Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Happy July 4th / JDP at 15 months


Jacob is officially 15 months old now. While he weighs the "textbook" amount, he is a bit shrimpy on the length...for us that means we have a bit longer before knobs and dials become a major issue- that is, only if he doesn't climb up somewhere!
Jacob at 15 months is still the rambuntious, curious, and hilarious kiddo he's been from the start (thank goodness!). He can now point out his or anyone's belly button, nose, eyes, mouth, and on occassion, point to his ears. He's able to understand most commands and chooses to follow most all of them except "come". "No" is also sometimes a game, but he just pushes boundaries rather than actually following through on the prohibited action.
He continues to eat like a champ and explore his taste buds as summer delivers delicious produce. Whenever in the presence of watermelon, Jacob feverishly begs for a taste using his signs for 'please', 'more', and 'eat'. And, of course, he tried hot dog on July 4th at the Green Pond parade and seemed to really dig in (not starting a habit there....yikes).
Green Pond has been good to him giving him the freedom to go swimming, play in the sand, chase squirrels, wave to everyone, go for wagon rides, run in the field, and spin in circles until he keels over. He's also getting spoiled with love from all of the Chell clan...fortunately, the love and giggles are mutually shared!

Here's some of the "wild life" in Green Pond encountered thus far:


Jacob playing air drums with uncle Josh

Devouring and washing down a hot dog with ketchup



A Pugh July 4th!






2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the watermellon picture. Those ears are too cute!

Big Red said...

nice hair, dan.
ashley, you're lovely as always.
jacob. 20 years. the end.