Jacob Matthew

Jake is our busiest boy. He is always into everything!! We have to keep everything locked that we don't want him to get into. He is also a climber. If he wants something bad enough he will find a way to get is. Jake is almost 3. He really likes Elmo, cars and trucks, trains and pretty much anything that is boyish. He is a tough kid too. He can run into a wall, bounce off, get back up and keep running. He likes to pull the cushions off the couch, pull stuffing out of anything that has a hole in it, and breaks a lot of things. He colors on the walls, puts holes in the walls and does it so fast no one sees him do it. He looks up to his big brother Alex and will copy anything Alex does. He also watches out for his little brother, Spencer and tries to take care of him. He has fed
Spencer chocolate muffins and dum dum suckers, painted him with lotion and gives him toys to play with.
Here is Jake finger painting with lotion. Lotion was on the walls, table, lamp (the lamp was broken by Jake later), the couch and the rocking chair. I think he had some on the carpet as well. Jake usually does things on a large scale.
Jake has also tried to make breakfast on a few occations. He cracked eggs into a frying pan. It was a big mess.
He loves to be chased, which makes diaper changing and getting him dressed a challenge. I love to hear him laugh. He is usually pretty happy, which is nice, but he also has a temper on him and can be very stubborn. He has been a little slow to want to talk, but when he has a big brother who talks for him, why would he need to talk? He is saying so many more words now and he has even been counting and saying colors lately. This makes me very happy. It will be interesting to see how he is through the coming years.