Wow!

Jacob has learned so much in the past couple days. On Sept 18, he pulled himself up for the first time! I've been helping him by holding my hands out and letting him grab on and pull up, but I was giving a little help when he needed it. We were sitting on the floor playing and he was facing me, between my legs. He leaned forward grabbed my shirt and was up in a second, like he'd been doing it forever. I was so proud of him. He's been trying to pull up on other things. but hasn't been very successful since.

Then on Spet 19, he started clapping. We were playing outside and mamma was holding him, she started saying pat-a-cake and he started clapping along. I had been practicing pat-a-cake with him for a few weeks. Now, when he gets happy or excited he claps his hands together. He is such a cutie! He's even been leaning forward and trying to get on all fours a lot lately. He always gets one leg stuck though, I'm sure he'll get the hang of it soon.

I'm starting back to class this week and it's killing me that I have to leave him. I'll be gone pretty late and there's a pretty good chance he'll be sleeping when I get home. He's getting so close to crawling, I'm afraid I'll miss his first time. I know it's good for him to get time away from Mommy and it's probably good for me to get time away too, but I just don't want to.