We love Jacob
Posted by Missy Roberts at 8:29 PM About Jake
Since our last post Jacob is doing much better. Since Sunday night, he hasn't woken up in the middle of the night to eat. YEAH!!! He still wakes up and cries when he can't find his pacifier, but once we find it (usually on the floor) and give it back to him, he is right back to sleep. Jake is crawling all over the place and he is FAST! He is climbing up on everything he can get his hands on. He loves to sit by the sliding glass door and tries to stand up by scaling the door. He is so funny. He has managed to do this a couple of times now. He pulls himself up on the couch and walks back and forth. He loves to move the rocking chair back and forth too. This morning I put the TV on and there was a Mickey Mouse cartoon on and Jacob crawled to the TV and stood up and stared. Of course I had to pull him off becasue he was too close to the TV and like my grandma always said, he's going to go cross-eyed...So I turned off the TV. He shouldn't really be watching right now anyway:) But it was cute to see that he was so amazed by it and Mickey Mouse.
8 months old and still no teeth. I really can see them, they just want to stay in the gums a little longer. I hope they come out soon. They don't seem to be bothering him this week and I hope it stays that way.
Jacob LOVES his Cheerios now. I think Friday was the first day he actually managed to put one in his mouth and chew. He asks (in his grunting sort of way) for more when there are no more on his tray. Today, he starting putting another one in his mouth before he was finished eating the first one...he is definitely his daddy's son. I had to stop him from doing that. So now I can only put one cheerio on his tray at a time otherwise I think he might put all of them in his mouth at the same time. He is also drinking his bottles better now
Jacob also drank some water out of a cup for the first time on Sunday. I think he really liked it. He felt like a big boy. We also tried giving him watermelon and he didn't like it, just like his Grandma.
Tomorrow we are going to have Jake's car seat installed by someone who knows what they are doing. They sure don't make those things easy to put in. The instructions are written in a different language. It's not easy to follow. Bill and I were laughing this weekend that two college educated people can't figure out how to install a car seat in the car. Oh well. We are hoping to get it in before we leave for Yosemite this Friday. Bill and I had some reservations about going camping with Jacob especially since he was a little pill last week. But he's back to normal now and we are really excited about taking him to Yosemite for the first time. He will be the youngest person in the Ulloa family to go to Yosemite. I can't wait to take a picture of all of us at the end of the tunnel. Monday morning Bill put Jacob in his bike seat and took him for a spin up and down the street. He looked so cute with his little helmet on. We can't wait to take him bike riding and of course take him to the famous "water hole" it's a Ulloa family tradition.
Well, I need to get back to packing for our big vacation. So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!