Happy 15 Months!

This adorable little guy is 15 moths old!!

Can you believe it? I hardly can. While he is still significantly smaller than Tyler was at that age, he is growing well. He continues to be beneath the 5th percentile for his weight, but is steadily going up on the charts for his height. He started around the 35th percentile, I believe, and is up to 55th. While some believe that most preemies catch up by age 1, I find that there are really a lot of different opinions on this. In fact, a friend who had a very early preemie (28 weeks) says she didn't notice her son catching up until he was nearly 3!! So, I guess there still is the possibility that Daddy's prediction can come true, and that Lucas will be bigger than Tyler. If his appetite and eating have anything to say about it, I'd say it is a definite possibility. This kid is an eater. He will eat nearly anything I put in front of him and A LOT of it, more than Tyler, for sure.

He is not yet walking, but crawls SUPER fast (I think he could probably win a baby crawling contest) and cruises very well. He nearly took off running the other day behind one of his push toy. He has take a step or two here or there, but I think within the next couple of weeks, he will be outright running on his own! That should make for a fun beach trip

Lucas' top two molars came in last week and boy am I glad that is over. (He now has a total of 10 teeth). Poor little one was so miserable. Unfortunately though, I think the bottom two have plans to move in soon. Hopefully for the sake of our vacation, that will happen within the next couple of weeks.

He is saying a few words clearly (mama and dada frequently), but he babbles constantly. And is a drool factory. He is totally having a conversation with us, now...if we could just understand it. :) He loves to play with his big brother. We are constantly amazed at how much he picks up from Tyler. He will "drive" cars along the floor, pretend to talk on a phone, build with blocks, "read" books, and sing with the SpiderMan microphone. They are so much fun to watch together.

I look for a HUGE explosion of new tricks to come from Luke in the next couple of months and figure by 18 months, we'll be able to report that he is running, talking and that we are loving watching him learn so much more!

We are so blessed that he has been SO healthy and that really the only reminder of the fact that he was 6 weeks early is that he is still a little small.

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On a separate, more housekeeping related note. I have installed a new commenting system. I like this system, because I can comment back to you, right under your original comment! It's pretty neat. You will be given the option to login using your Facebook account if you have one, or you can simply use your name, as before by inserting your name/email in the fields underneath the commenting box. Hope you will all leave me some comments...I love to see what you have to say!!