Wise Beyond His Years?!?

The other night Lucas was taking a bath and I went to start a load of clothes. When I walked back in the bathroom I found water everywhere. He had taken the bath towels and hand towels off the racks and put them in the bathtub and then threw them on the bathmat soaking wet and getting water everywhere. When I asked him what made him do something like that he looked at me and said, "because I knew you weren't in the bathroom to catch me doing it and I could get away with it while you were gone." His answer took me by surprise. I was expecting the usual shoulder shrug or an "I don't know."

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Then the following conversation happened today

Lucas: "Mommy I just prayed by myself"

Me: "What did you pray for?"

Lucas: "I prayed that my friends' Dad Mr.Sean would feel better and not be sick anymore."

Sean is David and Gabe's Dad, (the two boys that I babysit a few afternoons a week, and Lucas' best friends) and he wasn't feeling good today.

A Little Weekend Update

Friday afternoon Lucas and I dropped off his the rest of his applications for pre-k. We were on our way home when my car started to overheat. Luckily I was right by our friends house so I went there. Sean was nice enough to look at the car for me and Lucas played with his friends David and Gabe (they are Sean and Priscilla's sons.)

In the wee hours of Saturday morning Lucas got sick. We are thinking now that he might have choked on his baby, (he likes to suck on it in his sleep.) After throwing up he went to sleep and when he woke up he was fine (and very hungry.) We were very glad that he wasn't sick because we had plans to get together with Curt's Grandparents. They stopped on their way back to Michigan from their trip to Florida. We ended up having dinner at Ruby Tuesdays and then back to their hotel room to visit for a while longer. Lucas ended up playing photographer.

This morning we went to church and Curt and Sean worked on my car. After church we let the boys play while the guys finished up with the car. It was such a pretty day outside! Curt and Sean were able to fix the problem with my car for pretty cheap. Turns out the car was overheating because the fans weren't turning on to cool off the car. Luckily it just took a $17 part!

I Bet I Earned Some Gray Hairs Today

Curt's car started acting up and Curt's friend Sean who is a former mechanic offered to help him fix it. I am friends with Sean's wife Priscilla so she suggested while the guys were working on the car our boys could play together (they have 2 boys one a little younger than Lucas and one a little older) and us girls could talk. Well while the men were outside working on the car Priscilla and I were talking while she folding clothes. All of a sudden we heard this crash followed by a blood curdling scream coming from the boys room.

We both jumped up and found Lucas pinned under a dresser with a giant TV that had been sitting on the dresser less than 3 inches away from his head. I thought I was going to have to call 911 or something but Lucas was fine except for a gash on his head and a few behind his ears and some scratches and bruises on both sides of his face. He also has a scratch across his belly from one of the drawers.

The ironic thing in all of this is that the TV that almost fell on his head had just been sold to Priscilla and Sean by us. We had an extra and didn't want to put it in Lucas room for free that he would climb up and tip it over on himself among other things. Also, last night when I had talked to Priscilla she had JUST mentioned to me that she wanted her husband to brace the TV and dresser somehow because she was scared of something like this happening to her boys. Thankfully Lucas is okay I think it scared us more than him because later on we caught him trying to climb on furniture again. This kid has NO FEAR!!!