Update before going backwards

So I wanted to give a little update on Jack because it's so hard to keep up with all the stuff he does and says. Once I get more pictures from the funeral scanned I'll backtrack.

We returned to swimming on June 23rd and Jack really had a blast. He starts splashing from the minute he gets in the water and he's learning to follow along with the songs they sing. When they do "Humpty Dumpty" he can barely contain himself. He bounces up and down and can barely wait to jump into the water (into mama's arms). There's this amazing teacher named Greg who gets all the kids to dive under water and the kids come up again utterly unphased. It's awesome.

Jack now says "funny!" when he laughs and regularly communicates yes, no, and I don't want it-if not always accurately to what he's actually trying to say.

He loves watching videos on youtube, although he's moved beyond Mahna Mahna, and now his favorite seems to be Patty Labelle singing the ABC's. Jack dances and claps along with the muppets. He laughs at Joey and Kermit singing the ABC's, but I think it might be because Joey is laughing.

Jack is still a little unsure when we drop him off at daycare, but usually if Soloman is there, and everyone is eating oatmeal, he settles in okay. The other day I had to help him put on some pink plastic shoes with jewels on the toes and a fireman hat before he click-clacked over to the jumping area on his own. Sean encouraged me to let Jack know that we are leaving him in a good place, and that we feel confident about it. It definitely helps me, if not Jack. And he always had a great time once he's into the swing of things.

Daily intakes:

June 17, 2009

Today Jack painted his hands blue with water color. He then used his hands, and sometimes his paint brush to spread the watercolor around on the paper and the art table.

June 19, 2009

Jack enjoyed playing with the measuring cups in the water. He liked splashing them in the water. :)

June 22, 2009

Jack was so ready for waterplay this morning! He used his watering can to make lots of splashes and laughed everytime he did.

June 24, 2009

Jack and Cameron explored with flaxseed today. The wet flaxseed was a little weird to him but he liked playing with the bugs and cutting tools I gave him.