Jack @ 40 Months

One of Jack’s favorite passtimes lately has been listening to music.  He listens to the CD player by his bed as he’s having rest time in the afternoons, he listens to all his favorite Selah songs in the car and he loves to put a CD in the computer and watch the “visualization” that Windows Media Player displays along with the music.  More than once, this has lulled him to sleep.

The big news this month is that Jack is finally a “big boy”! He started wearing underwear yesterday! My friend Sheila’s husband is a police officer and while Jack really likes him he is also rather intimidated by him. Steven extracted a promise from Jack that he would stop wearing diapers and use the potty. So yesterday I reminded Jack of what he had promised, told him it was his “Big Boy Day” and after some convincing, I persuaded him to put on some underwear. We made it a big celebration all day (we even got a Big Boy Day cake), and finally overcame his resistance to using the potty.  We are just at beginning of the process, but I’m so relieved that we’re at least making some progress!