I was going through our photos, and came across this one of Lucas with his dad.
Because he got into EVERYTHING, Alan took to putting Lucas on his shoulders whenever we went anywhere.
We used this technique when we went shopping, to family events or did just about anything that required us to take Lucas. It kept him from running away (or into traffic!).
When Lucas got too big to carry this way, things became much more difficult, since he still didn’t know how to communicate, or to recognize danger.
As a matter of fact, the last time we attended my family’s annual family picnic, Lucas was seven years old, and too big to be carried this way. He ran right across the horse shoe pit, coming within about 2 inches of a getting killed by a heavy, iron horse shoe someone had just thrown. That’s why it was the LAST time we attended…
Miss you guys so much!!!