14 months!

Although it's not an official update, I thought I'd just post a few recent pictures of Jacob over the past couple of weeks. He sure is growing up; he's hardly my little baby any more!


He's still pretty cautious when it comes to steps. He still does all steps backwards unless I am holding his hand. (That's why we wear pants at the park--I put these on over his shorts!) He also still loves to swing, but I think he'd rather be exploring around the park or chasing bigger kids.





After the park sometimes we come home and eat Popsicles. This day was pretty hot, so we ate them outside. He loved eating them, although I think he thought it was funnier to put his Popsicle in MY mouth!



He also LOVES toothbrushes. I brought one in the car for him to play with, but I'm not sure how the other one got in there, too!



The other night he fell asleep on the way home from the dollar store. He's starting to only take one nap during the day, and apparently he was pretty tired (it's a seven-minute drive home!).

A few cute videos:


If you listen REALLY carefully, it sounds like he is saying, "Hi, Dada" on the phone...





Jacob LOVES dancing and music...I guess he takes after me!




I call this one "Too Fat to Fit." Sorry about the frontal nudity but I thought it was so funny. It's like he thought if he removed the clothes from the chair he could fit?!?

Fall(ing)!

Now that Jacob walks very well (and since the weather cooled down to play outside), I have finally let Jacob play in the backyard and go to the park. He LOVES walking around outside, but he definitely needs to learn to hold my hand when I tell him to. He HATES to walk next to me or go in the direction I am walking. I see some discipline in his near future!

Anyway, here are some pictures of Jacob exploring the world outside our little townhouse!


He had a little bit of trouble going from the cement to the bark--but he figured it out. That's all the backyard is--cement and bark, plus a willow tree that I am trying to get them to remove because it is leaning on the fence and covering a large part of the backyard.

He LOVES playing ball. He's pretty good and throwing it, and then he'll chase it down to throw again. He rarely waits for me to roll it back to him.



It was also a challenge to get from outside to inside. He learned pretty quickly how to do it, though, and if I let him he'll do it like five times in a row!



We also have a park about ten minutes walking distance from our house. It's a great walk for me and he really enjoys it! I do make him wear long pants, though, because he still falls sometimes and he has to crawl over big concrete steps, too. My camera ran out of batteries, so these are the only two pictures I was able to take.

Total Randomness...

A couple of weeks ago (9-26), Jacob got sick and threw up on the way to church all over himself and his carseat...I also found some in his crib! So, I called my sister Cindy (the nurse), and she said to give him popsicles. He had tasted them before, but he had never eaten one of the stick before. Here he is:

At first he thought it was very cold and wasn't quite sure what to do!

He also got a little confused as to which end to suck on!


He was very happy when it was all gone! I think it really made him feel better, and it made me feel better to know he had something to help him not get dehydrated!


Jacob is also trying out several Halloween ideas:


Surfer Boy....


Toilet Bowl Boy...


and Veggie Boy, who encourages children to eat their veggies!
(He'll only do this one if his parents go as Larry the Cucumber and Barb the Tomato!)



However, I think we'll just settle for him being Jacob, Daddy's Boy!

The best thing since sliced bread...

is actually still sliced bread!

Yesterday, Jacob went into the fridge, pulled out the loaf of bread, opened it up, and took out several pieces of bread. I quickly went to clean it up, but he held onto one piece--the butt end! I decided to see what he'd do with it. Here are several pictures of a little boy's journey holding a piece of bread (and eating it!).



First he walked down the hall toward the family room..


and started eating the bread.


Then he took the bread into the garage to follow his dad.


Then he went back into the house and decided to climb onto his lion toy and sit backwards to eat his new grainy friend.


Finally, the bread was left behind on the couch and several crumbs on the floor! It was a pretty funny ten minutes or so for me. What can I say? I don't get out much...