Jacob now has 12 teeth including 4 molars, one at each corner of his mouth. His mouth, flat chin and two slightly crocked front teeth come straight from daddy. Above the mouth he’s pretty much a mirror image of mommy. It’s funny to see someone who has similar looks as yourself.
Jacob is constantly practicing his jumps and trying to say new words. He said his first Spanish word, otro, another way of saying his favorite word ‘more’. More words Jacob has been saying: baby, banana, up, balloon, woof (…referring to a dog), pee-pee (at the potty), da-da, ma-ma, milk (…although it sometimes come out sounds like ‘more’…don’t ask me how it can sound the same but it does), fruit, spoon, mee-mee (referring to pacifier, this is a word I use to reference sleep).
Jacob loves variety in his food and his passion is definitely fruit. At day care, his lunch initially doesn’t include all the complete fruit serving because that’s all he will eat. He loves bananas, strawberries, pears, grapes, watermelon, melon, honeydew, blueberries, etc. But he frequently has a different favorite fruit each day. Jacob has slowed down on his desire for avocados, so we’re taking a break and very sporadically adding it to his meals. Jacob is quite skilled at using a fork and spoon, and he loves eating his bowl of cereal with milk. Every evening Jacob now sits at his little white table next to the adult dinner table in the kitchen. He is already used to eating at a small table at day care, so he’s happy.
Jacob is doing well at day care. He still likes to be carried in and out, even though the other younger kids are walking by themselves in and out. Jacob knows the morning routine and loves to wash his hands upon arrival to his class, but he cries for a few minutes when daddy leaves. He’s a daddy’s boy and a mommy’s boy, and he likes to get his way. We experienced several evening tantrums during dinner, and we did our best to ignore the screaming.
The only challenge we’re concerned with at day care is a blond boy. They exchange shoves, and Jacob pushed the boy down by the face one day. But that blondie likes to bite – he bit Jacob twice and Jacob bit him once.
Jacob loves his nightly evening bath, but getting him dressed can be a battle. That little boy is strong. And he loves to try to get away. Unfortunately, one night he went so far across the master bed that I could not reach him and he fell off the bed. Poor baby, it was his first fall and he was scared so we hugged for a few minutes. But his diaper was not yet on, so I had to get back to dressing fairly quickly because I didn’t want to risk my bed to get wet.
