Jackinator

Manhunt

Jack was able to play manhunt last night with some kids around the neighborhood - the first time in almost 2 years!  He had to change his strategy, though.  Outrunning the tagger was difficult so instead he would hide and dart out of his hiding place to unfreeze someone on his team.  Last summer when Jack was in traction, the sound of kids out playing was very depressing.  This year it's a wonderful sound!

Cast Removal Treats!

Jack's friend Nate came over this morning and brought some chocolate chip ice cream cookie sandwiches to celebrate Jack getting out of his body cast (thanks, Candie!!) 

 
 

Nurse Lisa brought over a HUGE bunch of balloons (thank you!!) for Jack which he's having fun 'beating up':

 

Trash Can Target

Jack spent some time outside this morning.  At first he didn't want to go out - he said he wanted to stick to his regular schedule of laying in bed all day.  But once he got outside, he had a good time playing Trash Can Target with Dad and Amanda.  They took turns throwing a ball at a trash can (hence the name; we couldn't come up with a more clever one).  If you hit the trash can, you got 1 point.  If you got the ball in the trash can, you got 3 points.

 
Photo credit:  ~!aMaNdA!~ 

Grandparent Visit

We're having a fun time with Jack's grandparents from Florida!  They said our weather is a nice change from what they're used to ;)  Mom-mom has been playing some games with Jack and Pop-pop has been playing with Jack's horn:

  

Gifts!

A friend stopped over yesterday with a puzzle for Jack (thanks, JoAnne!)  'One Hundred Cats and a Fish.'  That'll be the perfect thing to do when Jack first gets out of his cast and can't move around too much yet.  Jack's teacher also came yesterday afternoon and brought a bendy rabbit (thanks, Mrs. B!)  Jack's having fun twisting it into interesting shapes.

 
  

Can you find the one Fish in the puzzle??

Testing out the Webcam

We got a webcam so that Jack can talk with his classmates.  That should be set up at school next week.  In the meantime, we tested it out on Jack.  One of his exercises while he's recovering is to blow up balloons.  This keeps his lungs strong, although with all the yelling he does for me and at his sister, he'd probably be fine without them.  Anyway, I tied one of the balloons to his bed so he can play with it.  I came up with that idea after the 57th time I had to fetch the balloon.  Pretty smart, I must say.  We tested out the webcam on his balloon game:

 

Elephant Extravaganza!

Jack found something to amuse himself using his trapeze bar and his elephant neck pillow.  He calls this Elephant Extravaganza:

Packing in the Fun

We're trying to squeeze in weeks of fun into this vacation week.  Yesterday, Jack had his friend Matthew over in the afternoon and then we went to a game night at our church in the evening.  Today, we went swimming in the morning (although Jack doesn't consider swimming fun anymore) and then went Monster mini-golfing with our friends up the street, Jeff, Stephanie and their mom, Cheryl.  Tomorrow, we're meeting my college friend, Amy, and her 3 kids for lunch at the Rainforest Cafe in Massachusetts.

What was Santa thinking?!?

Hmmm...maybe the giant bag of multi-colored rubber bands wasn't such a good idea.

Day 33

Mom & Jack completed the 550 piece Tooniverse puzzle!