Lucas Camilo

On Monday Burke returned from his retreat in California.  It was a great homecoming with Lucas – the little guy was all smiles when Burke came in and they spent a lot of time reconnecting, with Lucas touching Burke’s beard to make sure it was really him.  Krista’s mom arrived later that day and has been here all week, reading, playing, and taking beautiful fall walks with Lucas.

Lucas is feeling lots better this week, and the pinkness and puffiness around his eyes is almost totally gone.  Maybe because he feels so much better, or maybe because of his expanded audience, he’s been making lots of new facial expressions and sounds.  He’s getting louder and faster with the tongue clicks, and on Tuesday afternoon he developed a “kissy face”, with the bottom lip coming to his front teeth and his cheeks sucking in slightly.  He’s also brought back what we call “badger face” (sucking in his bottom lip), which he was doing slowly earlier this summer.  So badger face is back, but it’s not always slow and deliberate any more.  The video below shows better than we can describe the amazingness of the rapid-fire badger conversation he had with his Gramma.

And finally, just to really wow his audiences, Lucas has been experimenting with combining badger face and vocal sound, which comes shocking close to saying “ma-ma.”  Or sometimes “ma-ma-ma-nananananananaaa.”  Have we mentioned he’s brilliant lately?  We’ve been so wowed that our upstairs neighbors report they can hear us laughing and cheering for Lucas through the ceiling.

It’s not all about work and performance around here, though.  At the end of the day one of Lucas’s greatest skills is still the good ol’ fashioned snuggle.