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Luke is a very social baby. He has always been happiest when someone is smiling at him and paying attention to him (which I attribute to the fact that he has 2 sisters competing to play with him), but today he moved on to kissing. Michael was holding him and he saw me, smiled, and as I approached he reached out and grabbed the hair on both sides of my face and pulled me to him and gave me big open mouth kisses on my cheek and nose. We reacted so well to that that he did it again, but this time he got my glasses... He and we were all delighted.

Earlier today he was trying valantly to blow a rasberry. Eleanor got down on her knees beside the exersaucer and showed him how to do it, which brought gales of laughter from Luke. Then Eleanor would listen for a while and encourage Luke ("Good job Luke!") and then demonstrate again. It's so much fun to see them interacting.

I don't know if you'd call what Luke is doing "crawling" exactly. He gets his knees under him and launches himself forward, banging his face into the floor and moving forward a little bit. He'll roll and scoot and wigggle all over the room if allowed, preferably to find the small pieces of things his sisters have left on the floor (paper is his favorite!)

Someday I'll write more about Eleanor and Amanda, but really they don't change nearly as fast. If you saw waht Amanda was doing a month or so ago, that's what she's doing now. Eleanor's moods change very much over a day, but from week to week she's mostly the same. Tomorrow is Eleanor's last "short" day of kindergarten, she starts going for a full day on Wednesday. I will enjoy not having her around as much in the afternoon, especially since it's been _so_ hot here. We need to work on carpooling soon---but first I need to clean out the car =).
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C. L. Hanson said…
So cute -- your kids sound adorable!!!

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August 21, 2007 at 1:33 PM
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