Our Musicalhouse: Fall Update

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Fall Update

Jack. Is. Awesome. The End. I could leave it at that, but I've got some catching up to do, so here come the bullet points:

Jack loves his schedule & sticks to it pretty closely every day. He's still taking 2 naps & he's a great sleeper at night. He eats pretty much whatever we eat now, which is cool too.
Jack spends most of his time running around & playing with anything & everything. Some of his favorites are playing hide & seek in the curtains, pushing & pulling various toys, going down his slide, and spending quality time with his favorite toy/friend: Lucy. He loves sharing his food with Lucy, throwing her ball, chasing her & cuddling her.
Jack can now answer the question. "What does the cow say?" He has the cutest little moo sound ever & he makes sure to pucker up his little lips while doing it. I love it. He also makes car sounds when he plays with cars & trucks.
Latest words: shoes, Nate, grand-dada, night night.
One of my favorite things Jack does now is giving hugs & kisses. When I ask him for a kiss, he either leans his forehead toward me so I can kiss it, or he comes at me with the drool in full force. He is also quite generous with his hugs & even tried to hug a random little girl who bumped into him in a store recently. It was pretty funny.
Jack's favorite foods at the moment are mac & cheese, muffins, pasta, & goldfish. Yes, the boy has discovered carbs. He still eats his fruits & veggies, but not with as much gusto as the other items I just mentioned.
Jack is very vocal & lets us know when he's happy, sad, excited, frustrated, etc. All his little noises are pretty funny, but hard to describe. I'll have to get more video of him for that.
Jack wants to walk (or run) all the time. ALL the time. ALL THE TIME.
Jack definitely knows the layout of the house & the church. He knows where each person's office is, where the nursery is, & where he's likely to find all his church friends during the week.
Tooth #5 recently made its appearance, & we have a feeling #6 is on its way.
Another fun development is Jack's enthusiastic participation in singing & doing the motions for The Itsy Bitsy Spider. He's attempted the spider part for a while, but now he does the rain, washing out, & sun. I tried to get it on video tonight, but missed it, so I'll have to keep trying.
We've started letting Jack help brush his teeth & he thinks it's great fun to have control of his little toothbrush. He also likes to show off his shiny teeth with a giant smile when he's done.
He still loves to dance & will sing "la la la" with songs. He also claps whenever any song ends - this includes the radio, commercials, church, in stores...

This list could go on forever! Jack is so much fun, & he is learning & growing so quickly. We are so blessed by our little guy every single day!

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Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.