Luke's World

The things Luke says and does catch me SO off guard. It's funny that he's so unique.

Yesterday morning I woke up before him, and I was standing in the kitchen when he popped in unexpectedly. I turned around and there he was. So I said, "GOOD MORNING!! How are you?" He almost cut me off saying, "Doze mmMEAN guys....PUSH ME INDA WATER!!!!!" (translation: those mean guys pushed me in the water [very angrily]- apparently he had had a bad dream) TOTALLY caught me by surprise and I started to laugh but held back (he really hates it when I don't take him seriously). So I asked him a little more. "They did? That's scary!" [head nod with concerned look from Luke- the milky look where they know you are feeling sympathetic] "This happened while you were sleeping??" "Yess! Dey got me ALL WET!!!" "That's no good!! Are you okay?" "No." "Well, you're not all wet anymore, right?" "I change my clothes." (he doesn't know how to dress himself, and he was still wearing the pjs I put on him the night before) "WOW! You DID?!! That's amazing!" Then he gave me a look like he realized he was telling me something that wasn't true. "No. I did not!" (he was very angry at this point, very stressed out) I gave him a hug and we talked about it a little more, but I have just never (or at least not that I can remember) encountered something like this with a 2 year old :) He totally cracks me up.

K, and one more from Luke- this one also happened in the morning, but it happened while Nate and I were still in bed (it was Saturday so Nate was home too- we were BOTH neglecting our kids, that's why I can tell this story, it wasn't entirely MY bad parenting :)). We're used to the kids waking up before us and doing crazy things before deciding to come drag us out of bed (eating almost a whole bag of M&Ms that we've left out, or turning a whole loaf of bread into burnt toast caked in cold butter....), but this was a new one. Luke comes into our room and with a very distressed tone in his voice he says, "Daddy? I put my pizza in the microwave." Nate: "You put it in the microwave?" Luke: "Yess. And it's hot." Nate noticed the smell of smoke and jumped out of bed. Apparently there was smoke coming out of the microwave, and our entire house reaked of burning garlic. The slice of pizza (or what was left of it) was in the microwave and was completely charred. Black. Who knows how long it was in there. So luckily he didn't burn the house down, but they had a long talk about when we can use the microwave.
If anyone knows how long it takes to turn a piece of pizza into charcoal, please share- it would be interesting to know how long it was in there.
I so hope Lukey never loses his uniqueness :) He really lives in his own little world.