Well, here we are. Two fun-filled years full of Luke Ryan. He kinda seems like he's been "two" for the last three or four months though: talking like crazy, getting all up in everything, learning to sing (the title of this post is the way he sings an appropriate recent favorite).

He even tells jokes these days! For as long as we've been reading his animals book, I've taught him the trumpet-like sound that elephants make and accompanied the sound with an elephant trunk-like arm motion. When we get to the giraffe at the very end of the book, I've always taught him that they go "neck neckneck, neck neck" and accompany that sound with a kind of neck grabbing motion. I think he's somehow always suspected that I was making that one up, so one day we were reading the book and I asked him how the giraffe goes.

"Hey Luke, how does a giraffe go?"

Without a pause he shot back, "Quack quack!"

I of course feigned shock, "THAT'S not how a giraffe goes, Luke!" After he collected himself from laughing at daddy's indignation, he shot back a "Daddy, ask how giraffe go!" And away we went for another good eight or so retellings. This joke repetition is now the highlight of the end of the animals book.

Here's to another year of Luke-generated jokes!