construction

I could make a full time job of documenting Jack's constructions and explaining what they do. This was one that he was very proud of, although I was never quite sure what it was created to do.

the rain is finally ending it seems

but Jack has told me several times that he (and Tycco) like the rain. He says they like to splash in the puddles and Jack loves walking around with his National Wildlife sea creatures umbrella.

Jack's welding uniform

This morning Sean snapped a picture of Jack in his welding uniform. Notice the badge.

As we sat on Pebble Beach, looking out to sea

I asked Jack, "Jack, if you were a rock, what color rock would you be?"

After a pause and without taking his eyes off the water he said, "I wouldn't be a rock, I'd be a big fat wave. With a shark in it."

Incident report: April 22, 2011

11:30 am
Jack bumped head/scrape on forehead
While playing with another friend Jack was bumped by one of the brooms they were using.
Ice pack.

this morning

Jack came into our bed sometime early this morning and went back to sleep. When he woke up later he laid on the pillow next to me and said, "let's rub noses". then he giggled like crazy.

Safety shirt

I meant to tell you-

Jack inherited a Green Bay Packers Brett Favre #4 mesh jersey from Aunt Lisa.

He showed no interest until one day, which weirdly enough was Superbowl weekend, when he said he wanted to wear his safety shirt. He tells us every once in a while what the letters on the back say (F-A-V-R-E). One day he told us they said, "The rule is you have to see your tummy through the holes in the safety shirt. The next time he told us the letters say "SAFETY!" The next time it said, "STOP! GO! SAFETY!"

When people see him in it and question him about his love of the Packers, he looks at them like they've mistaken him for someone else.

strawberry season!

Jack with strawberry at the Farmer's Market last Saturday

the significant things you couldn't imagine if you didn't have a kid

There are about 100 of these moments every day.

This morning Sean heard Jack waking up, talking to himself, clearly dreaming. Then when Jack was awake he told Sean that he saw the pizza but then the pizza was gone and he wanted the pizza. It was probably the first time we had a clear example of Jack experiencing dreams vs. reality.

Later today I gave Jack a yogurt and a spoon to eat before nap. I went off to the bathroom and when I came back Jack had decided to eat the yogurt with his hand, just one hand, while he held his favorite stuffed animal, Dalmation, in his other hand. I told him that I didn't know why he decided to eat his yogurt with his hand today, but that next time if he doesn't want to use his spoon he should really wash his hands first because his hands have a lot of germs on them (nevermind that I should have made sure he washed his hands before he sat down to eat anyway). But I'm walking him into the bathroom, looking at how thoroughly he has covered himself in yogurt-his sweatshirt, his face, his forehead, his arm, the floor, the table and I'm kind of blown away by how he can make this much of a mess without being intentional about it. I mean, he really was just happily eating yogurt, talking to himself and to Dalmation, clearly not trying to make a mess, but not aware that the yogurt is going everywhere either.

As I write that it sounds like nothing, but it makes me stand in awe and wonder at kids.

snow

In San Francisco, one "goes to the snow". That's how they say it here. It still strikes me as weird. Not so much that you have to get out and go to where the snow is, just grammatically it sounds weird. It seems like one should say, "we're going on vacation to the mountains" or something. But I guess a lot of people here do actually just drive until they see the snow, then they get out of their cars and frolic for a while, then they go home.

Jack was into it. We stayed at a lovely, understated resort that served hot chocolate for free until 5 every day, with whipped cream and cinnamon sprinkled on top. Jack doesn't like chocolate, and he wasn't interested in the hot chocolate but Sean and I got our money's worth. The snow was really high, but the weather was warm so it was pretty much the best of both worlds, although I guess if I had to find something wrong I could say it would have been nice if snow had fallen while we were there. But I'm not going to find anything wrong because the trip was awesome. We went into South Tahoe one day and Jack tried ice skating on skates. He was a real champ and did remarkably well.

I want to talk about

Today Jack said, "I want to talk about...costume parties"

so we talked about it a little while and decided that if we went to a costume party Jack would dress as a cowboy (like Curious George) and when I asked him if he would want to dress as Curious George dressed as a cowboy, he laughed uproariously.

Later he said, "Nancy, I want to talk about...fleas"

According to Jack, fleas are about the size of an medium size adult's fist.