Bill and Miss (plus two)

Jacob does so many cute (and not so cute things) so this blog entry is devoted to detailing those before we forget them.

Thankfully the tantrums have come to a full and complete STOP!!!  Thanks to Dr. Gladstein's advice, we have seem to curb the tantrums.  So now, when Jacob is upset at something (like me) he pushes out his lips, as though he was going to kiss someone and gets a sour expression on his face.  His eyebrows come close in together and he is pouting for a minute or so.  It is the funniest thing to see.  He makes sure he points his lips at me.  I ask him if he wants to give me a kiss and then he jerks his head away from me quickly to let me know he is upset with me.

Lately in the tub he tries to swim.  He will lay on his tummy and keep his head above the water.  He still doesn't like it when his face gets splashed with water so he makes sure that he keeps his face dry.

EVERYTHING is a choo-choo or choo-choo track.  He gets packets of gum, unwraps each piece of gum and lines them up to make choo-choo tracks.  He also has gotten into the paper plate a couple of times and made a choo-choo track around the kitchen and nook.  He will line up markers, crayons and anything else to make choo-choo tracks.

He loves tunnels.  He calls overpasses tunnels.  The freeway onramp closest to our house is a downward curve that goes straight under a "tunnel."  Each time we get on the freeway, he raises his hands and says "WEEEEEEEE" as we drive on the onramp.  When we go under the "tunnel" he still has his hands up and says "tunnel." When we are out of the tunnel he waves his hand behind him and says "bye tunnel"  It makes me laugh everytime he does this.  There are days when he does this two or three times and it never gets old to him.

While driving on the 71 freeway, we pass by a large shopping center.  Recently Jacob has started counting the buildings as we quickly pass by.  He usually says "one, two, one, two" unless I help him out by saying "three"  If I say "three" then he will continue on until the number 9 and then clap his hands because he is proud of himself.  I have not actually counted the number of buildings we pass, but it will be interesting for me to do so and see just how many there are.

During the day and random times he will come up to me and say "hi mama" and then just walk away and continue to do whatever it was he was doing.  He also does this to his daddy.  He will go up to Bill, wave his hand and say "hi dada".  too cute!

I don't know if I've already posted about this, but in case I haven't...When Bill gives me a hug in front of Jacob, Jacob will drop what he is doing and run over to us and squeeze in between us.  It's a contest between Bill and I to see who he faces to give a hug.  I think I usually win out :)

Jacob likes privacy while taking care of "business"  If I try to say something to him while he's in the middle of it, he will tell me "no no no no" while waving his hand at me.  then I know a diaper change will be in the very near future.

At night when we put him in his crib for bed time he will usually cry for about a minute or so and then he gets his blanket, big mickey mouse, small mickey mouse, and pillow and throws them one by one over the crib onto the floor.  Then when there is nothing left he starts to take off his socks and throws them, one by one, over the crib.  One of us will go in and put everything back and then he falls asleep within a minute of us leaving his room.  I think this has become our nightly ritual.  How are we going to get that one to stop?

He will pick up anything that resembles a phone (banana, the sound monitor, tv remote), put it to his ear and say "hi Malaya." Today "malaya" wanted to talk to me.  So I "talked" to "malaya" and then gave the phone back to Jacob where he then said "bye bye Malaya"  he's definitely into imaginary play now :0

Today we finally went back to church.  He was such a good boy in Sunday School.  Bill and I prepped him all morning and when he got there he saw all the toys and said "play!!!"  He was so anxious and excited to get in there to play.  He must have done really well in there because we got no pages :)  I think he had a bit of a meltdown at some point because when we picked him up his eyes were a little pink.  Nonetheless, daddy got him popcorn after church for being a good boy.  We are so proud of him!

so until next time...mommy and daddy love you!

Our little guy is getting to be such a big boy.  In the past, Jacob has hated the idea of mommy brushing his teeth.  He LOVES holding his toothbrush and sucking off the toothpaste, but kicked and screamed whenever mommy brushed his teeth.  It literally took two of us to brush his teeth each night. I feel bad for only brushing once a night, but it's impossible to do it by myself in the morning.  Tonight was a totally different story.  He has been such a good boy lately.  Tonight after his bath it was time to clip his nails.  In the recent past he's been putting up a fight about clipping his nails.  This evening he willfully allowed me to clip his nails while he just sat there and watched.  He didn't even have a story read to him nor was he watching his favorite TV show.  Then we read his usual stories and then it was the dreaded brushing of the teeth time.  I told him, okay, let's lay down so mommy can brush your teeth now.  Bill got into position to hold him down, but it was not needed.  He scooted himself down to lay himself in position and opened his mouth and let me brush with no crying, screaming, or kicking involved.  It was the best tooth brushing we've ever had.  I couldn't believe it.  Bill and I were so proud of him.  I told him we would go and buy him a new toothbrush tomorrow since he was such a good boy about letting mommy brush his teeth.  It's time for a new toothbrush anyway, so this is perfect timing.

I hope this is a new trend we are embarking on.  Now maybe we can get some good teeth cleaning in after breakfast and lunch too :)  So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!

Yesterday we had Jacob's 2nd Birthday party.  along with family we had several of Jacobs friends join us at our house for some "Cars" fun.  We had a Cars jumper, a parachute that we played ring around the rosie with, a blow up Mater to throw tools at and a license plate making craft. 

The jumper arrived about an hour before the party started and Jacob wasted no time getting in.  As soon as it was blown up, Jacob climbed in and started jumping.  He and his Papa also started working on his license plate craft before his friends arrived.  Everyone showed up at 10am for the fun to begin.  At first a lot of the kids were playing with his train table inside, but soon we were all outside jumping in the jumpy house and throwing tools at Mater.  We then got out the parachute and played a few rounds of ring around the rosie.  Jacob loves playing that becasue he loves the "all fall down" part.  He was cracking up and saying "again" after each round.  the Pizza arrived at about 11:30 so everyone sat (or stood) with their pizza, fruit salad and green salad for lunch.  Once everyone was done with lunch, Lightening McQueen "dropped" in pinata form as we pulled the strings to get the candy, lollipops and raisins (yes, mommy added raisins to the pinata).  I did learn from last year that it takes more than just pulling the strings to get the pinata open, so I had to pull at it to allow the candy to fall down.  Once it did all the kids scrambled to get their candy.  I noticed that many of them bypassed the raisins for the good stuff (dum dums and CHOCOLATE).  I guess these kids are a lot smarter than I thought. 

After the pinata, it was time to sing Happy Birthday to the birthday boy, Jacob.  I am proud to say that I baked and decorated Jacob's cakes this year and hope to do so in the future.  Jacob was great at blew out the candles all by himself.  many of his friends left after eating cake and ice cream (it was very close to many of their nap times).  Then we opened his gifts (he got some really GOOD stuff...thank you everyone!!!).  After the gifts we enjoyed jumping some more and just hung around chatting with our friends and family who remained. 

Later in the afternoon when only family was left,

Jacob went back into the jumper and Nani, grand nina, Auntie Lisa and Mommy all joined Jacob in the bouncer.  It was so much fun and Jacob was laughing the entire time. 

Thank you to everyone who came to Jacob's party.  He loved playing with all of his friends and loves and appreciates all the great gifts he received. 

We can't wait to party again next year...mommy's already planning that one :) just kidding...

I'll start that next month :)