That's Jack's favorite book in the world these days. He will consistently choose it out of any two books presented to him. He absolutely loves opening those flaps and finding the animals underneath. Over the past week he's also been getting into making animal sounds. He now tries to imitate 5 of the animal noises in the book-- slurping, for the bear eating honey; ssss for the snake; bmm-bmm for the hippo; rrrr for the lion, and of course, hh-hh for the puppy in the basket.
I just realized how incredibly tedious that in-depth record of the Jack's board book and animal noises might be for anyone other than me. Sorry about that. Mom moment.
It's been a glorious summer weekend, weather wise. the end of summer is flying by, busy with working in my classroom, watching the Beijing Olympics (the live events are always on later than we want to be up, but we stay up anyways sometimes), working on Jack's photo albums in anticipation of the big "One Year" celebration, going for long walks in our neighborhood, and going to a few last summer festivals. Yesterday we went to the Feast of the Assumption in Littly Italy. Fun, but very very crowded. We did eat some excellent stromboli. Today, after Jack gets up from his nap, we are off to Canine Fun Days, about which I am very excited. I think Jack "the dog lover" Morehouse will have a blast there, not to mention Corydon. Sadly, Melinda and Will have been busy with Will's family this week and haven't been able to play with us much. Well, not sadly for them, I guess, but we've been a little lonely...
Milestone update:
*Jack is pointing at things (with his index finger rather than his thumb). He likes to point at the hat on each page of "Blue Hat." (this is another board book, recounting the exciting adventures of a blue hat which falls overboard into the blue sea... on each page there is, yes, a blue hat.)
*He can now go DOWN the stairs, kind of sliding on his belly. Very exciting. He's not totally a free man yet-- he doesn't know to turn himself backwards at the top.
*I am not sure I've mentioned recently just how CUTE he is right now. So social and interactive. He is jabbering all the time with great intention. It's impressive just how many inflections one can put on the syllable "da".
No comments:
Post a Comment