Wow, Jacob is 16 months old today. He is really becoming such a BOY! Oh, my goodness, where does he learn this stuff?!? I ask all the women in my mom's group and even my doctor, and you know what the answer I get is... "He's just a boy!" I'm going to have my work cut out for me! All the girls in our playdates are so patient and quiet. Jacob likes to run and get dirty and throw things and play hard and yell loud and climb up the slide and wants to explore everything and should I go on... And see the bruise on his forehead in the picture below, yeah, that's even self-inflicted and he thought that was funny. Scary! I was freaking out at that, and Nate just laughed at me, said "honey, he's a boy, get used to it." And Jacob is one curious little man, wants to see how things work, just like his daddy.
Jacob is now into spinning himself, of course it's difficult to get a picture of him doing this but it's hilarious to watch! He gets so dizzy afterward, here is a picture of him after spinning, trying to figure out how to stand up. And yes, I always make sure he is spinning where there is nothing hard he can fall on.
We bought this school bus for Jacob at Christmas time, he loves it! Thank goodness it doesn't sing "The Wheels on the Bus" or I would have the song stuck in my head forever... but he sticks the little people in there and has a blast with it all day.
We had a playdate today at a friend's house who has a playground right next door.
"Ah, mom, did you forget about me over here?"
On Sunday, my mom and I went and got manicures and pedicures (yes, we do this every 2 weeks)! But, when I got home, I saw this... Jacob and Nathan still in their pajamas on the couch watching football. Pretty cute.
"Hmmm... what do I want for lunch? PB & J please?"
My Connaway Boys
Jacob's new love... Legos! We have a bag of 80 Legos and let me tell you, I pick every single one up twice a day. Usually once during his nap and then at night. I finally hid them today, Jacob might like them, but mommy needed a break. Jacob will take the container out of the toy box, carry them over to me so I can unzip them and he laughs as he dumps them out... yeah, funny. But, he does play with them through the day (and so does mommy and daddy)!
Jacob has always been a fantastic sleeper! Slept through the night early on as an infant, had a few problems early on as teething began, but usually only waking up once a night. Over the last 2 weeks, Jacob is now sleeping A LOT! He is going to bed at 9:30 after bathtime, sleeping through the night and not getting up until 11:00 or NOON. Then he is wanting to take a nap about 3 hours later, still asleep by the time Nathan gets home from work. We are actually having to wake him up from his nap, and he goes down for bedtime just fine that evening. I am figuring this is just a growth spurt happening, but I started to get a little worried, so I called our doctor this evening. She was out of the office, but the nurse called back and assured me that this was normal... it was okay that he is sleeping 14 hours a night and then taking 4+ hour naps. So, if any mom's out there have experienced similar situations, please email me and let me know - because I am still a little freaked out!
Nate and I had a date night last weekend with some friends, Brian and Amy, it was a lot of fun! Thanks mom for watching Jacob!
Amy, Brian and Aidan got Jacob this fun toy, you match the different farm animals in the red barn and it sings fun songs. Jacob loves it! You can even mis-match the animals and it will start singing "you made a cow-pig or a horse-chicken" Jacob will laugh, but will feel pretty proud of himself when it sings "you made a match, look at what you did!" He carries the red barn around by the handle all day long - thanks guys!
Jacob is getting really good at playing ball, we have been practicing a lot, he even says ball. Also, thank you to Molly, Jeremy and Baby Hollis for Jacob's t-shirt, a gift from them while they were visiting from Hawaii.
On Tuesday, like most others, Jacob and I watched the Inauguration all day. He was so cute, I have several pictures of Jacob sitting in his pooh chair watching Obama give his speech and pictures of Jacob standing at the television just watching all the excitement! It was a very inspiring day for our family and we are proud to be Americans!
Since Christmas, Jacob has been playing with all his new toys, so his books haven't been noticed too much by him lately. Until now... this week, Jacob is all about his books! I have read each and every one of these books to him this week.
I liked this picture I took of Nathan, what a handsome man!
Jacob received a Christmas package from his Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa in CG, Oregon. It had this really-really cool zip-up sweatshirt in it. We had just watched the movie Wall-E and there is a picture of Wall-E that when you push it, he lights up and flashes. Jacob was enamored with him! And there were books for Jacob, one of them is First Words. It has a page of foods, which is Jake's favorite, he loves to point to the strawberries in particular for some reason. Thank you! 
