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other accomplishments

I forgot to list a number of other accomplishments Luke has been working on.

Yesterday he plugged in my iron, and pretended to iron the carpeting. He didn't manage to turn on the iron (and a light helpfully turns on when it is plugged in, so he didn't feel the need to turn it on, but it was still more accomplishment than I needed.

He has learned to spit out things he drinks. He has not learned to spit alone, but if he is tired of drinking his milk he'll fill his mouth up and spit all over the floor, laughing hysterically. Someone please tell me this is a stage! I have been trying to keep my reaction low key ("we don't do that. Clean it up, please!") instead of yelling and spanking him, but it definitely does not come easily.

His imagination is fun to watch. This morning he took hold of the climbing rope, pulled it away from the wall and said "fly kite!" So he and I pretended to fly a kite for a while. He carries around a little toy doggie, and he will jump it high up in the air and say, "oh, no, doggie!" and make some other sympathetic noises. I think that the doggy is falling down, although it's hard to tell exactly what's going on. As I was carrying both of them, he made the doggie jump on my head, and then said "Bad doggie!" Perhaps a sign that he's starting to internalize rules? Now if only I could get him to listen when I tell him, "Mama says no!"

Hmmm, I'll have to post about Amanda soon again. Her behaviour is much much quieter, but she's changing in interesting ways too.

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