Big boy tub:)
Posted by Missy Roberts at 11:47 PM About Jake
So what has Jacob been up to this week? Well the fan in his room looks great. It is so cute, the base of it looks like a home plate with a catcher's mit holding a ball (the light) and the blades of the fan are in the shape of bats. Adorable. His room is so much cooler now at night. He is sleeping a lot better. He has been waking up between 5:30 and 6:30 in the morning and sometimes after he wakes up he will sleep for a few more hours after being nursed. This morning he woke up at 6:45 and played in his crib until 7am. Wow, that was nice!
Today Jacob took a bath in the big tub. He LOVED it. We got him some toys to play with and he was so interested in grabbing all of them. He was so cute. We got a chair for him (thanks Auntie Jenn for the suggestion of the chair). It's great. He can sit in the tub and play with his toys without me having to worry about him slipping all over the place. I was able to bath him rather quickly while he played away. we let him play for a little bit before we took him out. I think he was a little sad when he got out. but at least we know he will love bath time and we will too, getting a little less wet than before:)
This weekend we are babysitting (and yes, it's babysitting, not dogsitting) Harley. Jacob is really starting to like him. Harley got a haircut so that Jacob won't be as tempted to pull his hair. This afternoon we sat Jake on the floor and let Harley go up to him. Jake got a big smile on his face, Harley however, is a little reluctant to approach Jake. I think he remembers that he's the one who pulls out hair:)
Jacob is still not crawling, but he is really close. he is getting really good at being on his hands and knees and rocking back and forth, but no movement from that position. He is really good at moving around though. I'm not quite sure how he does it, but his is pretty quick about it. He like so sit on the floor and play with one of his stuffed balls. His favorite is a big baseball that makes noise when you move it. He will roll it around for a while and tries to get it when it gets out of his reach. MOst of the time he'll get it, but he can't get back to the sitting position from his tummy yet, so mommy has to help him so he can continue playing with the ball.
He is getting a lot better about drinking from the bottle now. He no longer fusses when you give him the bottle and now he is taking different kinds of bottles. Which is great for us because using the other bottles was a bit difficult because you had to use different bottle to mix the formula in, which made for a lot of bottles to clean throughout the day. Now he takes the drop ins so there is less clean up for mommy:) yippee! He is starting to eat a little more solids. The other day he was especially hungry and ate two containers of veggies at lunch time. Today I tried giving him some sweet potato puffs to see how he would react to them. They are these puffs of sweet potato that melt in your mouth and are quite tasty. Anyway, he's not quite ready for those yet. I put a couple on his high chair table to see what he would do with them. He grabbed one and stuck it in his fist, but never brought it to his mouth. I broke one in half (even though they are already pretty small) and put it up to his mouth and he DID NOT LIKE IT. The look on his face was priceless. I don't think he was used to the texture. That's okay, we'll try again in about a week.
We finally got Jacob's birth certificate this week. I can't believe I took so long to get it. So we know he's offical with the county. We needed it for his medical insurance. They were about to cut him off! That would not have been good!
Alright, time for me to hit the sack. so until next time...mommy and daddy love you!