Luke is learning about the world by imitating, even when he doesn't understand. It is thei clear lack of understanding that makes his actions so cute.
For example, when we give Luke popcorn, we mostly take off the hull and give him just the soft part. As he has actually eaten popcorn with the hulls on, I decided that it is OK for him to have the whole pieces every once in a while. The other night, he wanted to sit in my lap and eat from my plate (everything is tastier from Mama's plate) and so I let him take popcorn from my bowl. He proceeded to take a piece of popcorn, bite it in half, and put the other half on his high chair. Because that, apparently, is the correct way to eat popcorn.
He has his own little "words" (a word is just a sound that means something, right?). One is to smack his lips when he wants to convey hunger, thirst, mouth, and so on. Last night he pointed to the mouth of one of Amanda's dolls and started smacking his lips. Pretty good understanding of an abstract concept, especially considering that the doll was a "my Little Pony". I had a bit of cracker, so I pretended to feed it to the doll. I gave it to Luke, and... he ate it.
I was carrying an empty glass custard cup downstairs to put in the dishwasher. Luke was reaching his hand into it, then moving his hand to his mouth, looking for all the world as though he was pretending to eat. For fun, I reached into the bowl and pretended to eat something. He immediately wanted to see my hand, my mouth, he felt around in the bowl... he was obviously convinced by my action that he had missed something!
I could write Luke stories as long as I could remember them (like the story of him carpet sweeping, cleaning, reading, saying grace, and so on) but it's late, and I need to sleep. Suffice it to say, he is extremely cute!
For example, when we give Luke popcorn, we mostly take off the hull and give him just the soft part. As he has actually eaten popcorn with the hulls on, I decided that it is OK for him to have the whole pieces every once in a while. The other night, he wanted to sit in my lap and eat from my plate (everything is tastier from Mama's plate) and so I let him take popcorn from my bowl. He proceeded to take a piece of popcorn, bite it in half, and put the other half on his high chair. Because that, apparently, is the correct way to eat popcorn.
He has his own little "words" (a word is just a sound that means something, right?). One is to smack his lips when he wants to convey hunger, thirst, mouth, and so on. Last night he pointed to the mouth of one of Amanda's dolls and started smacking his lips. Pretty good understanding of an abstract concept, especially considering that the doll was a "my Little Pony". I had a bit of cracker, so I pretended to feed it to the doll. I gave it to Luke, and... he ate it.
I was carrying an empty glass custard cup downstairs to put in the dishwasher. Luke was reaching his hand into it, then moving his hand to his mouth, looking for all the world as though he was pretending to eat. For fun, I reached into the bowl and pretended to eat something. He immediately wanted to see my hand, my mouth, he felt around in the bowl... he was obviously convinced by my action that he had missed something!
I could write Luke stories as long as I could remember them (like the story of him carpet sweeping, cleaning, reading, saying grace, and so on) but it's late, and I need to sleep. Suffice it to say, he is extremely cute!
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