Jack's Two!!!

Well, well, well... All these parties and finally his real birthday is here and he can really say he's two! What better way is there for a two year old to celebrate than to go to Chuck E. Cheese? Well mom could think of a few better ways, but Jack loves it... He runs around like crazy from one game to the next. I don't think we even need tokens; he's entertained just by looking at the games. And this time, Dad let him run on top of the ski ball game - great, he's learning how to cheat at a young age... All of his Grandparents came (I slacked off on pictures) and so did Aiden and Jamie! But the best surprise of all was Auntie Shellee!!! She found a ride home from Berkley for the three day weekend!!! What a lucky birthday boy!

As an update... at his two year old appointment, Jack is three feet tall and 30lbs. So if you double his height at two, like the old wives tale, he should be six feet tall as an adult. He is a ton of personality and talks like crazy. Most of the time Jeremey and I understand, but others may not. His favorite word right now is milk. "Pease milk, pease, milk pease" (if I say the combination in different orders, will you get it any faster)? And this goes on all day and sometimes in the night. I think he's going to become calcified or something... Since he got his molars he hasn’t been sleeping as well as he was before. He never used to have his bottle in bed, but now he wants sippy cups in bed. Um no, you’re going to get cavities!

He says lots of things, some of my favorites are: “oh no,” “oh great,” “jeez,” “more” which sounds like moon, “pease,” “cheese?,” “peanut butter,” I can’t even begin to explain what that sounds like, banana which sounds like bana, “crash” sounds like cash and is usually followed by an “oh no.” He loves to say “two.” He says it when he has two things and when he’s pretending to count – “two, two, two, two” um, that’s four honey… He says play. When he wakes up in the morning it usually starts with a giggle and if he’s still a little tired he asks for milk, but if not he says “play? Choo-choo?” And out we go. A little later, or some times right away he asks, “park? walk?”

We walk to the park most days and he loves that, especially if we see bunnies or lizards. He has also started running and I mean running (okay, not as fast as Aiden, but too fast for me). There is a soccer field at the park and he will run the length of it and sometimes back and in lots and lots of circles. It’s great and he usually falls asleep in the stroller on the way home! He still favors the swings at the park. He’s not real big on the slides, but is a really good climber. He also loves playing in the sand. We usually bring some trucks and a shovel and he loves that.

His favorite toys are still his cars, but trains have also risen to the top of the list. He puts the train tracks together all by himself and has even more fun taking them apart. He loves books and he can reach both of his book shelves, so he gets them out all the time. His favorites are Rainbow Rob and Green Eggs and Ham. But he also loves all of his Cars books (they’re just not mom’s favorite). His favorite shows are Sesame Street and Thomas the Train and his favorite movie is Cars, but he still loves his ‘La la.’ He also likes Incredibles and Finding Nemo. But we try to limit TV. the best we can. He will usually not watch any more than an hour a day. Mommy loves skipping scenes in movies, and I’m dreading the days when he figures out what I’m doing. He’s really good at the puzzles that he has and can sort shapes. He knows his colors, blue is still his favorite but he knows yellow, purple, green, black, pink, orange and is finally saying red. He tries to sing along with the a,b,c’s he gets a few letters right. I can tell he’s interested, so that’s good.

For the most part, he’s usually in a good mood. He smiles at people and says hi to them all the time. People are always smiling at him too and he gets a lot of compliments. He’s very active and doesn’t like to be too contained that is usually our main disagreement, but that’s part of being two. All in all, he’s really fun to hang out with, we’re really lucky to have such a cool kid.