Jack's words

No pictures in this post, but I wanted to remember some of the funny things that Jack has been saying lately, and since I'm even worse at keeping up the babybook than I am at blogging, I thought I'd write them down here:

His first full sentence: "Nana and pop-pop go on airplane to see Jack". I nearly fell off my chair when this popped out of his mouth. Now he says it EVERY time he sees/hears an airplane above us.

Every morning he wakes up and the first things he asks is "Where Daddy go?" Then he answers his own question by saying "oh, yea, Daddy go to work. Daddy-baseballs, Daddy-snacks, oh boy, daddy-work!" Whenever I take Jack up to see Corey at the office, Corey gives Jack some of the baseballs in his office collection to play with and they go out in the hall and throw the ball back and forth a few times. Then Corey takes Jack into the kitchen and lets him pick out a snack and get water from the dispenser. Jack thinks this is all the coolest thing ever and also thinks it's all Corey does all day.

Jack greets everyone by saying "hey, hey, how you doin'?"

Corey was hanging pictures the other day and Jack was so excited about Daddy using the hammer - he ran up to him and said "hi Daddy, what you doin'? Hammer? like Bob? Daddy, you build a road like Bob?" Jack has a "Bob the Builder" dvd that is all about building roads, so he associates any tools (or going to home depot and looking at tools) as something Bob does. He also says "hi, Bob!" and sings the bob the builder theme song and bob the builder "how do you build a road" song every time we go by a construction site. Which is rather frequently since we pass the I-64 construction at least 5 times a week.

Jack likes to yell at Lola "Lola, no barkin'", "Lola, eat biscuits", Lola, leave those kitties alone!" "Lola, quiet!", "Lola, no!" I never realized I yelled so much at Lola until Jack started doing it.

Lately Jack has been asking his own questions and answering them - like tonight when we were getting ready to go to Grandma and Grandpa's and Corey was telling him that he was going to ride with him in Daddy's car, Jack ran up to me and said "mommy go to memaw and bebaw's too? otay. " The answer to all his own questions is always "otay". "Jack go outside with Lola and play basketball? Otay." "Jack eat chocolate cookies? Otay." "Jack play baseball and not potty? Otay."

Oh, and he refers to himself in third person. Nothing else.

We also moved during the past few months

I haven't really taken any photos of the new house, unless it was in the background of other photos I've taken, but here are a few of various features of the house. I'll try and take a few more that show it better soon.

Here's part of the kitchen, and behind Corey, the empty breakfast room. This was on Father's Day.

Here's Jack and Uncle Adam hanging out in the backyard. We love the backyard and have really enjoyed having a big, grassy (i.e., no mud), flat area to play. You can't see it in the photo, but to the left there is a swingset that Jack spends a lot of time on.

Here's Jack in his "tunnel"

And this is the last photo that I ever took in the old house. It wasn't of the house, really, but memorable nonetheless. I thought about taking photos of the house after we moved out and it was empty, but those last few hours were a blur with trying to pack and work with the movers and clean the house as they moved everything out. So I didn't get a final picture. I'm kind of glad I didn't, as I think it would make me really sad to look at the house empty. This picture just makes me remember that I hated those old, old metal blinds in the kitchen and am glad to be done with them. They were really dirty and I could never get them clean enough.

Even farther back than Jack's birthday . . .

Ok, I'm totally out of order in all these posts. These pictures are from back in March, the weekend after we put our house on the market (and also the weekend we accepted a contract on the house) - Jack and I drove up to Chicago to visit with Jenn, Shontel, and Shelley (and kids). We stayed at a great hotel and had a blast. The kids had a good time too! Jack thought that the hotel was "Nathan's house" and still calls it that when we look at photos from this trip!

Jack and Ella

still together after all these years . . .

So a few months ago Jack had a birthday

and I haven't posted any pictures of it. Oops.

Go Cowboys!

Jack's hoping Jes.sica Sim.pson confuses him for Tony.

This one's for Pop-pop

Jack's response when he heard that Pop-pop was off to Libya and was not going to be in Dallas next week when Jack visits:

almost 100 . . .

blog posts! This is #99, so I had probably pick the pace up a bit so that we hit the 100 mark sometime before Jack's next birthday. Ha, ha.

Here's Jack with Ella and Trent eating cake leftover from Jack's birthday party. It was fun to celebrate with the kids!

Playtime inside

We had to find some creative ways to pass the time while inside this winter:

New Years Eve

We went to Scott and Amy's house for New Years Eve. With Jack and Hannah there, it was much different than the past few New Years' that we all have spent together. But still lots of fun.

More pictures

I think I got overwhelmed with all the pictures we took at Christmas that I didn't have the time to post them or even to think about posting them. So here's a few from Christmas, and then I'll try and catch up since then:

Jack's back!

I'm very impressed with the dedication of those who continue to check the blog in spite of my lack of posting. So for those of you who are faithful readers, here's a picture of Jack playing in the snow (and words added by Jack's Pop-pop):

Halloween

I know I'm behind on posting again. I might be more motivated to post if people left comments! (Hint, hint).
Here's a few pictures of Jack (and Lola) on Halloween - I'll get more up later.


Here's Jack with his friends at school that morning - they had a Halloween parade.

Here's Jack heading off to get candy!

Lola was a Cardinal baseball player also!

Trip to the zoo

Jack had no fear of the goats and ran up to each of them!

Off on Safari

Checking out the meerkats

Air Show

We went to the St. Louis County air show Labor Day weekend, and although Jack liked the airplanes, it was so hot that we were all pretty uncomfortable. By the time we left, Jack was very angry and I decided that the only good thing about going to the air show was that we now knew we never wanted to go again!

Hanging out with friends

Cherie and her daughters, Madison and Allie, came over for lunch a few weeks ago along with Anna, one of our good friends who now lives in Hawaii. Jack loved hanging out with the girls!

This is the life!

We went with Deacon and Dana to the Transportation Museum - the boys loved it, especially the trains. Here's Jack trying to figure out how to make the train go.

Double trouble!

Not quite sure what we're doing up here!

Things I like to do in my free time

Go for a drive

Take Lola for walks (although she doesn't like it so much!)

Beg Mom to get Dad's hats down from the closet

Walk around with Dad's hat on

Play cars, trucks, and airplanes (it's too funny when he takes the plane and makes it fly!)

Get Dad to play catch (while wearing baseball hats, of course)

Act crazy with Dad!

Try to figure out why the dragon doesn't talk back

Mom and dad left town for a week and all I got was a t-shirt

Corey and I took off for Tybee Island for a week, leaving Jack in St. Louis with Lola. (Oh, and my parents who came up from Texas for the week to stay with him.)

We had a great time (but missed Jack!)