More little Jacobisms!

Yep, he's so full of them, let me tell you! I know these aren't as funny to other people, so bear with me. :)


I went to pick up the kids from AWANAS last Wednesday night. I was running a little late, so they were standing at the door watching for me. They ran outside and met me half way. Apparently Myles didn't notice or care about Jacob's bare feet when he took them?


I looked down at Jacob and said, "Where are your shoes???!!"
Jacob, with a sad expression: "It's a lo-o-o-o-ong story, Mommy."


I don't think any of my kids have ever said that to me before, especially at the age of three! LOL!


Oh, I actually have one more for you.


I got my hair cut yesterday. Jacob told me it looked hilarious (and he could barely pronounce it). The hair dresser said "No, it looks gorgeous, not hilarious."


On the way home he sounded upset at being corrected and said, "Mommy, your hair is NOT gorgeous, it's hilarious!"

Update on Jack

(About a month ago, balancing on one knee and one foot!)

While I'm waiting on lunch to finish cooking and the kids are all outside squealing in the front yard, anxious for our picnic, I thought I'd give an update on Jack. It's been a while! I guess because he's been doing so well lately.

I believe it was back in July, he had a fever that got really high one Saturday afternoon. It resulted in a seizure and three days of alternating Motrin and Tylenol to keep it from happening again! It was very scary.

Since then, however, (really since about 8 months when he started gaining weight on the formula, with the exception of the seizure), he has been perfectly normal and is really catching up in his motor skills! All of my kids have been pretty "laid back" for the most part. Jacob was my earliest walker at around 13 months. My first two were 14 months. So considering Jack's setbacks in addition to being born early, I think being close to walking at 15 months is pretty good! He can stand alone for a few seconds but is still very cautious about it. I was hoping he would take his first step on the beach. How cool would that have been? Oh, well. He's close though.

As far as talking, he's always been a big "talker" and is rarely quiet. He doesn't say a lot of words though, but he is starting to. When he wants to reach for something and touch it (like a picture on the wall), he'll reach as far as he can and then start saying "tickletickletickletickle". So cute! :) He says Mama and Dada and imitates simple sounds. He can say quite a bit if you count the imitating. He also signs milk and airplane, but not often. He loves to smile and wave at anyone who looks at him. :)

Just before vacation he got his first tooth! My others all got their first at 9, 9 1/2 and 17 months. (I'm not sure why Jonathan got his so late!) So around 14 1/2 months is good! His 2nd tooth came in 6 days later while we were in NJ. He likes his teeth. He thinks they're funny. LOL!

I can't remember how tall he is now, but he was close to the 50th percentile on his last check, I believe. And he is around 24 pounds, so he's doing great with his growth! Even though he is packing it on now, he does seem to have a smaller bone structure like Jayla. Maybe not, but he just seems smaller.....with a Buddha belly. :)

He crawls everywhere and has been crawling for a few months, but he is still very slow. I'm deciding it's just a personality trait though since he has been doing it for so long now. He never (so far) has gone through any separation anxiety stage either. He doesn't like to be left in a room alone, but what kid does? My 8yo doesn't either! LOL! But as long as someone is with him and he is not hungry, sleepy, etc. he is very happy and laid back.

One of his favorite things is playing with Jayla, or maybe I should say, one of Jayla's favorite things is playing with Jack! She makes silly faces and noises, dances around and is just plain silly, and he just laughs and laughs! He laughs at his brothers too, but not like he laughs at her. They seem to have a special relationship, perhaps because she is more "motherly" than the boys are.

He still consumes mostly raw goat milk but does eat small "meals" throughout the day. He had almost a whole banana a little while ago and I cut up a few grapes for him as well. He will be completely off milk (like we all are) in a few more months, but for now it is at least half of his diet, if not more (in calories). Mainly because he is still so young and only recently got two teeth. He is also vegetarian, so half our family is meatless! :) (I'm going to work on the older boys, but it will be a gradual process. I want to introduce meat substitues to start with and then just other meatless foods that they love so they don't feel deprived. I want it to be their choice too, so there will be a lot of education and patience involved! Sorry, getting side tracked.)

So because of his delays and his personality, he seems to be overall on about a 10-12 month level. Compared to my other kids though, since they were also more laid back and not hyper at all, he is probably between 12-14 months, so he's doing really well!

And now that the picnic is over and the kids are playing (an hour and a half later), Jack and I are going to take a nap. (The others do something quietly in their beds when I nap, and I sleep light nowadays.) My computer is ancient, so I'll get the pictures from vacation on here eventually. (sigh)

Jacobism

I had to charge my phone today in the van because I couldn't find the other charger (haven't unpacked everything yet). So Jacob went outside with me and looked through the few remaining snacks that were still in the van. He chose a microwaveable Mac & Cheese (which was actually his daddy's) and waited patiently for me to get off the phone.

His patience eventually ran out and he left me by myself. The thought briefly crossed my mind that he may try to make it himself, but I dismissed it and finished up my conversation.

I opened the door a few minutes later to the sickening smell of something burning. Yep, he had put it in the microwave, and several minutes later it was still going strong!!! I walked into the kitchen just as he opened the door. There were still over 20 minutes left! LOL! It was a big, black mess. The smoke was so incredibly thick. He hadn't put any water in it at all. I thought he would at least do that much!

So the funny part is that when Myles arrived home a few minutes later, the three of us were in the kitchen as I was explaining everything to him. Myles started laughing, and when Jacob saw that he wasn't mad about it, he decided to speak up.

With the sweetest smile and voice you can imagine, he looked up at Myles and said, "I made it for YOU, Daddy."

Maybe you just had to be there, but it was so cute and funny. :)

I opened up a bag of ginger cookies (also left over from our trip) and let them all share it. At least he couldn't burn those!

We're back!

Well, we made it home nearly 24 hours ago! I haven't been on the computer much at all today and probably not much tomorrow. We have so much unpacking and cleaning to do!

In these last two weeks, we drove nearly 4,000 miles, crossed 4 mountain ranges and went through 14 different states! We saw the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean and set over the Delaware Bay on the same day. We saw family and friends I haven't seen in about 15-17 years. We visited an Amish and Mennonite area that was really fascinating. And we ended up making it home with two new pets.

So I've got a lot I want to blog about (and it will probably fill up an entire scrapbook - or two - really fast), so be watching for several entries soon. :)

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Did dinosaurs really go extinct?

Jonathan just finished a fictional book about dinosaurs that got him to thinking about them. He started asking tons of "what if" questions, so we just looked up dinosaurs on the internet.

This is an interesting site. I haven't verified everything here, but most of it is all over the web.

And here is the popular dinosaur(s) in Congo.

Oh, great.

We're about to leave for our vacation soon, so we are trying to get a lot done this week. Jonathan is NOT a good helper around the house, unfortunately, so I thought that when he started whining and telling me he felt bad that he was just trying to get out of helping. (There have been a couple of cartoons on recently where the kids fake being sick so they can stay home from school. Gee, thanks for giving him that idea.)

First he told me he wasn't feeling well, then his tummy hurt, then he finally said he thought he had a fever. I was about fed up with it but thought to myself that if he really is sick and I just keep blowing him off, I would really feel bad. So I humored him and felt his head. He was burning up! I took his temp with a thermometer and it was 101.6, so I gave him some Tylenol.

So here  we are, about to leave on vacation, and Jonathan has a fever! These things usually only last 1 or 2 days, so he will probably feel fine by the time we leave, but if it's contageous, we could all have it while we are ON vacation! *GROAN*

Please pray for us; for our health, safe travels, great family memories, etc. If I don't get a chance to post again before we leave, I assure you I will have PLENTY to write about when we get home!

Oh, something cute Jacob said yesterday that I wanted to share. I was getting them all loaded up in the van to go to AWANAS and Myles was giving each of them one bar of his KitKat candy bar. He didn't say anything about it, he just gave it to them one at a time when they least expected it. (He likes to surprise them that way.) He gave one to Jacob and as we were closing the doors about to drive away, Jacob said "That was so thoughtful of Daddy!" It was sweet. He's finally just getting to where we can really understand almost everything he says and now he's using big words like that. :) A few weeks ago he was telling me about a dragon in a cartoon that was a "friendly dragon". The way he says 'friendly' was just too cute. I know, it's not as cute to everyone else, but I just had to put it on the blog! :)