Funny Nose Friday #3

If Jake does not turn out to be the class clown when he is older, he is definitely going to be that person's best friend. Jake loves clowning around. He loves to laugh. We have recently discovered that he really likes physical comedy. We have decided he would love The Three Stooges. Anyhow, he kind of got his words mixed up and when something makes him laugh instead of saying, "That makes me laugh" or "That's funny" he kind of combines the two and says, "That makes me funny!". It's really cute since he doesn't even realize what he is saying. He will see the kittens playing with each other, chasing each others tails and exclaim, "That makes me funny!". Even funnier is the fact that now Jadyn is saying it too.

Jake does not like to eat his food if it is too hot. This is probably true for all kids but Jake takes it to a new level. Several weeks ago when we were having dinner we were trying to explain the difference between being hot in temperature and spicy hot and apparently we did not do a very good job. Flash forward to Wednesday when we went to eat dinner after a long day on the water with Joe's boss and family. When you are on the water, the high temperatures don't really bother you but when you go from a cool air conditioned car to the black asphalt of a restaurant parking lot when it is 107 degrees out, it is a completely different story. Jake got out of the car and exclaimed, "It's spicy hot out here!"

Instead of saying "all the time" Jake uses the phrase "all day". For example, we recently got rid of his booster seat at the kitchen table. Instead of saying "I sit on the chair like a big boy all the time now" he said, "I sit on the chair like a big boy all day now". This might not seem too amusing, that is until you find out he finally started trying to wipe himself after going #2 on the potty. This translated to, "I wipe my butt all day now".

Jadyn has started "reading". She loves to pick up a book, any book whether it is mine, one of the kids or an instruction manual for the vacuum cleaner, and pretend to read a story. She reads stories about princesses who listen to their swim instructors and get put in time-out for not behaving. She also likes to put her stuffed animals and babies in time out but despite her preoccupation with discipline, she herself rarely ever has to go to time out.

Jake's math abilities have really started to take off and he shows quite an interest in numbers. It started around his birthday when he got a Star Wars Jedi Math game for his Leapster. He is now regularly adding and subtracting one and two digit numbers and counting by 2, 5 and 10. He will be in the car or at the dinner table and will start spouting off math problems. He will ask, "Mom, what does 23+8 equal. I always respond by asking him what he thinks and usually he can answer correctly. To encourage his interest I purchased a Kindergarten math workbook and it was too easy for him. I had to go back and get the first grade level workbook and he has pretty much completed that one. I am not very good with math so I fear it won't be long before I can't help him with his homework and he hasn't even started school yet!

Joe's boss, Ty has two boys who are 7 and 8 years old. This was very neat for Jake when we went to the river with Ty and his family because Jake is seldom around older kids. Both Jake and Jadyn spent the whole day swimming and splashing around in the water with Dylan and Dawson. The next day when Jake woke up, he immediately wanted to see the older boys again but couldn't recall their names so he asked me, "Mom can the 7 and 8 boys come over again?" I just thought it was cute because Jake's love of numbers is such that he could remember how old the boys were but not their names.

Hope everyone has a spicy hot good summer weekend!