He told me to "SH"

Yes, Jake has gotten quite the attitude these days. Only over the last week...maybe a little more has this attitude been poking it's way into our lives.

I will start with the the temper tantrums...WOW!!! These start so young...we were walking out of the nursery at church and I didn't want him to drag his blanket on the floor so I took it from him. That led to a full on melt down. He slowly sat himself on the floor, then laid down and started kicking his feet. It only lasted a minute or so, but still I couldn't believe that at 16 months this was already happening.

Then onto the he almost got a spanking....he was in the bath tub and decided it was fun to throw his toys out of the bath. I told him "no" once then he kept doing it so I said "no" again a little louder and he put his finger to his mouth and shushed me..."sh..sh" as he says. I couldn't believe this. I almost spanked him, but then just had to turn around because I was cracking up. How in the world do you parent when you find it so hilarious that your own son "shushed" you? It was really cute, but still totally attitude. Where did he get this from? I know we have been shushing lately when someone was sleeping or we needed to be quiet, but I never thought he would use it to shush me.

It is so much fun to see his little personality coming through...even in the defiant moments. I just had no idea they would come so young. I am hoping when the time really matters I will be able to get myself together and won't be laughing at the things he does when they can be disrespectful. But of course his shushing me really wasn't anything that needed a spanking...atleast for the time being.

Difference in a Steinke & a Nunnally

A Nunnally shares his ice cream...a Steinke has no problem eating his and the other being offered. Everyone knows Steinke's LOVE ice cream. Do you see Caleb's almost gone ice cream cone he is holding? Too cute!

1st hair cut

BEFORE

AFTERJake had his 1st hair cut on Wednesday. He is now officially a BIG boy and it really makes him look so big. He was growing a terrible looking mullet. So it was time to cut it off and say goodbye to looking like a baby. Jason said if I didn’t get it cut he was going to cut it himself. Well, I had been dreading the 1st hair cut, 1-because it would get rid of his baby look and 2-because of the way he has been with strangers touching him. BUT if you will remember from the last post I told you he has turned into Mr. Personality…it was mostly true for the hair cut too. When I 1st sat him down he started to cry a little, but I just kind of held him in the little airplane seat and then he was fine. Of course blankie and paci in hand the whole time and he looked like he was going to cry, but for the most part he was really good. He started to cry again when she was using the shaver, but after just a second or two he was fine with that too. He was such a BIG boy and we are so proud of him. He was even just content to hold the unopened lollipop…thank goodness we didn’t have to deal with that sticky mess. I would have let him eat it if he was crying and it made him stop, but he didn’t care. Our sweet baby looks so grown up. Here is a slide show of the whole hair cut process.

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Jumping

I figured it out...how to post a video. This video was taken with my regular camera not video camera. I couldn't figure out how to turn it so...I am sorry that I turned the camera, but just turn your head to see it straight. I will know for next time not to turn it. And be sure your volume is on so you can hear Jake saying "jump." Oh and he was shoving some food in his mouth right as I started to tape. At the end when he grabs his paci and then reaches out his hand he is reaching for his blankie. They go hand and hand...I didn't have the blankie, but ever time he gets one he reaches out for the other.

16 Months

WOW…16 months! Hmm…let’s see what new things Jake is doing these days.

Well of course the biggest news is he is WALKING!!! He started walking on Feb. 19th only a little over a week before his 16 month birthday. But now he is all over the place. It was really funny watching him learn how to get up by himself. The first couple of days he was only walking when he could pull himself up on something. Tuesday (feb. 24th) he tried all day to stand up on his own. It was so funny. He would get one foot on the ground, but the other leg was on his knee and he just couldn’t figure out how to get his foot out from underneath him. Then he would stand (downward dog…for you yoga people) legs straight and upper body bent over kind of like an upside down v shape. He would push up and fall backward onto his bottom. You could just see the determination on his face. He really wanted to do it and never gave up trying it again and again. He must have practiced in his sleep how to do it because he woke up Wed. morning and he had no problem standing on his own. He is now all over the place. We saw Austin, Tyler, & Caleb this weekend and they all just think it is so funny to see him walking. Jake has also started trying to jump. He can’t really do it, but he says “jump” and bends his knees. He thinks he is doing it and it is so cute!!! It might be one of my favorite things he does and I get him to do it all the time. TOO CUTE!!!

Speaking of words he says…hmm…what else is he saying lately? Oh one of his favorite things is to dip his food, he says “dip” (extra pronunciation on the P) same with when he says “jump.” I can’t think of any other new words he is saying. He says a ton of stuff. Oh he says “joosh” for juice. Which is funny because he only gets juice 1 day a week when we go to chick-fil-a on Thursdays after Bible study so I think it is funny that he says it when he doesn’t get it that often. He says “bafsh” for bath. And he LOVES to take a bath. You can’t even mention the word around him. When he hears it he goes straight to the gate at the stairs and keeps repeating the word until you take him upstairs to take a bath. Even the other day when Jason said “bathroom” he still thought he was supposed to take a bath. That might be all the new words he says this month.

He is still picky about food. Can’t get him to eat a vegetable to save my life, but I still give them to him twice a day. One day he will remember that he likes them…I hope. Every week it is different what he will and won’t eat. That is a lot of fun to keep up with. One thing never changes he will eat fruit no matter what type. He loves fruit so hopefully he is getting enough vitamins that way. Some days he likes meat some he doesn’t. He usually wants to eat what I am eating even if he has his own food and even some times when we are eating the exact same thing he would rather have mine.

This month Jake turned into Mr. Personality. He loves people now…not all the time, but way more then he used to. He is always waving to people as they pass by and he loves giving other kids/babies hugs. Not sure what made him decide that it was ok to talk to people he didn’t know, but over the last couple of weeks he has changed.

I suppose that is all for this month’s update! Hope you all are doing great!!!

March Snow

It is so hard to believe that only a few days ago Jake & I were outside playing with just a long sleeve shirt on…no need for a jacket it was in the mid 60’s.

Just 3 days later the weather has taken a turn to the terribly cold. By the end of this snowy day the temp was 22 degrees. I know all of you reading in the north are thinking big deal…but for Georgia that is a big deal. It covered every news station the entire day plus the whole week leading up to it. The fact that on March 1st we would have snow was all the news could talk about. And they were right. Sunday morning when we woke up it was 43 degrees and they were predicting snow. I told Jason they were crazy it was too warm. Well we headed off to church in the rain and by the time we got out of church it was sleeting which quickly turned into SNOW!!! We got about 1 to 2 inches of snow. But by Sunday night it was done snowing and the roads were pretty much dried up…the grass and houses were still covered. Jake had a great time playing in the snow and Jason & I enjoyed a short snowball fight. Jake did not want to come inside, but we were all wet and freezing. Thank goodness by this weekend it is going to be in the 70’s…keeping my fingers crossed that the 70’s stick around and we don’t see any more FREEZING cold days!!!

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Happy 80th Birthday

Already knows where to go for money

eating ice cream all by himself



Grandmother with all her grandchildren and great grandchildren

We celebrated my Grandmother’s 80th Birthday this weekend. The entire family went out to dinner and Jake loved eating. Here are some pictures of our celebration and messy Jake eating all by himself. He loved it!