Tricky Kids

October 30, 2009 By 1 Comment

Evidence that Jack is a smart but tricky little kid:

  • We’ve made no progress on potty training – he completely refuses to use the potty at all at home now.  BUT he uses the toilet pretty reliably at daycare.  At home he tells me: “Mom, you like to change my diaper!”
  • I was informed by his daycare provider that not only can Jack remove his shoes, but he can also put them on by himself.  Additionally, he can undress and get his shirt on just fine without help.
  • I bought the Super Why Alphabet game thinking Jack needed some extra study time to learn his letters (partially because he won’t sing the ABCs).  We have played a few times and Jack was not responsive to the questions on the cards wherein he was asked to identify various letters of the alphabet.  I figured he just didn’t know his letters well enough yet, but this theory was disproved when he pointed out and correctly named letters all over David’s shirt one day.
  • Jack will ask me the names of the Disney princesses and/or the seven dwarfs…if I say I don’t know, he will recite each name to me.
  • Jack has said on more than one occasion that he wants to play “inja” or wear his “inja” shirt.  One day David tried to correct him and Jack replied, “NO!  It’s not ninja, it’s inja!”  David was suitably chastened.

Beware, parents.  These kids are more clever than you may know!

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Kids These Days

August 31, 2009 By 1 Comment

I miss Jack.  He was supposed to come home on Sunday but on Saturday I came down with some illness.  I asked Joe to keep him so that if I was coming down with the flu (which is what a few friends have had this past week), Jack wouldn’t get it.  Jack being sick, especially while I’m sick, would suuuuck.

I made it to the Outside Lands concert on Saturday (got free tickets) but we went late and left early.  I skipped it yesterday and ended up sleeping most of the day.  I managed to wash diapers and make banana bread, but that wore me out.  I got to talk to Jack in the evening and that brightened my mood considerably.  He is getting so good at talking on the phone!  He tried to tell me about his stuffed doggie Howie and then he said, “But you can’t see him!”  We said we miss and love each other and then hung up.

Funny thing is that Jack totally knows how to hang up a cell phone now; he learned how to do it because he talks to his dad almost every night he’s not with him.  Rather that sit and supervise his conversation, I taught him how to hang up when he’s done so that I could use the time to get things done around the house. Hmmm, this gives me an idea!  Perhaps I should set up the voice activated dialing for Jack so that he can call whomever he wants.  Wouldn’t that be awesome?

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