Jackisms

Now that Jack has been talking almost like a real person he comes up with some cute things. Today, I overheard a conversation between Todd and Jack regarding scissors.

Jack: I needa knife.
Todd: Why do you need a knife?
Jack: I gotta cut Einsteins.
Todd: I'm sorry, what? You need to cut who?
Jack: I needa cut da Einsteins.

*Todd settles into a confused silence*

Me: He said he needs to cut out his Little Einsteins.
Todd: Oh? You need scissors?
Jack: Yeah. I needa knife.
Todd: Well, I will do it for you, because these scissors are for grown ups.
Jack: NO! I do it! I gow-up! I do knife!
Todd: No, you're not grown up quite yet.

Me: *dying of laughter*

Jack has been asking me to draw the Little Einsteins lately. We've had pink Quincys and crayoned Rockets. Each time my art work has been getting a little better. I have absolutely no artistic talent, but I can draw a distinguishable June, apparently. Earlier this evening Jack had a handful of Einstein characters that he crumpled and carried around with him around the house. They went in a box, out of a box, in a "buh-et", and hid under Een on the Boppy. He asked repeatedly "Where Eye-tines go?" while looking for them. They hid from us, we found them. They played peek-a-boo with Nina.

His imagination is getting so big. He has Transformers battles in the back seat of the car. He plays with his Mickey babies. They're always dancing, eating, drinking, or sleeping.

After over a decade of storage, I allowed Jack to have my entire Beanie Baby collection. Years of conditioning to keep the tags pristine and to keep the animals in mint condition are making me twitch watching him carelessly play with them. I always knew I'd hand them down to my own kids (unless they were worth big bucks, but meh...) and the day has finally come. Also, we needed the underbed storage space.

NINA UPDATE:
For some reason, the receptionist at my doctors office was convinced that Nina needed a 3 month appointment. Turns out, they don't see babies at month 3 unless there's a problem. However, Nina was weighed and measured and she is 14lbs 6.5oz and is 23.5 inches long. She's a big girl. She's officially OUT of 3 month clothes, including pajamas.

We do cloth diapers during the day unless we're out and about. I've done cloth at night but right now we're still knee high in size 2 disposables so I'm trying to get through them. We found a system that works with her delicious thighs. However, I don't like how fluffy the cloth is in the car seat. She's still so small that the fluff in the diaper makes the car seat straps a bit looser than I'd like and if I tighten them, I find we get leaks. No big deal, we just put her in a disposable. Like Jack, she seems to only poop in the car if we're out all day. Otherwise, she waits til we're home.

She's still sleeping through the night and is one of the sweetest babies I've ever encountered. I may be biased, since she is my own kid, but she really is a pleasant baby. I want to say she's happier than Jack ever was, but that comparison also comes with experience. We know what we're doing this time around and it's resulting in happier parents and a happier baby.