Growing Up Fast...

This morning I was looking back on some of his baby photos and I realize how much he has grown this year. It's going too fast! Jake is 17 months old now. He sleeps in a toddler bed. He gets up a lot of the time and it takes us about 1 hour to actually get to sleep. He's doing well though. His vocabulary has increased tremendously over the past 2 weeks. He had added, where'd it go, what's that, eat, out, down, bird, tree, clouds, mimi, mine, pa-paw (Kenny's grandpa), bath, flower, spider and so much more. I think he can probably say 30-40 words. He counts to two, tries to sing his ABC's (he gets to C), he knows yellow and blue. He knows his ear, eye, nose, tootsies, belly button, ear, mouth and hair (we're working on hands and knees). Potty training is not the greatest, my fault. We stay so busy on my days off that I have to put him in a diaper part of the day, plus daycare doesn't have a potty chair and he's too little to get on the big potty. But he'll go if I ask him to. He's really defiant right now. He screams "NO!" at me all the time. I have had to spank him pretty regularly and now he hits really bad, so we've stopped spanking and now use a lot of timeout. I hope this phase passes soon! He loves to give kisses and it's those moments that keep him on my good side. We really miss our family, I hope that you guys enjoy the pictures and feel like you're part of his childhood.