Kudos to the Kiskers

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that I have not been very good at all about reading other people's blogs, let alone updating our own. Luckily, my sister-in-law Hollie is a creeper and always updates me on Brett and Hillary's blog. Today, I finally remembered to go look myself. I am always entertained by Brett and Hil's quick wits, but I found myself literally laughing out loud at Brett's post about Sam's Club. In fact, Jacoby stopped what he was doing, walked over to "read" the post, and immediately threw back his head and laughed as well. In fact, he is still (fake) laughing. (seriously...it's been several minutes). I wanted to say that I, as well, have become very talented at typing with one finger, which I am doing now. The difference is that the other hand is used to hold back Jacoby's sticky fingers from the keyboard or tickle him to keep him distracted. I will just start letting him write the posts himself. Surely, since he already composes his own symphonies, he can handle typing a couple of paragraphs (with correct grammar and conventions, of course). What do you think, Brett?

Monthly Post

Words we can count on Jacoby "saying" every day:
waffle
outside
thank you
you're welcome
Trish
tutu (Trish's dog)
please
hat
whoa!
dog
ouch
up
hey!
hi!
down
uh-oh!
ball
that
bye-bye!
nose
eye
Dora
map
mama
dada
help
on
off
open
other words that we have no clue what he is saying, but we hear them over and over
I love this age because you never know when he is going to repeat you and say something he has never said before. Whether or not he will repeat it for you is debatable...he is a child who is sure of what he wants.

A couple of cute/memorable moments:

• Trish brought Jacoby and Sam (2) up to a concert at school the other day, so I got to show him off a little. When we were talking afterwards, Jacoby walked over to Sam and put his arms around him to hug him. Sam leaned forward and kissed Jacoby on the head without any prompting at all. Then, a minute later, Jacoby puckered up and stood on his tiptoes so Sam leaned down and gave him a big smooch right on the lips. Sam has started following Jacoby to the door and blowing him kisses when I pick him up. Seeing how much Jacoby and Sam enjoy each other is by far one of the best things about bringing Jacoby to Trish.
• We saw our friend Meredith with her son Deacon and our neighbor Jan outside playing yesterday, so we stopped for a second on our way home from school. The ice cream truck happened to drive by, so Jan flagged him down and Jacoby had his first ever treat from an ice cream truck. Mere took a couple of pictures and they are on her website: http://www.meredithgutshall.blogspot.com/
• Jacoby got an inflatable pool from his Grandma and Grandpa Kisker for his birthday and some swim trunks. Since Zach is at state tennis, I started blowing it up last night. As we all know, nothing is as simple as it seems when you have a toddler all over the place. Jacoby was determined to help, and kept grabbing the rubber mouthpiece from me and trying to blow in it. I gave up after a while and went to fix him dinner. Next thing I know, I hear grunting and screaming in the hallway. Jacoby went back to his room and decided to bring the half-inflated pool into the living room to play with. Needless to say, he was stuck and grunting and pulling as hard as he could to move it anyway. Once I brought it into the living room for him, he started screaming and laughing and rolling around in it. It was practically the only thing he played with the rest of the night. He even lounged in it with his snack to watch Dora. I felt a little bad filling it with water this morning, but he ran over and jumped in right away, making me feel a little better. My favorite moment was when he picked up his bucket and carried it out of the pool. When he accidently dumped it, he looked at me with raised eyebrows and said, "uh-oh!!" and then turned to fill it back up. He kept pinching the water and then "dropping it" into the bucket. After about 2 minutes of this diligent work (and absolutely no water in the bucket) he leaned back his head and put the bucket to his mouth. He preceded to "drink" the water in the bucket and then looked at me and said, "Ahhh. MMMM!!!" like he was SO refreshed. Kids are so weird.

We are almost 28 weeks along with Zach Jr. #2. After school is out this week, I know the last 12 weeks are going to fly, especially with all of the stuff we have to do in the meantime. Let's hope we can get our basement turned into a play room, the guest room turned into Jacoby's room, and Jacoby's room turned into a baby room amidst tennis, summer school, and everything else. Keep your fingers crossed!

Between Jacoby being such a fun age and our 3 new nieces, it is bound to be the best summer yet. Can't wait! Now if we can only get through the last 4 days of school...