things jack says

it is still so fun to hear jack talk and to giggle at the funny things he says. here are some entries in the dictionary according to jack: 

• pecutor = computer 

• noculars/super owl eyes = binoculars/hand binoculars 

• no please = no thank you 

• sticky splat = when dad throws the tay-tay blanket at him 

• mean flamingos = the swans at gaga dub's house 

• swimming pool costume = swimsuit 

• clipper nails = finger nail clippers 

• purple thing = yogurt tube 

• birdie leaf = feather 

• coconuts = acorns 

• spider room = the basement [harsh, but fair.] 

• last sunday morning = referencing anything that happened in the past 

• 14 degrees in the morning = his answer to "what time is it?" 

and some other quotes we love: 

• "dad, can you hear me in my ears?" 

• "ding dang commercials" [he picked this one up from gaga dubs] 

• "oh! of course!" [his go-to affirmative answer] 

• "i. am. FRUSTRATED!" 

• "mom, you will always be in my heart" [i don't even know where he got this, but it melts me every time] 

• "dad, you are the best dad ever" [true.] 

• "look at my face" [what he says when he wants our attention] 

• "mom, do you happen to have an apple bar in your bag?" [not sure where he picked this one up either, but it's adorably polite] 

• "would you be so kind as to read me this book?" [again with the politeness] 

• "mom, i need some 'orant' because my hiccups are coming" [he loves putting on deodorant] 

• "something is wrong with my clock, it's going like this 'beep! beep! beep!'" [when the alarm accidentally got set on his okay to wake clock] 

• "that's when i was a working man!" [looking at a picture of himself playing at a kids workbench with a hammer and nail] 

• "maybe i'm not an outside playing guy" [because a bug crawled on him and he wanted to go back inside...but also because he was apparently channeling his dad] 

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jack is three

these are ten of the things we love about you:  

1. you aren't quite the stellar sleeper you were in your younger days, but we can never turn down your requests for a pre-nap or bedtime "hug kiss" and always giggle at the "excuse me mom, my light turned green!" announcement when it's time to get up  

2. you are genuinely delighted by so many things [christmas lights were a real treat this year]  

3. when you pull on our hands to get us to tickle you under your chin  

4. your surprising success rate when talking to google and convincing it to play your favorite songs  

5. the way you refer to colors by the name of their coordinating sesame street character [green is trash; red is elmo; blue is cookie; and yellow is big bird]  

6. watching you pretend play [especially talking with your winnie the pooh friends and fighting the bad guys with your zooms]  

7. your laughter and excellent repertoire of silly faces  

8. you take great joy in filling the sesame street treat bags with "surprises" for people you love  

9. listening to you sing "acchaeus", 'have patience', and quoting almost all of 'the many adventures of winnie the pooh'

10. you continue to impress us with your moves and are currently perfecting some fortnite dances like dance monkey and "itsa" [aka the rick dance]  

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anniversary number nine

in an unusual turn of events we ended up with two downtown date nights in the same week. the weekend before our anniversary our little third wheel tagged along with us to dinner for jack stack with jack jack. then he headed off for a few hours with gaga bisc and pep pep while we went to see nate bargatze at the midland. the show was just as hilarious as i had hoped, and i even talked donald into an after show streetcar ride before we headed home.

the night before our actual anniversary donald had to work, and he therefore slept most of the day, so i treated him to a fried chicken breakfast in bed from krispy krunchy chicken around 4pm. later that evening we got to enjoy our second date night when we ventured back downtown for dinner at garozzo's. we picked up a chocolate bag from mccormick & schmick's on the way home and enjoyed it, along with some seinfeld, from the comfort of our couch.

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