"Hi!"

Jacob's vocabulary has grown by leaps and bounds this week! He's extended his first word, "cat" into "kitty-cat" which he says all the time. He loves chasing our cats around the house and he loves to pet them too. He's also added "up" and "kiss" and his newest favorite, "hi" to his vocabulary. After saying "hi" to him twenty times a day since the day he was born, he's started saying it back. Now he says it whenever I come into his room at night. It melts my heart. Here's a picture of us at the Baltimore Pride Parade.

Jacob continues to make progress with walking. He actually loves to walk all over, but still insists on holding on to something or someone. We're hoping he'll soon get tired of needing us to get from here to there and will just take some steps on his own. Here's a couple of videos:

More Adventures in Feeding Myself

The stats are as follows from Jacob's 15 month check up - 30.5 inches tall, 23 lbs and 2 oz. (I could have sworn he was at least 25 lbs!) He's only gained about a pound since his birthday, but he's grown about 3 inches if my memory serves me right.

Okay, today's pictures are going to be backwards, but they are all from the last couple of weeks, so no big deal. The warm spring days have given us a lot of opportunity to play outside. We've been spending a lot of time at our favorite playground. Today we went to Honfest. Jacob really enjoyed himself and even wore Caroline's Orioles cap for a while. It got him a lot of looks.


Jacob's fork and spoon skills are getting really good. Unfortunately, he's still not great with feeding himself yogurt and things like that. This leads to often frustrating mealtimes with foods that still have to be fed to him. Sometimes we abandon it and go for the finger foods he feeds himself. The result can be seen below. That's Jake after a half of avocado, self-fed.

Our flowers are blooming on the front lawn. This was just a perfect picture of playtime in the late afternoon.

Caroline is back at Community Mediation one day a week and we couldn't stay away. We went to visit Mama last Friday and Jacob was fascinated with the view.

Here we are at our favorite playground. Here's Mama and Jacob on the see-saw...

... and me and Jacob going down the slide.

Recently, we had an opportunity to visit North Point Park with our friends Amy and Scott. It was a very lovely park and we had a great time. Scott carried Jacob all around and gave Caroline and I a much needed break. Jacob really enjoyed himself and so did we!

Well, that's all for now. Sorry I haven't been able to keep up with the blog. I will definitely make it once a month but still try for once a week. Last bit of news, Jacob is teething again! This time it's his canines. I hope they go better than his molars!