Look at this handsome boy!!! Notice the lack of drool on his chin? Sometimes photoshop is a good thing. He is quite the character and we all love him very much. He is constantly smiling and giggling and getting into trouble. He opens doors and takes stuff out and tries to climb in. Changing his diaper convinces us that there is some octopus blood in his DNA, he's always rolling over and trying to sit up. He insists on helping when I give the girls a bath, which mostly just gets him wet.
He and his daddy are buds, that's for sure. They speak the same language and make the same sad face with the crinkly eyes and pouty lip. At his 9 month check up he weighed just over 20 labs and I swear he weighs more every day. Definitely not my side of the family where we never get above 10th percentile. Oh, and Jake thinks everyone is funny.
This is his new favorite game, he begins to climb the stairs laughing and looking back to see if I'm chasing him to bring him back to the bottom, or even all the way into the living room to start over
again.
Just last week he started standing by himself. He's usually very serious about it until he starts pinwheeling his arms and falls down. He's also learning how to clap and how to reach for everything he can and pull it down. He's very like Sam in that way, and he talks…a lot. And just like Catherine he likes to feed the dog his food and eat her food. I think he considers it a fair trade. Jake is also a master of his walker. He is so good that the can make it move even when another small child is standing on it, and he's figured out, and is strong enough, to pick it up to go over the threshold between the kitchen tile and the carpet.
He's learning to clap and his favorite game is peek a boo. He just laughs and laughs!
I know he's looking forward to spring and playing outside. We were out for one day and he managed to find the mud spot and get his jeans all dirty. We put his walker on the deck, too, and now he looks longingly outside. I guess I do, too.
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