Sunday, September 12, 2010

Jacob is now Officially 1 Year Old

We had a pretty low key day as a family yesterday for Jacob's birthday. We did head out to see a Mighty Machines display in the morning but I'll do a separate post for that!

Like I did on Logan's 1st birthday, I tried to get a picture of Jacob when he woke up. A couple things to note. Jacob does not stand on his own in his crib yet. Actually, he very rarely even sits up. So when I went in, I had to stand him up and then take the picture, he was not impressed.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"Please! Just get me out of here!"

It was a pretty typical day. We got up, had breakfast, Jacob took a nap. We went to the Mighty Machines thing. Came home, both boys took a nap and then we hung out at home and took a quick trip to the mall.

We did have another cake for dessert with dinner.

"Oh, cake. I LOVE cake!"

I think he had seriously had enough with the pictures!

Chowing down.

After dinner we opened a couple of presents.

With daddy's help. (Yes, I wrapped the gifts in newspaper. The kids don't notice at all!)

It's a book! Let's read it.

"Like this, right mom?"

Once he could see it, he was trying to grab the pieces through the box.

It took a while to get all the pieces out of the box. Jacob got tired of waiting so he went to play with something else. Here he is realizing that they're playing with his new toy, without him!

A couple (decent) attempts at a family photo...



A few facts about Jacob...

- He currently has 6 teeth...4 on top and 2 on the bottom
- He crawls but not on his hands and knees. He uses a commando type style to get around, and does so quite quickly.
- He would prefer to walk in ANY situation. He will happily walk holding onto someone hands FOREVER. When you pick him up and try to stop, he screams and throws his head back.
- He loves waving bye-bye...even to mommy. :(
- He doesn't sleep through the night but did sleep 9 hours in a row...ONCE.
- He loves his big brother. Sometimes Jacob gets impatient in his high chair and so Logan will often try to sing to him (Old MacDonald is currently the song of choice) which usually cheers him up.
- He loves to cuddle, especially when he first wakes up.
- He's a pretty good little eater turning his nose up at very few things.
- He still doesn't drink well from any source that isn't mommy. He's getting better at using a cup though, especially if there is juice in it.

In general, he's pretty awesome...but I could be a bit biased.

Happy Birthday little guy...you're growing up WAY too fast!

1 comment:

grandma said...

I think he is pretty awesome too - and I am not biased at all.