Jack spends time every day inventing stories about his little PlayMobil working people who build towers and runways and roads. If we visit a job site he re-enacts the job as soon as we get home. Yesterday I showed him a poster in the rec center that shows the water and sewage pipes under the road in San Francisco. We've been watching a sewer renovation project on Chenery Street. Later, we studied a map of the park and Jack wanted to know where the sewer pipes were.
This week he has wanted to play with Playdough for hours every day. He makes a sewer pipe and a truck for his PlayMobil characters to drive. The truck lowers the sewer pipe into a ditch and then covers it up with gravel and tamps it down.
Jack is in a very winning romantic phase. He tells me several times a day that he loves Nana. I get nice hugs and kisses. When his parents are mentioned, he talks about how he loves Mommie or how he loves Daddy. I try to tell Jack that I love him whenever he is having a hard time or when I am changing a dirty diaper. I also say that I love Ripley when Ripley is naughty. I want Jack to know that love is not conditional on good behavior. We’ve had some biting incidents in the last two weeks, but I think we are over that. Jack was shocked when he saw the bite mark on my arm. He kept saying “put a bandage on it.” Jenny says there’s a book about biting at Bird and Becket and I may try to find that to read but not to buy.
We have had such a good time at the park lately, playing baseball on the diamond and walking through the canyon eating blackberries. Jack has also been loving the swings where he pretends he is an astronaut in the space shuttle. Jack and Emma have played together very nicely. It’s fun tohear Emma talking now. She insisted “jacket off” when she got too hot.
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