Just thought I would tell you a bit more about what we are up to. I am counting down the days until summer break. I officially have 11 more days of teaching and 29 days until work is totally done. Dustin is less busy and gets home earlier at night which has been wonderful. Now for some updates on Jack at 18 months old:
*Jack loves his day care and all the kids he gets to be around. He is so social. Recently he has been walking around the house saying, "Kiyah" all day. She is the little girl of one of the ladies that watches Jack. Oh and Jack officially gets to start nursery at church this Sunday! YAY!
*He is constantly saying "mommy." I don't feel too bad for Dustin, even when he gets called Mommy, because all Jack used to say was Daddy.
*He is going through a hitting phase, and we are seriously struggling at trying to get him to stop. He has a time out spot, but now he will just hit then walk over and sit there all by himself. Yeah, that isn't working.
*He does his version of counting to 3 and saying go, but his sounds more like, "2, go." He especially likes to do leap frog between me and Dustin as we hold his hands. But he just keeps saying 2 and letting his legs give out from under him over and over.
*When I tell him to sing, he says, "La, la, la."
*I try to teach Jack good things usually (but I think I accidently taught him how to say "Crap" Oops!) But Dustin has taught him this: He asks Jack to show him what he does when he poops and Jack squats, grunts, and makes a strained pooping face.
*We are working on animal sounds, but Jack's favorites are roaring like a dino or bear and making monkey sounds. He says pretty much every animal makes one of those two sounds.
*Jack loves balls, shooting hoops, and being outside. All day he says, "side" asking to go outside. He loves to go to the park, climb on the toys, and slide down the slide all by himself.
*We are amazed at the new things he learns each day. He is constantly cracking us up with how he acts and things he says. The other day I said, "See ya later, alligator." Jack replied, "Bye, bye." Another time Dustin said, "Jack, did you know I love you?" and Jack said, "I know it."
*Jack is still obsessed with eating dog food. Sad, but true.
*We have gotten rid of the binkie! Wahoo for that!
*Jack's favorite foods are hot dogs, cheese balls, fruit snacks, milk, juice, and candy. Oops on that one too!
Here are some pictures from recent good times with Jack!
Jack turning off the TV. Look what is on it. Apparently Jack was as disgusted by the Jazz's performance in the playoffs as the rest of us were.
Jack's typical wide-eyed look of innocence. (Trust me. He is never ACTUALLY innocent!)
Mmmmm....
Jack was definitely enjoying this perk of helping mommy make Homemade Oreos.
Still blissfully enjoying his chocolate mixers. He was a mess after, but it was worth it to see how much he enjoyed it.
Hey Jack looked at the camera for once! (Ignore my strained, awkward neck. I was just excited to get a semi-cute picture with my son for once!)
The Spaghettios Incident: Jack decided to throw his bowl full of remaining sphaghettios on the floor and it splattered EVERYWHERE....on the floor, the window, the rug, Jack, chairs, the table, Chewie, etc....It was NOT fun to clean up!
We were trying on summer clothes on Jack and we put these overalls on without a shirt, and we just thought it looked so cute and funny we let him walk around in it for awhile. Nice look Jack! Yee-haw!
Playing with Chewie and a ball in his awesome white trash outfit.
I don't know why Jack has so many toys because it is other random things that keep him the most entertained. Here he is having lots of fun playing in, around, and with boxes. It is really funny sometimes to watch him discover ways that entertain himself.
Hanging out with mommy!
Just chillin on the chair eating some fruit snacks
Cruising the house in his hard hat
"Helping" mommy make banana bread. Jack's contributions: poured a few ingredients in and also threw in a couple of goldfish crackers. :)
Cute boy playing on the chair. He loves playing on chairs and has had two spills recently off of them, but that does not stop him from climbing on them anyway.
Showing off our tongues! Dustin has recently taught him "tongue kisses." They lick each other's tongues. Totally disgusting. This mommy DOES NOT like to participate in that new game.
CHEESE!
Jack walking around the house with his horse
Jack is still obsessed with shoes: his, mine, Dustin's, anyones really...Here he is with my tennis shoes on. The other day he put a pair of my shoes on Dustin, and he will try to put on any and all pairs he can find.
One of Jack's new favorite games: He pulls out Chewie's bed and sits in it, which of course freaks Chewie out. Chewie starts pawing at his bed like crazy trying to get it back and Jack just laughs and rolls around on it. They are pretty hilarious to watch together.
Me and my sweet Jackie Bean!
And one last CHEESE! :)
Congratulations if you made it through this novel of an entry! You must really love our Jack-Jack too! :)
