Ohhh... I's scared!!!

Luke has been talking in two, sometimes three, word phrases for a couple of months now. This past week his talking in phrases has REALLY picked up.  Unless he is saying NO, which at this stage is more than I would like, he is using 2 or 3 word phrases. Some of his most recent and common phrases include:

• Button... Push it - He absolutely loves this one and uses it several times an hour (just a slight exaggeration - maybe once an hour). He uses this line to either tell you to push a button or to ask if he can push the button.  This goes for anything with any sort of button; washing machine/dryer, remote controls, DVR's, car keys, carbon monoxide alarms, belly buttons (Visitors, be forewarned, if you don't want Luke to push your belly button, wear spanks to cover it up).
• Daddy, Go?  - Meaning where is Daddy?
• Napkin, please - Replace napkin with any word he knows how to say.  Luke is really good with using thank you, please, welcome. Sometimes not using the right word for the right situation, but he is still using them, thank you very much :) 

Today Luke was vacuuming. His version of vacuuming is converting his mega block Fire Truck ladder into a dust buster and making shusssssshhhiiiinnnnggg sounds as he drags his dust buster across the wood floor.

Fire Truck and Ladder BEFORE Luke's dust buster conversion:

Dust Buster with green mega block extension (for all those nooks and crannies):

Luke spends some quality time vacuuming  (Readers, please don't take this as a note that our floors are disgustingly dirty. It's just a past-time of Luke's, I swear "wink wink" Bryan)

Today, with a firm hand, Luke was vigorously dust-busting.   Unfortunately his strong firm hand "broke" the front end of his dust buster.  The front end went flying up in the air and landed behind him:

Being in the "zone" of dust-busting Luke didn't notice the front of his dust buster was missing and continued on with his task.  Then suddenly he stopped and I knew he noticed something was missing from his dust-buster.  He turned to me, with one hand firm clenched around his dust-buster handle, threw both hands up in the air, puffed out his lips in an expression, like "what happened?" 

I asked him, "What's wrong?"  He answered by throwing up both hands higher in the air, puffing his lips out further and this time adding the widening of his eyes and puffing out his chest. I'm a mean mom and pretended not to understand what was going on to see what he would do/say/ask.  He kept his hands up and I could tell was trying to communicate to me that something was wrong with his dust-buster. I finally said, "What happened? Oh... I see...The front of your vacuum is gone??" I said, "Where is it?"

I could see Luke was getting very concerned and I could also tell there was sadness, which started to make me feel sad.  So I said, "Let's look for it."  He started turning around in circles trying to find it. On one of his turns he saw it.  I looked at his face expecting to see happiness and instead I saw the beginnings of watery eyes.  He was still sad and getting more sad by the second.  Then I realized he thought his dust buster was broken.  This piece of the ladder had never come off before. Usually the extension (the green block) will come off, but never both the green AND white piece.  He walked over to me, arms wide, eyes watering and lower lip starting to straighten out into his crying face that I know and love so well... 

I said, "Lukie, its OK- Mommy can fix it!"  Almost instantaneously his "crying" face turned into a smile, he heaved a huge sigh, put a hand over his chest and said.... "Oh, I's scared!!!!" (Which translates into, Oh, I was SOOOOOO scared!). Then he smiled and laughed in happiness.  The huge sigh he exhaled can only be compared to when you think you lose something, like your purse or wallet, your keys or a fifty million dollar check sent to you from Publishers Clearing House (I can dream) and then you find it after looking for it.   That feeling of relief and happiness is one of the BEST feelings in the world, and I got to see Luke experience that feeling for the first time - which is one of the new best feelings I get to experience with having Luke and experiencing his "firsts" with him!