Seven things we love about that kid right now:

1. He often leaves the word “and” out when grouping people or things together. For instance the other day he came in to the kitchen and said, “Hello Daddy Mommy” and earlier today he said, “I love Mommy Luke”.
2. Because we frequently refer to Luke as “Luke-a-Duke” or “La la Luke” Adam also has adopted this behavior and call his little brother “Luke Luke Luke”. He also will refer to himself as Adam Adam.
3. A lot of the time right after he wakes up in the morning or at night when he’s trying to avoid bedtime he’ll say “See you Mommy”, which is Adam-code for wanting to snuggle. Adam is an expert snuggler. He’s also always warm, like a little baby space heater – so snuggling on these chilly days is extra nice.
4. He is a very protective, loving big brother. He gets nervous if someone he doesn’t know is holding Luke and alerts me right away if Luke is crying (even if I am standing right next to him). He asks for Luke as soon as he wakes up in the morning and loves to make Luke smile. Lately he’s wanted to hold and feed Luke more often. He has about a 3 minute attention span where that is concerned, but takes the job very seriously.
5. When Dave comes home from work Adam runs to the door and says “Daddy home! Daddy home!” he gets so excited and can’t wait to see him. When the weather was warmer we kept the window open in what will be Luke’s room (once he moves out of the bassinet in our room) and when Adam would hear Dave’s truck pull in the driveway he would hurry to the window and yell to Dave. He greets me the same way if I go out without him. It’s a pretty fantastic homecoming.
6. He loves music. He always has, but now he’s getting more in to singing and will request Dave and I sing along. He’ll pick a song, have us all sing, and then at the end will say “one more time” to get us to sing it again. He’ll repeat this for as long as we let him. We sing a lot of “Row Row Row Your Boat” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” in this house.
7. He is so smart. He has known the upper case alphabet for a while now. He also can count from 1 to 11, and backwards from 10 to 1 (he always adds a “blast off” at the end). He recognizes the numbers 1-10, and likes to turn sixes upside down and say they are nines (and vice versa). We’re working on colors now. He does pretty well if you ask him to point out a certain color (bring me the red crayon) and is getting better at naming the color of an object when we ask (what color is this block?). He does insist my car is purple, as much as I try to tell him it is blue. I think that’s a losing battle for me (even more so because Dave and my Dad call it purple as well). Adam also can identify a bunch of shapes. He knows circle, square, and triangle of course. He also knows rectangle, oval, diamond, star, and heart. Most impressively though is that he recognizes cylinders, octagons, and pentagons – he’s definitely a pint-sized Einstein.

(Mickey Mouse is wearing a pair of Luke’s pajamas – at Adam’s insistence – I’m fairly certain we won’t be getting them back any time soon)