Jack has been adding new words to his vocabulary every day. But as of last weekend...talking has really officially kicked in. He is putting words together all of a sudden. "dark outside" "red balloon" "eat Zoro" "Daddy doctor" "no, no Zoro, eat" "pumpkin seeds" "trick or treat" "pink pop please" etc.
It is amazing. Almost over night Jack just began trying to make short sentences to communicate.
One thing that I have been thinking about (and it may be totally unfounded) is that Jack doesn't seem to move around a lot. In the house he sometimes runs around...but often he is happy just sitting down looking at books, playing with toys, etc. When we are outside (or out anywhere, really) he almost always refuses to walk. He will take a step or tow and then want to be picked up. If I won't pick him up he cries. Paul does take him out during the day to parks and gyms but I just wonder whether he is getting enough exercise.
Jack is currently totally infatuated with trains. All he wants for Christmas is a train set. (We already bought the set with a big train table and trundle drawers.....he is going to LOVE it). So last weekend we took him to a Haunted Train ride at the Ohio Train Museum.
When we got there, Jack was able to climb all over some very old train engines and cars. There were kids everywhere....he was having so much fun. We all walked through a decorated vintage train and then got on an old trolley that took us for a ride along the train tracks. They turned out the lights and told a ghost story about lost conductors...and then stopped the trolley and two people dressed as skeletons got on and punched everyone's tickets (if you didn't have a ticket they were going to throw you off to live with the hobos.) Jack was scared and hid his face in my hair when the skeletons came our way. But when I told him what happens if we didn't have a ticket he turned right around and held out his ticket to the skeletons. At the end of the "ride" they gave all of the children suckers.
Jack just LOVED it. All week he has wanted to look at his ticket where the skeletons punched holes in it...and wants Mommy to talk about our ride ont he trolley and about the skeletons that came on in the dark. (He is very infatuated witht he dark and the moon).
On Sunday we took him to Boo at the Zoo. (They had the Zoo decorated for Halloween and had candy stations where the kids could get candy throughout the zoo.) Jack wore the hood portion of his little Monkey costume and he was soooo cute. Everyone kept pointing at him and comenting on how cute he was. He was having so much fun until I let him walk along a wall that was about 3 feet high. He wouldn't let me hold his hand (Mr. Independent) so I was walking along beside him ready to catch him if he started to fall. Paul called out to me to point out another candy station and when I looked to see what Paul wanted, Jack misstepped and fell on to the hard cement right on to his face!!!
He was screaming hysterically and I ran over and held him...we were all distraught! it was so horrible. We weren't sure how badly he was hurt. His lip was a little bloody and his cheek began to swell up. We ended up getting some ice and holding on his cheek and it seemed to be much better so we let him go to a few more candy stations and take a ride on the Haunted Train. By the next day he had a bruise, but he was okay, thank goodness. It does go to show you how careful you have to be with these little ones...and how you really can't take your eyes off them for one minute.
Jack continues to do great with his potty training. He wears training underpants all of the time now (except at night). He does still have an accident here and there (and the poops seem to be the hardest ones for him to predict) but he is trying so hard. He hates the diapers, though...and loves his underpants. He still does not tell us when he has to go regularly, so we try to take him to the potty pretty regularly. But sometimes, he will tell us when he has to go BEFORE he goes...and we are so proud of him for that. He is doing really really well. I love his little heart.
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