Lucas Camilo

Burke is in Seattle and on Whidbey Island for the weekend, both for meetings and to get some time with his family.  The first day Burke was gone Lucas acted like it was no big deal, but soon after he started missing his daddy, which he told him on the the phone last night (see video below).

His Gramma Susan flew in yesterday, and Lucas has been having fun showing off all he’s learned to do since he saw her last.  Susan brought more birthday presents, including tie-died socks to match his tie-died shirt.  The whole outfit, together with the gut he’s developing, makes him look like an aging hippie.

Friday and Saturday nights Lucas doesn’t have a nurse overnight with him.  Susan is staying across the street with our neighbor, Mary, so last night was the first night Lucas and I (Krista) had ever spent alone together.  I was definitely a little bit nervous, hoping Lucas wasn’t falling asleep thinking about how his daddy is always faster out of bed and more alert when alarms go off in the middle of the night.  Fortunately the only alarms that went off over night were benign — I hadn’t plugged the monitor in all the way so the low battery alarm sounded; then I didn’t reset the food pump correctly when I fed him at 3:30 so another alarm went off 20 minutes later.  Lucas slept through it all though and breathed steadily all night long.  He was in a really good mood when he got up this morning, which I took as affirmation that he trusts me to do this more often.  I told him it’s a deal, as long as he doesn’t tell his daddy I can actually respond coherently to alarms that go off after midnight.

Here’s a snippet from Lucas’s long tirade last night.  Burke had Lucas on speaker phone so his cousins could talk to him, too.

Translation: “I love you and miss you, Madden and Daddy.  And come back soon.  And Mommy says Washington is nice but Oregon is nicer.  Na-na-na-na-na-na-na.”