keep those doggies rollin'

jack is walkin', talkin', rockin', rollin'

here's proof!

update: sorry for the delay in being able to see the video. gremlins.

weekend update

another busy weekend ...

saturday jack and mommy headed out to run some errands and to attend our playgroup. where we ...

played (quel surprise!) ...

and ate snacks (again, quel surprise!) ...

and generally exhausted ourselves (all together now, quel surprise!):

but like our friend the pigeon, we absolutely did not need a nap.

instead, we played at the park and went to our neighborhood block party. we are the third (youngest) jack on the street, after jack g. and jack s.! our young boy practically has whiplash from all the times "jack" was bellowed out!

sunday was a new day and there was more fun to be had. daddy headed to the redskins' game, so mommy and jack and foj sneetch and jellybean headed to the pool for one of our final dips of the season. after another refused nap, jack's grandparents arrived to celebrate grandparents' day with us.

oh, didn't realize it was grandparents' day? well ... that's because it's a mostly made-up holiday, but they were happy to come play with jack and eat a delicious lasagna made by daddy (his ticket to the aforementioned redskins' game).

with a fully weekend and fully belly, jack headed off to dreamland ... and mommy and daddy followed close behind.

the kissing bandit

jack kissed me goodbye today.

a real, honest-to-goodness, un-coached smooch for his mommy.

he has been "blowing" kisses for a while ... melting hearts as he puts his hand to his mouth and says "mmmm." he's not as good at actually sending those kisses ... he sometimes forgets the "blowing" part ...

and previous to that he'd done a weird mix of biting/slobbering that we'd take to mean affection.

but today as he was seeing me off at the front door, he reached toward me and then turned up his face, put his lips together and planted one on my cheek! of course, he said, "mmmm." that is the universal "kiss sound," after all ...

then, he turned and planted one on roxana too. ¡que gracioso!

and to be clear, there is no photographically or videographically recorded evidence of this ... lest you think mommy's holding out ...

if there *had* been video of that moment, no one would have been happier than i. but, bittersweetly, it's just a memory.

playing on a loop in my mind's eye today ... but a memory just the same.

some video magic

this "blogger video" is quite magic. and jack has been an ersatz magician since birth when he was houdiniesque in his narrow escapes from the tightest of swaddles. now, he has adopted props (borrowed from friends at the beach) as he practices his old black magic ...



bibbidi bobbidi boo, indeed!

weekend update

a holiday weekend and a birthday for a cousin (and a busy day for mommy) have pushed this weekend update all the way to hump-day. apologies to the blog-faithful, who we are sure have been on tenterhooks waiting to find out how those of us llvj passed the weekend.

saturday was a day of errand-running. daddy and jack headed to the park while mommy delivered food to some foj's who just had a new baby. then, jack scored a new car seat for daddy's car/airplane travel. not quite as cushy as the ones for mommy & roxana's cars, but still nice and safe for our boy.

sunday brought a playdate at the pool with foj's kylie and her parents, some more quality dad time while mommy was out at tea, and a reunion with the beach crowd, who remarked, "does he ever stop?" "no," was a tired daddy's stony reply.

monday, because your president thoughtfully went on a surprise visit to western iraq, mommy worked while daddy and jack had even more qt together. trips to the park and a scavenger hunt to retrieve daddy's blackberry were all part of the day.

in all the busy-ness of the weekend, we didn't take any pictures! plus, mommy's memory cards are all still full of beach photos/videos that she has not gotten around to downloading onto the computer.

so ... to satisfy the yen for jack pix, here are some taken by nana *last* sunday at jack's grandad's birthday dinner.


maxin' and relaxin'

grandad teaches how a zipper works

pork kebabs are delicious, but messy!

bathing beauty

all wet

enough washing ... i'm outta here!

just be-cuz

happy 4th birthday to jack's main cuz, brady!

(not quite "identical cousins" but pretty darn cute, all the same ...)

afternoon respite

a trip to the ex-urbs ex-hausted jack.

so mommy is stuck sitting next to him ... in the back seat of the car ... in the driveway of the house -- lest moving him inside awakens him from his first (and only) nap of the day.

given how sweet he looks, guess i don't mind so much.