Dear Lukas, Letter Number 3 (Month 3)

Sleeping with BFF Mr. Blue Monkey
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(started) October 24, 2007

Letter Number 3 (Month 3)

Dear Lukas,
I’m a day late as I start to write this month’s letter. Boy, are you keeping us busy! I believe that the theme for this month is discovery. Or is it mouth? Because really, Lukas, everything you “discover” goes straight to your mouth: Papa’s fingers, your burpy cloth, any of your toy animal friends – automatically to your inviting mouth. We suspect you have already begun teething. Ayayayay! New noises are also coming out of your mouth. Right now, you are arguing with your friends, Mr. Monkey and Ms. Giraffe. They won’t let you pull them down and you are trying to persuade them with your compelling argument of “Aghhh!” and “Waaaaah!” I suppose you are learning about tolerance for challenges and exercising your levels of frustration. There are no tears flowing quite yet, so I think you are doing just fine.
This month you became a rollover and tummy time expert. You also have become quite the flirt and very much the chatterbox, especially around your lolos and lolas. Yabang mo! You are doing all these things that continue to amaze us. One thing that we are really thankful for is that you have begun to sleep longer throughout the night. Five to six hours, a quick snack, then back to sleep for another 3 to 4 hours. Your father and I had almost forgotten what it was like to sleep more than 2 to 3 hours at a time. So thanks for that!
You seem to be going through your experimental phase, or should I stay you are at the start of it. You are experimenting with your voice, reaching out for objects in front of you, exploring Papa’s face with your hands. It’s so funny that you are no longer crying just for your immediate needs such as sleep and food. You cry out of frustration now when you can’t get that monkey head in your mouth. You shout out when you have finally gotten that out of reach burpy cloth in your hands and don’t know what to do with it. We still haven’t stuck to a nickname for you, but it may become CW for Christopher Walken coz one of your funnier voice outputs is a distinct CW-like “Wow.” Almost like a “Meow” kind of “wow.” Hmm, CW or Cat. My favorite tone is the one you seem to have reserved for me. Very sweet, very soft and almost sounds like “I La Woo.”

I love you too, darling.

Love,
Mama