Communication:
This morning, as soon as I went in his room Jack asked for daddy :) Then when John walked in he looked at his shirt, pointed to a word that had an M and said "M!" It was awesome! He has gotten so good at his letters! So....not a lot of words, but he is interested in the alphabet and numbers....
A, E, I, O, (sometimes U) L, W, M (although sometimes he calls Ms W) and R seem to be "mastered". He likes saying S and H. I think right now C, D, G, T all sound similar to him. But he tries!
When he counts with us he is fine. When he counts on his own it goes a little like this: 3, 7, 8, 7,8...10! "eee, evan, ate, evan, ate, en!" (sometimes 9 "ein" and can say 2 and make the number with his fingers, but for some reason starts on 3 when he counts by himself :) he likes to make 2 with his fingers, then go back to "5" and say "uh-oh, where is the 2?" then put up 2 fingers again and say "oh ere it is" "ere is 2!"
oops "oopths" it's sooo cute when he does it! And he says it all the time :)
garbage which he loves to collect and throw away! He is also good at identifying it out in public :)
off (especially when describing when he is turning a musical toy off)
on
bubbles
beach
we are working on Cereal and Crackers so that it is easier for him to ask me for them. I am trying to teach him the sign language for both as well.
Grandma and Grandpa are still hard sounds more like Papa and Mama. At this point all grandpas are Papa and Grandma is a garbled string of syllables, some of them mama :) And I have tried the sign language too but both signs are very similar to Daddy and Mama so I think it is more confusing that helpful.
We call Adam Uncle Dude and Jack did call him Dude! In Shawno he called Eric Bub! (he is going by Uncle Bub). He does have a word for Sean, I am just not sure how to spell it ;-)
He is starting to say excuse me and bless you at the appropriate times.(August) I LOVE that he is such a polite boy! It was my goal :)
He will repeat the names of colors, but doesn't identify them on his own.
**August 16**
A woman from Illinois Early Intervention Services came to do the initial "intake" which comes before the speech evaluation. It is basically paperwork and questionnaires. One of the questionnaires was to assess his Social/Emotional development. I am proud to say that Jack scored a PERFECT! I am so happy! Well, and apparently so is he :) YEAY!
**August 17**
We went over to John's cousin Matt's to celebrate his birthday. His girlfriend Alyssa is a speech pathologist. She did an informal "evaluation" on Jack and said that Jack appears to be fine as far as his speech. Another Yeay! She said that to qualify for speech services the child is significantly behind. If Jack is not, then the state will not help pay for it, and therefore we will not be signing him up. I also think he is fine. He has picked up SO much just over the short time I have been with his this summer! It's amazing! For the first time he seems to "care" or take interest in learning what things are. Before he just wanted to run around :)
Developments:
August 17th He JUMPED for the first time with both feet off the ground at the same time!!!
AND he correctly blew into the recorder mom gave him! He is so musical :) He will "sing" when he plays the guitar too :)
In other news:
I dropped Jack off at Sabina's yesterday for the first time since last the school year ended. I wasn't sure how it would go since he seems more attached. He has been asking for Mama whenever I am not in the room with him. However, as soon as we got to the door he literally fell in he was so excited! He ran right over to her and gave her a hug and then started playing! The kids came over and gave him hugs. It's great that he loves it so much! She had put her slide into a kiddie pool so he was in his glory all day! She said he was perfect, not problems at all :) Although, nap time was a lot shorter, of course. So our evening was a little off. Mom was super exhausted as well! Jack was by no means bad, he was just silly and full of "energy" and I was not :)
Foods:
New and surprising foods he tried and loves this summer....
Quinoa
cousous
fresh grilled salmon that Mama and Grandpa caught! :)
hard boiled eggs (well, maybe not "loves" but will eat :)
raw onions by themselves! He likes to eat them while I chop them!?!?
salad-when I eat my salad, which is mixed greens with almonds and goat cheese, he always wants some too. And he loves it!
almonds
Oldies but goodies...
his "favorites" (which is hard to say since he will eat practically anything)
pita and hummus
avocado
Greek yogurt
blueberries (really, all fruit-but we have been eating A LOT of blueberries! We get them at the farmers market)
strawberries, watermelon, peaches, cherries, apples, grapes
cheese and crackers
Sleep:
We were both up around 6:30 everyday this summer. I was almost always the first one up in the house...on MY summer break! By 7:30 the whole clan was up :)
The routine is still bath 6:00-6:30, book around 6:30 and bed around 7:00. He usually falls asleep around 7:30. It all depends on how active the day was :)
During the summer he would usually nap a good 2-21/2 hours! After lunch until around 3:00. Mama got a lot of reading done this summer!
oops "oopths" it's sooo cute when he does it! And he says it all the time :)
garbage which he loves to collect and throw away! He is also good at identifying it out in public :)
off (especially when describing when he is turning a musical toy off)
on
bubbles
beach
we are working on Cereal and Crackers so that it is easier for him to ask me for them. I am trying to teach him the sign language for both as well.
Grandma and Grandpa are still hard sounds more like Papa and Mama. At this point all grandpas are Papa and Grandma is a garbled string of syllables, some of them mama :) And I have tried the sign language too but both signs are very similar to Daddy and Mama so I think it is more confusing that helpful.
We call Adam Uncle Dude and Jack did call him Dude! In Shawno he called Eric Bub! (he is going by Uncle Bub). He does have a word for Sean, I am just not sure how to spell it ;-)
He is starting to say excuse me and bless you at the appropriate times.(August) I LOVE that he is such a polite boy! It was my goal :)
He will repeat the names of colors, but doesn't identify them on his own.
**August 16**
A woman from Illinois Early Intervention Services came to do the initial "intake" which comes before the speech evaluation. It is basically paperwork and questionnaires. One of the questionnaires was to assess his Social/Emotional development. I am proud to say that Jack scored a PERFECT! I am so happy! Well, and apparently so is he :) YEAY!
**August 17**
We went over to John's cousin Matt's to celebrate his birthday. His girlfriend Alyssa is a speech pathologist. She did an informal "evaluation" on Jack and said that Jack appears to be fine as far as his speech. Another Yeay! She said that to qualify for speech services the child is significantly behind. If Jack is not, then the state will not help pay for it, and therefore we will not be signing him up. I also think he is fine. He has picked up SO much just over the short time I have been with his this summer! It's amazing! For the first time he seems to "care" or take interest in learning what things are. Before he just wanted to run around :)
Developments:
August 17th He JUMPED for the first time with both feet off the ground at the same time!!!
AND he correctly blew into the recorder mom gave him! He is so musical :) He will "sing" when he plays the guitar too :)
In other news:
I dropped Jack off at Sabina's yesterday for the first time since last the school year ended. I wasn't sure how it would go since he seems more attached. He has been asking for Mama whenever I am not in the room with him. However, as soon as we got to the door he literally fell in he was so excited! He ran right over to her and gave her a hug and then started playing! The kids came over and gave him hugs. It's great that he loves it so much! She had put her slide into a kiddie pool so he was in his glory all day! She said he was perfect, not problems at all :) Although, nap time was a lot shorter, of course. So our evening was a little off. Mom was super exhausted as well! Jack was by no means bad, he was just silly and full of "energy" and I was not :)
Foods:
New and surprising foods he tried and loves this summer....
Quinoa
cousous
fresh grilled salmon that Mama and Grandpa caught! :)
hard boiled eggs (well, maybe not "loves" but will eat :)
raw onions by themselves! He likes to eat them while I chop them!?!?
salad-when I eat my salad, which is mixed greens with almonds and goat cheese, he always wants some too. And he loves it!
almonds
Oldies but goodies...
his "favorites" (which is hard to say since he will eat practically anything)
pita and hummus
avocado
Greek yogurt
blueberries (really, all fruit-but we have been eating A LOT of blueberries! We get them at the farmers market)
strawberries, watermelon, peaches, cherries, apples, grapes
cheese and crackers
Sleep:
We were both up around 6:30 everyday this summer. I was almost always the first one up in the house...on MY summer break! By 7:30 the whole clan was up :)
The routine is still bath 6:00-6:30, book around 6:30 and bed around 7:00. He usually falls asleep around 7:30. It all depends on how active the day was :)
During the summer he would usually nap a good 2-21/2 hours! After lunch until around 3:00. Mama got a lot of reading done this summer!
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