I couldn’t help myself.

He was there, I had a comb, his hair was wet…  It all resulted in the perfect storm.  Quite dapper, I must say.

Quite possibly the Best Picture Ever.

Christmas morning with Grandma.

Why my house is never clean,

Jack was very busy today dumping the entire contents of the 2000 count Qtip bag out onto the my bathroom floor and eating purple Sharpies.  I was very busy calling Poison Control and trying to explain to strangers that the purple “bruises” on his face were really not what they looked like.

Party, Toddler Style!

Jack’s little buddy, Lorenzo, had a party this weekend. It was his second birthday party. Jack could not have had a better time. He stole juice boxes, cake, and ice cream off of other kids, bounced his little butt off in the bouncy house, and played with the new birthday toys even before the birthday boy could. Jack loves Lorenzo more than he loves me, I’m sure. He follows him around everywhere, just wants to be near him, often sitting all but on him.

Jack and Lorenzo.

Jack bouncing.

Jack rejecting healthy food.

More bouncing.

Mmmmm, chicken wings.

Jack eyeballing Lorenzo’s cake…

and Jack eating Lorenzo’s cake.

More more more!

Getting bounced onto his behind.

In the fray.

What’s New This Week on Just Jack!

Uncle Corey,

You’ve got to watch the videos of Jack playing with the table you built him. He figured out how to make the napkin rings spin like you can! There’s also new awesomely bad photos of Jack that might give you nightmares. Like, “Bad Robot” quality nightmares. We all missed you and Janna so badly at Thanksgiving; it was weird not having you there. Plus, it kinda sucked because – in the void of your absence – I became the kid magnet. Oh, and the box is SENT! Love you!

Rub a Dub Dub, Three Kids in a Tub

Nick and Maddie joined Jack in the bathtub while at Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving. It was a suddy, soapy mess of fun, obviously.

Blanky Rituals

When I was a little girl, I had a blankie that I called Deedee and it was a HUGE part of my life. I mean, I loved my Deedee. I had these weird routines and self-soothing rituals I would perform with my Deedee, like folding the satin trim into a point and brushing it onto my face. I would make the satin edging (also known as the Deedee part) run underneath my fingernails and I had an amazing way of holding my Deedee crooked between my fingers, hanging down the side of my face while I sucked my thumb. I remember all of this. And now I see it developing in my own son. His blankie (unnamed as yet) was made for him by his grandma and he LOVES it. He gets giddy when he sees it. Sometimes, he’ll just be running around all hyper and crazy and he’ll spot his blankie from across the room, run over to it and bury his face in it. Just recently I noticed that he prefers holding the corner of his blankie (a specific corner, by the way) and pressing his thumb into it. It’s so cute, and also kind of disturbing in an O.C.D. kind of way. I tried to get a video of it to show you, but ended up just getting a funny one of him saying “Uh Oh” and screaming.

Family Vacation

Jack and I went up to Nate and Tam’s house for Halloween and we had ourselves a good time. Maddie, as pictured as Hannah Montana (or Madonna, circa 1984) below, learned how to change a poopy diaper this week. Nick (aka Dracula) didn’t. Probably a good choice.

Maddie loving on Boliver and Maddie loving the camera.

Jack in the backyard swing and Jack obsessed with dental hygiene.

 

 

Fun with meds.

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Jack in the Box!

Fun with screens.

Auntie Melissa has a great screen door that provides us with hours and hours of entertainment. Seriously, people, we can watch Jack smash his face up against the screen door all day long and it never gets old. I have so many of these photos… it’s kind of embarrassing. I’ll just share a few: