Spinning

Yesterday, my good friend Herschel came over. Jack adores Herschel. He even got Herschel to give him a spin in the back yard. The best part of this game is how both feel afterward; Jack can't stand up and Herschel mumbled something about getting another beer.

Dinosaur Book

Today at COSTCO, I went in to buy one thing: a case of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for the attractive wife. I emerged with a lot more including a very cool Dinosaur pop-up book for Jack which features battery-operated sounds and movement. The text is a bit too advanced for Jack three-and-a-half-year-old mind (I don't think he appreciates the difference between sauropods and therapods) but the illustrations and pop-up stuff are awesome. He's really enjoying it.

Medicine with Pa

One of Jack's favorite routines is to help his Pa with his morning vitamin and pill routine. Jack's calls it medicine time. Pa will announce, "Help me find my medicine!" Jack knows where to find it in the small bed-side table in the guest room. Jack will pull out the plastic bags of vitamins and pills and hand them to Pa. It's really cute.

Transitions ...

With all the hullabaloo about Baby Sister (who still remains at the "hostable") Jack inherently gets that things are changing -- yet the proverbial hammer has yet to drop. My parents arrived last week to help up with the baby's arrival but to Jack, it's like a normal visit. He does see my attractive wife and I rushing off to the hostable to drop off pumped breast milk and catch the next scheduled feeding. I think he appreciates things are about to change but they haven't and he's acting out in some ways.

Still, having my folks here is great; Jack loves his Nanni and Pa. Here's a picture of them eating breakfast.

Hangin with Baby Sister

We got Jack back into the Intensive Care Nursery today again to visit Baby Sister who's very close, we're told, to coming home -- maybe even next week. This weekend, Baby got a hearing screening, my attractive wife got a lactation consult, we both attended Infant CPR class, and a hospital discharge class.



Jack was pretty excited again to see Baby Sister. When we arrived, our ICN Nurse was feeding her as she's now on an ad hoc feeding schedule since she ripped out her feeding tube. After the feeding, the nurse gave Jack a small diaper and bottle for his Bebe Bear, which he brought along. Jack pretended to feed it. Jack patted Baby Sister's head and said, "Nice."

Firetruck

Our cool neighbor, "Day-Day," continues to buy supper cool-ass toys at the flea market under the guise of getting them for Jack. Here's his newest acquisition, a remote control ladder firetruck. You can steer it, drive it, and deploy the ladder in 360 degrees at a 45 degree elevation. Jack doesn't have the whole driving thing down yet but he loved working with the ladder this afternoon in the back yard. Thanks, Day-Day!

Funny Face

One of Jack's favorite shows at the moment is "Yo Gabba Gabba." One segment is called "Funny Face," where kids on the show make a variety of funny faces. This evening, I was trying to get Jack to come back to the common back yard area and get ready to go back inside for his bath. He wouldn't budge. I distracted him by invoking the "Funny Face!" command. This is what he did.