20 Months

Wow, Jacob has grown a lot this month! He is really starting to show his personality, and he is quite the goofy, mischievous little boy. As you can see in the video above, Jacob is now starting to climb all over. He loves climbing on the sofa, in particular, and we have had to block it off with chairs a few times to keep him from injuring himself. He is also starting to communicate what he wants (or doesn't want) much better. We have been doing more sign language with him, and this has really helped improve our communication. He now knows the signs for more, milk, food, bird, pig, sheep, help, and stop. With our next child, I want to start doing sign language a lot earlier since we have seen Jacob catch on and use it so much just in the past two months. He continues to slowly start to use his verbal language a bit more, and he has started trying to say names. He can now say the names of his cousins Ava and Asher, and he can say Abby (the sign language teacher), and Papa (Grandpa). We still notice him trying to say other new words, but he's still pretty inconsistent when it comes to saying them more than once.
The biggest change we have seen this month is in Jacob's sleeping habits. I am happy to say that it seems Jacob is finally sleeping through the night! He started doing this every few nights this month, but over the past 5 days or so he has been consistently sleeping all night. We still help him get to sleep, but this is not a big deal at all. I am just so happy that he has finally learned this skill and is able to get all the sleep he needs each night.
Jacob definitely looks more like a little boy now, and it is so fun to watch him act like a little boy rather than a baby. It's hard to believe that he'll be a 2 year old in just 4 months. Time sure does fly when you're having fun with such a little sweetheart!