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The other day I opened Luke's window for a little bit, noticed that the screen was out, and closed it. Luke was watching intently from his crib, so I explained that he should never stick anything out the window, he should be very careful near open windows or he could fall out and hurt himself. (We actually have a friend whose 2 year old child fell out a window. The child is fine now.)

Today I sang "How much is that doggie in the window" for Luke. He liked the song, but the second time I came to the chorus he started yelling: "Stop! Doggie! Stop! Window! Stop!"* I think he was afraid that the doggie was going to fall out the window. Tonight I sang "Jesus loves me" and he said "Stop! Jesus, doggie, stop! Window!" I can't wait until he can speak in sentences, it should be fun.

Bonus Luke story: This morning I was trying to get a diaper on a very squirmy Luke. For fun, I asked if his froggy blanket needed a diaper change. "Yes! Wipe." I gave him a wipe and he carefully wiped off his froggy. Then he put froggy in a clean diaper, and said "All clean!" He went over to his clean clothes basket and took out a shirt. "Shirt." He made me put froggy in the shirt and then carried froggy around for the rest of the morning. You should understand that his froggy blanket has no "body," just a head attached to a soft blanket, so putting him in clothes was tricky. Luke didn't seem to notice.

*All of the Luke quotes are translations of "Lukish." If you spend a lot of time around Luke, you will understand some of what he says, but "Stop!" comes out more like "Dop," "All clean" sounds like "aah eeen," and so on.
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