Monday, July 26, 2010

Speaking His Mind



Fair haired (for now) and speaking his mind in the late afternoon sun. This weekend, things got pretty verbal. Jackie has been adding words and word combos to his repertoire at a furious pace - including "repertoire" and "furious" (kidding!). But in the past few days he has added to alligator and umbrella, knife, cut, onion, eggs, peach, pot, pan, pool, nina, nino, bravo, window, papa, train, dumptruck, backpack, bandaid, poppyseed, upside down, and "under there." He's also saying "more pasta" (sounds like "mo pata") and some strings that sound like "I don't know" and "I have no idea" (which of course he generally doesn't, so says this quite a lot). Yesterday he also added "boom boom," which he's learned is the sound of thunder.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Growing Boy



Sorry for the time between posts, everyone. As Ferris says, life moves pretty fast ... especially when you're chasing Jackie around. It's been in the high 90s with "feels like" temperatures (and car thermometer readings) well over 100 for twelve straight days now. We finally got some rain (and nearly a tornado) this afternoon, after which it was (briefly) cool enough to head over to Hearst playground.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Fireworks



Not so much. Jackie was tuckered out well before fireworks this 4th of July. And he slept thru those, too. Fountain madness at Turtle Park will do that to a kid.