My World

There are not words for how much I love these two boys.  Matthew is the best dad in the whole world.  There is not a day that goes by, that he doesn't show Jacob how much he loves him.

New Age Potty Training

No Presents Needed

 Well, the holiday season is around the corner.  I have already begun thinking about what to get J for Christmas.  As it turns out, toys are completely overrated.

 

Two Year Old Quotes

When I was putting J to bed tonight, he told me his stuffed panda was crying.  He said, "Momma, panda cryin'." I asked him why.  He just looked at me and said so matter of factly (I may have just made up that word) "He sad."  He promptly gave the panda hugs and kisses which of course made panda "happy."

Today after dinner, Matthew was drinking some hot tea in a coffee mug.  If you know us at all, you know Matthew and I do not drink coffee or hot tea for that matter.  We have four coffee mugs, and have never used them ourselves until today.  Jacob looked up and said, " I want coffee."

Tonight after J's bath Matthew let Jacob wear his big boy underwear (as a side note, he thought he was the coolest thing ever wearing them).  I had made a little popcorn and J was sitting in my lap sharing with me.  I quickly felt something warm on my leg.  This warm feeling took my by surprise, so I jumped just a bit.  I also said "he just te-teed on me."  This startled J a bit.  I asked him "did you just te-te on Momma?"  He stood up, looked down, said "nope, then sat back down and started eating again.  I quickly sent him to the potty just to make sure he was completely finished.  I went in after cleaning myself up.  He was sitting completely naked on the potty (he had just gotten out of the bath), and eating from the bowl of popcorn.  He was also pointing to his shower curtain, and whispering his letters.  J's shower curtain has the alphabet on it, so I guess he was practicing.

The other day he had my computer sitting on his lap and started calling out, "Grandma, where are yer?' He doesn't say you when he is looking for someone or something.  Instead it is yer.  I haven't corrected this because I think it is so cute.  After all, I still have a few years before he starts kindergarten.  I just thought is was funny he was wanting to call Grandma on Skype.

I know these are totally random things, but the boy cracks me up all day long!  I am amazed everyday at how smart he is.  Just the other day he spelled his name for me.  He also knows a ton of songs, and too many words to count.  He has such joy for life, and I am so proud to be his momma.  I had one of my proudest moments this morning.  Dropping Jacob off at school is my least favorite part of my day.  Luckily Matthew splits this responsibility with me, and I only take him to school a few days a week.  Well, this morning Matthew and I both took him.  Matthew left quickly, but I stayed to take J's jacket off.  At first he wasn't crying (he actually cheered "yay school"  when we pulled into the parking lot), but after I took his jacket off, he knew it was time for me to go.  He began to fake cry.  I took him over to see Mac Mac.  Mac is a little boy at school with special needs.  I found out today that he is 2, but I am not sure if he is in J's class all day or just in the mornings.  We talked to Mac, and J made him smile.  I asked Jacob if he would be a big boy for mommy, and play with Mac Mac.  J shook his head, and I put him down.  He promptly ran over to the toys, and pulled out a tambourine.  Jacob's teacher told me that Jacob loves to play with Mac Mac, and knows all of his favorite toys.  Mac Mac cannot run around with all of the other kids, so it warmed my heart to know that Jacob will just sit down and play with him.  Jacob's teachers tell me he know's everyone's name.  I believe them too.  On the way home from school, Jacob names every single one of his classmates.  He says "Bye Kenzie, bye Nicholas (I love how he says Nicholas), bye Myles, bye Gracie..." You get the picture.  He also knows everyone that works there by name.  Even though he is shy around new people, I love that he has a desire to know everyone.  He is always asking me "who's that momma?"  I know he has brought so much joy to our lives, and I am excited when I think about how he may one day influence others.  I just pray he keeps his sweet spirit, and joy for life.

Just Living The Life

 Life doesn't get much better than this.

 Waiting patiently to go to the zoo.

Bunnies

 

Jacob was obviously excited to play with the rabbits.

 He decided to give the bunny a kiss.

I am not quite sure what face he is making here.  I am sure he was about to say something to me.  This little rabbit kept jumping up and trying to give him more kisses.  I have never seen such friendly rabbits.

 Watch out bunnies!

 He realized he was about to sit on two bunnies.

Jacob makes it a point to count everything now.  This was him counting the rabbits.

Sweet Face

Matthew took this picture of Jacob right before we rode the horses at the pumpkin patch.  I love this sweet face!

One More Day

I officially only have one day left with my one year old.  Although he has obviously been closer to two for quite some time now, and I have been saying for so long he is almost two; two is suddenly a number I don't want to hear.  I was rocking J the other night because he was sick and just wanted to be held.  He takes up my entire lap now and in fact his feet dangle off the side of my lap.  I am continually changing and shifting to help him find a comfortable position.  Just what seems like a short time ago I could hold him up on my chest and there was nowhere else he would rather be.  Now he finally gets tired of shifting and says "Momma, lay down."  Then he does just that.  Granted once he does lay down, he points to the bed and says "Momma, you."  Meaning he wants me to lay with him.  So I do most nights.  Just for a while because I know someday he won't want me anywhere near his room.  That brings tears to my eyes.

I was watching the students in the carpool line this morning.  They would bounce out of their parents' cars while their parents waved goodbye.  Unfortunately in many cases I was the only one that saw the wave.  The kids were already halfway to the building and could care less about what their parents were doing.  I know all children grow up, or at least we as parents hope they do.  Growing up is the natural thing.  I look forward to watching J grow.  If he didn't progress I would be worried.  The progression though is bittersweet.  I have seen how quickly these almost two (eek) years have gone by, and I know I can't stop the clock.

Jacob brings so much fun and joy to my life.  I look forward to him yelling for me first thing in the morning even if it is early.  His hugs and kisses are from Heaven above.  He has the best dance moves of any toddler I have ever seen, and I love his taste in music.  I wish we could all have the zeal for life that a toddler does.  When does that stop?  When do we stop enjoying the little things?  His excitement is contagious and I look forward to introducing new things to him just to make him laugh and smile.  His smile will forever be burned in my mind.  Thinking about his little laugh makes me melt.  I have been so very blessed and I praise God for giving Jacob to me.  I know his Daddy feels the exact same way.

Saturday will be a day of fun and excitement.  I am sure we will sing Happy Birthday a million times since that is currently one of Jacob's favorite songs.  In fact tonight we sang it to him while he was testing one of his birthday cupcakes.  He then wanted to sing Happy Birthday to Elmo.  When I was rocking him tonight he wanted to sing it again to Sammie (his all time favorite subject), Elmo, then to his cupcake.  So we did.  I think all in all I have sung the song at least eight times tonight.

I would like to say I am not always this sappy about J, but I am.  I cannot tell you how many times a day Matthew and I say, "man, I love him."  We are constantly watching for what he will do next. Honestly, even on the hard days, being a mom is the best job in the whole world.  I wouldn't trade it for anything and I mean that.  Am I the best mom, no probably not.  But I love my child with all of my heart and I always will.  I pray he wakes up every morning knowing he is loved so very much, and that no matter what our love for him will never stop.

Bread

Jacob has this thing with bread and french fries.  If one or both of those things are on the dinner table, that is all he will want to eat.  Last night we had Hamburger Helper.  Super healthy, I know.  Regardless, that was dinner.  With the HH we also had garlic bread.  Jacob would not even try a bite of the HH, he wanted the bread.  We resorted to bribery.  Matthew told him if he would take one bite of Hamburger Helper he could have his piece of bread.  He straight refused.

I typically don't work as a "short order cook" but we needed him to eat something other than bread, so I heated up some left over spaghetti.  Jacob loves spaghetti.  I knew this would work.  He would eat a bite of spaghetti then get his bread.  Not so much.  He continued to refuse his dinner and cried for that piece of bread.  Finally he got over it and just wanted down from the table.  After Matthew and I were done with dinner, Jacob went back over to the table and started to climb up to get none other than "his" bread.  Luckily I saw what was to ensue and stopped him before he reached his prize.

I wanted to give in so badly and just give him the stupid piece of bread.  We felt the need to hold our ground though.  He went to bed without eating anything (well he had already had a pretty big snack while at Sam's), and we felt terrible.  The kid can't just live off of bread and french fries. That just wouldn't do.  So, what is a mom to do?  I guess we won't be having bread with dinner for a while.

"Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cracker Jacks"

Let me just say, if awards were given for being super fans, Jacob would win.  This kid never ceases to amaze me with his love for baseball and for the Braves.  We purchased his Prado shirt and Tomahawk outside the gate and he was read to go see his Braves (well them and the Chick Fil A cow).  Rather than have his face painted, we opted for an arm tattoo so he would be able to see it.  Mind you we were there two hours before the game began, we had to find things to do to occupy our time.  We played in the kids area then settled on a bag of kettle corn.  Our $10 tickets (thank you AUM student id) made for the perfect seats.  That is until Mr. Know-It-All showed up and sat behind us.  You know how I know he knew everything?  He talked the whole time.  Seriously.  The whole time.  In fact his first story started out, "I went to my first baseball game in 1951, I've been to thousands of games and never caught a fowl ball."  As you can tell, his knowledge of baseball was untouched and he was planning on sharing it with his friend in the seat next to him.  Maybe I was hot and tired, but he was on my nerves instantly.  If you know me at all, you know that isn't hard to do.  Jacob didn't seem to mind.  He was intent on eating my entire bag of kettle corn and getting on to me when I tried to eat some.  After sitting for a while J looked at me, put up one little finger and said "be right back."  Now, he has only recently started saying that.  After about three times of him saying this I finally figured out what he was talking about.  Luckily he pairs the phrase with a finger in the air.  I am the only person that understands him most of the time, but even this one took me a minute.  Now every time he does it I giggle.

After awhile he began getting sleepy.  To be quite honest, I am so proud of how he held up.  We had already been to the zoo today then topped the day off with a Braves game.  Don't call to nominate us for The Parent's of The Year Award just yet.  He had a thirty minute nap on the way to the game.  Ok, now you can call.  Really though, if it is something he enjoys, Jacob is quite the trooper.  He is so laid back and loves life.  After singing almost the entire song of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch, Jacob promptly turned to the cow and said "bye cow."  He then looked at the field and said "bye Braves."  We took our cue and made our way home.  The ninth from what we can tell from the radio was pretty eventful but they went to extra innings.  I am not quite sure how the game is going to turn out.  All I know is Jacob loves his team, and that adds to the many reasons why he is my favorite little boy in this whole world.  We love our new city and look forward to the many adventures we plan on having here.

Day Four

Today is day four in our serious potty training endeavor.  I say serious because we started talking a bit about the potty a few months ago.  On our last trip to Hunstville J started really showing interest.  I decided to get serious about it and buy him some big boy underwear four days ago.  Armed with about fourteen pairs of Thomas the Train and sports underwear, I determined that J would not put diapers back on after he woke up from his afternoon nap.  We "threw away" all of his diapers and started that day using the potty.  The first day and second day were a bit rough.  We had numerous accidents but would make it to the potty and he would finish there.  He figured out candy, stickers, and songs were involved and quickly became a fan of the potty.  Day two our friend Chris was there.  Now, I am not sure if he was just showing out, or if it just "clicked" but J looked at me and said "tee-tee potty." We rushed in and low and behold he needed to use the potty.  He got two skittles for asking to go.  I never thought I would bribe my child to use the potty, but it works so don't knock it.  The rest of the day he consistently asked me to go.  I was so excited.  We went to church that night and I was a nervous wreck but he didn't have any accidents.  We went to the Cookie Company to celebrate (really more for me than him, but J was excited about the prospect of a cookie).  So excited I guess he had to tee-tee.  Luckily the Cookie Co is right next to Motherhood Maternity which thankfully has a bathroom.  We rushed in but he was way to excited about the toilet paper dispenser, plunger, etc. to really go.  On our way back out to the car he had his first accident since early that morning.  Day three started off dry and we did quite well.  We went out to eat at Moe's and almost immediately he decided he need to go to the potty.  Again he got distracted and would not go.  I was a bit frustrated because I cannot stay at home forever but he really has gotten this potty thing down.  I didn't want to revert by going back to pull ups or diapers.  Finally after about trip three to the bathroom we had success.  I was so thankful.  We went to the library.  Again we had to potty and again we got distracted.  This time the potty got the better of us and he had an accident.  After getting home though, he stayed accident free the rest of the evening.  He wouldn't go before bed though and we were at a bit of an impasse.  He was really fighting me with the potty.  I finally broke down and put a diaper on him, then put him to bed.  He wouldn't go to sleep though.  I went back in his room and he frantically said "tee-tee potty."  We rushed to the bathroom and again success.  I then gave him the choice.  Did he want his big boy underwear or a diaper.  He looked for a minute, quickly picked up his underwear, and with a smile began to put them on.  I felt at that point that I needed him to make the choice.  All of this brings us to day four.  J woke up dry and went to bed dry.  Day four was a completely accident free day.  We even went out in public, and he stayed with a friend while M and I went on a dinner date.  I must say, today has been a good day.  Will we have accidents in the future, of course, but I am so proud of my little guy.  He is too.  I will leave you with J's favorite potty song.  A song made up at the spur of a moment, but has turned out to be quite fun.

"If you're dry and you know it shake your hiney, shake shake
If you're dry and you know it shake your hiney, shake shake
If you're dry and you know it, then your pants will surely show it,
If you're dry and you know it shake your hiney, shake shake."
(Sung to the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It.)

Hello Water

During our last beach trip, the quote of the day was "a bye wa-her."  Jacob was afraid of the water and wanted nothing to do with it.  This trip was a whole different story.  He loved the water.  I will post a picture and video of this later.  He also loved the pool.  He can swim with just floaties and is a big fan of jumping in the pool.  J would count "2-4-8" then jump right in.  I think he gets this from the Thomas The Tank Engine theme song.  You can youtube that if you care to hear the song.  Anyhow, here is a picture of him enjoying the pool, one of us at dinner, and the other at the beach.

Just In Case You Were Wondering

At church, Jacob's favorite part is the singing.  His second favorite part is the Lord's Supper.  Up until a few months ago, those were probably in reverse order.  I think J is so entranced by the the Lord's Super because it deals with crackers, juice, and silver plates.  I mean really, they are just teasing little kids.  In Bible class, they work with the little ones in teaching why we go to church.  Jacob can tell you the four things we do, "We go to church to learn, to sing, to pray, and to give!"  They also practice giving.  Because of this, we always give J a dollar or our check for the collection plate.  I try to talk to him about why we are giving.  They also have a book they read in class that goes something like the following:
"Because I love Jesus, I'm giving some Money! The money buys Bibles for children to hear stories from God's word."  I am paraphrasing of course, but you get the idea.  Before J gives his money I always say, "because I love _________ (he fills in the blank appropriately), I'm giving some ___________!"  Well, apparently we still need to work on this concept a bit as you can see from the video below.




This video was taken at Shuckum's in Panama City Beach.  They have dollar bills taped to the walls from people that have visited.  J was pretty interested in them as you can see.

Changes

With J everyday brings something new.  With a move coming up soon there will definitely be some changes in all of our lives.  We will probably be renting a two bedroom apartment for a while.  I told Matthew I was concerned that we wouldn't have a full size bed for guests to sleep in if we only have two rooms.  My solution, move J to a big boy bed.  I called some friends to get some tips on the big step.  I quickly (that day) decided to head to the store to purchase some fun sheets that might entice J to sleep in his big boy bed.  I found some super cute ones at Ross for only $6.99.  After a quick wash and dry we moved just the mattress of our guest bed into his room.  I chose to only start with the mattress simply because J wiggles a lot when he sleeps.  I didn't want him falling off and I hadn't had time to purchase any type of safety railing.  Honestly I didn't even think he would sleep in the bed for a few nights.  I simply wanted him to get used to the idea.  Matthew and I took him in to show him his new bed and to say he loved it is an understatement.  He ran full force, jumped on (like a belly buster off a pool diving board), and yelled "BED!" He slept in it the first night.  I was so proud.  Within an hour or so though I heard a thud followed by crying.  I rushed in to get him re-situated and he never even woke up.  Around three in the morning we had another fall.  After that, I put a couple more pillows around him and he was set for the night.  He woke up a little earlier than normal and came running through the house to our room.  Sammie of course was not expecting him and greeted J in typical Sammie fashion.  Which consequently scared J meaning a few more tears.  Overall, we made it through the night in a big boy bed.

Naptime soon rolled around the today.  When I took him in for a nap J ran to his bed, jumped in, and was ready to sleep the afternoon away.  He stayed in place the whole time so again I was impressed.  Tonight was a little more difficult.  I think J was just having trouble settling down.  After a few more innings of the Braves game, a glass of milk, and singing Twinkle Twinkle five  fifteen times, he was finally ready to hit the hay. 

J has also recently shown an interest in the potty.  I will not go into detail but I will say we have begun potty training and are following Jacob's lead.  I am in no way pushing the issue and really don't mind if he is not potty trained for months.  He is however beginning to figure things out.  We just have to work on him letting me know he needs to potty.  Matthew will say potty training was my idea, but really J initiated it. One day while getting J ready for a bath I took a little too long to get him from the undressed point to the tub.  I figured while he was in proper attire for using the potty I would let him try before getting into the tub.  To my surprise, he had already used the potty without me even mentioning it to him.  Go Jacob!  The next day we were headed to Huntsville and had stopped in Morris to spend the night with M's parents.  I asked J if he needed to go, and again he went.  When we got to my sister's house, J climbed up onto her potty (the lid was shut so don't freak out) and said "te-te potty."  I let him try and it was a success.  Since that road trip (perfect timing right?) we have slowly worked on getting him used to the potty.  I am not really sure if I am going about it the right way but I am trying to not put any pressure on him because really there is none.  Now if he is 3 1/2 and not potty trained then we will revisit the idea of pressure.  We that or if I can no longer find diapers to fit him, which is a possibility considering  he weighs 32lbs.

One day I will have to tackle the paci, just not today...

Everyday Nothings

I wish I were posting pictures today but quite frankly I haven't taken many lately.  Life has been a bit on the hectic side to say the least.  We will be moving to Atlanta in just a few weeks (yikes, I really should be doing something other than blogging) for jobs at Greater Atlanta Christian School.  We are very excited (scared) and are hoping this will be a good opportunity for our family.  J will be able to start  going to school there for K3 and we get a 60% discount.  That being said, our discount is enough to bring the cost down to what full tuition is at ACA for high school.  We will be paying a lot, but I think the education will be very good.  If we make it for J to go to high school there, they have numerous (I think 19 and counting) AP programs.  He will have access to any sport, and instrument, any art form he pleases.  Although I am scared out of my mind, I think in the long run it will be very good for our family.  I'm not sure if we could afford more than one child there but all we need if for one of our kids to be a doctor, lawyer, CPA, so J will have to take care of us when we are old in gray.  I am really jumping ahead of myself, but hey that's what I do.

J has become quite the talker.  He takes after his momma.  He has begun talking about things without us prompting him.  He knows the majority of the major animals at the zoo and will talk about them quite freely.  He has a pet stuffed rat, thanks to a gentleman at church, that he named Papi.  Not sure why Papi, but I prefer that to "rat."  J sits Papi on his shoulder and walks around with him that way because that is what Mr. Randy showed him when he gave J the gift.  I don't know... While at my sister's this past week he walked her dog Roxy (pronounce "Rockies" by J) on the leash.  He would tell her "come on, come on."  I don't quite know where he got that, maybe me always trying to get him to come when he is told, but wherever it came from it is cute.  Today at Burger King he dropped his kids crown and said "come on crown, come on."  When we pulled in the drive at BK he yelled with excitement "Dink (a cherry icee he has decided is his favorite), burger, fries." Can you tell we eat way too much fast food?  He then saw the playplace to which I knew we would work off the calories climbing through the tunnels.

The word cute earlier reminded me of another story.  The other day J and I were shopping at the mall.  I had received a $10 off card from Victoria's Secret and decided to take a look around the store.  We went in the dressing room to try a few things on.  J sat in his stroller, picked up a bra, put it to his chest, and said "cute." Now, I can tell you I did not teach him that.  I about died laughing right then and there. 

He is growing more and more every day and is becoming such a little man.  I know I have said it before and I will probably say it again, I would give anything to just be able to record our daily life and play it back over and over.  Matthew always jokes on me about making sure we get the photo opps but my favorite things are the day to day nothings.  Jacob wearing his BK crown and sitting opposite me in our booth is a picture I pray will forever be ingrained in my mind. 

Easter 2011

 My boys

"Where did it go?"

School Easter Egg Hunt

I dropped Jacob off Thursday morning then waited for him and his class to come outside for their Easter egg hunt.  I loved watching all of the little kids running out and being so excited to see all of the eggs.  One little boy was helping all of the other children put eggs in their baskets.  He had me cracked up.  Jacob was more excited about dumping out all of his eggs rather than picking up new ones.  He has learned the "Clean Up" song and as he was dumping out his basket, he was singing "mean up, mean up."  We had a great time and it was good practice for the real Easter egg hunt we had today.

This Is What A Potty Is For Right?

A few days after I bought Jacob his potty he figured out it could be used as a step stool.  That is all it has been used for, and honestly I am fine with that.  He turns on the water full blast so I am sure I need to budget more for next month's water bill.  I don't want to discourage good hygenie though.  This kid loves to brush his teeth.  I may have to pull this picture back out one day to remind him of that.

Growing Up

I cannot even begin to tell you all of the new words/tasks Jacob has learned.  He surprises us everyday with new things.  I wake up every morning wondering what will come next.  Jacob now understands the concept of hugs and kisses so that is one of my favorite accomplishments.  I ask him for a kiss and he plants a slobbery kiss wherever he can reach.  He repeats everything, especially words said with inflection.  While driving down the road the other day, a driver cut me off to which I said "seriously?"  My little back seat driver yelled "seriously," and I just about died laughing.  He has learned how to do the Tomahawk Chop due to his daddy's love of Braves baseball.  We cannot wait to take him to a game this year.  A few of his other favorites are:
-Alright
-Ok
-Again
-Awesome
-What's that
-Here Kitty Kitty
-Oh no
-play
-potty (and other words associated with it which I will not mention)
-hush (to the dog or to his baby doll)
-NO Mine!
-He knows all of the words associated with the table like table, chair, plate, fork, spoon, cup, napkin, etc.
-diaper, wipe (His diapers now have Elmo on them so he calls them (melmo diapers)

The list above doesn't even take the cake (yes he knows that word too, and ice cream although I am not sure how since he cannot eat it) on the words he knows.  He sings so many songs at school and knows all of the hand motions and most of the words.  He can count to two (he claps when we get to three) and will sometimes say five.  Jacob knows a good bit of his alphabet and can tell you what a number of the letters say.  He can also point out the majority of his shapes, a few colors, and knows a ton of animals and their sounds.  I adore that child more and more each day.  This morning he came up to me without me prompting him and said the three magic words... "I love you."  Then I had to pick my heart up off the floor because it melted into pieces.

Peekta-Peekda Boo

I love this kid more than life.  He brings joy to every day, and a sense of adventure to everything.  I love exploring with him.

A Little Blue Bucket

Matthew had to preach one Sunday down in Andalusia which is halfway between our house and the beach.  We decided to be "spontaneous" and head down to the gulf after he was done preaching.  We picked the closest beach which happened to be Ft. Walton, and it was actually very pretty.  Matthew's favorite part was the lack of teenagers.  This was the same week as Spring Break which was our only hesitation for going.  We found a public beach, changed clothes, and took to the sand.  Jacob hit the ground running, or at least trying to as we all know how difficult it is to walk on sand let alone run on it.  You will see one of the pictures above where he is looking down at his hand.  He fell over right at the very begining and was quite concerned about the sand that was on his hand.  He dusted it off though and went right back to what he was doing.  I think my favorite part of the day was when he actually saw the water.  Now, if you have heard him get excited about something then you might be able to imagine just what he sounded like.  With great excitement he said "a Wah-r" (a water).  Matthew took him to it but the closer he got, the more anxious he became.  Matthew tried to ease him into the gulf by sitting him on his knee.  The first picture you see Jacob is smiling.  All was going well until a wave came...and splashed him straight in the face.  That was all she wrote.  Jacob started to cry, Matthew started to laugh, and I just took pictures trying my best to capture what happened.  Matthew stood up with Jacob, and Jacob with a wave said, "bye wah-r."  We died laughing.  He had had enough and was ready to do something else.  Luckily that morning I had thought to pack his little blue bucket and shovel.  That proved to be the best decision I made all day.  He finally did warm up to the water as you can see in the other pictures, but he really prefered playing in the sand.We had an awesome time and I cannot wait to have more family beach trips (maybe more than just one day)!

Bawoon Day...Oh and don't forget pancakes, candy, and chocolate cupcakes Mom!

Jacob woke up Valentine's Day morning to a wonderful surprise.  Waiting at his little table, he found a heart shaped balloon and heart that lights up (like a strobe light almost) from his daddy, and a play recorder (the kid likes whistles and that was all I could find), suckers, bendy straws, and other goodies from me.  He was ecstatic! He can say his own version of the word balloon, and it sounds like bawoon with a few other syllables to it.  We also took the time to make special heart shaped pancakes.  He had no idea they were anything special, but I did.

J's class party.  He is a big fan of cupcakes.

The classroom was full of balloons which of course he loved.  They had all kinds of goodies.  Jacob took homemade crayons shaped like hearts for his Valentines.  We broke crayons then melted them down into the heart shapes.  They were a bit hit.  I am starting to see a major pattern in my blog posts.  A majority of them are about food.  I guess that is why Jacob weighs 30lbs (ish). He is solid and loves to eat!

Such A Little Man

I found this clip on tie a long time ago at a consignment sale.  The tie reminded me of one Matthew has so I thought for $2 I should probably buy it.  I am so glad I did.  Jacob took a minute to get used to the tie, but when he did he worked it.  Everyone at church raved about how cute he is.  Can you blame them?

17 Months Old

Climbing Up His Slide

J loves the giraffe trike Aunt Amy got him.

Silly Face

Climbing takes concentration.

Done!  He was ready for me to put my lens cap on so he tried to help me out.

Where Else Would He Eat Crackers?

Hey Mom...

These crackers are good.

Jacob loves to sit in Sammie's bed.