Our Musicalhouse: update

Monday, October 29, 2012

Being Two

I've done a lot of picture posts lately, but haven't included as many details about life with a 2 year old, so here it goes...

Jack is seriously awesome. He is energetic, inquisitive, funny, adorable, feisty, stubborn, too smart for his own good, musical, joyful, affectionate, loving, empathetic, talkative, rambunctious, bossy, and I'll say it again, awesome.

I love the way he is communicating so clearly now. There are some phrases he uses we still can't figure out, & you can just see him processing, "How can I explain what I mean to my silly parents who can't seem to understand what I'm saying?" We've been asking about one phrase in particular for weeks now: oohtoofee. We asked him to show us, point at it, etc. Nothing. Finally I asked the right question: "Jack, what do you mean by oohtoofee?" He said, "Numbers. Counting." John and I both responded with, "Oh! One, two, three!" I had just been asking the wrong questions this whole time. ;)

Jack is still really into trucks, tractors, and fire trucks. He's going to be a fireman or Halloween- I'm sure another picture post will cover that soon. He is still going around singing and dancing to "Our God will meet all your needs" from Vacation Bible School last June.

Another favorite activity of Jack's is doing puzzles. We have a lot of wooden puzzles from his cousins which he has pretty much mastered. Luckily we have harder ones in the closet that we can break out next. He also loves playing the Tozzle app (more puzzles) on the iPhone. He is amazingly fast even with the more complicated ones.

Now for Mommy's favorite: Jack says "I love you" now! Well, he says "Love ooh", but it's so sweet. He also asks for hugs and kisses, which also makes my heart happy. :)

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.