An evening with Nonny and Papa...

Jack talks about Nonny and Papa ALL the time! 

They "play big trucks" , the wagon, golf, and bikes!

Just...well...."stuff we've done lately"

Daddy took Jack to the beach when "mommy was on the boat with Papa and Nonny"! Good daddy! When I asked Jack what he did with daddy, he reported back "Daddy cook pizza" :) Of course he thought about food first!

 Jack is pretty much potty trained now! He wears underwear, except when he is sleeping. He asks to go potty when he needs to...even when we aren't at home! And he will go potty whenever  I "make" him try. Such a good BIG boy! 

 

 New Summer routine....ice cream and the beach! Not a bad life...

Now THAT'S how we eat ice cream in this family! ;)

Hangin out at the Owens's...as usual :) 

The are all totally best friends! Jack and Ethan jump up and down yelling the other one's name!

I guess it gets pretty crazy over there and Jack decided to wear a helmet!? :)

grocery shopping with monkey and preparing dinner

Silly goose at the park

Lunch on the balcony!
Mommy loooves having the summers off with Jack :)
We're buddies!

 Jack's finally into, and patient enough, to actually make "sandcastles"!

Updates/Thoughts

WOW! He has come so far! He now knows all of his alphabet (although sometimes he confuses S and C, or L and I...depending on the font). He can count to 10 AND count/add up to 3 consistently. Sometimes more. He finally knows all of his (basic) colors and shapes (square, circle, triangle, star, moon) but doesn't always pronounce them right :) He puts together some very thoughtful independent ideas into a chopped up sentence. He is constantly surprising me with what he knows! I guess it's hard for me to accept that he is not a baby anymore :)

He is potty training, and it going very well! He is finally telling me when he has to go! We do have maybe one accident a day. When this happens he will have an accident but then tell me he has to go potty. He wears underwear all day, except while sleeping. Not sure when that stops. He is VERY proud of his underwear! The ones with the Superman logo he calls "cheese" ...I guess because it is a yellow triangle? :)

Right now my favorite mispronunciation he does is that he calls a police car a "weese car"! I don't know why, but I love when he says it! John's new one  is the way he says moon. The "oo" sound is very emphasized.

Shows he is obsessed with are the Mater Tall Tales and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Mater is the tow truck from Cars. In the episode Air Mater, Mater learns to fly. Jack calls that one "fly away Mater" and the one that is in black and white he calls "mater at night". Which I also love the way he says Lightning McQueen..." Gang-geen". Sounds like Gangrene  :) He calls Mickey Mouse "Mimi Mouse".

He finally likes to go to the daycare at the gym. Which is great because I love the kickboxing class. He calls both my kickboxing, and John and my Krav Maga class, "punch punch kick" (of course he has moves to go with this ;) Sometimes he'll wake up in the morning and ask if we are going to "punch punch kick".

For Father's Day Jack shouted "Happy Birthday Daddy" when he walked into the room! I think it was because for John's birthday I bought cupcakes "upcakes" . Then I bought him another one on Father's Day.  Now whenever we walk to Jewel he asks if it's for Daddy's "bird-day" :) We also had a discussion about how it's almost Jack's birthday. But we had to keep clarifying that today it's not his birthday. So he will tell people it's "not my bird-day" when they ask how old he is  :)

I am loving my time with him! We go to "my beach" and put on his swimming "soup" almost every day. I can't wait to take "my choo-choo" and "my bus" for more adventures!

Father's Day weekend

Friday was fine! First of all, check out Jack's underwear! Making steps toward potty training :) I called this the James Bond pose, John was thinking more of a White-Trash competition....Guess who'd win? We also had gone to the park with Ethan and Ellie the day before. Then later Friday we met some friends at the beach to play and have lunch. All of a sudden Jack got the chills and crawled in my lap. I took his temperature when we got home....103! Poor Guy :(

The only benefit is that I get to snuggle...

Showing off his big boy underpants.
 I'm sure he will not appreciate this pictures someday...

Finally! We did get to celebrate Daddy's Day!
We went to Brick's for pizza. Great place!

Just a fun walk to the store for special treats for Daddy. Jack loves water fountains!

Museum of Science and Industry with the Deyerlers!

Wow! We had an absolute BLAST!!! It was Illinois resident free day, yet it wasn't crowded at all. We got there around 10 and left around 2. They all did great! Jack was sad to leave "my Sean" and kept wanting to see him again when we left ;) We saw: trains, planes, race cars, boats, baby chicks,a farm,  and a submarine...just to name a few! Of course when I kept asking Jack what he saw today he said "Sean" and "toys". Hmm, good thing we didn't have to pay! We can't wait for our next cousins adventure!

driving a tractor

at the explore factory

Choo-choos!

model trains 

trolley

chick hatchery 

this is for John, checking out the Double Helix

Photos from Aunt Margaret....

:)

Somehow this is Jack's version of saying "cheese"

Making soup in a submarine kitchen

avalanche...which I called a tornado until I actually read the information.
Once again, a lesson for the reading teacher. 

Submarine 

race cars! 

cutting corn 

cousins!!

now THAT's the tornado! 

debating the pros and cons of cloning DNA...

Finally, got a good pictures of the boys, BOTH looking at the camera and smiling! Nice job Snaggers!