My Little Man

Easter

Getting ready to find some Easter eggs!

Found one!

Putting 'em in the "basket"

Another one!

Hey! There's Goldfish in these!

For Jack's first Easter (well, the first one that he actually was awake through!) we "hid" some plastic eggs filled with Goldfish, Cheerios and Teddy Grahams. We didn't know how well it would go over but we figured we'd try it. They weren't exactly hidden, at least not from the perspective of anyone with eyes but, come on, he's only 1! I dumped out one of his buckets to use as a basket. I told him to find the egg. "EGG!" he yelled and followed my directions to put them in the bucket really well. He loved shaking the eggs. In the process of one particularly vigorous shaking, he opened one and realized that there was even MORE magic! There was food in them! His favorite snacks. He would excitedly grab his shirt and pull on it after each little bite! He did way better than I expected and I can't wait to make the hiding more difficult and to take it outside!!

Jack's Dictionary

Jack seems to be acquiring new words all the time. He loves to walk, run and talk a lot! It's amazing what he understands. Yesterday we were heading to the park and Daddy was going to stay behind to make dinner. I asked Jack if he wanted to go bye-bye. He said, "bah-bah" and then followed me, like a little duckling to the door. I told him to first go and give Daddy a kiss goodbye and he turned around, went up to Paul and planted one on him.

Anyway, it is so cool to see him now start to vocalize some of the things he understands.

Words he knows without prompting: Mommy, Daddy, Poppy, Nonny, banana, book, ball, no, car, toes (he walks up touches our feet and says "DOHs"), up, hot, hat, bubbles, baby, bye-bye, nose, doggie, apple, thank you, wow

Today, he was flipping through a book on numbers. Number 7 has bananas and he opened it and said, "NANA!" This is not new. However, he then flipped to the next picture with 8 dogs on it and said "Dod" (dog). Then he flipped to the 9 ducks and said "dah". I don't know if it meant duck but it was cool anyway. Then he flipped to 10 eggs. I said egg and he repeated it. Then he shut the book and did it all by himself: "Nana! Dod!, Duh, Egg". I couldn't believe it so I kept making him do it. Then he thought that everything was "egg" because I made such a big deal about it. So I am not sure I can count that as a 100% word for him. But he is doing a lot of repeating in general. Yesterday, I told him that the diaper pail was yucky. "UCK!" he replied. He's like this little toy. My favorite toy ever!

A Rare Photo of Mommy with Jack

I find that most pictures of Jack are just of Jack. Or they are of Jack and anyone else that isn't me, because I am usually the one taking the picture. Here's an exception!

Signs of Summer

April 1st was unseasonably war (83 degrees) and Jack took full advantage. He loves being outside and sometimes cries when we make him come inside. His favorite activities include walks, where he points out nearly every car, saying "Cah!", spiking a football, playing with bubbles, and running as fast as he can down the driveway, which often leads to fits of giggles, as well as falls! We can't wait for summer!