Jackson: 2 years, 2 months and 20 days
*Weight: 29.5 lbs (taken at a play date at Shea's house on their bathroom scale- Melissa swears it is accurate- I weighed myself....I am not so sure....)
*Height: ?????? On the tall side....I think.
*Sleeps through the night every single night -goes to bed around 8-8:30 and wakes up around 6:30-7:00ish - and takes a nice long nap too. (The last few days however, he has been going down for his nap with no problem what-so-ever but then a few minutes later I hear the pitter-patter of his little feet running about the room or kicking the crib bars, or whatever it is that he is doing. When I open the door and check on him, like lighting he throws himself back on his pillow pet and pretends to be asleep...I close the door again and laugh to myself. I remember doing the same thing as a child.)
*Talks in complete sentences. All the time. Says things like, "Rhinoceroses live in the Jungle Mommy, not on the farm" and "I would like to have chocolate milk with my dinner tonight please' and "Daddy, go over there, I want you to sit on the other couch"....we laugh.....most of the time. Until I hear this little favorite popping into the daily rotation at dinner time (or lunch, or breakfast). "I don't like that" **that can be anything from food that he used to love, to trying anything new, namely vegetables. He is totally on a veggie strike. I have tried to sneak it in too...he will painstakingly pick out every single pea, green bean, sweet potato, carrot shred...you name it. "I don't like peascarrotsgreenbeanssweetpotatocarrotshreds MOMMY"
*Is extremely decisive. Gee I can not imagine where the stubborn streak comes from????
*Is not potty trained. Will sit on the potty and pee every single time, proudly squeezing out a few drops. Has pooped once. Will tell us when he needs to go and/or is going, but refuses to sit on the toilet. Loves to talk about how doggies pee in the grass outside and he should pee in the toilet. --A work in progress--
*Can count to 20 (maybe higher?), can say the Alphabet and can recognize most letters and numbers by sight. Knows most colors and shapes including but not limited to, circle, square, triangle, diamond, hexagon, octagon to name a few.... Mr. Smarty Pants.
*Loves Animals, Mickey Mouse (who just happens to be an animal with a persona), swimming in his pool and playing outside. Also loves, Zoe (who he still calls "My Zoe", giving kisses (the nice wet sloppy kind), pancakes, waffles and anything covered in syrup, just about any kind of sandwich (except with vegetables), Annie's brand Arthur Loops (he often will refer to them as noodles), ice cream (especially chocolate) and riding anywhere in the car.
*Reads (to me) Good Night Moon every night before we shut off the lights. It has to be the last book we read. Sometimes I try to get it in earlier, but he seems to have a required reading of 27 books before we can even begin to discuss the prospect of Good Night Moon.
*Still does not play well by himself, but has a really great imagination. Always touching, climbing, looking, asking, smelling, hugging. Even though he is mine, he is a pretty amazing kid.
And now....a quick little story.
The other day I was sitting at the dining room table having coffee and watching Jack play with his easel and crayons when soon it seemed that the crayon cigar box was no longer appropriate for storing his crayons. He decided it was much more interesting to have, as he called it "a crayon shoe". He was very proud of his crayon shoe (for about 5 minutes until he on to the next interesting and engaging activity as with most 2 year old's). Wasn't Daddy surprised to when after wearing his shoes later that day, that his toes had a purplish tint...(ha ha, not really but that would have been funny right???)
Jack's apparition all done with his crayon shoe
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