Jack's ONE!!!

Happy Birthday to our Jack Attack!

I can't believe it. He has grown up so fast. It's totally bittersweet. He is walking a lot more now. He can take up to 10 steps. He's getting good at checking himself, rather than just falling down. We will clap when he's done walking, and he can clap now, too. He can also wave. He waves bye bye to Dad as he leaves for work. Sometimes he'll wave later if we're by the front window.

We had our first experience of taking a child to the emergency room. Of course it was Jack Attack that caused us to go. His name used to be just a cute pet name, but now it's reality. Anyway, he was pushing a chair around in the kitchen and walking with it. The chair got stuck in the grout between the tiles and he fell down and the chair fell on him. It cut open his mouth (of course where he was also cutting a new tooth). They couldn't do anything for him and he seemed to heal pretty fast.

I have a video I did of him this morning. I only had 8 seconds of memory left on my camera, and he totally did what I wanted him to do in that time period. I like how he closes his eyes and also laughs in the middle. Enjoy!

Itchy Chips and Scary Cheese Girls

Will has had some interesting events occur with food lately. I gave him some spicy Doritos rather than the regular nacho cheese kind. He told me that those chips make him all itchy. I think that's a cute way to describe how something is spicy to him.

Another time we gave him some string cheese. We told him he needed to eat it all gone before he could have his Lucky Charms (he earns those after he uses the potty...although he only eats the marshmallows and not the "oats"). Anyway, he was putting too many pieces of string cheese in his mouth at once and started to gag. He pulled it out, and after thinking about it for a couple seconds, he looked at Randy and me and said, "That piece was angry." I guess he thought the cheese, rather than his gag reflex made that sound.

Here's the traumatic food story. I went to see the Veggie Tales, Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie with Will at the "red and brown movie theater, with the lights in the floor." Also known as Cinemark. One of the characters just wanted to be lazy and eat these cheese puffs that he found. They called them Cheese Curls in the movie. Then, these cheese curls turned out to be scary little monsters who were trying to eat that lazy guy. They were hopping around trying to run after this guy. They had these big scary teeth and there were tons of them. Will was just scared to death of these things. Mind you, this is a "G" rated movie. He kept telling me, "I just wanna leave now." After we got home and into the next day, he would randomly remember these scary "Cheese Girls" and start tearing up. Poor Will.

One more cute, but not food related story, is that when I tuck Will in his bed at night, as I'm closing the door I'll say I love you. One time I forgot, and he said, "Love you, Mom" after I closed the door. Sure do love him!

A Day in the Life of Jack and Will

Jack wants anyone's food that he can get a hold of. Sometimes he has to work really hard for it. Here's him in pursuit of Will's breakfast. Just so you know, I just took him out of his high chair after he finished his own breakfast. So, it's not like he's starving. Enjoy the video.

Screaming Like the Hairdryer

Randy noticed (I didn't because I can't hear) that when I turn on my hair dryer, that Jack imitates the sound of the dryer. He yells and screams. I think he's so excited that he can sound just like it. Now he even anticipates the sound and does it while I'm plugging it in.

Dad and Bob

Jack can now say Da da da da da and Bob bob bob bob bob. He's actually said Ma ma ma ma ma. But normally I'm bob bob bob. He's so cute!

He can wave. I didn't really teach him that (second children just don't get that kind of teaching as much) but he started doing it. He can wave and say bye bye bye bye da da da da da da.

Wipe My Cries Off

When Will gets upset and cries, he asks us to get a kleenex so he can wipe his cries off. He came up with that one on his own. It's really cute when he says it.

Jack's First Steps

Jack took his first official steps on Saturday, May 23. Both Randy and I were there when he did it. We were at my parent's house. They have soft carpet throughout their house. I think that helped. He hasn't done it much since then, but I think he'll keep working at it.