Luke! Luke! My little Yukey! wow, such mischeif in that little boy! I don't know where he gets it (ok, so I do, he should have been a junior), but he is definitely the exception to the rule! At a year old Luke can hold his own! And I mean that! Elisabeth knows she can't win against him! She is 3 and a half. If she has food or a drink or just something that looks interesting, she most likey will lose it to him. He climbs, hits, bites pulls and screams to get what he wants and she loses at tug-of-war to him. She's a tough little girl too, but when it comes to Luke, she loses. Now she has started to hit back but it doesn't really phase him. He is a little bulldozer! He runs everything down! The other day, he was playing with a little neighbor kid who is a whole year older than he is. They were playing fine until a ball got in the picture and Luke had it and the little boy wanted it. He went over there and after a brief battle, the little boy pushed him over and got the ball from him. Now with any other kids I would have intervened but since I can recall numerous occasions when Luke has done that to someone else, I just watched and laughed and told the mother of the little boy, he's fine, he does that to other kids all the time! Sure enough, a little later on Luke runs over to where the ball is and doesn't stop to miss the kid who is holding the ball. He rams him down and walks away with the ball (which was bigger than both of the boys!) I looked at the mom and told her, "see?" and then we both laughed!
Here is some advice! Let Luke play with you or you will hurt!

I fooled my teacher!!!
Elisabeth goes to school once a week now! She loves it! Yesterday I picked her up from school and she told me that she hit Sophia and Sophia cried and she put her head down on the table and sat on a chair but the teacher said that she wasn't in time out. So I asked her why she hit Sophia and she said "But I said I'm sorry!" and then I asked if she went to time out and she said no, the teacher said it wasn't time out. Wanting to get the story straight, I went back to school to talk to the teacher. I asked her if Elisabeth had gotten in trouble that day and she told me no, that they were setting up chairs against the wall so that the kids could watch a movie and Elisabeth was saying she was sorry and they were telling her that she wasn't in time out. So I asked what happened to Sophia and the teacher said, "well she hit her on the back and then said it was an accident and she said she was sorry, so I took her word for it and told her to go sit with the other kids. And she kept saying, but I said I'm sorry and we told her she wasn't in time out." I explained to the teacher that it most likely was not an accident and that when Elisabeth does something she is not supposed to do, she thinks it will get her out of trouble to say it was an accident and throw in a hundred sorries.We get back in the car and I ask Elisabeth why she hit Sophia and Elisabeth said, "Well Sophia hit me on the back on purpose and I didn't cry and then I hit her on the back and she cried." So that was what happened, I'm guessing.At least the teachers know now to ask what happened so that they can better determine if it was in fact an accident or not. When I told her daddy what had happened, he was so proud of his tough little girl!