Lucas

Lucas spent the night with us for the first time since he was a tiny baby. He is two years old and he is so precious. Seems like when the other four would come he was just a little to small to keep up with the chaos. It was just he and I for a while and we had so much fun just playing in the playroom. BB came home and we decided to go to the grocery store to pick up some things for Mema and us. Bill got into the drivers seat and Lucas wanted to know why BB was drivning Mimi's car. I told him I gave him permission, because he had been such a good boy. When we pulled into the parking lot at Publix Lucas saw the giant truck with the basket on the front grocery cart and had a fit to ride in it. It has been a while since I pushed one of those big boys and I probably would have been given a ticket for careless driving, they are really hard to control. We raced up and down the aisles and got what we needed. We loaded up the car and headed to McDonalds. Bill and I are so out of touch we could hardly get the seat belt on the car seat open. Lucas looked at us helplessly like its a seat belt get me out of here. Bill finally got it open with the help of his pocket knife. He did break his fingernail in his many attempts of getting my boy free. Once inside all was good. We had our cheeseburgers, nuggets and fries. Lucas was more interested in the Alvin toy than in eating and being the wonderful grandma I am I let him have the toy and we took the food home with us. Then we had to make a quick stop at Mema's house to drop off her groceries. We were finally going to go home and Lucas was making himself sleepy by playing the little phrase that the Alvin toy made over and over and over. It wasn't making me sleepy it was driving me crazy. When we got home he was ready for bed, but I encouraged him to get his bath first. Once we emptied the toy box into the tub he was there until the water was cold and his teeth were chattering. After I don't know how long I got him out, he was a little blue, I got him into his little p.j.s with the feet in them. He was so cute and cuddley. We snuggled on the couch with Barney singing and dancing on T.V. He asked could he get in Mimi's bed. I got him all tucked in and BB was on the computer next to him. I figured he would be up in a few minutes, but he went right to sleep with BB tapping away next to him. We all slept great, yes, Lucas said he wanted to sleep in the middle. I think he and Ollie our dog duked it out for that spot, but Lucas was there between us in the morning. Ollie had been booted to the foot of the bed. Lucas spent the day with us and we had a great time with him. We picked up Josie and Hayden at noon and he had fun with them playing the afternoon away. Lucas is now one of the big guys and the next time we have boys night, he will be there. He is not a baby anymore....