One of the things we want from this blog is a record of what our little munchkins are up to for us to look back on as time goes by. They change so much so often it is easy to forget all the fabulous little things they do. So where is Jacob at now?
He is a chatterbox! I love being able to chat to my little man - and he loves it to. He loves to ask 'Are you alright mummy? Your babies wiggling?' His speech is better by the day. recently he has started to use adjectives (with great expression) - everything is 'really amazing!' this month. Each night at dinner we recap our day and I love to see the bits which stick in his memory - things I had barely noticed mean so much to him. He loves to whisper and shout too. Like a parrot he repeats conversations between me and his Daddy in a big shout. As soon as he walks in the door he bellows 'Hello Mummy, you alright, we're back!'.
He is really changing how he plays now that he has language at his disposal. He likes to enter make believe worlds with his toys - farm animals and figures play, chat, fight, get told off, make up etc. It's an advantage that I am sitting around a lot, courtesy of a huge bump, that I get to sit and watch this fabulous insight into his world. I made him a felt play mat recently for his farm animals, but he uses it with all his toys - like his Happyland ELC sets. I loved watching him make the dogs go splashing through the pond and get told off the other day!
He is great at jigsaws now. He used to need a lot of input to put pieces in the right place (anywhere would do for a while). But now he looks at the bits of the picture and figures out which bits go together. He can do 6 piece ones on his own now. I was also really surprised to find he could thread buttons on a string. The first couple took a lot of concentration and attempts (grunting Nicol style!) but he picked it up so quickly and threaded a huge long string. He was very proud and pulled it around calling it his Caterpillar!
Jacob has some favourite books at the minute. He loves Jez Alborough, especially 'Where's My Teddy?'. He almost knows it off by heart and if we read one line, he says the next. He likes us to read a book to him then we hear 'My read it' and he then 'reads' it back to us. I love hearing him remember and copy our intonation and he asks us questions about the pictures 'Can you see the parrot mummy?'. He also likes to read to his frog hand puppet and tell him all about the story. So cute! He has also become DVD obsessed (when we let him!) and loves Buzz Lightyear! He would watch them all the time but we watch them instead of TV so he doesn't watch any more - its just very repetitive - which appears to be what appeals about DVDs.
In a few years time I hope these updates will bring a big reminiscent smile to our faces, and his!
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