Jack had his first really bad cold this week and he made the most of it. Stacy stayed home with him on Friday, February 9 and he had both of us to boss around. Monday, Nana arrived but Jack was so needy that Stacy stayed home again and Nana went home. Tuesday we had to skip storytime but he felt well enough to dig in the dirt pile. Wednesday we had a good time at the playground with Emma. Jack can now climb the ladder up to the roof of the plastic house and slide down its slide. He laughs when he lands on his bottom in the sand. We met Emily, a redhead who is two and a half. She allowed Jack to play with her wooden duck toy and Jack let her use his big round-tipped shovel. After the nap, we went down to see the fire damage at the house next to Bird and Beckett. Jack was awed by the burned clothes, especially the burned hat. Thursday was a Daddy day and Friday Daddy took us to breakfast at Toast before Jack's doctor's appointment for his two-year checkup. The appointment went well until Jack got a shot and then he was pretty upset. By the time we got home, Jack was his usual sunny self and we had a great afternoon. First a little digging in the dirt box, a nap, and then a lot of fun play and invention in the living room.
Jack recreates what he witnesses. This week he's been dragging a piece of chalk on a chain with his little bulldozer and putting out fires with the wire from Mommie's computer. He also is very inventive when we sing Old MacDonald. That farm has a combine harvester, a backhoe, Bowling Ball Beach with Quinny and Axel, and all the animals he remembers seeing at Sea Ranch (deer, rabbits, turkeys, a woodpecker). He remembers an event and populates the farm with the things he values. It's touching to realize he is thinking about Quinny and Papa whom he really cares about even though he doesn't see them so often. He also remembers books that we took back to the library weeks ago. Next week, I need to find the Max book that has a bulldozer in it. Machines have definitely replaced brooms now although brooms are still loved when they show up in a book.
The doctor said, "no more juice; he's got to eat more." So we'll have a struggle for a while. Jack has figured out that he can suck the juice out of an apple slice and spit out the roughage. He did, however, drink 6 ounces of chocolate milk for lunch, just chugged it down.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Jack's valentines
Jack enjoyed giving Emma the valentine he and Stacey made for her. While we were at the playground, we heard a chain saw and went out to find that John McGill had cut down a little tree and was preparing to tow it back to his pile halfway up the path to the school. We watched John drive away in the Cushman, pulling the tree behind. Jack wanted to follow to see the pile. On the way, Jenny encouraged Jack to hold hands with Emma who was lagging behind. This was the cute result.
Yesterday, Jack called John McGill on his toy cellphone to ask about the Cushman. He always calls him "John McGill."
We had a happy day. Jack met another little two-year-old boy named Todd. Unfortunately, Jack was not willing to share his bulldozer with Todd. I hope we see Todd again because it would be good for Jack to see a male friend of about the same age.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Jack and the construction crew
PG&E is still working in the intersection of Chenery and Diamond and today they have a Double Drum roller sitting there while the whole crew eats lunch on the sidewalk in front of Tyger's. After inspecting the roller, we cross the street and greet the crew. Jack says something about seeing the generator and then announces "I have wheelbarrow and round-tip shovel." "I have jackhammer." The men ask Jack if he wants to join them. They tell him it is important to eat lunch. Then they point out that their jackhammer is in the truck nearby. So we inspect the truck bed, noting the two jackhammers, the straight-edge shovel, the push broom, and the jackhammer bits (that is, Jack sings out the names of these tools). One of the men asks if Jack is four and is pretty surprised to learn his age.
All of this followed our trip to the library where Sharon read several books and showed three movies. Ask Jack about the movie with the tricycle and the dump truck. We gave Sharon her present and I think she was really touched. At the hardware store, Susan and Hal gave Jack and Emma valentine balloons. I think they really do enjoy having us visit. They gave Jenny and me chocolates (Alex ate two of mine).
Jack really does like to run the show. At the library, another little boy was sitting where we generally sit when we pick out books. I realized that Jack was telling him to move because that's where Nana sits! Fortunately, I don't think the other little boy understood him. I told Jack we couldn't move the other kid and we could sit on the other side of the aisle. Jack has also started grabbing things away from other kids, so we need to be alert to that. Jack also asked Jenny to read a book to him and settled himself into her lap. I read to Emma and everyone was happy. Very cute to hear him talk to Jenny. When Jenny and Emma came into the library, Jack ran up to tell them about the card he has for them. (Need to take it to the park tomorrow.)
Jack's language is astonishing. Notice that he uses the future tense correctly and that he says "catched it" and adds 'ed" to other irregular verbs to make the past tense. That shows that he understands the grammer of the past tense--he has never heard any of us say "catched" but is correctly following the usual pattern. He also remembers the names of things that I have forgotten. For example, I have forgotten what you call the round wheels that a bulldozer track goes around. Jack remembers what they are. Jenny says she has learned the names of the various machines from Jack; before she called them all tractors.
In the afternoon, Jack ate two of my cooked baby carrots and a bit of my peanut butter sandwich, but none of the brown rice and vegetables that I had made him (wouldn't even taste it). Maybe I need to put things into my lunch box or maybe buy a lunch box for him. (Or maybe toddlers are just always going to be difficult about eating.) No poop today. He slept about two hours or so. He was excited that Papa fixed his rake and he loved the new puppy from Ken and Christina. When he saw the little card that Christina sent (Why God Made Little Boys), he announced that he was going to hang it with his cherry picker and he ran in to hang it from the fireplace, standing in that little wagon. (I later moved it higher because it wouldn't stay up where Jack put it.)
Maybe Jack is going to solve the global warming crisis.
All of this followed our trip to the library where Sharon read several books and showed three movies. Ask Jack about the movie with the tricycle and the dump truck. We gave Sharon her present and I think she was really touched. At the hardware store, Susan and Hal gave Jack and Emma valentine balloons. I think they really do enjoy having us visit. They gave Jenny and me chocolates (Alex ate two of mine).
Jack really does like to run the show. At the library, another little boy was sitting where we generally sit when we pick out books. I realized that Jack was telling him to move because that's where Nana sits! Fortunately, I don't think the other little boy understood him. I told Jack we couldn't move the other kid and we could sit on the other side of the aisle. Jack has also started grabbing things away from other kids, so we need to be alert to that. Jack also asked Jenny to read a book to him and settled himself into her lap. I read to Emma and everyone was happy. Very cute to hear him talk to Jenny. When Jenny and Emma came into the library, Jack ran up to tell them about the card he has for them. (Need to take it to the park tomorrow.)
Jack's language is astonishing. Notice that he uses the future tense correctly and that he says "catched it" and adds 'ed" to other irregular verbs to make the past tense. That shows that he understands the grammer of the past tense--he has never heard any of us say "catched" but is correctly following the usual pattern. He also remembers the names of things that I have forgotten. For example, I have forgotten what you call the round wheels that a bulldozer track goes around. Jack remembers what they are. Jenny says she has learned the names of the various machines from Jack; before she called them all tractors.
In the afternoon, Jack ate two of my cooked baby carrots and a bit of my peanut butter sandwich, but none of the brown rice and vegetables that I had made him (wouldn't even taste it). Maybe I need to put things into my lunch box or maybe buy a lunch box for him. (Or maybe toddlers are just always going to be difficult about eating.) No poop today. He slept about two hours or so. He was excited that Papa fixed his rake and he loved the new puppy from Ken and Christina. When he saw the little card that Christina sent (Why God Made Little Boys), he announced that he was going to hang it with his cherry picker and he ran in to hang it from the fireplace, standing in that little wagon. (I later moved it higher because it wouldn't stay up where Jack put it.)
Maybe Jack is going to solve the global warming crisis.
Monday, February 12, 2007
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Friday, February 9, 2007
New pic's of Jack (posted on behalf of Greg)
Just got these up! Sorry for the delay
Day before xmas, xmas, and some sea ranch stuff.Main Page:Jack's Birthday
Day before xmas, xmas, and some sea ranch stuff.Main Page:Jack's Birthday
Jack and his diapers (posted on behalf of Anne)
Thursday Jack protested strenuously when I tried to change his diapers. The first time, he insisted that he wanted to see the old diaper, which I had already put in the Diaper Champ. So I opened up the Champ and let him look in. Then I closed it, but he still wanted to see so I opened it again. He would not let me put on a clean diaper in his room so I took him into the living room and got the new diaper on him. The next diaper change, he again wanted to see the old diaper, so I let him see it. That wasn’t enough; he wanted to see the pee. So I let him touch the wet side of the diaper. Then he was cool and let me put the new diaper on and we had no dispute the rest of the day.
I think he is just trying to understand this phenomena. After all, this is something that comes out of his body. It’s really a good sign that he is aware of what’s happening. In the living room, he told me he had peed while standing on one of his books. He said “I peed on the book.” In fact, he had peed, but the diaper did its job. I think we should talk to him about how Ripley when he was a puppy had to learn to pee outside. (Also of course, that people pee inside and into diapers, etc.)
Jack is so interesting! Love Anne/Mom
I think he is just trying to understand this phenomena. After all, this is something that comes out of his body. It’s really a good sign that he is aware of what’s happening. In the living room, he told me he had peed while standing on one of his books. He said “I peed on the book.” In fact, he had peed, but the diaper did its job. I think we should talk to him about how Ripley when he was a puppy had to learn to pee outside. (Also of course, that people pee inside and into diapers, etc.)
Jack is so interesting! Love Anne/Mom
Friday, February 2, 2007
Day about town - Japantown that is
Yesterday Jack and I spent the day running some errands and playing with friends and generally having a good old time.
We started off by going to the park in the morning where it was really cold. We were on a mission to find Emma and Jenny so that Jack could give Jenny the hat that Stacy had made for her. As we were walking around the park a big SFPD Police SUV drove into the park, I quickly put Ripley on the leash and started talking to Jack about how I hoped we wouldn't get a ticket.
He was very concerned and we talked about how the police are good people who try and keep us safe and how part of their job is to enforce rules. And there's a rule at the park that we should have Ripley on a leash.
We then went to Jack's house and then on to Toast, where we're becoming regulars. We had waffles with bananas and bacon. Jack ate a lot. We then drove down the street looking for machines. We soon found an excavator, front end loader, backhoe, bobcat, generator, and a dump truck. I drove by it and then drove around the block to drive by it again.
Then we went to a carwash on divisadero and fell and got the car washed. We both agreed that the carwash on South Van Ness does a much better job with washing the car. Jack was rather disappointed with this wash as there's not much of a viewing area to see the cars get soapy. While we were there we saw a driver get pulled over by a policeman on a motorcycle. He then wrote her a ticket - which we discussed in context to our earlier conversation.
After this we went to Japantown & into a stationary store where we both ran around looking for stickers and things. We found a lot of good stuff and Jack had a really good time, we went into the Kinokura book store and spent some time in the kid's book area. The books there were strange and we ended up not getting anything there. But we went to the supermarket in the center and looked at all the crazy foods. We bought some pork for dinner (very reasonably priced, btw).
Next we went to Super7 and talked to some of our friends there for a bit. Then we went to a supermarket to get Ericka some theraflu and juice as she was home sick. We stopped my her house and I dropped of the stuff to much appreciation. Jack was very happy that Ericka was drinking juice as he enjoys drinking juice as well. He mentioned this quite a bit that day.
Next it was back to Jack's house for lunch. I cooked up some edamame and made him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without crust. He ate a lot of edamame but didn't take a bite of sandwich.
Next it was to bed for the nap & man that just didn't really work very well. It took him about an hour to fall asleep. I had made a play date with Emma and Jenny for 3:30 & at 3:40 I had to wake up Mr. J and get him ready to go. He was pretty cranky but then got excited to go to the park.
Went to the park and played played played for an hour and a half with Emma. Lots of running around, climbing up stairs, chasing each other and other kids. It was very cold and cloudy, but we all had a nice time. He was pretty possesive of a toy truck in the sand box, but at some point did give it up without too much of a problem.
Then back to Jack's house - but first we saw a big vacuum truck vacuuming out a sewer drain. It was really loud and cool and we watched it for a while.
At Jack's house we played and I did the dishes and cleaned up a little, then I started on dinner and made him a real big boy dinner with grilled pork and potatoes and corn and broccoli and cheese over the potato veggie dish. It looked beautiful and was very simple with not much embellishment other than salt and a little pepper and oil. It was delish and I ate it all as Jack barely took one bite. He did try everything and I gave him credit for that.
I made him a cheese and avocado quesadilla and spaghetti with red sauce and he ate all of both, a very good dinner ultimately.
Then we went and sat on the toilets together and filled the tub. He played a lot with Ripley in the hall and had a big fun time lying in ripley's bed. Later he gave Ripley his dog toys and patted him and they really had some fun together.
We then got him in the bath and then pj's and then a couple books and then to bed. We got to bed right at 8:30, but it took him over an hour to fall asleep.
A very nice day all together. No poop though.
We started off by going to the park in the morning where it was really cold. We were on a mission to find Emma and Jenny so that Jack could give Jenny the hat that Stacy had made for her. As we were walking around the park a big SFPD Police SUV drove into the park, I quickly put Ripley on the leash and started talking to Jack about how I hoped we wouldn't get a ticket.
He was very concerned and we talked about how the police are good people who try and keep us safe and how part of their job is to enforce rules. And there's a rule at the park that we should have Ripley on a leash.
We then went to Jack's house and then on to Toast, where we're becoming regulars. We had waffles with bananas and bacon. Jack ate a lot. We then drove down the street looking for machines. We soon found an excavator, front end loader, backhoe, bobcat, generator, and a dump truck. I drove by it and then drove around the block to drive by it again.
Then we went to a carwash on divisadero and fell and got the car washed. We both agreed that the carwash on South Van Ness does a much better job with washing the car. Jack was rather disappointed with this wash as there's not much of a viewing area to see the cars get soapy. While we were there we saw a driver get pulled over by a policeman on a motorcycle. He then wrote her a ticket - which we discussed in context to our earlier conversation.
After this we went to Japantown & into a stationary store where we both ran around looking for stickers and things. We found a lot of good stuff and Jack had a really good time, we went into the Kinokura book store and spent some time in the kid's book area. The books there were strange and we ended up not getting anything there. But we went to the supermarket in the center and looked at all the crazy foods. We bought some pork for dinner (very reasonably priced, btw).
Next we went to Super7 and talked to some of our friends there for a bit. Then we went to a supermarket to get Ericka some theraflu and juice as she was home sick. We stopped my her house and I dropped of the stuff to much appreciation. Jack was very happy that Ericka was drinking juice as he enjoys drinking juice as well. He mentioned this quite a bit that day.
Next it was back to Jack's house for lunch. I cooked up some edamame and made him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without crust. He ate a lot of edamame but didn't take a bite of sandwich.
Next it was to bed for the nap & man that just didn't really work very well. It took him about an hour to fall asleep. I had made a play date with Emma and Jenny for 3:30 & at 3:40 I had to wake up Mr. J and get him ready to go. He was pretty cranky but then got excited to go to the park.
Went to the park and played played played for an hour and a half with Emma. Lots of running around, climbing up stairs, chasing each other and other kids. It was very cold and cloudy, but we all had a nice time. He was pretty possesive of a toy truck in the sand box, but at some point did give it up without too much of a problem.
Then back to Jack's house - but first we saw a big vacuum truck vacuuming out a sewer drain. It was really loud and cool and we watched it for a while.
At Jack's house we played and I did the dishes and cleaned up a little, then I started on dinner and made him a real big boy dinner with grilled pork and potatoes and corn and broccoli and cheese over the potato veggie dish. It looked beautiful and was very simple with not much embellishment other than salt and a little pepper and oil. It was delish and I ate it all as Jack barely took one bite. He did try everything and I gave him credit for that.
I made him a cheese and avocado quesadilla and spaghetti with red sauce and he ate all of both, a very good dinner ultimately.
Then we went and sat on the toilets together and filled the tub. He played a lot with Ripley in the hall and had a big fun time lying in ripley's bed. Later he gave Ripley his dog toys and patted him and they really had some fun together.
We then got him in the bath and then pj's and then a couple books and then to bed. We got to bed right at 8:30, but it took him over an hour to fall asleep.
A very nice day all together. No poop though.
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