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Today marks the day Jacob took his first steps. I was home with the little man all day. When it was time for mommy to come home I brought him to the front window, which is low enough for him to stand and watch outside. Jennifer pulled into the garage and then came to the front door. This is usually my greeting because Jennifer gets home from work before me. However, today was mommy’s day and once she opened the door Jacob turned to her and took 3-4 steps into her arms! We were both shocked and we had him do it a few more times just to make sure he was actually walking. He will be one in less than two weeks and we can’t believe how fast the time flies.

Hopefully we can get a video in the next few days.

Update 4/9/09: He likes to walk to mommy and has waddled to her more than a few times. He finally walked to daddy tonight and we got it on camera.  You will have to excuse my outfit.

Jennifer and I have been going back and forth on where to put a play area for Jacob. Our house doesn’t have any spare square footage, but we wanted somewhere we can put him down and keep an eye on him while he entertains himself. We finally decided to give our breakfast room a makeover. We took the table out, put down foam alphabet floor tiles and gated the area off. Jacob loves crawling around and playing with all his toys in one spot and it’s right in the center of the house so we can watch him while we make dinner or clean up.

He DOES NOT like us to poke around his mouth, but after weeks of feeling his top two teeth we decided it was time to pry his mouth open and take a look at these new chompers.  They’re huge!  We are used to seeing his bottom two little teeth so it shocked us to see his big boy upper teeth.  Here is a pic of the nubs.  Please excuse the snotty nose, he’s getting over a cold.

Jacob's Front Teeth

Jacob started rolling from his back to his tummy the other day.

Here is Jacobi in his activity center. He’s a big boy!