16 months

today, my not so little boy, turned 16 months old. he is a wild, but sweet little boy. jake is constantly into everything. (in a teacher's words....he's very busy....a busy body.) one minute he's in the kitchen pulling out all the tupperware, measuring cups, or pots and pans. the next minute he's in the living room pulling out all his toys. then before you know it, he's somewhere else in the house pulling something out making yet another mess. i've finally learned to just leave it all and clean it up when he takes a nap. i've learned to sit back and enjoy this time with jake rather than trying to keep a clean house. while we are doing all this playing and making all these messes, jake is constantly laughing. if you are sitting on the couch, he will try to push you off and when you "fall" off the couch, he laughs and laughs. he also thinks it's funny when one of his toy cars run over our feet. jake also likes to trick us. he'll offer us a bite of his food and then quickly take it away and eat it himself. he laughs at that too.

jake weighs 26 lbs. and 11 oz. he's probably around 33 inches long. we went to get jake a new pair of shoes from stride rite because his other shoes were getting too small. jake needed a 6 double wide shoe. the lady in the store thought jake was 2 years old. when i corrected her and told her he was only 15 months (at that time), she couldn't believe how big he was. we just laughed it off and joked that we definitely have a football player on our hands. jake goes through these stages of eating and drinking. one day he'll eat non-stop and another day he'll drink non-stop. then, of course, there are those days where he won't really eat or drink. his favorite foods right now are mixed berry yogurt, yogurt bites, bananas, cheese puffs, rice and gravy, blueberry waffles with syrup, and pringles multigrain chips. we also went and got jake his third haircut. his hair grows so fast!

jake is also very smart! (i know....every mom says that about her child) jake is very observant. he knows how to turn on the t.v. and then turn it to the aux. channel to watch his sesame street sing along dvd (which is what you have to watch if you plan on coming over to our house). we've even had to try to hide the remotes. as you can see below, that didn't work. see? i told you he's observant and smart.

when we read his ABC book, i always ask him "where is the ___?" he can correctly point to the baby, ball, banana, bus, kitty, puppy, and keys. he also has a musical book. there is a picture under the flaps in this book that matches a sound button on the side of the book. jake matches the pictures and pushes the correct button. some of his new words are:

keees - keys

nana - banana

pee-pee - pee pee

peeese - please

WOW - wow (he drags that one out....it's really cute)

jake is growing up so quickly. before i know it, he's gonna be 2! i'm so fortunate to be able to spend the summer with my sweet boy! i certainly LOVE every minute of it.