My Little Man

I feel like I have been a slacker with the blog lately. Its seems all my free time is spent resting instead of blogging. So we will try to catch up a little here.
Last weekend, I met two of my high school friends- Robin Meyer Haupe and Clarice Berry Cawood at the mall in Durham for a visit. We let Jack run around the playground while we chatted. it was so fun to see them and catch up! There is nothing like people who have known you so long- just a little reminder of home when you aren't there anymore! Clarice snapped this picture of me and Jack and I just love it. There aren't many flattering photos of me these days so we got lucky here. We even blew up and gave it to Clay for his birthday which was Friday. November reminds us all to be thankful but I have even more reasons to celebrate this month. My mom's bday was the 6th and then Jack's on the 8th and Clay's the 21st. And then Clay and I will celebrate our 4 year anniversary on the 26th. What a wonderful month for our family!

Jack is becoming more verbal by the minute. It happened over night- just like everyone said it would. I found him in my closet this morning going one by one over my shirts saying "mine, mine, mine." Yep, that is his latest favorite word. Other often said phrases include "all right!", "let's go!" and "i don't know." He talked the whole way home from church today- just blabbering away about who knows what but Clay and I were just laughing the whole time. Clay's parents gave Jack the Little People Mayflower ship for his birthday (very cute!) and it comes with three pilgrims. Jack will take them and put them on the ship and have conversations with them. It is so fun to see his imagination at work. Yesterday he added the horses from his farm and giraffes from Noah's ark to the mayflower. Apparently the pilgrims needed some pets! We love these moments with him and are cherishing them as we know that when the baby gets here we will not be able to devote ALL of our focus to Jack.
He loves playing with the kids on our street, most of whom are much older. Today when we pulled in the driveway from church, 3 of them were outside. They are high school boys who play football in our backyard alot and are so sweet to Jack. He was screaming "hi guys! hi guys!" and jumped out of the car to follow them down the street. When we called him to come back to us he looked at the boys and then looked at us and took off after the boys who were 3 houses away by this point. He was determined to go with them. So cute!