Fearless

We took Jack and Dani to Monkey Joe's this past weekend.  It was amazing to see that Jack has now decided that climbing and sliding is fun and that he isn't afraid anymore.  It is SOOOO nice to finally see.  He is independent enough that he will go up by himself and play so it is nice to not have to be with him constantly.  Besides, we have to focus on Dani. 

The girl is crazy.  From the second we walked in she was all smiles, running and jumping and laughing.  She loved the bounce houses but when I brought her up on the slide, we had visions of her as an adult jumping out of airplanes.  I took her down the slide on my lap and when we got to the bottom, she just laughed.  This was no wimpy slide.  It went quick and was steep.  And she loved every second.  It didn't take long for her to want to do it on her own and she would flip to her tummy and go down backwards, laughing and flopping all over the place all by herself.  She fell a couple of times and didn't even cry.  She's ridiculously tough and as Paul watched her run around, he commented, "I'm pretty sure she's not gonna like dolls."  I'd say that's pretty accurate. 

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Dani’s words 05/04


Ball, kitty, nice kitty, hi, bye, baby, mommy, daddy, balloon, sock, shoe, door, nose, mouth, eye, poo-poo (poo-pooooo), pee-pee, cheese, no, down/done, more, tree, cracker, eat, oval, circle, pizza, farmer, goat, pig, cow, duck, door, water, train, bottle, zebra, toe, car, numbers 2 and 5 (and identifies), identifies and says letters B, C, D, F, J, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, Z, cookie, flower, apple.

More Jack stuff

Long after I put Jack to bed, I heard him rattling around upstairs.  I went to investigate:

Me: What’s the matter.


J: Well, I hurt myself a little bit.

Me: Is that because you were goofing around?

Jack: Yes. Yes it is.

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I used to hope Jack would go poo-poo on the potty.  Now he can't get enough of it, even trying to go when he really doesn't have to.  It's a huge waste of time but I don't want to get mad at his efforts.  On one particular trip to the potty, I started to tire of waiting.  He told me:  Caca’s gonna be here in just a minute.

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The other day at dinner. . .

Jack:  I wanna treat.

Me:  You can have a pear. The pear’s a treat.

Jack:  No. The pear is NOT a treat. A treat has Pixies on it.

(after about a minute)

Jack (excitedly):  Do you think we have Oreos?

Easter

My babies

Easter buddies

Coloring eggs

Hunting for eggs