Jacob Update
May 27th, 2008
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.
Categories: Family
I love the pic of Jacob. A handsome lad he is. I’ll bet you were a proud Papa on that day.
Our church does the same thing. I witnessed one in Lincoln once where the baby screamed for about two minutes while Mom and Dad passed him back and forth trying to find the right combination to quiet the little guy. While continuing with his message for the parents the preacher leaned forward and took the babe from their arms and he went silent immediately. It brought a lot of laughter.
On the post below, I love the recent advances in the banking. It’s nice to be able to see and do everything at the bank from home.
My oh my what a lovely little child. I loved 2195 he seems to be yelling…HEY! Thanks for these. Handsome, yes indeed.
John Goerzen Reply:
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:07 am
Yes, that was one of my favorites, too.
He was upset that we weren’t letting him eat the grass.
Another beautiful person for the world. I pray his parent’s smiles are as big as Jacob’s.
May you be blessed and may others be blessed by you.
“Awwww”.
Very cute.. ;-)