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Luke Aaron Johnson. The most strong-willed baby I have ever met. A lot of people use that term, "strong-willed" as a nicer way to say short tempered or bratty. Lukie is not short tempered and is too young to be bratty. He just is a go getter. Fearless. I can see all of these things in him right now and he can't even crawl. Well... he probably would be more inclined to crawl if he hadn't mastered the wormy scoot.

I am still amazed at the personality differences between the boys. Before Anthony tries something new he likes to be moderately sure he can succeed at whatever task is at hand. Even crawling. Anthony used to stay in crawling position for hours a day before he got the courage up to make a move. Same thing with walking. And talking. He is an observer. He copies techniques almost exactly. At 2 years old he has an impressive jumpshot.

I can already tell Luke is the opposite. He is going to try new things without thinking of consequences, he will fall a lot while learning to walk. He will probably be a climber and jump off of stuff. He will get hurt a lot.

When Anthony learned to crawl I put up some pillows in the doorway... sort of like a makeshift
baby gate. It took him a month to realize he could climb over them. I just tried that with Lukie and he basically laughedin my face.

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