Jake Jargon 2 and half

So, Jake is 2 and a half and really good at it! He's starting to climb, and wrestle and do all the things he was previously too timid to do. Good in some ways, BAD in others.

Lighting Slide

Brian was inside making dinner while watching Jake who was playing outside. A perfectly normal thing around our house. There is a birds eye view from the kitchen... Anyway, Brian looks up and Jake has his ride on Lighting McQueen on the top of the slide. Brian ran out the door while thinking 'Oh this isn't gonna be good!' There is one spot where you can't see the swing, and while running through that spot, Brian hears Bump, bump, bump...."Waaaaa" He runs over and Jake is beside the slide, McQueen is at the bottom. Jake cut his lip, but it wasn't bad. I wasn't home for any of this. The next day I asked him about it, and he said, with a very serious expression, "That was not good!"

Jake has been into Disney's Cars and pretty much nothing else for a year and a half. That is a long time for a 2 year old. We have everything Cars...I am SOOOOO sick of Cars. Well, thank you Mimi for moving Jake along to something new! Jake had to have an MRI (which turned out to be nothing...he was complaining of back pain, that we now think was related to the Lightning/Slide incident.) and it was a bid deal. They had to put him under and it's always scary when that happens. Anyway, Mimi brought him full size Buzz Lightyear Action Figure. He now LOVES Toy Story... And let me tell you, it's a much better movie, AND there are 2 to chose from. The music is great...who doesn't like Randy Newman? And many more toys to chose from... Buzz, Woody, Mr. Potato Head, Dinosaurs, Slinkys, Army men, Etcha Sketches, Piggy Banks...I could go on. Anyway, this was a recent email from me to Brian...



Subject: potato head vs. mater

So we went to wal-mart and Jake said that he wanted a cars car. I told him if they had something new, he could get it. They did. RUSTY MATER!!! So he was excited, and wanted to buy him. I then walked over and saw Mr. Potato Head. I tried to talk Jake into it, but he wanted Mater. So I bought him both. I know it's spoiling him, but it was in hopes of Mr. Potato Head being cooler. It worked! He played for 30 minutes with him and loved it. Mater lay on the floor in a forgotten heap! Yea!!!! TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

LY,
Joy

I know this may seem like a weird thing to blog about...but you have no idea how happy we are about this! And I just read that Toy Story 3 is coming out in 2010!

Questions

Jake has some funny things he asks. One of his favorites: "Does he/she talk?" We think this means that he likes the fact that this person talks to him a lot. Another: "Does he/she have eyes?" We think this means he thinks the person has nice eyes...but who knows...

Friends

Jake and Conan have been playing together a lot lately. The other day, Conan and Makena were both over and they all decided to watch a movie...