Rhode Island

At the end of August, we visited Narragansett, RI for a week.  Derrick's parents met us there.  We did vacation-y things like: visited multiple beaches, ate plenty of ice cream, visited a zoo, and just played outside.  The weather was beautiful all week. 

Jack starting off his vacation right, with a nap.

 Derrick, Jack, and Pop Pop playing "baseball" in the yard.

Jack stealing Grandma's ice cream cone.  Again.

Jack having a blast on the Tetanus Swing from 1982.

At Roger Williams Zoo.  Jack not impressed with the elephants.

- S.

Slider

We were on vacation in RI last week.

Jack decided to master the slide at the local playground.

He IS almost two, you know…

- S. 

Words With Friends

Jack and Dad being silly with magnet letters.

- S.

Blocks

Jack is getting pretty good at stacking blocks!  On the rug, no less.

- S.

Lunch

We haven't featured Jack eating for a while.  He definitely eats better than I do.

Jack has a newfound love for "dip."  

The hummus featured in this photo is "dip."  

Ketchup is "dip."  

A tiny puddle of maple syrup for pancakes?  "Dip."

"More dip" is something we've been hearing often lately.

Jack also loves to sit at our new kitchen table and narrate what he sees outside.

"Blue car!" "Big truck!" "Plane!" "Flag!" "Hose!"

He does the same thing when we go out for walks or for rides in the car.  

We know every house in the neighborhood that flies a flag.

- S.

Weekend

This past weekend Jack got to touch a fire truck…

 "Hose!"

 …and walk in the woods and collect sticks (and rocks, and pinecones, and acorns, and leaves).

"Big tree!"

Lastly, Jack's best sentence from the weekend - "I see you, kitty!" while trying to get to the cat who was hiding under the table.

- S.

Maine

We went up to Maine for the weekend recently for the annual family weekend.  Jack got to spend some time with his cousins building giant block towers, reading, and learning to say "butterfly."

Posts have been lacking lately as I am unable to take photos with my phone since it is chock full of photos and videos of this little dude.  An easy solution would be to download the phone photos onto my computer, but the computer is full too…

So, until I have time to sort this out, Derrick has been nice enough to provide some of his photos and videos of Jack for your viewing pleasure.

- S.