Luke-isms

Luke is absoultely hilarious lately.  This kid talks non-stop, and lives in this imaginary universe full of space cowboys, desert bulls, and various other creatures.  Plus, he says most of his "r" and "l" sounds as this odd combinations of "w" and "h."  And all his "o" sounds come out like "awe."  That means his daily monologue is this minature version of Elmer Fudd, wandering through the house discussing desert bull potty behavior or space cowboy planet roping technique.

So here is a post dedicated to Luke-isms, some personally witnessed, others texted to me by Paige:

• One of my favorites is mouth, teeth, and breath.  The other days, as he is galloping out to the van, he says to me "Dad, I am gowing to cwose my mouse, and howd my bweast behind my teats."  Seriously... how do you respond to that sentence?
• "Mowm, wouwd lowng howrnie be a good name for a lowng howrn?"  I have no idea what he was talking about either.
• In an exasperated voice... "Mowm, wook what Sophie did.  She bwoke dis cap owff.  Ohhhh, this child!"
• "Dis shawrk has lownger teats than owther shawrks.  It's a tusk shawrk!"
• "What do weindeewr eat?  Ohhh, gwass!  OK, I'm going outside to eat gwass.  Hey wait!  How do dey eat gwass if they live in the awrtic?!"
• "Uncastwated means fixed, ownly diffewentewr."  Paige claims he made up the word "castrated" but I am convince Grandpa must have been telling his stories on the "farm" at Christmas.
• Space cowboy has been an ongoing theme for quite a while.  He wanders about talking about his plans for his spaceship, how mom is going to come along to make food, Dad is coming to come with the guns, and help rope the planets, Levi will bring donuts from his donut shop (Levi's current aspiration in life is to become a donut shop man.)  He describes how they will rope all the planets and crack them in half, and fly into the sun, and how the spaceship will have a soccer field inside it, and...  Seriously, it is non-stop chatter four hours about outer space plans.  And of course, all proper space cowboys wear purple pirate hats...

• Not sure exactly what he was being in this picture.  Maybe a gangster of love?

• Our other kids wrinkle up their nose at any food not covered in cheese or sugar.  Luke goes to the grocery store specifically so he can pick out things he has never tried before to see if he likes them.  The other day it was radishes.   Really? What kid does that?  Then a couple days ago it was cucumbers.  And he actually like them.
   

 

• He also loves to be a desert bull.  None of us are quite sure what a desert bull is, or where he got it from.  But he know everything about desert bull behavior.  "Dad, desewrt bowls don't even stop when they poop or pee.  They just go when they awre wunning, and get it white on dewr hooves!  And they awso have steam in their bewlies, and they wun weally fast, so fast they could catch Wevi, and the steam comes out of theiwr hooves to make them go fast!"  He knows their sleeping habits, what they like to eat, where they live.  Everything.
• He said to Sophie the other day "Come awn baby desewrt bowl, wet me show you mowre about bein a desewrt bowl!"
• Today he rolled in sand and told me "I'm takin a dort baff, cause that is what desewrt bowls do!"

 

• "Im a cowboy wit indian feddewrs on my head!"