Oh J.David!!

J.David has been SO funny lately!!  Here are some examples of why its hard me for to have a bad day!!

He is doing really good at his letters.  He knows almost all of them, only when you ask him what they are he will give you the word that starts with it as opposed to the name of the letter.  This is thanks to the awesome Melissa and Doug puzzle he got for Christmas.  Example: 
Me:  What is this? (pointing to the letter H)
JD:  E for Heart!  ha ha ha.  (All the letters sound like E)

EXCEPT for T.  For some reason he decided a long time ago in the bath that his foam letter "T" looks like a hammer.  So when asked about the letter T when doing his puzzle he says, "Hamma" and proceeds to tap it in its appropriate puzzle location as though he was building.  ha ha ha.

He LOVES CARS, everything is a car!!  He plays with the Cars matchobox cars all day long and would watch the movie all day everyday if i let him.  LOVES CARS!!  car noises are commonly heard coming from his mouth.  He will pretend to drive anything from a book to a sippy cup.

 He loves Jaxon!  He wants to play with him all day long! 

Today I was cleaning the floors and had all the kitchen chairs lined up in the living room.Of course he had to play on the randomly placed chairs!   I heard a bit of a boom and hear the dog park:
Me:  JD are you ok?
JD:  I fell on Jaxon!  I sorry Jaxon!
ME:  Its ok.  He forgives you.
JD:  Jaxon loves me!

Also today in the chairs he was squeezing through them with his hands in the air sucking in his belly saying, "cuse me, cuse me, cuse me chair"  ha ha ha. 

I was bent over putting away laundry the other day and was startled by a little hand!  Then I hear,"Mommy has sticker on bottom!  ha ha ha" 

One night after we prayed before dinner and had started eating J.David stopped abruptly. 
JD:  "MOMMY!!  PRAY!!"
ME:  What?  We did. 
JD:  NO! (then bows his head and folds his hands) God, thank you for Mater, and lightning Mcqueen, and blue car.  Amen!

He is loving books and is starting to memorize some of them.  So one day we sat down to read one of his favorites The Prince's Bedtime (a MUST HAVE for little boys), and he started "reading" it to me.  He learned the story and the pictures and told me a general idea of what it was.  He's been doing this with some of this others too.  It is so cute!

Lastly, after months of crying when dropping him off in Bible class we finally have had a break through.  A few weeks ago I sat down with him and tried really hard to explain that its ok to go to class b/c mommy will always come back for him.  Surprisingly, this worked.  Now everytime before class he asks me, "mommy, come back?" and then after i pick him up he say almost surprised, "mommy, come back!!"  No more tears and he is really enjoying it!  No more tears in the parking lot. 

FROSTY!!

I couldn't get him to look at the camera.  Ha HA!  We FINALLY were able to get outside and make a frosty!!  He was a very good supervisor.  I tried to get him to try to help and he kept saying, "no, mommy try."  oh well!  It was fun and since I haven't set the bar too high any frostys from here on out will be AWESOME! 

February Fun!

Along with being a terrible blogger, I have also been a bad photographer lately as well.  Ooops!  Here are some great J.David updates along with a few pics I actually do have.

Despite our continued struggles with getting JD to eat, one thing I can say is that he LOVES fruit!! Here he is eating one of his faves: Apples!  But he will eat pretty much any fruit that is laid in front of him in mass quantities.  If only he had that mentality with all things.....wishful thinking. 

Riding his new bike on the one nice day we've had nearly all year.  (Its been COLD and snowy, we're ready for spring!!)

In our desperate attempts to stay entertained in the cold we have a new favorite hang out: Monkey Joe's!  Its a giant place full of blow up jump toys!!  He loves it b/c it is fun, Mom loves it for the nap that is easily provided after every visit.  This is our little dare devil sliding down the HUGE slide!!  Parents aren't allowed on the toys so he climbed this all by himself!!  He was by far the smallest one on this slide, such a stud!

The first snow with temperatures decent enough to go outside in.  Still a little cold for my taste but for the grand 15-20 minutes we were out there it was great!  Still waiting on that frosty building snow though (snowman that is).  He was a little unsure of the snow and very disappointed that we couldn't make a frosty, but cheered up after Daddy came out to go sledding! (penguin style?)  ha ha ha.

Look at the rim of his bowl.  ha ha ha!  Breakfast for dinner night at our house and he chose cereal.  He then proceeded to count each one after the line up.  He can count to 10 if you kick start him with a, "one", but this night he decided to count free-style, "two, four, eight, eleven, nine".  Maybe he will follow in his Daddy's accounting  footsteps?  ha ha ha.

Today's outing: Ice Skating!!  I've referenced before his love for hockey so this day was a long time coming.  We were trying to hold out for the beautiful Forest Park outdoor rink, but arg! the cold! So, since Morgan took the majority of the day off we headed to the ice.  He loved getting on his skates, and was really excited to get on the ice, until he immediately slipped.  Then it took a little more effort and only once around the rink before he preferred to be a spectator.  And he was a great one!  He laughed and pointed (oops!) every time a kid fell on the ice.  (He must have learned this from his Daddy??)  Upon leaving he admitted to having fun, but said he didn't want to try it again.  I told him next time we'd get him a real teacher and he liked that idea better.  I guess one can't "homeschool" ice skating unless you know to skate well yourself.  ha ha.  We followed up a short hour (most of which getting skates on and off) at the rink with a long but fun lunch at Mimi's Cafe.  Thanks Auntie Em for joining us today!  Sorry we lacked more pics of you on the ice!