Here are more beach shots as promised!





As you can see, all Jacob wants to do these days is walk around. He even wakes up in the middle of the night hoping to get led around the apt by his arms. For him crawling is okay, but nothing beats the upright movement.



We thought the cold sand would bother him, but he loved sticking his feet in it and eventually his hands, too.

Mmmmm. Here he has some remnants at the very corners of his mouth of the delicious san he devoured (-I couldn't stand seeing his mouth full of grit, so you only get the aftermath. sorry!)

And this picture was the evening after we got back home. You'd think after a day of walking at the beach, playing in the sand, and hanging out with his friend Tavin, Jacob would want to take it easy. No way! Jacob wanted to cruise around on all furniture and objects at his eye level- so he did. And we just think this shirt (for 12-18 month olds- big baby!) is too "Berkeley" for words.

Beach Bound

We made an afternoon trip to the coast today and dipped our toes in Ocean Beach. After just a 30 minute jaunt through San Francisco, we arrived at our destination and Jacob was thrilled to see something other than the apartment and nearby parks.

Despite the frigid temperature, Jacob actually seemed to enjoy getting his feet wet and getting to 'walk' around with the sand between his toes. He also seemed to love the feeling of sand in his hands and taste of sand in his mouth. When I caught the little guy shoveling sand into his mouth, he wasn't upset by the taste or texture of sand, only the interruption I caused by attempting to remove the particles from his mouth and face.

These are our wonderful neighbors and friends, Sarah and Tavin, who helped make the beach outing a good time. Both little guys were troopers and some cute pictures were taken by many.

There are some more pictures to add, but the blog is being difficult and won't add them at the moment. I'll attempt again soon so stay tuned.

"Who needs sleep, well you're never gonna get it..."

Here we are with a 7 1/2 month old who puts newborn babies to shame for wakefulnes during the night. No kidding at all. For the past two nights, Jacob has woken not just every 1 1/2 hours, but there's also a 2-hour block in the middle of the night where he just wakes up to stand, jump, kick, and babble in his crib. It'd be cute if it were during the day....but it isn't.

Any suggestions? Truly, we really could all use more than 1 1/2 hours of sleep at a time! (And then he won't nap because he's too happy and wants to touch, taste, pull himself up on everything!)

We're of the belief that because he's pulling himself up with no trouble and picking up speed with his crawling, that the boy just can't sleep due to excitement about mobility. That and intense teething (which we're pretty sure is a huge culprit in the not sleeping issue). He's working on getting his second tooth. That's right, tooth #2 because his first one cut through during this past week! (The front bottom two) We often ask ourselves where our baby has gone cause this boy is some kind of little kid now. He's babbling all the time mainly with the 'baba', 'mama', ocassionally a 'dada' sound, and responds with vocal glee (and sounds similar) to "yay" and "hi".

Just wanted to post the most recent developments...but we feel like at his current rate of growing up, he'll probably be conversing with us next week while riding his bicycle. Or maybe sleeping every once and awhile. That'd be nice......

For now, enjoy pictures of Jacob with his grandma (and corn cob) and grandpa along with an updated video of his crawling.

Crawling bebe!

So, tonight Jacob made his way across the floor on his hands and knees. We're gonna call it crawling though he looked like a wiggly worm. As he gets the hang of it, I'm curious to see what his crawl progresses to....but needless to say, things are certainly about to change around here with a crawling babe! Here's some footage of his worn-out efforts to get to the technology at hand: the laptop.

7 months old

Seven months old and our little boy is just as mischievous as we'd hope and close to becoming a full blown "hand full"- in the best of ways.

--Well, actually, the boy weighs 19 pounds 9 ounces ( a week ago), so he's already 2 armfuls plus some...
Fittingly, he still has yet to outright dislike or refuse a new food and he currently has added avocado, prune, banana, and pear to his repertoire.

We believe he gave up on teething. After some days of obvious discomfort and disrupted sleep, he returned to his non-teething self and just bites a little harder on toys and fingers. Go figure.

Jacob is getting really close to independent mobility with backward crawling and he can bounce / rock himself in forward crawling motion, but collapses to his belly to roll somewhere faster.
Recently, we added a guest bed to our bitty apartment, which relocated Jacob's crib across the room. (So please please come visit! It's a queen bed and tres comfortable!) While in the process of moving things, we placed Jacob in his crib only to discover him gripping and gnawing on the crib bar in full standing position. Needless to say, he was proud of himself and did a little happy jig as we laughed and took pictures.
Currently Jacob has his grandma ruth and grandpa jeff out to visit him, so he's getting spoiled rotten. And he absolutely is having a blast. :) Much love to all!