Coloring

Jacob was up before Lee left this morning...which is rare. Jacob had some chocolate milk (choc moo) in a sippy cup and we were laying on the bed watching Lee walk around and get ready. I should mention here that I just changed the sheets on the bed yesterday and put the white sheets on the bed. I had been telling Jacob repeatedly to be careful with his moo. He was doing really well.....until Daddy came over to kiss him goodbye, and turned him over on his back spilling 6 or 7 drops of choc moo all over the white sheets. The last thing I wanted to do was change the sheets, again, so I went to get the Tide pen. Jacob was very upset because he wanted to "color" too. We finally came to the agreement that we could get his colors and we would color. Jacob had something different in mind. After we got the colors he said he wanted to color in bed...which is not unusual....so I sat him up on the bed with his colors. It never even clicked in my brain that he didn't want to color IN the bed...he wanted to color ON the bed! JUST LIKE MAMA! Luckily he didn't press hard enough to make a mark before I scooped him off of the bed and put an end to "coloring" for the morning! He really watches everything we do.

A Morning with Jacob

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.

But with Jacob.....

It becomes......

A morning full.......

of fun......

And helping Mommy.......

While Pooby is made to watch from the sidelines:(

It's a Boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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!

Playing at Pa and Mani's

Does anyone know how to spell Mani? It's sounds like Mommy but with "n"s instead of "m"s. Monny? Maybe I should ask Jacob how to spell it, since he made it up!

After a week overflowing with "challenges" we had the opportunity to leave Jacob at Mani and Pa's while Lee and I went out for a date to celebrate his birthday.

There was work.....

And play.....

And he was exhausted by the time we left.

That's What Boots Are For

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?

Prayers

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."

He-Man or She-Ra?

I've come to the conclustion that my unborn child is going to be the world's next superhero. Seeing as I only have one other pregnancy to compare it to, I could be mistakenly astonished. With Jacob I felt a slight flutter at 16 weeks, but no kicks until around 20 weeks. It was many more weeks before kicks could actually be felt from the outside. I understand that flutters can be mistaken......but not kicks! With my current pregnancy I felt baby flutter...forcefully....at 14 weeks and began feeling regular kicking at 16 weeks. And at only 17 weeks, baby can be felt kicking regularly from the inside and from the outside! How bizarre. The only thing left is to choose an appropriate name. We should be able to cut our list in half in just 10 days. So will it be Xena or Hulk?