One and a half!

Jake turns 18 months old tomorrow. Or a year and a half. I think you should celebrate half birthdays until you're at least eight years old. So, we bought him a big Elmo balloon and I'm making him a coca-cola cake today.

He is growing so fast! He babbles constantly and still waves his arms around for emphasis which I think is so funny. He is starting to say a few words very clearly though. The best one is Brady. Everytime he sees the dog or a dog who looks similar it's "BRADY!" He does say puppy if the dog doesn't look like Brady. He also says kitty, train, shoe, bubble, mama, dada, juice, and Melmo (Elmo). He can name many body parts and point to them. On Wednesday we went to a friend's house for dinner and he pointed to his knee where he had a scrape and said "boo boo". But the best part was that then he bent over and kissed his own boo boo. Classic.

He is still a ball of energy and I'm guessing that's not going to change. He does have moments now though where he'll just chill out for a minute sitting in his chair or even just lay on the ground if he's really tired. We're still dealing with an apparently volatile temper on occasion. And I'm guessing that won't change for awhile either. Good thing his sweet times make up for the times where he's throwing things at our heads or hitting the sweet puppy and kitty. We love you Jakey!