Nully Baby Blog: Lucas

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Lucas - ELEVEN

Happy 11th Birthday Lucas Reid Nullmeyer!!

Eleven seems like the first step towards being a pre-teen, and I can't believe we're already here! Some words to describe you right now are: organized, affectionate, easily frustrated, hard-working, goofy, fun-loving, focused, sensitive.

You are my most independent and organized child. You are perfectly content to spend time alone in your room listening to classic rock while working on a lego creation or organizing your things. Your room is always the cleanest out of the four of you!

This year you tried lacrosse for the very first time. You picked up the sport quickly and showed natural talent out on the field. However, we could never quite tell if you really loved the sport. Towards the end of the season it became more difficult to convince you to go to games and practices. But I'm proud of you for trying something new.

Flashback to baby Lucas!

You have been loving the Humphrey the Hamster book series this past year. There are approximately 10 books and you went through and selected half to read on your own, and half for me to read out loud. Almost every night you come in my room and ask "Can we read Humphrey?" You then proceed to snuggle next to me and spread your limbs out for me to scratch. I try to say yes as much as possible because I know these moments won't last!

You are excellent at following instructions for building things, as well as creating things on your own. You will often steal your brother's Eureka Crates that are meant for ages 14+ and have no problem putting the projects together.

You are a very logical thinker and I like the way you think things through. For example, you told me that on your birthday you want to begin with bacon for breakfast, open presents after lunch, and then have your cake after dinner. This way the fun is spread out as much as possible.

You did really well in 5th grade homeschool this year. You finished your math early and moved on to 6th grade math. Almost every time I asked a question about something we had read, you were the first to answer. You have requested to do marine biology for science next year just with me, and I'm looking forward to it!