get a washcloth and he exclaims 'I got it Beckie!' I turn and look and the spill is gone. He shows my his sock and there's a pink spot on the bottom. He stomped on the spill! While we were upstairs, he was putting babies into Sammy's crate, telling them to go to bed, etc etc. I went into my bedroom to put something away and I heard plastic hitting plastic. I knew right away that it was the humidifier in that room, as we were playing with it the other day. As I was walking towards the room, I asked him what he was doing. I caught him quickly going back over to the crate and he told me 'babies bed.' Do they really start covering up their actions at two years old!?! I couldn't help but to laugh.

We went to the park again today. This time we went up to Franklin and met Jill, Ali, and Abby up there. They all had a really good time playing. Now whenever they go anywhere, they hold hands while walking. It is just the cutest thing. I'm going to start planning their wedding. :) We were there for about 2 hours. They climbed and slid down slides and ran and just about everything one can do at a park. It was slightly cooler today, but still hot when the sun poked out from behind the clouds, so we decided to get some ice cream from Ritters. I got Lucas the "worm and dirt" cup which is just chocolate ice cream with cookie bits and gummy worms. Of course as soon as he saw the worms he had to start eating them. And that's about all he ate. He had a couple bites of the cookie but wasn't really into the ice cream. He did eat my cherry off my sundae of course. Then he and Abby played 'ring around the rosy' while Jill and I finished our ice cream. Ritters has big windows and the kids stood up to the windows and watched them make the ice cream treats. Lucas thought it was so neat to see inside. And, as his timing is always perfect, as we're getting ready to go he says 'poop, Beckie.' This time I had to change him in the car. Not the easiest to do now that he's 2 and too tall to really lie down on the seat.

Tonight we ate dinner and played with toys for awhile. We got a special treat before bath, a call from Daddy. He said a few words, but he usually gets really quiet on the phone, almost like he's shy sometimes. It was so good to talk to Jeremy, especially at home and not at drill. At this point Lucas was getting pretty tired so he just curled up on my lap and listened to Jeremy and I talk (I had Jeremy on speaker phone). I think sometimes he just likes hearing his daddy's voice, even if he doesn't seem responsive. I show him pictures everyday of Jaime and Jeremy and he always squeals with excitement, "mommy and daddy!" He was so tired after his bath he said baby and just wanted to be held. I took advantage of this and held him for awhile. Those are some of my favorite moments. It's rare when he's cuddly. But he had to get dressed and so we got his pj's on and went to bed. Hmm, now I'm sad again.

In other news, since I know Jaime is not updating her blog while she is gone (she barely does it when she's home), she is doing really well in school. She's learning all about carpentry and she's been cutting wood with saws and other power tools. I'll have to put her to some use when she comes home and have her build me a deck! Michael is doing well too. No news yet on the car issue, but hopefully it gets resolved. Sammy and Zeus are doing well. Noisy, especially when babies are sleeping (on a side story, when Sammy barks, I'll hear Lucas say 'quiet Sammy' on the monitor--it cracks me up every time). I think Sammy is really glad to have Zeus here. I'm going to try and get them into this air conditioning as much as I can next week before I shampoo the carpets. Then they're banned from the house!

In some bad news, I just found out (this is why I hate not having my phone!) that on Monday, Christy, Michael's sister, was out riding her horse when some Harleys rode by and spooked her horse. It took off running, and then bucked her off. She hit its leg on the way down and landed on her head. She was knocked out cold. Her two oldest girls and husband were also riding and so they saw it. The girls were pretty freaked out. Chad took Christy to the emergency room. She's okay, no serious injuries, just cuts and bruises and a lot of soreness. We're really glad she's okay but it's still pretty scary. I don't think she'll be riding that one again soon. She just got it not too long ago and it was pretty broken in, but I guess the noise just got to it. So if you ride a motorcycle and you see someone on a horse, go another way.