7 1/2 months

I love this age. Really I do. Jacob is no longer a tiny infant who eats, sleeps and poops. His little personality is starting to show itself and I must say, I love it. He is the happiest little guy and so determined in his endeavors . . . which include putting everything in his mouth, hanging out with me in the middle of the night, crawling, and playing with his daddy and sisters.

We've had some big milestones lately. Jacob's first tooth arrived last week and he's started to sleep through the night, but not consistently yet. He still thinks that he should be able to hang out with me at 3am. Lately, he's just had to cry. It breaks my heart, but it's time for a full night's sleep for all of us. He's trying to very hard to crawl. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks and rocks and rocks. In the past few days, he's gotten a hand or a leg to move, but he hasn't figured out quite how to move them all together.

Jacob loves his sisters. When they come home from school or walk in the room, he gets so excited. He does this cute thing where he puts his nose in the air, scrunches up his face and does an Ernie (from Sesame Street) type of laugh. It's priceless. He also has one word do far. Da da:) I'm not sure he connects that word with Nate yet, but we're working on that. Enjoy a few recent pics of Jacob!

Abby and Jacob playing on the floor.

Abby teaching Jacob how to watch TV.

Can you see the tooth? Bottom right. It's our first one!

Trying so hard to crawl:)