One of his favorite pastimes is playing pretend games where we go somewhere - lately, Disneyland. We have to get in the car (sit on the floor next to each other, put on our seat belts, etc) and I let him "drive." When it's time to get out of the car, he unbuckles his seatbelt and tells me to "wait, Mommy, let me get yours." He comes around to my side, unbuckles me, helps me out of the car, and tells me to "hold my hand, it's a parking lot, we have to be careful!" This is hilarious because it's the exact same routine we play out every single day (in opposite roles) at every store.
He has a great track record of saying "thank you" at every opportunity. But heaven forbid you don't say "you're welcome" immediately - then he gets belligerent and says "I SAID THANK YOU!!!!" over and over until you say you're welcome.
Loooooong story short, we've spent a lot of time in rental cars or loaner cars in the last two weeks. Try explaining this concept to a two year old! It's tough, especially when we drop him off at school in one car and pick him up in another. I tried various things: Mommy's car is in the car shop, it's getting fixed, Daddy's car is sick and went to the car hospital, Daddy's car is broken, etc etc. He just kept asking me "does someone know we have their car?," like we are Grand Theft Auto, preppy California edition!! So funny :)
Jack doesn't do "why?" over and over yet (but I am sure that's coming), but instead he does "what's that noise?" Every noise, big small or in between, has to be carefully dissected and explained. Airplanes, trains, rumbling trucks, whirring computers, the dryer buzzing...it all has to be questioned and reasoned. This is cute throughout the day and provides some great learning experiences. It is NOT cute when he's getting sleepy and laying in bed yelling, "Mommy, what's that noise?!" and it's the heater kicking on...the same noise that he hears 100 times a night.
Finally, Justin was trying to teach Jack about eating and digestion (always a good topic for Daddy to broach.) He simplified the process into three steps: 1. eat your food in your mouth, 2. it goes in your tummy and 3. you poop it out. What's the only part of this that Jack remembers and repeats over and over?? Of course, "poop it out!" We are always treated to the story of what's going to happen to his food as we eat dinner, "I am going to poop it out!" yelled as loud as possible. Very classy, we are :)
I am sure there are a million more things and I wish I could carry a tape recorder around with me, because I often think "wow, this would be great material for the blog!" and then promptly forget by the time he goes to bed and I sit down to write. I promise to be better with our next kid :)
A few photos:
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| I don't know if you can see the cookies on his mouth... he got his stool, dragged it to the counter, and ate 5 fresh-baked cookies before I found him. RIGHT BEFORE DINNER! |
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| Fireman Jack! |
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| Yes, we took him to Chuck E. Cheese on New Years Day. He loved it! Daddy and I wanted to shoot ourselves with that gun :) |
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| Dressing ourselves. Requirement? "Lots and lots of pants!" |
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| Waiting for Daddy on his birthday :) |
Great stuff! I think we've confussed Raegan with digestion...food giving energy, pooping it out, etc. gets all jumbled up. So now she says that she's pooping our her energy. =)
ReplyDeleteI would love to see Jack and Reed play together. It would certainly be entertaining. And, I love the "poop it out", it's the little things that make my day! Just imagining him saying that when he's eating cracks me up! And, I agree, I too forget almost every cute thing Reed says when I go to write it down in the evening! Boo!
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