the doctor ordered an ultrasound for jack's head. she was worried that it's rate of growth was a bit too fast and she wanted to make sure he didn't have any extra fluid in there. good news, he just has a big head. in other jack news he finally figured out how to get that head around and roll over onto his stomach. phew.
john has been playing that "my grandma and your grandma sitting by the fire, my grandma says to your grandma 'I'm gonna set your flag on fire' ... talkin' 'bout hey now, hey now, iko iko an nay, jockomo feena ah na nay, jockomo feena nay" (lyrics sites rock). anyway, aidan has taken to calling jack jack-a-mo, which is what i think john was trying to do in the first place by playing the song over and over and over. i broke every rule i had in child naming when we chose jack. a name that does not easily morph into other forms (jack in the box, jack o lantern, crackerjack, hijack, the list goes on and on and on) was one of my big no no's. whoops. and thank you to john for encouraging our first son to use one of these variations.
setting:
aidan supposed to be napping, but awake.
jack supposed to be napping, but apparently hungry and fussing.
aidan loudly from behind his closed bedroom door, "MOMMY! MOMMY, WHERE ARE YOU? jack-a-mo is crying, jack-a-mo is hungry, jack-a-mo needs a bottle. JACK-A-MO! WHERE IS JACK-A-MO? JACK-A-MO! JACK-A-MO! JACK-A-MO!"
aidan's new trick is this puzzle of united states. he has west of the mississipi and the southeast down perfectly. that whole northeast thing is a bit of a quandary. for those of you that live in arkansas, utah, pennsylvania and missouri i've made sure he knows those states belong to you. as we're approaching three (uh, nine months away) he seems to be able to focus on one task for a longer period of time. this is generally helpful to me and generally very helpful to the teachers at school, gymnastics, etc. it is not helpful when he decides to focus that attention on torturing cats (we had an incident with a rock yesterday), throwing tantrums or painting the wall.
here is an attempt to get both kids to pose for a picture. about two of the twenty i took came out. in most of the pictures aidan is trying to accost jack and jack just has that silly grin on his face. we have some version of leapfrog going on in some, excessive hugging in most and he still likes to squeeze jack's nose. odd.
and here's jack. still the easiest little thing ever created. certainly based on the stories i've heard of my childhood, i don't deserve to have this child. clearly, he should have been jeff's. i'm extremely grateful at my good fortune though. he's sitting up pretty well, not rolling over (the doctor says his head is probably too heavy for him. yes, she really said that), he babbles a ton and has started doing a very high pitched scream. oh, and he's none too pleased when everyone walks out of the room on him.
some people call it preschool, daycare, babysitting...whatever. it's really time for mommy to take a breath and aidan to have different faces to see and voices to hear. so far so good.
conversation in the car after i picked him up (after first ignoring me on the playground, then throwing a tantrum that he had to leave day one of preschool):
-did you play? yes.
-what did you play? with the toys.
-did you play with the kids? yes.
-did you get to have a snack? yes!
-what did you have? orange juice mommy. i drank it really, really fast.
-oh, yeah? did you have anything else? ummmm. beer.
-really, you had beer for a snack? yes (then falls into hysterics when he realizes i think his answer is humorous)
this says way too much about our home life. i told john he needs to stop having aidan fetch his beers out of the mini-fridge.
obligitory "first day of school photo taken on the front stoop" ... i think this photo is really meant for the first day of kindergarten, but we did it anyway ...
we went back to work this week. i say "we" because it really is we. john may start leaving the house again on a daily basis, but here i stay learning to juggle two children again. no more 1:1 ratio or dividing & conquering. aidan has been, uh, busy (difficult), of late, hopefully he makes the transition back to just us again without any major meltdowns or broken furniture. jack is seriously the easiest thing ever created, so unless aidan unleashes his fury in jack's direction i expect him to just smile & nod through the changes.
aidanisms:
~'i really, really, really stuck mommy'--applies whenever he's even remotely caught somewhere
~post nighttime & post nap time 'MOMMY! MOM! MOMMY! WHERE ARE YOU? MOMMY! MOMMY!'--it continues loudly until i go to get him (more than 5 minutes on some occasions)
~'my sock broken mommy'--when his socks get twisted around
~'where the clouds mommy? there the clouds mommy. i want to touch the clouds mommy.' -- 'the clouds are too high aidan, we can't touch them. not even mommy can reach them' -- 'I WANT TO TOUCH THEM! WA WA WA WA WA WA' (the tantrum continued until a bird flew by and we repeated the whole conversation with a bird substituted for the clouds.
~'my do it'--means he wants to do it, but sounds very similar to 'mommy do it' (which is sometimes what he wants) ... it's led to a few tantrums when i don't know which one he is saying.
~"where's daddy aidan?" "at work mommy" "what's he doing at work" "making money, money, money" (in a high pitched voice while rubbing his thumb and forefinger together)
(it's not trick photography, jack's head really is almost as big as aidan's)
aidan's new trick is this puzzle of united states. he has west of the mississipi and the southeast down perfectly. that whole northeast thing is a bit of a quandary. for those of you that live in arkansas, utah, pennsylvania and missouri i've made sure he knows those states belong to you. as we're approaching three (uh, nine months away) he seems to be able to focus on one task for a longer period of time. this is generally helpful to me and generally very helpful to the teachers at school, gymnastics, etc. it is not helpful when he decides to focus that attention on torturing cats (we had an incident with a rock yesterday), throwing tantrums or painting the wall.
here is an attempt to get both kids to pose for a picture. about two of the twenty i took came out. in most of the pictures aidan is trying to accost jack and jack just has that silly grin on his face. we have some version of leapfrog going on in some, excessive hugging in most and he still likes to squeeze jack's nose. odd.
and here's jack. still the easiest little thing ever created. certainly based on the stories i've heard of my childhood, i don't deserve to have this child. clearly, he should have been jeff's. i'm extremely grateful at my good fortune though. he's sitting up pretty well, not rolling over (the doctor says his head is probably too heavy for him. yes, she really said that), he babbles a ton and has started doing a very high pitched scream. oh, and he's none too pleased when everyone walks out of the room on him.
(it's not trick photography, jack's head really is almost as big as aidan's)
