Uh-Oh!

Jake's full on walking now! Sometimes he gets ahead of himself and falls. He got his first true "walking wound" tonight. My mom was unloading groceries from the car and when she came back out to the driveway, she found Jake screaming and blood dripping from his forehead. We're really not sure how he fell because we didn't see it, but there was definitely blood, a BIG bump and LOTS of tears! Poor Jakey!

Other than that Jake is doing really well in school. They call him the class bully but that's probably because he's the biggest kid in his class. He's also the class greeter. He squeals "hi!!" and waves whenever anyone comes in his classroom. When my mom picks us up in the evening before leaving, Jake likes to go around and wave good-bye to everyone. My mom has changed our pick-up routine a bit. She used to get Jake first then they would come get me. But, Jake loves my classroom a little too much. He's set out to destroy my classroom and then we have to make stops at the sink, the water fountain, etc and it was taking too long to get out of there. So now, my mom picks me up first and then we go get Jake.

Only a few more days until Thanksgiving! We are going to our cousins, the Tows' this year. Great aunt Sue will be there too. It will be nice to stay in town, yet go to someone else's house for Thanksgiving:) We've been talking about Thanksiving at school for a couple of weeks now. Last Friday we had a family feast. My mom came and ate lunch with me and all the kids sang turkey songs. It was fun and cute. My favorite was the pumpkin pie! We hope that everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Here's a picture of Jakey and his bloody forehead:(

Also, here's a video of Jakey walking now. It was hard to capture his first steps. In most aspects, Jake and I have been very different since birth. Jake crawled earlier than me but I walked before him. Also, when I started taking steps..within a week I was full on walking. Jake has been taking steps for several months and really gradually went to full on walking. Over the last month, everyday, he seemed to walk a little more. It's really hard to say when he "officially" started walking. We say that he started walking when he was walking more than he was crawling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip2-rbVKAec