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Someone once asked me what Luke's favorite type of toy was.  Like is he a ball boy, or does he like trucks, maybe trains.  I didn't really know how to answer at the time because he hasn't really shown a love for any one of those toy genres.  Now I know the answer...vacuum tubes.  To be honest I am not sure if all vacuum tubes hold a special place in his heart, but this one sure does.  It is his cane.  He takes it everywhere.  As you can see it was too precious to let go of even while he fell asleep.

Several times throughout the day he'll say..."where's may cane...I just had it here"



Some of his other favorite phrases are that crack me up
"I certainly do"
using the word lovely
 "I'm listening to my body"
"Which one like you the best"

March Madness

So one of my favorite parts of my job was the bracket challenge during march madness.  Kind of a sad thought...there where other parts I liked too...I just remember that being an especially fun time of year.
I missed it the first year I was home with Luke.  So the next year we started our own at home and now we have a little family tradition of doing a family bracket challenge.   I totally recommend it.  We each have our own strategies for picking teams.

• Bryan: (he may not have disclosed his entire strategy to me, this is a competition after all) but as far as I know he uses the betting lines as the basis and feels it out from there.
• Emily: I write the ranking (like top 25) next to each team and then try to get just enough upsets.
• Luke:  Luke has the absolute best system.  We just read him the teams and he picks the name of the team he thinks sounds interesting or has a connection to.  For example this year Georgia (where he was born made it to the final four... now unfortunately for him they lost in the first round)  He also picked BYU ( a team we watch a lot ) and Duke (Luker Duke is a nickname he is often called)  to go far.  I think it is so fun to see who he picks, this year he would also say... "I don't care.

I think I cut off the part that says this, but this is Luke's Bracket

Road Trip...brought to you by the Library

Luke in a mini cave in Jenny's Canyon

Our picnic spot on an overlook.  You can't tell but we are right on the edge...Luke really wanted to be exploring and snacking, not picture taking. :)

They petrified dunes.  One of our favorites.  The sandstone was so grippy that we could just walk right up and down the little mountain dunes.  Luke was apprehensive at first, and then he went all out.  Trying to follow scouts up peaks.

So its February...Okay its March, but it feels like February.  Its keeps snowing and melting and it feels like winter will never end.  For our family this means....road trip.  This particular road trip was in large part brought to us by our local public library.  You probably knew that libraries have a whole load of DVD's to entertain your kids in the back seat during a long drive.  We picked out among others, Triego (Go Diego Go)  Luke's new favorite, the whole time we were hiking he would say I'm Triego, lets save animals.  So we found lots of lizards in trouble and even a squirrel or two.   I knew about the DVDs and that was awesome cause it was shows that were new to him (not that he cares) but I didn't have to hear the same thing over and over. 
But the cool thing I discovered is that the library rents out State Park passes just like they do books.  So we headed down to Snow Canyon, and had so much fun hiking to hidden ponds, petrified dunes, normal sand dunes to just sit and dig on, run up and down.   Luke is a little climber.  We all had so much fun and got some much needed vitamin C.