You are a big boy now

Dear Luca,

You will be four this Friday.  Many things have happened this past year.  Little things I call Lucaisms. Stuff you say for example that I want written in stone because they are too cute to forget.

When we were talking about what you and Maddie want when you grow up, I noticed Maddie is interested in what your mama does namely be a doctor.  When it was your turn you said you want to be an All Aboard person which I had to figure out what it meant.  It turns out you want to be an engineer like your dad,  You have been watching the show Dinosaur Train where the train engineer says All Aboard during the episodes.

However you got tired of me asking you what you want to do when you grow up and one day when asked you were so annoyed you said emphatically, NOTHING. That was what I get for being annoying.

You love repeating expressions you hear from me.  Of course the OMG word is number one.  But there are words I just realize I must be saying a lot upon hearing them from you.  One day as you were getting to leave, you stopped and said "Actually" like you were thinking of what to say next.  I do say that word a lot.  Another is the phrase, "I could not believe it".  Lately your mama said you went home repeatedly saying "blood pressure", "blood pressure".  You must have heard me say that when I was concerned about it at one point.

You and Maddie are very different.  Whereas Maddie loves me to put on so called Jesus songs or Summer Bible songs upon setting foot in my car, you instead request for no music to be played. Actually you prefer making the music yourself by singing about anything you see around you or things that had happened the day before. I really find it entertaining since you get kind of poetic at times describing the weather and sceneries we pass by.

You still like to ask why incessantly and I have been asking you to figure out the reason yourself at times and I am impressed with your logic. Sometimes you come up with the reason to my own whys.

You sort of enjoy storytelling when we go to the library.  But one time you turned to me and honestly said, "I do not like craft", which is usually how the session ends.  I noticed that to be polite you would do it but so hurriedly.  You are always dying to play with the trains, magnetic squares, legos, the kitchen stuff at the library playroom.

Your parents could not believe how I catered to your obsession with monsters and zombies by borrowing every week, close to Halloween, books on those creatures.  You just kept on requesting for more books that were displayed to take home.

You have learned to push the button to open the automatic doors in the library which you follow with the Open Sesame proclamation.  You love going up the new elevator in the library and push the button to go up.  You feel so grown up.  While there, we visit the art gallery and one time you corrected the identity of the animal in a painting which I  said was a chicken.  You were right, it was an eagle.

You still love cars and trains and also street signs.  The latter is a must when playing with the different bins of toys available in the library.  You find so much joy trying to read the meanings of the signs.

As far as food is concerned, you switched to pb and j or peanut butter and jelly from chicken nuggets. You love the orange juice you get at my house which you don't get at yours since your dad loves to finish jugs of them which your mama does not like to happen.

Finally you started being toilet trained this December and you were moved to the three year olds in day care.  A little late which we thought will never come.  Not quite there yet but lately you have been pretty good.  You were so proud one day you called Maddie over to look at your poop in the toilet.  And just a few weeks ago, you were promoted to the four year olds and now you are bringing home homework.  Yes you are a big boy now.  I am so proud of you.  Happy birthday!

Love,

Lola.