Jack Playing

A real-time account of Jack playing on Thursday morning...

8 a.m. Jack walks around the living room holding his baby dinosaur toy, his current favorite.

8:02. Jack picks up his toy harmonica. He had been inhaling, rather than blowing, but he finally figures out, sort of, how to blow and make it make noise. A single note comes out. "I did it!" he says.

8:05. Jack opens up Mr. Potato Head's silly suitcase. He likes Mr. Potato Head best when everything is removed -- arms, eyes, hat, whatever -- and then he has two noses. That's his favorite Mr. Potato Head, and he sets about having that become a reality. "Where'd the flower go?" When it's Mrs. Potato Head, she has a flower on her wrist. I find the flower for him. He opens up the butt compartment and begins putting pieces inside. And taking them out. "Take the eyes out...." and then: "He's naked!" Right now it's a bare potato. But Jack wants to put the moustache on, which of course can't be done without a nose to hold it in place. He holds up the second moustache. "That's a beard," he says. And now he doesn't like the noses, either. "I want the beard and the moustache on!" Well, I say, they won't stay on without the noses. "I don't want the noses!" This goes on for a few minutes. And then: "I want the baby dinosaur!"

8:15. Jack gets up and asks to watch "Backyardigans on the 'puter." And thus the blog ends.