He Gets His Moves From His Mommy....

First and foremost, I swear, I didn't set this video up.

I think Jackson might be a dancing virtuoso. I taped him dancing to the first song which was pretty non-eventful. He did the usual rock back and forth. Then I taped him dancing to the second song, which was non-eventful again and he seemed a bit disinterested in it. Then I tried a third song. You can see that he does one dance for the first two songs, and then a completely different dance for the third one. No one taught him to do "the twist" and no one told him to do the twist when the twist song came on. He did that all by himself. I have edited the video for time, but the sum of the video is accurate to what happened.

This all has me really confused. Was this just coincidence? Was he trying to imitate The Wiggles? Did he understand what The Wiggles were telling him to do? I really don't know the answer, but I'm pretty impressed that he did the right dance to the right song!!

Pointing and Thomas the Tank Engine

Here is Jackson doing two of his new favorite things - pointing and playing with a train he got for Christmas.

He's really into pointing at EVERYTHING and saying "tah, tah" as in "what's that?" He'll point at anything, but he especially likes to point at lights and in the direction of any sound that he just heard.

To the average adult, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about the train; but Jackson will tell you that the train is great because 1) it's new, 2) it rolls, 3) you can set it to make train sounds or play music, and 4) it apparently tastes good because Jackson likes to chew on it....

11 Months Old

Hey Jackson! How many more months until your birthday?Right! What a smart kid....I don't know about that terrible bed-head though?!?

His New Favorite Game.....

....is to crawl through the maze of legs from the dining room table and chairs. What fun!!

Children's Museum, Part Deux

In order to help keep Jackson's Daddy from obsessing over the Colts-Patriots AFC Championship game tomorrow, we spent the day at the Children's Muesuem. Jackson did not object, of course. He really likes it there -- whether it's playing in the interactive areas or just people watching. I think he could watch the big kids play and run around for hours if we let him. He is not amongst the walking yet....although I think he is inching ever closer since he is spending more and more time standing unsupported and he can now bounce and "dance" without supporting himself too.

Hanging out with the dinosaur eggs...Our little stegosaurus hanging out with the hatchlings...He really had a good time playing in the submarine. He thought it was so funny that I was on the other side of the glass and everytime he tried to reach me, he slipped on the curved window...The special exhibit right now is Clifford the Big Red Dog. Those of you who knew me growing up, know that I couldn't help but think if Jack Tripper - oops - I mean John Ritter. My childhood "boyfriend" grew up to be the voice of Clifford. Come and knock on our door......

P.S. Since it worked last week, I gotta do it again this week....Go Colts!! (and Bears!!)

He's Showing His Maternal Grandfather's Genes

He's just now started to enjoy watching t.v. Two months ago, he could take it or leave it, for the most part, after about 5 minutes. He'll watch for much longer stretches now.

He really enjoys Play With Me Sesame the best; it seems to keep his attention the longest and it makes him giggle. Something about those muppets can really make a kid smile! But, to my dismay, he also likes The Wiggles.Someone really needs to explain this one to me. I'm sure he likes it for the singing, the dancing, and all the bright colors, but I just don't get it. There are these 4 perpetually chipper Aussie men dressed in primary-colored, Star Trek-looking shirts, who prance around singing songs about the joys of fruit salad and such. Jackson seems to particularly enjoy their song "Central Park, New York". Anyway, the gents are all fine and dandy. My problem is with their sidekicks. There's a giant dog (Wags), giant octopus (Henry), and giant dinosaur (Dorothy) that participate in the songs and the various skits, but they never seem to explain why these men are hanging around with this hodge-podge of giant stuffed animals. What the heck? But the kicker is that The Wiggles also hang around with a character dressed up as a pirate and named Captain Feathersword. Apparently, Feathersword can do mysterious things with his....well.....feathersword. Am I the only one that finds this whole get-up very weird?

Contently watching Bert
Dancing with The Wiggles' giant dog

They Won! They Won! They Both Won!!