other pony tricks

Jack waves bye-bye now in this funny little circular way, and learned how to high-five at school from Jack Reilly. He knows to hold up his hand and say "stop" when someone is bothering him (it comes out like "tah! tah!" and he recently confused it with high-five and then laughed like crazy.

What Jack lacks in his ability to sleep, he makes up for in his indiscriminatory eating. He'll pretty much try anything, and even puppy-dog eyed a little girl at the busstop into giving him some of her grapes.

When he hears the song "Five Little Monkeys" he holds up his finger and waves it in the air when you get to the part about "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" and laughs.

Tomorrow we go back to swimming lessons! Jack and I are both kind of under the weather but I can't wait to see how he responds to the water after being away for so long.

the one year old

Jack is very excited about looking out the windows. He especially likes it if there are birds flying by or lights on in the houses that we share views of back lots with. 

He also really likes his black and white animals book. Sometimes he likes just putting his fingers through the holes, but sometimes he likes pointing out the animals. Grandma was here on a recent visit and helped him to find his nose, her nose and lots and lots of other noses on the animals in his books.

Jack really likes taking the hangers (and sometimes shoes) out of the bottom of the wardrobe and putting things in the garbage cans around the house. Mostly his toys and books go in the garbage cans. I think he might be following our lead on "straightening up" and figures he needs to do his part. We've had to start being careful before we empty the trash cans, and we have to keep the diaper pail away from him because it has an attached lid that lifts that he loves to open and then put things in the can.

Jack is also fascinated with our keys and spends a lot of time finding holes to put keys in. It is fortunate that we are building managers and have extremely busy lives because it provides Jack with many many keys that he can find holes for. His favorite hole is one in the wall left behind when he pulled the door stopper out. He can literally try keys in it for up to about 1/2 hour.

Infant Daily Intake:

1/26/09

Jack had a great day today he was walking up and down the classroom and he also had each of us hold his hand and walk with him.

1/28/2009

The more steps Jack takes the more independent he is! outside he didn't need much help walking around while pushing the wooden wagon

1/30/2009

Jack had a great day. We went outside today he was very happy. He was throwing the sand up and watching it fall. And he also was coloring with crayons and chalk. He really enjoyed both.

(ed. note: at home and it restaurants with Mama and Papa, Jack still eats his crayons)

2/2/09

Jack had a great day today (he) went outside twice. he was very excited and he also received lots of kisses from his friend Olu.

I'm walkin', yes indeed, I'm talkin' 'bout you and me...

Besides continuing to babble earnestly and often, and standing while holding objects and talking, he has started walking in short spurts. When he's in a hurry he still likes to crawl, and sometimes he does a little shuffle across the room on his knees, but increasingly he'll walk towards what he wants.

Pretty cool and always a shock.

Forgive me if I repeat myself

I found these Intake forms in a pile today, and I'm not sure which ones I've shared with y'all:

December 15, 2008

Jack was tickling all his friends' feet today, after watching Shelby tickle his own.

December 17, 2008

Jack had a great day today always playing with the red and blue truck. He also was feeding his friend Christopher with a spoon while sitting at the table.

December 19, 2008

Today Jack went outside and made some new friends with cildren in room four. Jack also climbed up the loft today!!

January 16, 2009

Jack enjoyed going outside and walking around while he was pushing the wagon.

Back at Daycare

At daycare, if one kid is being too rough, the other kid is taught to hold up his hand and say "stop". Today at daycare Jack held up his hand and said something like "top!" just like the teacher showed him. He's getting pretty good at identifying. When a neighbor called me Mama, Jack pointed to me. He says Mama and Baba (Papa) pretty frequently. And of course he still babbles his head off with this deep sincerity as he looks you right in the eye.

Today's intake form:

Jack spent some time outside with his friends. He stayed in the sandbox for a long time with a shovel and cup. He explored scooping with both and feeling the rocks between his fingers.

Happy Birthday Jack!

After the Academy we went to dinner at an Italian place in the neighborhood which I don't feel warrants advertising their name here. But the weather was amazingly and unseasonably warm yesterday, so in addition to a wonderful day to be in the park, we sat in the back patio area at the restaurant, Jack at a couple crayons and then got to try spinach and cheese ravioli for the first time. It was a hit. He also got his first doggie bag and took the leftovers to school with him today.

Happy Birthday Jack!

After the other kids left we moseyed over to the Academy of Sciences and Jack played in the Early Explorers Cove Play Area, which is awesome. By the way, I took a roll of pictures with my old manual camera and I'll try to post a few after they get developed, if I still know how to take a picture.