OWL!

With the exception of a disturbing coloring book called "Elmo goes to the potty" (I will write a future post on this issue), Luke's favorite book right now is probably, "Franklin Goes to School". Franklin is a turtle who is a bit apprehensive about leaving his parents and hopping on that school bus for the first time. You know, a typical turtle. However, everything works out well for Franklin as he ends up having a very supportive teacher who happens to be an owl.

The story has really touched Luke's heart and he just loves that teacher. So much so that he yells "OWL!" many times throughout the day. I made a little video this evening while we were all eating dinner. I can't say that the video is really funny, but it does capture a Luke-Owl moment. You can also see our "staged" living room in the background. Didn't Em do an amazing job?

I looked on the memory stick just now and found this picture of Luke from a couple weeks ago. I'm just ecstatic. Why? Well, Em has this cute thing where she gets mad at me when I go to certain food establishments without her. Like if she finds out that I had lunch at one of these places during the work day without her, she's like, "How could you do this to me?" and not in a totally joking way either. These places include Five Guys, Chipotle, Maggiano's, and Potbelly. Ah-ha! This picture of a cute boy innocently sipping a milkshake will forever remind me of my wife's betrayal!





In closing, Luke knows his body parts!

HILLoween

Today, Alanna uploaded some new pictures from the Swiatkowski family. Carolina is a great kid, and is getting prettier and prettier every day. Anyway, I absolutely cracked up at some of the photos of Luke they had. Let me explain.

Jonathan and Alanna were so sweet to watch Luke on Halloween night while Em and I went to this retreat. So they took him and Carolina to this Halloween fun night on Capitol Hill called "Hilloween". You see, they just replaced the "Hall" with "Hill". It was really an omen of "change" now that I think about it.

Alanna asked if they could dress Luke up in a costume, and I agreed, just as long as he wasn't anything satanic. So, they dressed him up as a gorilla.

However, Luke took it a step further. As he searched for his true "motivation" for the role, he decided to portray not a wild gorilla, but more of a caged gorilla who had been separated from his parents in the wild. Luke played the part perfectly. No other baby could have better portrayed the outright despair and utter hopelessness of caged gorillas like my son.