Jack Came to Visit

Dennis' brother, Greg, and his wife Michele were heading to San Antonio for a conference and needed someone to watch Jack. We happily agreed to it and enjoyed every minute of it. Sadie enjoyed playing the big cousin ("like Emily," she says) and Eli was bummed that he had to go to school every day. Jack is a pretty easy toddler and reminded me a lot of Eli at this age. As long as Jack got to do whatever is was that was a part of Jack's routine then Jack was as happy as a clam. He has an intense focus and can sit and entertain himself for quite a while. He knows all of his letters and numbers (seriously, I have a bag of magnetic letters and numbers and he'd pull them out at random and say every letter) colors and shapes. And he happily does whatever you ask him to do.
The only bad thing is that he arrived in the midst of our sickest week here at our house. Jack made 2 trips to the dr. once for Eli and once for me. By the time Jack left, we were all on antibiotics and Jack was too! But, we did manage to have fun doing lots of other stuff that helped us forget about the coughs and runny noses. The weather was amazing so we spent lots of time outside. Here are some highlights of Jack's stay:
A trip to the gym bin (at the begninning of the week we still had a lot of snow so it was hard to be outside as it was wet and slippery). He loved the pit and would say "C'up Sadie" which was his way of saying cover-up sadie. So we would hide Sadie in the blocks and she would jump out:

No trip to a cousin's house would be complete without a bathtub picture:

One of Jack's favorite things, pushing "the button":

Pusing "Jack's bike". I love that the chickens are in this picure, seems fitting considering how much Jack loved chasing them:

Breakfast (and lunch and supper) of champions-- Pancakes-- it's about all we could get him to eat: