Jack's little personality continues to blossom with each passing month. We are learning more about his stubborn side, his joy in fixing things and an inkling that we must be teaching him right thanks to his positive notes home from preschool.
Now that Jack is potty trained, there are days that accidents are frustrating to me. Typically because he gets distracted from playing. Then there is the time he took care of business himself and thought it would be helpful to put all of his clean underwear in the toilet – to wash. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so I took a picture instead.
Jack is really starting to get into imaginative play and enjoys dressing up – especially if it involves toy guns. He recently brought a notebook and a pen over to me and asked what I wanted to eat for dinner. He proceeded to role play being a server at a restaurant.
Right now Jack fully believes that a screwdriver can fix almost anything... He will tell us that "we can get one in the garage." If a screwdriver won't work, Jack thinks that batteries are the answer. He will be so amazed when he realizes that his daddy has an entire garage full of tools that do different jobs to fix just about anything.
Two of Jack's favorite phrases right now are: "Because why?" and "What's that mean?" He will ask these questions repeatedly (even after we have answered). We sometimes turn this around and ask him what he thinks. I think the coming years will be interesting because of his never-ending questions.
A funny question at the end of our canoe trip was: "Are we going to paddle home?"
After we told him no, we asked Jack if he would rather paddle home or drive home? He immediately said: "Paddle." We love that he is starting to enjoy, and embrace, our hobbies at such a young age.
We live on a mountain and there are two roads that we typically drive up to get home. Jack has started specifically asking "Can we go up the W road?" whenever we drive by it. He knows we live on Signal Mountain and will tell you that we have entered our neighborhood when we turn on to the first road leading back to our house.
Last weekend Jack displayed his truly stubborn side. Daniel and I were trying to get
him to put his blocks away before bedtime when he looked up at us, grinned and started singing
"Jesus Loves Me." This was in lieu of cleaning up and it took a lot of self control for me and Daniel not to laugh.
Up until last Sunday, Jack still used a paci for sleeping. We had been telling him that if the last paci we had got lost or broken then there would be no more paci. Our master plan was to get rid of it once he turned 3. Well the situation was resolved when we couldn't find it at bedtime on Sunday. Thankfully Jack took it in stride and has been sleeping great. We are struggling with naptime, but bedtime has been fine. I'm glad it wasn't a huge struggle once it was gone.
Since Jack started preschool, he has been displaying more rambunctious behavior at home. At preschool he is an angel – his notes come home saying that he is sweet and listens well and plays well with other kids. I suppose it is better for him to be behaved in public, even if it means some extra time outs at home.
A few videos from this month:
See Jack practice singing his ABCs.
See Jack play in the rain, an activity he loves. This month he also started taking showers instead of baths. This makes our evenings so much easier.
See Jack's response as to why he threw all of his clean underwear in the toilet.
See Jack practice drawing circles.
