Family

It's ben a little while since I wrote about Jacob. He's about 20 months old now.

For awhile, he was on a whole hugging spree. He wanted to hug anything happy. It could be me, a stuffed animal, a rock, or even a book. To hug something, Jacob holds it up to his cheek, leans his head over onto it, and says "Awwww". Very cute!

Then he started saying "hi" to things. He'd greet people, toys, rocks... Seeing a pattern here?

Lately he likes to say "bye". He gets a big smile when he says bye to someone and they wave and say bye back to him. As I leave for work in the morning (on the days when I don't take him to daycare), I'll say bye to Jacob. He will keep saying bye to me, smiling all the while, as long as he can.

Last weekend, we had some heavy rains here. I had the idea that Jacob would love to play in the water puddles left on our driveway. Terah wasn't so sure, but we got Jacob dressed in old clothes and took him outside. He loved to run through the puddles, splashing water as high as he could, cackling the whole time. Then I showed him how he could throw a rock into a puddle and make it splash. So, he would run through a puddle, then carefully select a rock, run to the next puddle, throw the rock in, splash through, and repeat. He'd always want the rock first.

I knew when he was done playing because he said "bye" to the water puddles.

It's been awhile since I wrote about Jacob, who is 1.5 years old now.

He loves to give hugs lately. He'll walk up to one of us, wrap his arms around our legs, and go "Awww." Jacob's hugs always have sound effects, and it's always "Awww". He also hugs his stuffed animals, other people, or even a book with a picture of a dog on it.

He also has really gotten into saying "hi" and "bye". He likes to wave goodbye to me when I leave in the morning, and sometimes gets a big smile and says "bye" along with it. Yesterday he was picking dandelions from our lawn, and carrying them around. Finally he dropped them on the ground, and said "bye" and waved goodbye to them.

Jacob also really wishes he could jump by himself. He likes it when I hold him and jump. He tries to jump, but just can't quite get the hang of it yet.