Jakob lately...

One of Jakob's favorite things to do is make collections of things. He will go digging in his toy box and pull out every Toy Story character he owns and stack them all in a big pile on the floor. Lately I walk into a room and there's a row of toys, -kinda like his little farm animals all lined up-. He also takes all my hairclips from my bedroom and lines them all up on the arm of the rocking chair :) Jakey has a little dog named scout (it's from leap frog) and scout sings songs about Jakob, teaches Jakob how to spell his own name and teaches him animal sounds, etc. Well Jakob has one favorite song that scout sings, so he will push his little button over and over and over (skipping all the other songs) till he comes to that same song again. We love the way Jakob is choosing things he really loves and what he doesn't like so much. Jake's vocabulary is growing a little. He's still a pretty quiet guy, but he has learned to say "hey!" Whenever he grabs the wii remote and pauses a movie/show we're watching he'll look at me, smile and say "hey!" There is a small Bible -that his grandma got him at the hospital when he was first born- that has always been on his dresser and the other day I took it down and showed it to him and he loved it. Sometimes when he wakes up from his nap he will reach over to his dresser and say bah-boll. Lately it has been raining so much down here!!! I had no idea that when they said rainy season they really meant it. I mean we have rain/thunder/lightning just about every day. It feels like we live in the amazon or something! Jakob loves the rain. He will run around in it (when it's not lightning and say rain-rain-rain) He also has a Veggie Tales book that he will bring to me and say bob, wawwy (larry, -it's so cute to hear him say this-) and he will whisper (I think cause he's not sure if he's saying it right wau-wa (laura) while he points to the characters. So we don't have a ton of talking going on but he is saying a lot more variety of words these days. Anyways, that's just a small run down of what my little fella is up to lately. We are getting ready for his 2nd birthday on Saturday! I cannot believe he will be two. It's so funny because presents keep showing up via Fed Ex or UPS and he can see the picture on the front of the box and he's so happy, but then I hide them and he has forgotten about them. I think opening his presents this year is going to be very exciting :)