HAPPY BIRTHDAY LU!

may 28
lucas is one year old today, and i am getting ready for his party.. :) i just cant believe where the time has gone! he's walking quite a bit but hasnt decided to walk all the time yet. and he's becoming quite a little communicator... no actual words yet. he sounds out alot, attempting different consonants and word-sounding babbles & coos... for example, "BA!" is ball, "ba-ba" is papa, "Buh" is bath, "ba-buh ba ba-ba" is just 'i like to practice my ba words'.

but the other day he communicated with symbolic gestures - and he did it two days in a row! normally, his dinner is at 6, bath at 630, booby and bed by seven. (we are continuing with the bedtime boob for a while longer.. i dont wanna hear about it if you think i shouldnt do it longer than a year - i have my reasons)

so when he came out of his bath, we were sitting down to an early dinner, so we put him at the table with us playing with some toys, but by the end of our meal, he was showing signs of tiredness and ready for bed. instead of crying, or getting cross... he simply held out his pacifier and his sippy cup of milk together at arms length as if he was trying to hand them to me - and started tapping them together!!. this was his non-verbal communication that it was time for his booby! i am so proud of my little boy.. what a good communicator he is.. i have heard of baby sign language before, but never heard of babies doing this on their own without prompting from the parents. he must be brilliant (grin).

last night at about 10 pm, when i was just stretching out in bed i realized 8pm marked the one-year anniversary of my labor onset.. here it is 9am, and i was STILL in labor at this time last year - he wasnt born til 12:50pm - it seems like such a long time to be in labor!

well, i gotta go get started making the potato salad and the other munchy stuff. the party is at 4:30pm, but i dont wanna do any cookin' (read: laboring) in the hot of the afternoon ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY LU!