I meant to post this a few days ago, but pregnancy brain kicked in and I forgot! Imagine that.
A MORNING WITH JACOB:
Take a boring household chore, like putting clean sheets on the bed. This would normally take 5 minutes.
There's no doubt about it....it's a boy! The very second the ultrasound started it was already up front and center. Lee immediately said, "It's a boy!" Maybe he should be an ultrasound tech b/c I was still staring blankly at the black and white mess all over the screen. I was very surprised. It's not that I had my heart set on a girl....in fact, I haven't been shy in telling people that I would probably be better with another boy. But my gut told me it was a girl......so much for mother's intuition!!
I am extremely happy that Jacob will have a little brother, and one so close in age. He can teach him all about playing in the dirt and how to get things from Mommy by giving her kisses :)
For those of you who are not gifted in the art of deciphering ultrasound....this is a profile of baby. The round part on the left is his head and you can see his nose pointing up towards the middle. It's kind of like the Magic Eye books.....stare at it long enough and then the picture will jump out at you!
I have a few posts to make. But I wanted the first post to be about the new picture at the top of the page. This is a picture of Jacob in the midst of our flooded house. The scab on his lip is from the day prior, when he fell off of the teeter-totter and had to go to the emergency room. Is he crying? Is he holding his head in his hands and saying, "why me?!!" No. He is smiling and making the best of it. All he wanted to do was put on his boots and play in the water. That's what boots are for, right?
Sometimes Jacob completely blows me away.
We say our family prayers in the evening before Jacob goes to bed. We often ask Jacob if he would like to say it. The answer is always no...in fact he doesn't even sit still for the prayer. Today as we were lounging around after church, Lee on the couch and Jacob and I at the table, Jacob began to pray....out of the blue. He folded his little arms and began talking quietly and reverently. All I could really make out was "Jesus" and "pray"....which were repeated more than once....then he said, "Amen."
Yesterday we were working in the yard. Apparently when Lee mowed the lawn he destroyed the homes of several frogs. I pointed the frog out to Jacob, he bent down and looked at him and said, "You're a frog!" I could only imagine what the frog was thinking.
This weekend, despite the constant rain, ended up having a few exciting moments. A few... firsts. At the age of two Jacob has had plenty of firsts: first word, first step, first time to go potty, etc. All of these were very exciting. But none of these firsts got quite the same reaction as the first we experienced yesterday.... when I caught him playing in the toilet! He simply took his soaking wet hands out of the toilet, came towards me, and said, "need more wa-wa!" Yuck.
Although there's never been a need, we tend to keep the storm doors locked. This way if Jacob were to decide to escape he could be contained. But he's never tried...until today. Lee and I were both in the bedroom and we heard the storm door shut. We looked at each other and exchanged a silent conversation that lasted about half a second (the storm door isn't locked...where is Jacob?). Lee took off and was back in the bedroom within 30 seconds. His full report: Yes, Jacob went outside, but he did put his boots on before he left! I guess we have a reason to lock the storm doors now.
