Cute sayings out of the mouth of Jack

Today we went shopping with my mom and sister for my sister's birthday and while we were there, my mom asked where we were going to go to lunch. Ashlee said Applebees or Red Robin. As soon as she said that Jack said "Red Robin! I'm going to have mac and cheese!" Then the rest of the time in the mall he kept saying he wanted to go to Red Robin. In the last few stores every time we'd enter a new store he would say "I want to go to Red Robin." Then at Red Robin he ate all his mac and cheese and some of my chicken fingers. When we were leaving he was walking with Ashlee and they were carrying his new balloon and he said "I'm going in my car with my balloon and my mom. My dad's at work. He works at Amazon." I didn't even know he really knew where Doug worked.

Yesterday we were at my parents' house and we put the boys to bed there so we could stay and play games. After we were done we went to get the boys to take them home and I walked into my parents' room and Jack was sitting on the cedar chest at the end of their bed (where he was supposed to be sleeping) and said "I'm ready to go home." It was about 10:15. He's been awake all that time. I wonder what he was doing... My mom said he pushed everything off the cedar chest onto the floor. When I put him to bed I told him he had to be super quiet and go to sleep because Jordan was going to be sleeping in there too. He said "no jumping?" So maybe he jumps when he's in big boy beds...

On Saturday Doug and I dropped the boys off at my sister's friends house (who is also Doug's cousin) because my sister was there and she was going to watch them. All day I was preparing Jackson for us leaving him at a house he's never been to with people he doesn't know very well. He was pretty excited at the prosepect of going. He remembers the little boy that lives there. Even the whole car ride there he was happy and excited. But when I went to get him out of the car he looked at the big house in front of us and said "Mom, I'm scared." But I comforted him and he did great. Ashlee said that when they left he said he wanted to go back next time.

Jack says next time a lot. In the car today he was asking why he couldn't see the stars. I was trying to explain that you can only see the stars at night. He kept saying "what?" (which he says all the time after he asks a question. he'll just keep saying what if you keep saying the same answer...) I kept trying to change explain it in an easier way for him to understand. Then he said "next time I'll see them?" and I said sure. He also says next time when he does something he's not supposed to as in "next time I won't do (insert bad choice here :))"

He likes to play so big with Jordan. When he sees Jordan start playing and I don't see it he says "Jordan's doing so big!" or he'll just say "so big." He also likes to put him arm above his head and likes me to say "Jackson and Jordan are so big."

He calls Albertson's Robinsons. and he loves going there so he can drive.

He loves going to our Farmer Market. Whenever we go he tells me he wants to ride on the horses (little merry go round) and the helicopter. Then he tells me he'll be happy. That's our rule. If he's happy he can play on those when we're done shopping. It works every time :)

He says fisk it for fix it.

I taught Jackson to go potty sitting down. I thought it would be easier and less messy that way. and I still think so. But the other day he said he didn't want to sit down. So he tried to stand to go, but instead of just standing in front of the toilet on his stool, he tried to squat over the toilet. It was pretty funny. I tried to have him just stand in front of it, but then just opted for sitting like normal.

When he talks to Jordan he uses a high pitched voice. Maybe most kids do. But I still think it's pretty cute.

When he wants to listen to a certain song in the car he says in his high pitched nice boy voice "Book of Mormon, please." He usually doesn't say it like that except for Book of Mormon Stories.

He calls the song with the names of books in the the Book of Mormon "Jacob" because he has a friend named Jacob. He calls the Latter-day prophet song "Joseph Smith." He calls I am like a Star "star shining" and usually thinks it's twinkle twinkle when it starts. I love hearing all the song titles he makes up.

He can spell his name. He doesn't have much interest in writing it even though I try very hard to teach him... Maybe I should have done early childhood education in college. Then maybe I would be better at teaching him in a way that would make him think he could do it... or maybe he's still a little young. He loves typing his name on the computer though.