Updates
We finally got the results of Jacob's EEG test and thank God, everything came back normal! Woo-Hoo!!! So we know his seizures are due to a spike in temperature only. Fortunately, he will outgrow these by the time he's five. I pray it happens even sooner, like NOW!
Tonight Jacob dressed himself in his PJs all by himself, with no help from his mommy and daddy. He was really proud of himself and we were proud of him too. Everything got put on the right way too! Let's see if he can start dressing himself in the mornings too :)
Now it's time for Jacob-isms...things that Jacob does that we think are so cute (or sometimes not so cute) that we need to document before we forget!
Everynight we have our bedtime routine. We floss and brush his teeth, we read one-three stories, then he leans over and kisses his baby brother and says "Good Night baby brother, I love you baby brother, God Bless you baby brother" which then leads us into his prayers where is asks God to bless everyone and everything thing. Some nights he wants to bless the dinosaurs and trains or some character he was playing with that day. Each night he always blesses his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and then he lists a few friends, mostly the ones he's played with most recently. Then he says is "main" prayer..."dear Jesus, please keep me healthy safe and happy, and no yucky seizures, I love you Jesus, Amen" I started saying this with him when he was a baby and now he knows it from memory. He added the "and no yucky seizures" in one night after his most recent episode with a seizure when I said it after his prayer and ever since then it's just stuck! It works for me! Then after his prayer, daddy says "who do you want to do it" meaning, who do you want to put you to bed. Jacob's answer, everynight is "both do it" so we both have to literally walk out of the room holding him and then walk into his room. It's getting a bit more awkward as my belly continues to grow, but it's almost like a game for him now. If I'm lying comfy in bed, he tells me to "get up mommy, come with me" so there I go walking over to his outstretched arm. He then grabs my neck as daddy is holding him and we walk to his room. We do a group hug and then daddy lays him in his crib. We all say we love eachother and to have sweet dreams and he is off to sleep (after he askes for milk or water a couple of times)
He is now in a class at church that does more crafts and they attempt to add a little lesson about God and Jesus in. Last week he told us that "God made the water." It's so cute to see him come out of the class with a little project and we can actually ask him what he learned and he tells us. I love it!
Bill taught him the phrase, "check it out" so now he walks around the house saying "check this out"
He is now telling us when he goes poo-poo in his diaper. He will come up to me and say "mommy, I have poo-poo, change my diaper" GREAT! now we just have to get him to go in the potty and all will be good in the world. He does sit on the potty before he takes a bath, but all he does is sit there and say "COME ON PEE-PEE, come out!"
the other day he was trying to open the refridgerator to get the half gallon of milk out to tell me he wants milk. For some reason the door was harder than normal to open up so I heard him say "COME ON refridgerator!" in a very frustrated voice. Apparently a favorite phrase of mine is "come on" because the other day I caught him saying that to the garage door. Now that my baby bump is a bit bigger, it's getting harder for me to pick Jacob up all the time. He likes to press the button to open the garage when we are going somewhere, so I told him to push the button for the light and that would open the garage (I just push the garage button at the same time). Well the other day we were getting ready to leave and he was quicker than I was to the door. All I heard from the house was (again in a VERY frustrated voice) "COME ON GARAGE DOOR!!!" As I walked over to him, he was turning on and off the garage light and was frustrated that the door wasn't opening. He was getting VERY upset. I walked over to him and told him to give a try one more time and up went the garage door and he was very happy.
He is getting more and more independent. He has to get in and out of the car himself and has to "do the top one" meaning buckle the top buckle of his carseat himself. If we do it for him, he gets very upset and makes for an unpleasant car ride.
he is used to going to the park in the morning for stroller strides. A couple Saturday's ago I took him to the park in the morning so he could burn off some energy. As we got off the car he looked up at me and said "no stroller strides mama, just park, okay?" It was so cute. He just wanted to play, and luckily for him that's all we were there to do.
He's gotten a lot better about playing with his friends. There is A LOT less hitting than there was in the past and he shares a little better now...not perfect, but it's better. However, he still continues to have problems with his friend Alec. Alec's mom and I have decided it's one of two things (or possible a little of each), one, they both have the same personality and won't back down or two, they both like Malaya and are jealous of eachother, especially when she is around. Sometimes they play really well together, but sometimes it gives me anxiety!
we listen to a Veggie Tales CD in the car as we are driving around town. We've listened to it so many times that he's begun to memorize some of the songs. His favorite right now is a song about Jonah being a profit. there's a part in it where they say HEY...he knows exactly when it comes and tries to sing along with the song as best he can, but when the Hey part comes on, he's right on cue and really loud. He also likes the part when they say ooo-ooo and has that part down pretty well too:)
there are plenty more "Jacob-isms" that I need to document, but I'll save those for another time when I can type some more:)
So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!
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