Spring is here (and it’s almost hockey playoff time)!

Every day Jake is more boy and less baby. He’s really got the hang of walking and moving on to throwing, running, jumping, and climbing (still no major spills yet but I’m sure they’re coming). He’s also very chatty. It’s a bit of a Polish/English mix - some of his favorites: lampa (Polish for lamp), locopati (mechanical things like trains, airplanes and helicopters), lapu (laptop - he already has his dad’s technojoy), acobaco (a disjointed version of avocado), up (though he thinks that up means up and up also means down), ball (he also understands the Polish, piłka), apple, ahbeeseh (ABC as a Polish and English mish-mash), autobus and schoolbus (complete with the hissing noise NYC buses make when they open their doors), koparka (backhoe - a favorite in picture books and he’s very good at finding them on the street). We also seem to be quite the disciplinarians in his eyes because he’ll launch into little conversations with himself - blah blah blah no blah no blah blah blah no blah blah no.

Jolly Jake is a year-and-a-half.