Cuteness

Our computer broke and it took a little bit to figure out how to recover things and buy a new one and all of that, so forgive the ridiculously long stretch of no posting.



Two has certainly brought its share of frustration with "NO!" and "I do it" arguments being quite frequent, but it also has raised the bar on cuteness! There is just nothing cuter than a toddler trying to express himself (at least when he's using his word and not a tantrum)!

Jack knows the word instruments. But says it inamints. I attribute this to Miss Elva, his music teacher at school that he LOVES. She only comes on Wednesday mornings and when you want Jack up and moving out the door on Wednesday morning, all you have to do is mention her name and he's ready to go!

Jack likes to play "guess animals" in the car. This involves you both naming every animal you can think of. He made this game up all on his own, at least as far as we know.

When Jack doesn't have clothes on, he says he's "naken!" The other morning on the way to school, two men were running across the Nickel Bridge without shirts on. Jack exclaimed "Look Momma, two nakens!"

He's got his colors down, except red. I don't know what the hang up is with this one. He often calls it yellow. He's doing better with it though, every day we see a little improvement.

Since taking the side off the crib so that he can get in and out of bed, he wants someone to stay with him for a few minutes after we read books to go to sleep. He wants that person to sit in the "rocket chair." That's rocking chair to the rest of us.

He thought the Arts in the Park flags on Douglasdale were birthday cakes.

They are in fact pots full of paint brushes, but birthday cake isn't that big of a stretch!

He is obsessed with dinosaurs. It happened instantly after watching ONE episode of Dinosaur Train. Grandma bought him a stuffed T-Rex (which Jack can say very well and it's really cute) which he did try and share with the baby (by pushing the T-Rex into my belly), we think. He could have been trying to get the T-Rex to eat his little brother. We can't be entirely sure.

When Jack wants you to pick him up he says "carry you!" We reinforce that it's "carry me" every time but he refuses to change.

Jack knows the difference in numbers and letters. If he sees words or letters, he will start randomly naming any letters he knows. The same goes when he sees numbers. He can always pick out Q and X though. Counting continues to develop. It started with everything being 5, 6, 10. Now he knows how to recognize 2 things and then moves on to 4,5, 6, 10.

I often say "oh goodness" instead of "oh my gosh" or "oh no". Jack has started to say "goodness" too. He also will say "Whoa Nelly" and "Bonk!" They all make me laugh, a lot!

When Jack wakes up in the morning, even though he could leave his room and come find us, he just yells for one of us and waits. When you get there, he's gathered up his blanket, lion, t-rex and cow pillow and wants to take them all to our bed where we all lie around and wake up a little bit together.

Jack's always trying to feed his dinosaur or animal toys and stuffed animals. Sometimes he'll even try and get them to take his medicine for him! It's nice he wants to share I guess. Here's a picture of him with all of his puzzle pieces lined up and one Nilla wafer offered to each one...