Update!

At 13 months Lucas is 30 inches long and weighing in at 23lbs! Weight compared to height he is in the 75% percentile. Lucas is a very happy child, he loves to smile and laugh! He is babbling constantly every moment of every day. He is also very, very active. He is constantly on the move and he gets into everything.

Church has become very interesting he wants to crawl or walk with the assistance of objects everywhere; down the aisle during sacrament (distracting people trying to listen), towards the front of the primary room, during singing time and sharing time, and into the cultural hall. He likes to babble during sacrament, babble during primary...... He definitely keeps you entertained and on your feet! We have also been using the word, "no" a lot, I think he understands the concept, because he looks at you and whines. It is almost like he is drawn to the things he knows he can't have. He looks at you, you say, "no Lucas, we don't play with Dad's things, or no Lucas, we don't get into that cupboard, those things will hurt Lucas", but he keeps doing it, even if you try to distract him. We have now have added child locks on the cupboards which has improved things. What can I say, we're working on it!

The day after we got home, I was getting some things done when I heard Dan the tractor (Lucas has this book call Chirpy Chick, it goes through various farm animals, and at the end of the book is Dan the Tractor, and when you turn to Dan, the tractor makes the sound of a tractor, Lucas loves this book, and always seems to flip to the end to hear Dan, it is very cute!) sure enough there was Lucas with the book opened up to Dan the Tractor. It is amazing that even after several weeks of being away he still knows which book has Dan the Tractor.

The other day he was playing with his blocks and he started to get very frustrated because he was trying to push two of the blocks together, and it wasn't working, I don't know what he was trying to accomplish, we tried to show him how to stack the blocks on top of each other, but he didn't want to stack them he wanted to smash them together.