Monday, November 23, 2015

Lucas Today

This morning at 4:00 am Lucas woke me up yelling that his arm hurt and his cough woke him up. I went in and discovered he had a temp of 101.2, gave him some Tylenol and cough medicine, and proceeded to worry that he had pneumonia, bronchitis, pertussis, whooping cough, etc., etc for the rest of the night. But then he woke up at 8:00 with just a 99.3 temp and a happy mood. 
So anyways, I thought this day was going to go one way, dealing with a very sick and miserable kid, and it turned out to be a nice day. 
My favorite part, though, was lunch. We played a new game at lunch called Who Am I? Lucas and I took turns pretending to be different characters from movies, shows, or whatever, while the other person asked questions and guessed who they were. I modeled the game by pretending to be Mickey Mouse. Lucas caught on really quickly and wanted to pretend next. So I asked him what his favorite thing to say was. He said Woof woof! I asked who his best friend was. He said... Hmmm Cody!  I was stumped. I don't know of any Codys in any shows or movies that he likes. I asked Juli if there is a Cody in Paw Patrol. She looked at me like I was crazy. Lucas said, "no but there's a Cody in Mimi's neighborhood." 
Apparently he was pretending to be my mom's dog, Paris! I was so impressed that he a.) remembered the random dog in my mom's neighborhood's name and b.) thought that would be Paris's best friend!  
I went on the pretend to be Alex from Madagascar. Then on Lucas's turn I asked where he lived. He said "the north mountain." I asked what he wore and he said "a brownish shirt and a belt." He was pretending to be Christoff! The smile on his face when I could guess his characters was priceless. I love seeing his little brain at work, and he loves being challenged with new activities.