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Halloween 2009

Big Boy Bodacious Beautiful Baby Baker is a Wee Willie Wallace who has a winning smile. He smiles more than any kid I've ever seen but he also can be a bad baby. He loves the left hip. Baker has been crawling for about 10 days and doing 3 point setting for over a week-- which is fanny in a setting position using one hand as support. On Halloween he sat straight up for the first time. Then today he pulled up and was standing all by himself when I picked he up

from school.

In the mean time Jack has entered the world of three year olds. He is a great little guy except when he is tired which is when he does his best Aunt Caroline imitation. Every day we have one of those 'out of the mouth of children stories'. The other day we went down the street to see our friend Clark who loves to shop. Jack said, "Clark's car is gone, Clark not home." When I said he was a work Jack corrected me by saying, "Clark not at work, he at Costco!" He was probably right.

Jack can spell Jack, car, go, Wallace, boy, baby and a few more I can't remember.

Halloween was a big day. We went to a well attended neighborhood party over on Stocker Drive. All the kids wore their costumes along with a few of the adults--Papa thought the guy with the yellow hair was a little weird. There were games for the kids along with pedicab rides by Papa Pedicabman. Later Jennifer manned the door while Papa and Dolly took Jack around the immediate neighborhood to Trick or Treat at some of our friends houses. Jack was a big hit in his monkey suit. Later Jennifer and Kim took Jack over to Chadwick for an impromptu book club meeting where the girls got a little thirsty. When the Jello Shots came out Jack had to come home where he begged too much candy off of Papa. Later when Baby Baker woke up for his 9:30 PM topping off Jennifer had to come home and the partying was all over. Life in the fast lane.

Now he's a three year old..

He'll be driving a car before you know it. Speaking of CARS we've passed excessive and gone into the realm of bizarre..in addition to the 30 of so he already owns he got about 15 more plus, a car DVD, car sheets, car pj's, car books, car cards and Mack the Car Carrier which hauls around the star of the whole show...Lightning McQueen.

At times this car thing becomes a nightmare particularly with all the inventory control problems. Sarge--the jeep--has been AWOL for about a week and the source of lots of speculation, questions and searches. Will it never end?

Jennifer took a 1/2 day off Friday, she and Dolly took Jack to the beach. After which the boy took a nice nap a woke just in time for the party which was attended by Clark, Dolly Jennifer, Baby Baker, Papa and Birthday Boy. We had pizza and birthday cake. Baker enjoyed helping Jack open presents and eating the cake that Papa fed him. Papa says Jack is growing up and guesses he'll only have yearly birthdays from now on, which is kind of sad particularly since the 2 and a half year old was so much fun.

On Saturday, Jack and Jennifer had a play date with Kelly and her children. Later on Jack and Papa watched the Car DVD and Birthday Boy got to stay up passed bedtime. On Sunday night everybody went to bed early to rest up for next year.

September 2009

Jack is becoming a really little man, he is almost 39" tall. We're almost potty trained so just when Papa figured out the diaper drill he had to start dealing with poop in the cup--will it never end? Mean time, Jack has figured out some fairly complicated stuff on his own without being taught. Anytime we do something out of the ordinary he want to know what's going on. So that if Papa and Jack go for a walk and his mom's car is gone when we get home he want to know where she has gone and will offer his own ideas such as, "Mommy gone to work?"

He can spell his name and other simple words like car. He has his letters down and knows capital letters from lower case. He know the differences between a tugboat, container ship, jet ski, that he crosses the Ashley River and Cooper River to go to Mimi's house and that Mimi lives in Mt. Pleasant and he lives in Charleston. His vocabulary includes 'actually' and 'delicious'. When we go for a walk he says hello to Mr. Ted and the other neighbors. On walks he'll say, "Let's go left, Mimi!" and head in that direction. He runs so fast that Papa is in training to keep up.

Big boy beautiful baby Baker might be a little spoiled but that big smile of his makes up for when he fusses. He is a big strong baby who is about ready to start motoring around the house. Now that he is eating some solid food he sleeps good at night. He is so big it looks a little weird when he is nursing. Baker is about 28.5" tall.

This is a picture of Big Boy Baby Baker who is now 5 months old. He sleeps most of the night unless his mom is topping him off--he likes to eat. He is eating baby food and likes most foods except peas--really, who could eat of that stuff anyway without a little salt. His favorite thing to do is lay in Jack's bed when Jennifer reads books. He is also big on smiling, like to ride the BOB, play with Aunt Anne and ride in Papa's pedicab.

His big accomplishment to date was last night in the bath when he discovered his pee pee--he doesn't get a lot of time with it cause there is always the diaper. Mimi says he was looking for his feet--yeah right! This morning Jennifer walked in on him admiring himself in his crib mirror. Gotcha she said and startled him--then he went back to admiring himself.

This is one strong kid. You can hold him in a squat position and he'll extend his legs nearly jumping out of your arms and does this five or ten times. He'll be walk-in and talk-in before we know it.