Stuff they said, Part III

And then there was Lukas. 

If you've read this blog for any length of time, or know us personally, you know we've been blessed with a talker named Lukas.  And Annina was a blessing to us on this trip, not only that she was there to help out with Natalie and the boys, but also that she was another adult for Lukas to talk to (I know it helped that Annina has a younger sister who is close to Lukas' age).

10. The trip started out with Lukas examining every stop light at every exit that we made.  He compared the shapes and sizes and colors of the stop lights with those he knows in California (stop lights were his latest fascination before we left on the trip).  This continued through Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and I think started to lessen after Nebraska and Iowa.  By the middle of the trip, he wasn't mentioning the stop lights nearly as much, and by the end of the trip, not at all (because we were covering old territory?)

9. "Mom, do you have anything for me to do?"  You may remember that we didn't bring a DVD player on this trip, well, except the laptop, which we used to play a DVD twice in the hotel.  What we brought instead was paper, pencils, books, toys, and workbooks for Lukas to use: one about states, one about math and one with a word find.  He also got two hand-held electronic toys:  Simon and Yahtzee.  And we brought LOTS of CDs, which leads to the third thing he said a lot...

8. "Can we listen to Jonathan Park?"  We brought a bunch of kids-on-an-adventure CDs that the kids really enjoyed, especially Lukas.  We also listened to "Bud And Me," a story about 9- and 5-year-old brothers who rode horseback across a good portion of the United States by themselves in the early 1900s.

7. No, Konrad, that isn't a (insert noun).
6. I want a chocolate chip granola bar.
5. Hey, Dad, look at that!
4. Why is that (insert way something is different from the way it is back home)?
3. Can we pray?  Lukas was frightened by the severe thunderstorms we drove through, and always remembered our source of protection.
2. How far are we from our hotel?

And the number one thing that Lukas said on the trip was....
1.  Are we going swimming tonight?