To The Moon

So I have felt compelled to share a story. Simply because it was one of the cutest things ever and I will probably be unable to do the story justice in writing. The other day Jack was playing on the patio, as he often does, and it was right at sunset. So then he began to point way up over the house and just ramble in his own crazy language. I think he managed a "what's that?". So of course, we look up and he is pointing right at a big, huge beautiful full moon. He was in total amazement over his discovery. He was so excited about it. So of course we began to tell him that it was "the moon". He is so smart, that during all of this he even called it a "kirkle" (which of course is suppose to be 'circle"). Every since then, he looks for the moon every evening while we are out playing and sometimes during the day when it is kind of hard to explain to a one year old that we can only see it at night. It kinda of comes out as "da boooon" when he says it. The whole episode seems kind of trivial but made me realize that I think sometimes we take for granted some of beautiful things in the world because to us they have 'always' been there. But to a toddler like Jack....it was like it had just been placed there, just for him.

We had a great Father's Day. We got to spend sometime with both Pop and Grandpa. I feel so lucky that Jack has such a great Dad!! I love to watch him and Jonathan play. Jonathan does great with him and Jack loves him. It's pretty funny that if Jack and I are playing outside and Jonathan is not out there, he will go running through the house yelling, "Da-Da?". He continues to do this until Jonathan consents to coming outside. It doesn't take long for Jonathan to consent to most anything Jack wants within reason anyway. It's cute!!

OK, so it has been a really long time since I have blogged. It's not that I don't want to, just that I seem to always be so busy. But, I am going to try to catch you up and try to blog more often. I really should blog every day because Jack does something funny every day.

Jack hasn't even been sick one day since we took him out of daycare. His recent well-baby visit went well and his ears look great. He is still a maniac, more so everyday I think. For example, he has taken to jumping off of the furniture. One guess and I bet you can figure out who taught him that. Sometimes he just face plants the sofa when he jumps from the table. He thinks it is funny. We spend a lot of time outside. He loves to play with his little tikes spray nozzle on the hose. He also loves his pool. Jonathan and Jack decided the other day to move the slide over to the pool. It wasn't long before Jack decided it would be fun to jump from the top of the slide into the pool. Keep in mind that this is a kiddie-pool, 6 inches deep. Part of me wants to stop him from doing things like that out of fear that he will get hurt, but he has so much fun that I can't. He also does pretty good hitting the tee-ball, but you have to clap after he does it.

He has really started talking a lot since the tubes were put in his ears. We can understand lots of things and it's pretty funny. It is even funnier to hear his animal sounds, "moo" is the latest. He is still chasing Oli around. Oli is still a pretty good sport about it.

He is also a dancing machine. Any time that he hears music he starts to dance. It is hillarious. He has even learned how to turn on the stereo himself so that he can dance. He also recently started to laugh out loud at his cartoons. He doesn't watch TV too much, just a little in the mornings and in the car. But he loves Looney Toons, Jungle Book, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc.

I recently looked back through all of his photo albums, starting with when he was born. It is so hard to believe how much he has grown. I remember the day that we had him like it was yesterday. I remember thinking that I didn't know what we were going to do with him and now I don't know what we ever did WITHOUT him.