BeBa

HM (age 11) wrote this spontaneously this afternoon (when she was supposed to be doing math homework).

No wonder it was taking so damn long to finish the assignment!

But I could hardly be frustrated with her when she wrote this awesome little baby book memento.

Jake rolled his toy eggshell, fascinated. Not for much longer, though. He soon walked over to his highchair, and played with the straps. Again, not for long. He soon decided that stretching out his onezie was much more interesting than the other two, but not for less than a minute.

Jackson, usually known as Jake was an often-distracted baby. Shoes, clothes, and toys fascinated him as far as inanimate objects. But when it came to family, Jake loved his whole family a lot. When it came to animals, Jake loved them all — at least the ones he could pet. Although he was small for his age of fifteen months, he could get into many places and make a mess anywhere, be it small or large.

Although it may seem that Jake can’t play with anyone or anything for less than a minute, this isn’t true. Jake will play with many things for quite a bit of time, until the person he was playing with left, or whatever he was playing with taken away; or he put, or threw, whatever it was into a hard-to-reach spot. And, of course, he became bored and wanted to play a different game.

After more playing and a little fussing, Jake was placed into his highchair with a graham cracker and his water. He crushed the graham cracker and threw the water on the floor. Then, he began to laugh. I guess that’s what babies do.

After making such a mess, I took him out of his highchair and he began to play again, zooming off with toys, wrestling with Bailey’s toy bear, things like that.

But, not only is Jake an active baby who loves his toys (he is digging in his toy box as I write this! ;P) he is a great listener. For example, when he threw his cup on the ground it went under the bench. A little while afterward, he wanted the cup. Mom told him to go look around his highchair. So he walked up to his highchair and began looking at it. I got his attention and pointed under the bench and told him his cup was under there. So he went under and grabbed it! I guess Jake knows more than we give him credit for. . .