Luke has officially entered his dinosaur phase or, to use a more prehistoric term, his dinosaur era.
Luke went on a preschool nature hike in a local state park, and when the hike leader held up a fox skull and asked what it was, Luke immediately replied, in a voice full of awe and excitement, (as if he couldn’t believe it himself), “A dinosaur!”
Trips to the library have become prehistoric excursions. He inevitably picks out one of three dinosaur books that he borrows on a regular basis, and he always selects a Land Before Time movie. I believe we’ve seen several of them as many as three or four times each.
He likes dinosaurs so much, he’d eat them and wear them if he could. Actually, he does eat and wear them. We went to a restaurant with dinosaur chicken nuggets, and it took forever for him to eat because his chicken nuggets kept talking to each other and getting stuck in the ketchup ‘tar pits.’
He wears his two dinosaur shirts as often as possible. He’d never take off his dinosaur t-shirt if we didn’t make him. And he absolutely loves his dinosaur silly bandz – when he’s not wearing them, he’s making them talk to each other and acting out prehistoric scenarios.
So when he was invited to a dinosaur play date by his friend, he was beyond excited, both because it involved dinosaurs and because it was his first play date without Charlotte (and us). Luke has a couple of toy dinosaurs, but his friend, who has two older brothers, has quite the collection, of all types and sizes. It was as though Luke had died and gone to… well, dinosaur land.
Third Person Dragon
Luke’s love of dinosaurs has by no means supplanted his well-chronicled love of dragons.
He wants to be a dragon for Halloween again this year, and the other day he was speaking in what I refer to as ‘third person dragon’ while narrating his own actions:
“The dragon is clapping.”
“The dragon is sitting down.”
“The dragon has the ball.”
I hope you enjoyed today’s serving of ‘mac & cheese.’ (I know ‘the dragon’ did.)
