Little Helper

Jacob is turning into quite the little helper lately, and it so proud of it! He takes pride in throwing away his diapers (and it always has to be the same trash can in the basement - he will take a diaper that has been changed upstairs, carry it down the stairs, just to throw it away in the bathroom can), feeding the dog, swiffering the floor, filling up sippy cups (he takes them to a sink and stands there until someone comes to fill it up. Tonight at bedtime, he went into Matthew's room, found Matthew's cup, brought it to the kitchen sink to be filled, and took it back to Matthew, all without being asked to!). Here are some pictures of his helpfulness!




Other Jacob updates: He is really enjoying reading books. We have read to Matthew at bedtime ever since he was a little baby. Well, being the second child, we didn't really do that with Jacob - probably just out of exhaustion. We'd get to bedtime and just get him in bed as quickly as we could. Eventually, Jacob figured out that he was missing out - Matthew got to read and he didn't. He, very clearly, let us know his thoughts about it. He would point at his books and squeal, showing us he wanted to read. Eventually we'd ask, "Do you want to read some books?" and we get this little Jacob giggle and grin that he does to show us that we figured out what he was "saying". He is a little bit of a book snob. He strongly prefers Eric Carle books over anything else (author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar). He often pushes other books away until he gets the one he wants.
Jacob is also a very talented eater. He has recently mastered putting food on a fork and eating it, getting soup to his mouth on a spoon, and would like to think he's working on using a big boy cup.
Jacob is definitely not the talker that Matthew is (thank goodness, to be honest :) But he definitely can get his point across, at least to those of us that speak his language. The other day, though, he gave me a big hug and, very clearly, said, "I ya you."
He's a climbing machine - climbs on everything, and, really, does very well. He rarely falls, and when he does, usually doesn't care. He flipped off of Matthew's bed the other day and thought it was funny!
Think that's what he's up to for now...not much exciting to others, but to us, he makes us laugh everyday!