An Update to the Update

After posting my update about Luke a couple days ago, I have thought of a couple more updates:

Luke & His Glasses
Luke has been a trooper the past 9 months when it comes to his eyes/glasses.  He's had appts with our lovely pediatric eye doctor every 2-3 months and Luke has been wearing an eye patch on his stronger eye for 6 hours a day since July (in attempts to get his weak eye stronger).  He's such a good sport about it and rarely ever complains.  Last week we met with the doctor again and learned that the 6 hours of patching each day is not making any positive difference so he wants Luke to wear the patch full time for one month to see if that might help.  The thought of wearing it full time was far harder on Brent and I (anticipating that Luke would dread it) than it actually was on Luke.  His response was "Well, at least I don't have to wear it all the time until December or something."  That's right Luke, that's for the positive spin:)  We decided to give Luke a week off from wearing his patch, but starting in April, you'll be seeing the pirate version of Luke until May.

Luke & His Imagination
I so admire the preschool/early elementary years when kids can be so in tune with their imaginations that they become completely unaware of their surroundings.  And, I am thankful to say that Luke is still in this phase of life.  He cracks us up regularly with the imaginary world (Luke's World as we call it) he can slip in and out of so easily.  The other day, we bought a swing to hang under our deck.  It was in a package that included the swing seat and two chains to hang it with.  Luke asked if he could open the package and immediately began playing a made up game with the contents.  He proceeded to play with it on and off for a couple hours until bed that night:)  A few other examples of his imagination include:

• Claims that he has an iPod Touch in his head and he can play games and music on it whenever he wants:)
• Claims that he has had a bad dream with in minutes of being put to bed for the night.  (And, no, he does not fall asleep that fast:))
• The opportunity for Brent and I to listen to his singing (made up songs and/or compilations of songs he's actually heard) while we're driving or on a bike ride (both times that he easily slips into "Luke's World").

The list goes on and on...I only hope that this phase will continue a while longer into his elementary years:)