lucca trivia

number of teeth: 8
current interests: putting things into containers and taking them out, looking at books, walking, pointing, star-shaped things, lights, dancing, anything he's not supposed to touch
first word: "star"
all-purpose word: "dah"
likes baths, dislikes car rides
likes bananas, dislikes diaper changes

shadow

Lucca was standing there, moving back and forth, watching his shadow.

In the words of my friend Julia, "Babies are cute." Well said, sister.

Shout-out to the mother country

This afternoon Lucca spoke (well, mostly listened) on the phone with his Grandma, who is in Australia at her cousin Jenny's house right now. So, Hi Grandma! Hi Jenny! Hi Australia!!

two recent and unrelated pictures

sick

Lucca has been sick again this week. Poor little guy. Yesterday he slept way more than he was awake, and most of it was on my lap. To add an extra bit of bummer to the whole situation, Carlo was out of town until late last night as well.

At one point yesterday, Lucca was asleep on my lap, and he opened his eyes, raised his head, pointed at my nose and made a statement, probably something like "tebleded." When I agreed that it was my nose, he flopped his head back down and was back asleep. So cute. He clearly understands so much of what we say these days, but he is still speaking his gibberish Lucca-language. I need to get some of it on video because I've been told that when he starts learning words he won't speak it anymore.

So, today he seems to be feeling a bit better, his fever is gone, and I think he's on the mend. I'm ready to put this cold/flu season behind us!

birthday pictures

For Lucca's birthday we had a little party at a neighborhood park. I'll try to post some video from the big day soon!