Our Jaycer-Racer

These days Jayce keeps saying more and more, and he's being quite funny. For several months, he's loved shoes!!! We have a shoe basket, where we put our shoes when we come home, and Jayce loves to go get his and Jaeden's shoes when it's time to leave. He's very good at finding pairs and knowing who's shoes they are. Jayce also loves!!! to walk in everyone's shoes. This past Sunday was the first time he actually put on my church shoes though. Right after i took the pic he started jumping in the shoes....which leads to our next topic.

Obviously, he was already changed out of his church clothes, or the shoes would have matched the outfit much better!! :)

Besides, Jaycer-Racer, which has been a nickname from birth, he is now frequently called Hippity, Hippity-Hops, or Hoppity. I think Jayce spends most of his day jumping/hopping around the house than actually walking or running. He loves to bounce in a large circle around the living room. It's quite entertaining. And he's actually starting to get lots of height and/or distance with his jumps. Considering he was attempting to jump off the ottoman and coffee table(seen in top pic) around 15 months, when the attempt was just stepping off without fear and amazingly rarely falling. He has now successfully been jumping off the ottoman and coffee table for several months. Last month, he increased his height and started copying his brother by jumping off their kids table (and off the table not the side bench) and the couch, which is higher than the ottoman. He amazes us that he almost always lands on two feet.

As for Jayce's language skills, he is saying 3-4 words sentences much more often. He can say all of his body parts, but i recently figured out he still says eye for ear and eye. In the bath tub, while washing his hair, he always says, eye, eye, eye... which i though referred to the water in his eyes, but I've finally pieced together that he meant ear...and like his mother and brother, he hates water in his ear. So, keeping the water out of his ears has made for happier baths.

Jayce can also make the sound of every farm animal plus a few others...my favorites are his alligator noise.."chomp,chomp", elephant noise"eeeeee" with his arm raised in the air, and rooster "doo" although he tries to say something for cocka-doodle, but only the "doo" comes out. Last night, Joel asked Jayce what does daddy say, and jayce responded with "oink,oink" It was pretty funny.

Jayce watching his beloved Dora...it is still the only show he requests to watch...every morning!(Nov 08)

And last, Jayce is definitely in the terrible two stage. Everything is mine, mine, mine, or in his words, "My turn, My turn, My turn." No matter what it is, it is always his turn!!! Right after he finishes something, instantly he'll say "my turn" although Jaeden does get a turn. Jayce has improved a little about letting Jaeden have his turn, but there is still lots of room for improvement. Jayce also loves to say prayers with us. He usually picks who will say the prayer, and when it's done, as with everything, he says "my turn" His prayer is "Father, day, Amen" although the "day" is not included in all prayers. It's a copy of the rest of ours..dear heavenly father, thank you for this day,.....Amen" So for every meal prayer and every nightly family prayer....jayce says one too!!! It can only bring us extra blessings!!