Luke & I braved the crowds on Wednesday to get his pictures taken. It had been a year, so it needed to be done. After a bad experience trying to get Luke's picture taken when he was two, I always am a little nervous to get it done. Even though we've done it successfully since then, I still have visions of him screaming bloody murder in fear, of what, I'll never know! Thankfully, despite the large volume of interesting people at Portrait Innovations, we had a good time and came away with a picture we were very happy with.
Luke constantly amuses me with the things he thinks of. Earlier this week as he and I were walking Ginger we were talking about the Pledge of Allegiance. Actually, I was trying to get him to recite it for me since I know they say it every day in his class. He wasn't very accommodating, but as I was kind of saying some lines of it to encourage him, he tells me, "I am under God, you are indivisible, Dad is liberty, and Ginger is justice for all." How cute!
Tonight as I was tucking him into bed, we had a fun conversation about dreams. We had just read a story and at the end the teddy bear in the story is asleep in his bed. Well, the bed is on a cloud and there are stars around it. Luke says, "How can that be? That's not right." I said, "Well, the bear is dreaming." Then I try to explain..."you know, when you see pictures in your head while you're sleeping." He gives me this puzzled look and says, "No, mom, you can't take the hair off your head. That would not be good and that would make a mess." I guess he thought you'd have to take your hair off to see the pictures inside your head! Apparently, the topic of dreams is a little too abstract for now.
Over last weekend, Luke had his first homework assignment from school. We had to find 5 beautiful fall leaves so he could make a "count your blessings" tree at school this week. So, we spent some time Sunday sifting through the mostly brown leaves and found 5 pretty ones to bring. When I arrived to pick Luke up from school Monday afternoon I saw the trees hanging on the bulletin board outside his class. I couldn't resist checking his out before I went into his class to get him. His 5 leaves said he was thankful for: 1. Dad, 2. Mom, 3. school, 4. making spiders at school, and 5. deer. I was like, "deer?" I mean, I know he knows what a deer is, but we don't see a lot of deer and don't talk about deer, so I'm really wondering where that came from. So I ask him about it as we're putting his coat on and gathering his things, and his response is "the deer on the road." I'm still like, "what?" I mean, we see dead deer on the road all the time, but we don't point them out to him or anything. Before we left, another boy in the class comes over to us and tells us about how he saw two dead deer in the road, and I finally had my answer to where the deer came from. I'm guessing that the teacher amended "deer in the road" to just "deer". It is so funny the ideas they come up with. I'm glad he has things he is thankful for.
Luke with the pumpkin he got at school. Dad helped him color it.
Trick or Treating with cousin Brady was fun...unfortunately,
we couldn't get them to smile at the same time!
