chalk time!

moving his artwork to the patio, originally uploaded by alibean731.

lucas and i made some beautiful chalk artwork this weekend. his favorite part? coloring the tree!

meowing

meowing, originally uploaded by alibean731.

lucas makes a crazy noise when he meows. it's so funny!

here he is, happily playing (and also exerting his ability to say 'no').

where's lucas?

where's lucas?, originally uploaded by alibean731.

lucas plays a hilarious game of hide and seek. we were cracking up!!

fun site!

found this new site today, and it is a fun way to spend a couple of minutes wishing it wasn't over 100 degrees.

make a snowflake!

sprinklers!

getting wet is fun!, originally uploaded by alibean731.

lucas loves the water! which is a good thing, because it is HOT this summer!

our poor dead front lawn needed some watering, and lucas loved playing in the sprinkler. he was cracking joel and i up, leaning into the water stream so it would get his face. love my silly boy!

more potty success!

i swear i'm not going to post every single time lucas uses the bathroom, but i'm just so excited!

tonight he peed on the potty again, but this time he really did know he was going. in fact, he looked down and then tried to grab the stream. :) while i don't really want that to keep happening, i'm glad he knew that he was going to the bathroom.

ok, i promise no more talk of pee. for at least a while.

potty time!

we bought a potty for lucas last week. while we don't expect him to magically be trained in the next month or anything, we wanted to get him used to sitting on the potty and hopefully have him figure out what it's used for.

he immediately liked sitting up there, quietly reading his book. we put him on the potty before and after naps for 5-10 minutes each time. and, what do you know, on tuesday (just 4 days after we got it) he went! i don't think he had any idea that he peed, but pee he did! i praised him a lot, and boy was he excited to get to flush the potty.

we'll keep it up, and hopefully he'll start learning how this whole "bathroom" thing works!