Jack @ 31 Months

Another month has flown by, and Jack continues to entertain, challenge and amaze us. While he still is very strong willed and throws a tantrum now and then, he finally understands the concept of needing to be in his room until he calms down. I can put him in his room when he loses his cool, and most of the time, he will stay in there a while screaming out his frustration, and then get over it and come out and say “I calmed down Mommy.”

He is very visual, and his memory of things he has seen in the past sort of amazes me. He was looking at Mark’s mother’s cross necklace yesterday, and said “that’s at the church!” We’ve never pointed out the cross before, but he remembered where he had seen it. My mother bought me a white blouse while we were in Texas, and while we were there I tried it on briefly and told Jack I was going to show Mommaw that it fit. I had it on for maybe 2 minutes and took it off again. This morning I pulled it out of the closet for the first time since we got back almost 3 weeks ago, and Jack pointed to it and said “you going to show Mommaw it fits?”

I keep trying to get Jack to sing some songs, but he just doesn’t want to much. Lately, he’ll sing the alphabet song with me, but for some reason he feels he must put his hands over his eyes when he sings. It’s like he’s shy about singing or something.

Daddy finally got to buy Jack some boots yesterday- they’re cute on him:

He rewarded Daddy by asking him in a nice loud voice this morning in the church foyer after Mark came out of the bathroom, “did you go peeepeeeee Daddy?”