Jacob’s Birth!

Jacob was born January 11, 2012 at 9:52 in the morning. I was only in labor for 5 hours total this time! With Elliot, I was in labor for 15 hours. I had to be induced again. I had been dilated to a 2 the last two weeks of pregnancy, and nothing had changed so my doctor scheduled me to be induced. We got there at 5 in the morning, and by 10 you were here!! You were so cute and I just had to hug you! It was harder than with Elliot, I think because you came so fast! The pain was hight this time! I only had to push about the same amount of time as Elliot about 10 minutes or less, 3 actual pushes or so. You were healthy and everything went great and by the book! We only stayed in the hospital for a day since I was able to get a lot more rest the night before. One interesting thing is that he was born with his two bottom teeth just like me! I had never thought about that happening and even the nurses and the doctor didn’t even know what they were at first. I knew he had teeth just because I did too! We had to take him to his first dentist appointment when he was only 2 weeks old to make sure they were going to be stable enough to keep in. We brought him home and all our family was there to welcome us! Which was good and bad! 🙂 Elliot was so intrigued the first couple of days and just peeked and stared at him all day. She was so sweet and gentle with Jacob and always gently placed her hand on him and just smiled.

Elliot- 2 Years, 7 Months

Loves Cartoons: Looney Tunes (self- proclaimed favorite), Super Why, Dora the Explorer, anything else fun and bright!

Favorite color this week- white – has been at the top of the favorite color charts the longest.

She knows all her colors, can count to 10 in spanish, can count to 20 in English and also understands how to add 1,2,3,4,etc. after 20, 30, 40, etc. She is so smart! She also made a picture of herself from the magnets on the fridge without me ever showing her. I showed her how to make a smilie face, but on her own playing by herself she added a letter for her neck, a body, two arms coming from the body, and then a letter for the feet. So then I asked if she could draw a person, to draw Daddy and she did so good! She drew a dot for his head, a horizontal line for the body, two lines for arms from the body, two lines by the “head” for his cheeks, and two legs. She drew me and baby too pretty similar to the one of Daddy. Then she drew Stephen the same way, but added two dots in the middle of the legs for his knees- which she thought of herself. 

Elliot loves playing pretend and her favorite thing lately is to act out conversations that we have already had through out the day. And we have to do and say exactly what we did before. She also likes to pretend she is a puppy or other kinds of animals. 

She also started using different voices for animals to make them talk. 

Elliot thinks one of the funniest games is to call everyone by the wrong name. All you do is say “Hi, pillow” and she busts out laughing.. other “names” we say are table, window, floor, grass, leaf, tree, eye, knee, etc. you get the idea!

Elliot loves to play with puzzles and can figure them out pretty quick. She always is cautious of what she reveals that she knows (in everything). She likes to act like the doesn’t know certain things or how to do things even when she does. Some of it is her silly and mischievous personality and I also think some of it has to do with missing being “babied” since now there is another baby around. 

She also likes to go to church so she can play with “the kids”. 

A Post Long Overdue- Jacob

Sorry Jacob, I haven’t been writing about you! Life has been extremely busy but that is still not an excuse!! You are already 7 1/2 months which = way too old!! You are so cute and cuddly all the time! You now have figured out how to reach for things and most recently people. Even when you sit directly in front of me in between my legs on the floor, you still turn around and reach to me because I’m not holding you enough! You are the cuddliest little baby ever! You also started holding your bottle on your own these last couple weeks all by yourself, and don’t like anyone to do it for you! You speak your mind (mostly in screams, and cries and grunts right now) but if you like something you don’t like something you say so and make sure we hear you! You have been starting to crawl, but are in no hurry at all! Right now you just get into the crawling position and rock and ultimately end up scooting backwards or rotating. A couple times you have moved your arms forward, but mainly you just would rather walk or run. You love to stand up and walk and jump (with help) and chase Elliot around the house although she is not the biggest fan. You also love to move around in the walker. You scoot and coast all over the kitchen and roll up to new things to investigate. And you push off with both feet and then glide all the way across the room with your feet hanging like you are flying. You are so cute!! You are now getting old enough to start to play with Elliot. She’s still not the biggest fan of that either since she is still learning the whole “sharing” thing. But she loves holding hands with you and giving you hugs and you always think it is the best thing in the world and smile and giggle every time! You love trying to grab everyone’s food when we hold you at the table during dinner. And recently started communicated other than screams (happy ones) or crying. This week you started fake sneezing because you think sneezing is hilarious. Ever since you were born you have thought sneezing was the funniest thing and now you are doing it on purpose to join in on the fun. You also made a “gasping” sounds this week that we always make when we play peek-a-boo and when we did it back, you just smiled so big! You are also just making little sounds like you are talking to us. You always want to do the same things as Elliot already, I’m telling you, your favorite person in the world is Ellie. I can’t wait to see what else you do in the next couple weeks!! You have a check up next week so we will see how much you weigh then!