Our boy is a talker, he loves babbling, and laughing. He's been reaching so many milestones here lately, I'm going to have a lot to post. Besides being 10 months and 25lbs, he's starting to crawl, well jacobs version.. Which is kind of a sit up... roll.. sit back up... crawl a little backwards.. and so on. He's so chunky, I'm sure you can imagine.. so it's pretty hard to hold himself up.. We also have a jumperoo that we've had since he was about 5 months that he is starting to enjoy, he jumps like it's going out of style. It has got to be one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Recently he's been saying da da like crazy, and sometimes screams it at the top of his lungs. Korey of course gets a kick out of it, because of course that is what he said first, out of mom & dad.
I thought when I first laid eyes on him that I could never love anything more, and I already do. With each and every smile, and chuckle I cannot help myself! He's just such a great little boy that continues to bless our lives as he grows. Sometimes I see little babies, and it's hard to remember him being that small again! He's just so full of sweetness, and curiousity.
Chelsea, my best friend finally got to meet Jacob! It was actually right around Mothers Day weekend. Nice present for me of course, it's been about a year since she was here last, and about a year and a half since she moved to Texas. I hate that she lives so far away, but it's awesome that she has the ability to visit at all. After all we enjoyed her, and I know Jacob did too. I don't think she realized how big he actually was. Even though we live so far apart, and can't talk as often, its as if we weren't seperated. She doesn't have children of her own, but is a live in nanny, which gave us more in common than I originally thought. She is basically a mom to these children, and can totally understand where I am coming from. She was able to catch up with my family too, which was wonderful. We visited with my aunt, and she was able to see the twins again, which were about three months the last time she was here, so they were much older now. But after a short weekof shopping, visiting, midnight talks, hair brushing sessions, and trying to convince her to stay, it was time to say goodbye. It was definately not easier than the last time, probably harder. Miss you Chels!
On another note.. Probably a more personal one, I can totally see why some moms are still nursing their children at two.. It has been one of the hardest things for me, not even Jacob anymore to give up. He's started formula, and at first he hated it, which made it even harder for me, I'm sure you can imagine. But now, he's doing well and wouldn't even care if I gave him a bottle instead of nursing him.
We also took his first trip, to Sea World. He loved all of the animals, and especially enjoyed the Shamu show at night with all of the lights.. He did sleep a lot of it too, we had this fan that cliped onto his stroller to keep him cool, and I'm thinking he loved it.He didn't fuss a bit. The drive wasn't too long, just three hours, and he did great. However when it came to sleeping somewhere different he wasn't so sure.. The first night he gave us a run for our money, and the next night he was so exhausted he just wanted to lay down! Jacob loved Mickey Mouse!! We took him to downtown Disney one night while in Orlando, and he kept acknowledging Mickey excitedly every statue we saw. It was so cute! His joy is so contageous!
As you can see he's growing into such a sweet little boy, and now we couldn't imagine life without him. It's hard to believe it's almost been a year!!
