Let's Do This!

Every day, Jackson says something (or many somethings) that make us laugh.  I just love all this talking, and I get excited to get him up each day, because I just never know what is going to come out of that little mouth.

Every day this week, he's asked if we can go feed the ducks, and every day, we tell him that we'll go this weekend.  We've also told him his grandpa, grandma Linda, grandma Joan, great grandma, uncle Scott, and aunt Karen are all coming to visit this weekend and that maybe some of them will want to come.  His replies are typically similar, but a few days ago, he said, "I wanna feed the ducks.  With grandma, grandma Linda, great grandma.  That's a lot of people!"  The next time, he said several names, but finished with, "that's right!", like I doubted him.

Clearly he loves our weekend routine of feeding the ducks.  But this weekend, in addition to feeding the ducks, he would like to "Dance. Go to Starbucks.  Get a scone (at Starbucks).  Feed the ducks after his nap."  Sounds like our Saturday is all planned out for us.

Every time we ask about who is coming this weekend, he rattles everyone off and then says "Open the door!" meaning he wants to be the one to open the door when they arrive.  Love that he's already planning ahead.

On his way to daycare the other day, Corey drove through Klahanie, which is the same neighborhood the ducks are in, and Jackson's memory was triggered.  He started saying "Feed the ducks.  Daddy's car.  Big slide".  These are typically the things we do when we go to feed the ducks (we take daddy's car, and go down the slide before we come home).  Such a good memory.

On the way home from daycare the other day, he said to me, "I did the chicken dance, conga and hokey pokey!!!!" out of nowhere.  That one totally cracked me up.  Not only because he remembered the dances and their names, but that he randomly remembered it and felt the need to shout it out on our ride home.

When he tells us about something he wants to do, he'll often follow it up with "Let's do this!".  For instance, "I want to take a bath.  Let's DO this!"

He's taken a liking to a lullaby CD that he has and every time we get in the car, he has to get it out of the case, and I have to put in.  And every time we get where we are going, he wants the CD out so he can put it back in the case.  But after the first song, he always says "that's a good song!" and after the second song, "that's a good one!".  The songs are nice and quiet and slow, and he is very quiet while he listens - I think they definitely calm him down.  He does still occasionally say "mommy dance!" but these songs are quite a bit harder to dance to than his other CDs or "mommy's songs' (my radio station), let me tell you, so it's a quiet a sight to behold.

Oh the things this kid says, and the things we do for him.  It's a good thing he's cute!