jack-isms...

i know wrote a post similar to this about olivia when she was around 18 months old. jack is just now getting his moment (at almost 3 years old), but i guess that comes with the territory of being the second child. ha! :0) my mom mentioned the other day that i needed to blog about the funny things that jack says so that we will not forget them. let me first say that jack says something funny about every hour, so there is no way to record them all, but he has a few "phrases" that he has coined that i never want to forget...

(if you are not family, you probably don't care or think these are nearly as adorable as we do, so feel free to stop reading now.)

"i can't like it!"-- rather than saying "i don't like it." or "no thank you!" jack says "i can't like it!" he has been saying it for quite awhile now. i think gramps might like this phrase the best, he has worked it into his vocabulary, but we all think it is pretty funny.

"la-la"-- his nickname for his sister, olivia. it is so sweet to hear him say it and really he is the only one who calls her that, which i love. olivia has a ton of nicknames which i am sure will start to fade away, but i hope jack never stops calling her "la-la."

"mr. the king"-- the veteran race car from the movie CARS. jack is slightly obsessed with the movie and all things related to CARS. he never leaves home with out a car, preferably lighten mcqueen in hand and knows almost every word of the movie by heart. i thought that all of the characters in the movie referred to this character as "mr. the king" but apparently not! to everyone else, he is "the king" to jack, our little family, and mater (the funny tow truck in the movie) he is mr. the king.

walking backward-- this goes with the obsession of CARS. this is not something that jack says, but rather some he does. he walks backward, like mater (funny tow truck) and quotes a line from the movie, "Ain't no need to watch where I'm goin'; just need to know where I've been."

"clause it!" or "closet!" -- this is used instead of the word "pause" when he is watching a show that he would like for me to pause while he runs to the other room for a moment or comes to the breakfast table in the morning.

"do you LOVE _____?"-- this is a phrase i hear at least 10 times a day. when ever i am doing something jack walks into the room and asks, "do you love making the bed mommy?" "do you love holding me?" "do you love driving your car?" "do you love cooking dinner for us?" i don't have any idea where he got this, i am sure i say it and don't realize it, but i know i don't say it that often and not for doing chores!! it is sweet that he is always concerned about how i am feeling about things. :)

"squareheads"-- probably the newest jack-ism, discovered just days ago while he was having a snack at nana's house. she was giving him quaker oatmeal square cereal. after finishing his portion he looked at nana and said, "nana, can i please have some more of those squareheads?" now he refers to all square shaped cereal as "squareheads."

i know there are more, but those are the ones that i have thought of for the moment. as i write this i am so thankful for the joy, energy, sense of humor, and the happiness that jack brings to our family. thank you god for allowing us the gift of having him in our lives and to watch him grow.