Four!

Luke's birthday was a little unusual this year.  We took a trip to Louisiana to visit my family and we were flying back on his actual birthday (August 20).  So we ended up celebrating several times -- with various cakes.  A few times in Louisiana, with Dad when we returned from Louisiana and with friends this past weekend.  I can't imagine why he keeps asking me if today is his birthday again. :)

Just to do something fun and different at his little party, I borrowed a Tonka dump truck from a friend and we had "dirt cake" with gummy worms.  My friend Linda made it (her husband is in the Marines but he was deployed to Afghanistan since February.  She lives in Jacksonville, NC but he wanted her to evacuate because of Hurricane Irene so she came here and spent a long weekend with us until the storm passed.  Thankfully, she had minimal damage AND her husband came home Monday.)

The kids thought it was so gross/cool to eat dirt that was actually very tasty! 

Now that he is four, he is breaking the thumb sucking habit.  He has done really well with it.  Somehow we've convinced him that four year olds just don't do that because they are too busy doing other cool stuff that four year olds get to do.  He wears gloves on his hands at night just so he doesn't subconsciously slip back into the habit.  We are so proud of him. 

He goes to meet his new teachers today at his preschool.  I'll be interested to see how that goes.  This summer we drove past his school and I said, "Look, Luke, there's your school."  He promptly replied, "No, I already did that."  Preschool.  Check.  Now moving on to bigger and better things.