L-M-N-O-Pop!!

Jack loves going through his alphabet cards. He recognizes A, B, H, K, and S on sight but none of these are as fun as L, M, N, O and P. As soon as I get out the cards, he starts laughing and smiling and yelling. We go through all the letters and he always says SOMETHING after each one:

Me: B
Jack: Ba-ba
Me: C
Jack: gato (there's a cat on the card and Gato is his new favorite word)
Me: J
Jack: Ba-boo

However, when we get to K, he really starts getting fired up. And I don't even need to prompt him by saying the letters first:

"ELLLLLLLL!'
"EMMMMM!!"
"ENNNNNN!!"
"OOO!"
"POP!!"

Then he just says whatever comes to mind for the remainder of the alphabet with, for some reason, the exceptions of S, T, W, X, and Y. He can say those.

It's actually kind of strange what he decides to like. Today we were coloring. Sort of. At the moment, Jack is in his Jackson Pollock stage but he likes his crayons. He took them all out of the box and kept going, "Ohhhhh!" with each new color. I kept saying the name of the color he had in his hand, just to get him used to it. Then, out of nowhere, he grabs a color and says "llellow". I made him say it a few times before I believed it. Then he kept saying it all night, with the exception of when he decided he liked the word purple ("Perp"). Why not simple colors like blue or red or green? Nope, Jack likes "llellow" and "perp". But after I practiced saying yellow his way, with a lot more L, I realized it is much more fun that way!!

A Great Weekend with Nonny!! (Pictures coming soon!)

Nonny flew in this weekend for a much needed Jack fix. We calculated that since he has been born, she has gone no longer than 2 months before seeing him again. The last time she saw him was for his birthday in February and since we weren't planning on visiting until this summer, Nonny felt that she needed an April visit in between! And boy, are we glad she did!

Jack had an awesome time with his Nonny! Usually, he calls the computer, "Nonny" due to the fact that we Skype a lot with her. So seeing her in 3-D was at first a little strange. For about 10 minutes until he warmed up to her. From that point on there were a million laughs, hugs and kisses! We went shopping, bought new toys, played in the park and ran around just having fun. In fact, she wore him out so much that he slept until after 8 on both Friday and Saturday! So we were pretty grateful for that!!

We are sad to see her go (Mommy had fun too!) but in a month or so, we'll be down in Florida for two weeks of fun! Come on, Summer!!!