18 months old!!!

Jacob turned 18 months old- yesterday! He is such a big boy now-- perhaps due to a fabulous new haircut. My friend Jacqueline came over and gave him a new do-- a Mohawk. Jacob is talking quite a bit now. He repeats everything that we say and is starting to combine more two and three word sentences. He will say "Mommy siadaj"(sit dow), "Dziadzius nie ma buty" (grandpa doesn't have shoes), "Daddy spi" (sleeping) or "Daddy w pracy" (at work) - whenever Daddy is not there to play or read him a story, "Daj playdough" (give me), "Mommy daj reke" (give me your hand), "tutaj" (here). Kuba can answer four questions; "what is your name?"- response Kuba, "how old are you?" - response one, and "where do you live?"-response "boston". Also, we taught him "who is the U.S. president?"- response "Obama". Jacob knows all the entire alphabet- in random order. Now he is eagerly learning colors. It's great! He understands simple commands and and is very helpful around the house (in his own non-helpful cute way:) Jacob is into projects now- he is quiet the artist- painting, drawing, playdough. He will actually sit at the table for extended period of time (30 min) and be completely occupied. It's enough time for me to make some dinner.

A few days ago I had a Christmas Party for the Kids at my place. I didn't even have a chance to take any pics- yeah I know:( The kids had such a fantastic time. We have a beautiful Christmas Tree standing at 6 feet tall with all of the glass ornaments. Jacob is interested in the tree but has

not taken all of the ornaments down-- only the low hanging unbreakable ones.

We have done so much this month that it's hard to remember it all. We went to see Santa at St. Brendan's Church on Dec 7th-- well it didn't go over so well-- Jacob was clinging to me and cried. Babcia came with us and was able to take a few pictures. So, the consensus is that he does not like the white haired dude. He liked his present though -- car tracks and changeable cars.

We have been to playgroups at the library, craft workshops, stellabella toy singalong, a puppet show at the Brookline puppet showplace theater with Danielle and Thomas, sledding with Adrian and Izabelle, and lots and lots of Christmas shopping. Most of the time we dropped Kuba off at Babcia and Dziadzio and went shopping on our own. He usually gives us a big kiss goodbye and says "bye Mommy" "bye Daddy" and he off to get his toys.