Luke at 20 Months

I have often said that each of my 3 boys brings a special organ to the body of our family: Jackson is the brain, Cody is the heart, and Luke is the mouth (ok, I don't think the mouth is really an organ, but whatever). My little peanut is quite a talker/screamer/yeller/, and he has one heck of a sweet tooth, too.

I made a list way back at the beginning of this blog of all of Cody's words at 20 months. Cody talked more and sooner than Jackson, but Luke, as the mouth, has both of them beat. He's saying all sorts of words that I wouldn't guess many 20 month-olds know (the fun of big brothers, I suppose) like "awesome" and "Spongebob." And he says a bunch of 2 and 3-word phrases, although it must be said that his favorite word is still NO. ;)

Luke's List

Mama
Daddy (this can refer to Anthony or any FJ Cruiser we see on the road)
Jacks
Codes
Gramma
Spongebob ("Bob-Bob")
car
truck
beep-beep
juice
cup
banana
hot
boo-boo
snack
trash
shoes (said in manner of pre-teen Valley girl at the mall)
dude
uh-oh
bubbles
book
ball
guitar
dance
clap
poop (cue the big brothers chortling with glee)
hello
bye-bye
night-night
please
no
move (said "mooooooooooooove" to someone in his way)
on
off
dog
woof
cat
meow
moo
baby
mine
stuck
yahoo/yay/yippee
awesome ("aw-shom")
come on (while dragging someone with him wherever he wants to go)
all gone
love you ("ee-yoo" when one of us is leaving the house) **

**this one is my favorite

It can only be considered ironic that last night, on the eve of my post about Luke's mouth, he fell off the bottom step of our pool ladder and bit through his lip. The bleeding stopped pretty quickly but we made the trip to Acute Kids anyway, just in case, where they applied some skin glue to help the little bite marks heal.

What organ corresponds with courage? Or perhaps, more accurately, the total absence of fear? Because Luke is a little daredevil with seemingly no sense of self-preservation. He climbs, he jumps, he runs full-tilt...in short, he scares years off my life, daily. And though I'm aging prematurely as a result, I have to say I admire his total readiness to jump into anything and everything. His older brothers and I all tend to be more cautious and wary about trying new things. Luke will give anything a whirl at least once. He won't miss out on things, that's for sure. I might prefer he miss out on the ER visits, but it definitely keeps things interesting.

Ee-yoo, Peanut! You're totally aw-shom!