Big Boy Things

Sometimes I think that my little boys are going to stay babies and toddlers forever. Part of me wants them to stay that little forever! But their "big boy accomplishments" make life that much more exciting and rewarding.

Josh is now totally sitting on his own and can get back down on to his belly by himself when he wants to. He is crawling, albeit, an army low crawl of sorts. He gets his whole body into it and sort of looks like a confused worm at times, but boy can he make it quickly from one side of the room to the other. He has four teeth -- two big bottoms and two big top ones. Still a thumb-sucker at heart; he doesn't want anything to do with a pacifier (one less thing to worry about later). He is just getting over his first ear infection after a nasty cold but the little trooper still continued to sleep through the night! He is just about 18 1/2 pounds now ands 29 inches long... a bit chunkier than his big bro but just about as tall at the same age.

Jake is this walking and talking person now and blows me away every day with the words and phrases he is using. We're done with speech therapy as of the end of December -- he graduated since he was assessed at his correct age level. We came a long way from him being at 9-10 months verbally when he was 20 months old to be talking at a 28-30 month level at 28 months old!

And in other BIG Jake news, we're now "officially" potty training... pull-up training pants and the whole nine yards! He's been going pee pee on the potty for quite a while now (about 6 months) but he's going through the real deal now. It's great that preschool works with him Monday-Friday during the day! He is very encouraged to do it at school since most of the other kids in his classroom are potty training as well. We have 7 months to get him situated so he can move up to the 3 year old classroom in August!

Hopefully big things on the horizon for us at the end of this month. Keeping fingers crossed! (And no, that doesn't mean moving, getting pregnant, or anything with me changing jobs!!)