My Big Boys

My big boy has already started preschool! He just finished his first week- which is really only two days a week, for two hours each. He's in the 3 year old class at the Northglenn Rec Center, and I mainly put him in there since the teacher is my friend Beth. And it's also cheap, had the morning times that I like, and I can pay per month so it's easy to sign up and get in.

Jacob has been so excited for preschool and he really feels like a big boy!

Here was him running in on the first day because he was so excited to get there. He jumped right in and started playing while they gave the parents a quick orientation.

When it was time for Blake and I to leave Jacob said he wanted to come home with me, but I talked with him and told him I'd be back to pick him up soon and then he was fine. Beth said he and all the kids did really well, and Jacob was much calmer than she's seen him before and he'd even raise his hand and was very polite.

I'm so glad he's had a good first week, he loves going to school! And I enjoy having a two hour break to take care of errands and just spend time with Blake.

It's been awhile since I've updated on these two. Blake is 14.5 months, still not walking, but starting to talk in his own way. As soon as we got back from our vacation, he started saying "car", "ball", "bye bye" while waving, and will pick up a phone and say "ha" like hi. So these words, along with saying all our names, shaking his head no,  and squealing and whining- we understand him pretty well.  

He likes to eat big boy foods, especially whatever we're eating, and he likes to try feeding himself with a spoon or fork. He's still a really picky eater, but when all else fails: cereal. Just like his brother.

Jacob has been a real big boy lately! We have been working forever on getting him to go #2 in the toilet (he prefers to just go in his diaper first thing in the morning or at night when he has a diaper on for bed). But on our anniversary, his gift to us was going #2 in the toilet all on his own. So since then we've been working hard on breaking this habit since he now seems ready, and so it seemed a good time to introduce him to his new big boy bike.

A friend actually gave this to me in the beginning of summer and we stuck it in Luke's trunk and forgot about it since it needed new tires. But since he was trying to be a big boy we got the bike fixed and gave it to him- he was very excited! He loves to practice riding and is still trying to master pedaling while watching where he's going.

 He's also been practicing a lot of baseball with us in the backyard and has gotten really good at hitting the ball!It's been fun watching him learn lots of new big boy things.

And the gap is getting closer between these two as Blake is able to do more and more with Jacob. We just need to get Blake up on his feet and walking, but these two are so fun when they play and laugh together. Here they were resting with each other outside and Jacob stroked Blake's hair and told Blake how much he loved him and that Blake was his best friend. It was so sweet!

My two crazy boys are getting so big!