Lucas, my smart prince charming

I know everyone says their kid is special, amazing, smart, one of a kind................and so on.  But our Lucas is SPECTACULAR.  I know he is mine and I am bias, BUT HE IS SPECTACULAR.  From the moment he was born, he was observing everything and rationalizing it all.  For a 5 year old he knows and asks questions that I am shocked to hear.  To some that have older kids, they might say their kids were the same way, but this is my first, I never had any before him so to me he is one of a kind.  For example, one day at school, his teacher said to me that he was not listening.  In the car drive home, I asked my Lucas "the teacher said you weren't listening, why baby?"  His response, "mommy. it just like the song says "baby I was born this way".  I was schocked. 

Another example is at school, a maintenance guy had come in to fix something, he was a big tall man, dark skin and had a beard.  One of the girls in his class said "teacher, he is scary".  Lucas said "he is not scary, he is just Spanish.".  You see Lucas is half Latin and half Italian (with some French).  In his mind the world contains two nationalities, Spanish and Italian, everyone is one or the other.  The Italians are light skin and all tan or dark skin are Spanish.  He went on to say "don't be scared, people are like a rainbow.  A rainbow is beautiful because of all the colors that it has just like people, they all come in different colors too, some are Spanish and some are Italians".  I heard the little girl looked confused but it seemed to calm her down.  Isn't he amazing, smart I tell you.

He has also discovered..................GIRLS, one in particular.  Let's just call her "Mia". Mia is in his class and is a really pretty girl.  She is quiet and a little shy and Lucas is in love.  He says that she is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.  He says she runs like a rabbit, fast and he loves to watch her hop around.  One day, he came home with an assignment that he did not complete in class.  The teacher sent a note saying he did not listen and so did not finish his assignment.  His response was simple, "he could not finish it because he didn't understand it".  When Fabio asked "why didn't you raise your hand and ask the teacher to explain it again", Lucas said "because every time I raise my hand, Mia looks at me and I get shy".  He also says that "one day I will go on bended knee and declare my love to Mia".  Prince Charming has nothing on Lucas.  He seems to be in love with the sight of Mia.  I don't know if it's love at first sight but it is surely a crush. 

One day my grandmother was over and we put our wedding video for her to see it and Lucas sat and watched the whole thing.  At the end, he said "mommy you really loved daddy then............right mommy?  I don't think you love daddy anymore because you don't kiss him like that anymore".  He was right, there is no time to show daddy how much I love him.  Usually I am running around doing things that I don't have time to stop and kiss my Fabio and vice verse.  So since the, Fabio and I kiss (not passionately like at our wedding ) but in a way showing Lucas that we still love each other.  Maybe, that is why he is turning into prince charming.  Can never get it right I tell you.

We are Catholics and really really really try to go to church every Sunday but sometimes we can't make it.  I am slowly teaching Lucas about "Jesus".  At church one day, he asked me mommy "is Jesus a superhero".  I said "he kind of is, he went through a lot for us and if we believe in him,  and pray, he can make things happen".  Lucas said "but does he have super powers, like can he fly, can he see through walls?"  I said "no he doesn't but he has other kind of powers".  I couldn't come up with other things to say while trying to be quiet at church, so I said " I don't know baby, let's talk about this later".  He gave me a look and said "mommy you don't know a lot, you better pray to Jesus for wisdom".  So I prayed but I got nothing.