Mommy: "Oh, wow, Silas. Is that you? Do we need to change your diaper again?"
Luke: "No, that's me. I just farted."

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Luke {pointing to a toy shelf in Pansy's garage}: "There are three trucks there. That's perfect!"

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Daddy: "Don't play with the cars on the piano, please. It will scratch it."
Luke: "Does it itch?"

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I can't tell you how many times I've heard more experienced parents tell me how "time flies by so fast" and to "enjoy your kids while they're young". There are so many moments I'd like to bottle up forever, so I think I'm beginning to realize what they mean. Thus, another list of some of the many things I love about my boys:

• how Silas whispers the last word of every sentence you tell him as you put him to bed
• how Luke asks to have doughnuts every morning because Daddy took him out to get them one time, but it obviously made a tremendous impression
• how Silas runs to the potty first when Luke announces that he has to go
• how Luke asks me to scratch his back every night before bed and then tells me that it will be itchy when he wakes up, just so I can say that I'll scratch it again in the morning. And he falls asleep happy.
• how Silas is so good at going to bed, that if reading a book lasts too long, he says "night night" and tries to crawl out of your lap to get to his crib
• how Luke bends down and puts his hands on his knees to talk to Silas even though he's only about 2 inches shorter than him
• how Silas runs at you with all he's got when you ask him to give you a hug
• hearing "Silas, train time!" "Silas, it's time to eat!" "Silas, let's go ride our plasma cars!" all day long
• how Silas misses Luke if he's not yet up from his nap ("Luuu?") and then goes to Luke's bedroom door to bang on it and wake him up
• how they love to sit in my bathtub (no water) and play airplanes and...
• how they use the back of the bathtub as a makeshift playground slide
• how Silas loves an audience so much that when he's riding his plasma car, he'll often look at you smiling and run into walls
• how Luke still calls 20-month-old Silas "Baby", as in: "Hello, Baby! Good morning!"
• Silas's serious concern about his new TMX Elmo that he got for Christmas - every time Elmo falls down laughing, he always has to set him back on his feet (repeating "uh oh uh oh uh oh" the whole time), which just confuses the poor little muppet so that he never functions properly
• how Luke picks out cars on the street as his favorites ("Mommy, do you see that car? I love it. It's my favorite.")
• how when we ask "Who wants to go do...?", Silas raises his little hand in the air and shouts "Do!"

• how both boys crowd around the faucet in the bathtub to see themselves in the reflection while taking a bath
• how Luke will always notice my new shoes, dress, or perfume and compliment me
• waiting in the carpool line, how Silas anticipates me tickling him in his car seat as soon as the car gets put into park
• how Luke is never quite sure if it's a new day when he wakes up from a nap
• how Silas thinks that when you go "Shh!" you just touch your nose, because I guess I have long fingers
• how looking at this list compared to my last makes me realize just how much they've both grown, changed, and become oh so much fun. And I am so happy and so grateful that I get to be here every day to witness it

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Luke: "Silas, did you go potty?"
Silas: "Ya."
Luke: "Did you go in your diaper?"
Silas: "Ya."
Luke: "Okay, Mommy, you're on! Silas needs a diaper change. You're the one!"

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Daddy: "Hey, Luke! I flew home in a PLANE last night!"
Luke: "Really? Is it out front?"

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Luke: "Mommy, can I play the animal game, please?"
Mommy: "Sweetie, I don't think you're big enough yet."
Luke: "I am! I'll take care of all the animals! I'll feed them, and give them a house, and stop them when they're fighting..."

Wait, what are we talking about here??

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"Kermit, when I go on your show, can you let Piggy go get some ice cream? She really likes it, and I want to meet all the other people."

- Luke talking to puppet Kermit

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"When I go down stairs like this without any hands, I'm just amazing!"

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"Congratulations, Silas!"

- after Silas successfully got off the bed all by himself

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"Whoa, we have a lot of traffic...{pointing to the other side of the interstate} but they don't over there, so they are set!"

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This conversation took place during yesterday's picture...

Horse handler: "Do you want to be a horseman when you grow up?"
Luke: "No."
Horse handler: "How about a fireman?"
Luke: "No. I want to be an astronaut."

You heard it here first!

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"Mommy, I'm not very happy. I'm just a little happy."

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Luke: "Shark! I had a dream about a shark."
Mommy: "You did?"
Luke: "Yes. He was sitting on a rock. But he didn't eat people! He was my friend. And all the little fish - they didn't eat people either. And I went down, down with them. And there was this many sharks!" {holding up 10 fingers!}
Mommy: "Oh, wow!"
Luke: "And I couldn't get by them. And then I saw a shark on the wall. And I said, 'Oh my goodness!'"
Mommy: "And what did he say."
Luke: "Nothing."

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"I didn't even know how far we went!"

- Christmas Day, when Luke watched his "Cars" DVD for the first time in the car on the way to Granmom and Grandad's house. He never looked outside until we pulled onto their street and was obviously surprised.

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"The Wiggles aren't singing in this song. They're tired. They're resting."

- during an instrumental song on the end of his Wiggles CD

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Luke: "X...X...what word is that?"
Mommy: "X-ray."
Luke: "That's in Spanish."

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"This movie has lots of girls and daddies in it."

- Luke woke up from his nap when the Teague women were watching Pride and Prejudice

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"God, please let the snow come and for Christmas to come back."

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Aunt Tiffany {pouring milk in Luke's glass}: "Okay, tell me 'when'."
Luke: "When it's full?"

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