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Ben took Jake along with Mike and Jake Cyger to check out the Seattle Boat Show, over by the Ballard Locks. This was a handmade beautiful wood boat, that the two Jakes sat in for a bit.

Jake and his buddy Carson went to ride on a real life-sized Thomas the Engine. Along the way, they got to meet Sir Topham Hat.

Bainbridge received a rare bit of snow. Jake and Daddy couldn't resist:

Jake has a new favorite song:

We went for a drive today to Twanoh State Park near Belfair, WA. The salmon hadn't started swimming up the stream yet - just missed them by a week. But, Jake crawled inside a really cool set of tree roots. The foliage was crazy yellow!

Jake went as a cow for Halloween again this year. We all went to downtown Winslow to celebrate the festivities.

Jake has started dancing and it's adorable! We caught some recent footage of his sweet dance moves, alongside his pregnant Mama.

It's so amazing to witness Jake's development, both physical and mental. Recently he made huge strides forward linguistically, and is finally using verbs. Sometimes he even speaks in complete sentences, and it's almost as though you can have a conversation with him!

It's still difficult to understand everything he says (articulation isn't so good yet), but obvious that *he* understands *us*. It's very fun to be able to communicate more!

Lisa has added lots of pictures of Jake in his online photo album including his first time in a big boy swing, and his first time in a canoe:

Yesterday, on the 623rd day of his life (20+ months old), Jake did something we weren't sure was possible. He went an entire day without crying once! (Well, at least he didn't cry in the morning or evening with us - it's entirely possible he cried at daycare during the day).

It's a first! To make sure it didn't become a trend, he kicked off this morning crying when his Dad changed his diaper.