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Monday, February 25, 2013
Follow me!!!
Ok, I attempted to add a "follow me" gadget to this blog... please let me know if it works!!
Jacob's Birthday
Today is Jacob and Joseph's 24th birthday!!! When they were born, Jacob was 4 pounds 2 ounces, and Joseph was 6 pounds 8 ounces. I remember staying the night at a friends house, and crying myself to sleep because I had never been away from my mom before. I remember going to the hospital the next day and holding Joseph, and I remember our older brother saying to me as we left, "I got to hold the little one!" This weekend we took Jacob to Joe's Crab Shack, and met several friends there. The waitresses made him "dress" like a Chicken with a paper cup in his mouth, and two napkins as wings, and made him"fly" around the restaurant as all the patrons sang happy birthday! Then we came back to our apartment and had cake and ice cream with several more friends! Today he went to work for a little while to be sung to by his peers, then he was picked up by our dear friend, his "Auntie Buck" and taken to a bookstore to buy himself a book... she's sent me a few pictures, and the kid is practically drooling in that store!!! Happy Birthday Jacob and Joseph!!!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Self taught
I still need to do a little research (and get on my laptop for once) to figure out how to add a "follow me" gadget to this blog for easier following... In the mean time, lets take the next few posts to get to know Jacob a little bit, shall we??
Jacob was diagnosed with Williams syndrome at birth, and his first few years were quite full of therapies to help him catch up developmentally. If I remember correctly, he walked around age 2, and talked around age 3.
One if the major things you will notice about Jacob, if you are around him longer than 30 seconds, is that he never stops moving. He is usually rocking, whether sitting or standing, or he is swinging his arms, bouncing, playing with his hands, or if you are especially lucky, you will see him doing what I like to call "Watusi dancing".... Look it up :)
He has been rocking for as long as I can remember, including as a baby, up on all fours, rocking his head into the headboard of his crib. Yes, I fell asleep many nights to the sound of his head, rhythmically banging on his crib... Precious.
Now, I make sure to provide him with a chair that moves, so he is less likely to break it, ha. He is usually "banished" to the office chair, or the rocking chair in the living room, to save my furniture, and my sanity. Call me mean, but if he sits on my furniture, and starts rocking, he gets to choose to stop, or move. The rocking chair is his, that way, when he breaks it, I can't get mad. We've replaced it 3 times in 4+ years. When we are in the car, he is only allowed to sit in "his spot" so that he breaks the springs in only one spot, instead of the whole car. Once again, call me mean.. I don't care. He REALLY likes to rock in the car. I don't know why. He gets the whole car a'shakin... Makes me wonder what surrounding cars must think :P I usually don't mind, the only exception is if the weather is bad and I really have to concentrate. To say his rocking is a distraction, is an understatement.
As you may have read in an earlier post, he has rocked at least 3 of my kitchen chairs into splinters. As most of my furniture has been hand me down or garage sale over the years, I haven't minded much. Last year, I finally bought a "real" piece of furniture- a new kitchen table and chairs. With Jacob in mind, I got pub height, thinking that his drive to rock would be lessened if his feet were dangling. Um, I was wrong. Now I feel the need to go to ikea, and get him a cheap chair, before he breaks a nice one.
His rocking isn't all, though, oh no. When he rocks, he usually also chants... More on THAT next time. Thanks for reading!
Jacob was diagnosed with Williams syndrome at birth, and his first few years were quite full of therapies to help him catch up developmentally. If I remember correctly, he walked around age 2, and talked around age 3.
One if the major things you will notice about Jacob, if you are around him longer than 30 seconds, is that he never stops moving. He is usually rocking, whether sitting or standing, or he is swinging his arms, bouncing, playing with his hands, or if you are especially lucky, you will see him doing what I like to call "Watusi dancing".... Look it up :)
He has been rocking for as long as I can remember, including as a baby, up on all fours, rocking his head into the headboard of his crib. Yes, I fell asleep many nights to the sound of his head, rhythmically banging on his crib... Precious.
Now, I make sure to provide him with a chair that moves, so he is less likely to break it, ha. He is usually "banished" to the office chair, or the rocking chair in the living room, to save my furniture, and my sanity. Call me mean, but if he sits on my furniture, and starts rocking, he gets to choose to stop, or move. The rocking chair is his, that way, when he breaks it, I can't get mad. We've replaced it 3 times in 4+ years. When we are in the car, he is only allowed to sit in "his spot" so that he breaks the springs in only one spot, instead of the whole car. Once again, call me mean.. I don't care. He REALLY likes to rock in the car. I don't know why. He gets the whole car a'shakin... Makes me wonder what surrounding cars must think :P I usually don't mind, the only exception is if the weather is bad and I really have to concentrate. To say his rocking is a distraction, is an understatement.
As you may have read in an earlier post, he has rocked at least 3 of my kitchen chairs into splinters. As most of my furniture has been hand me down or garage sale over the years, I haven't minded much. Last year, I finally bought a "real" piece of furniture- a new kitchen table and chairs. With Jacob in mind, I got pub height, thinking that his drive to rock would be lessened if his feet were dangling. Um, I was wrong. Now I feel the need to go to ikea, and get him a cheap chair, before he breaks a nice one.
His rocking isn't all, though, oh no. When he rocks, he usually also chants... More on THAT next time. Thanks for reading!
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Welcome back?
So after a hiatus of a month, I am hesitantly thinking of making a mini comeback, pending a new attempt to get followers... If the new attempt goes well, I will continue on, if it does not, I will probably take another hiatus :P
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