Summer Blockbuster

Every summer I try and compile what's going on in our lives via video. Since I know I have more time at the beginning of the summer this year than I will in the second half, I finished it today.

Enjoy!

Squishy face part 2

Back when Jacob was merely 3 days old, he had the best squishy face I'd ever seen. As it turns out, when he's completely exhausted he still manages an exceptional squishy face. Compare for yourself:

What caused such exahustion you ask? Well...

He woke up early (6:30), read nearly every single book he owns with me, played kickball with his daddy, then went to meet up with Olivia (yes Olivia in AZ!!) at Barnes and Noble to meet Curious George.

They are adorable together. Lucky for us, Olivia's family is staying in Mesa with her grandparent's until her parents new jobs and home details are hammered-out. After hugging on the big George, Olivia and family came to "jacob's" house for lunch, playing, and swimming. And they wore themselves out, thus the exceptional squishy face at the beginning of the post.

In the past few days, Jacob's done some fun stuff including going to Benihana's and watching an amazing chef chop and cook (while imitating with his own chopsticks), and eat watermelon in the nude at his own kid table outside. Does life get better? (If you're Jacob, you'd say no).

(These aren't necessarily the best watermelon eating shots...but they don't show any bits that shouldn't be shown, thus they go online.)

Discovering indoor delights

Munchkin has some OCD tendencies....while outdoors, it isn't such a distraction. Who can control nature?! However, when indoors and focused on details, Jacob has a hard time seeing the big picture. He has fallen in love with dominoes since we arrived in Phoenix- he played with them for over an hour while the "adults" played half an actual game! But, sometimes he just gets caught up in the detail of domino placement....take look:

He is also mister athletic, as mentioned in nearly every other post ever. Here, he is smashing a bouncy ball with his masterful kicks (aka "playing kickball with daddy")- and fortunately nothing has been broken yet!

To AZ to AZ, jiggity-jig

While packing for the move, Jacob got to play with Sam, go to Olivia's 2nd birthday (and play the afternoon away), and help box things up...in his own special way.

Then we've arrived in Tempe at Jacob's Yaya and Didi's house- and we are loving the s-p-a-c-e!

Despite a stomach turningly crazy/scary first day here (think along the lines of Jacob not knowing boundaries but capable of opening doors and fitting through chihuahua sized doggie doors that lead to the unfenced pool as adults are unpacking and unaccustomed to Jacob's new freedoms....), but things have been pleasantly uneventful since that first day! (Phew)

Today Jacob got to have his first swimming lesson (thanks to his sweet grandparents) and he swam like a fish with Ms. Destiny.

He doesn't love being on his back (no shocker), but loves kicking after floating ducks and being a "monkey" climbing on the edge of the pool.

Last Friday we got to have a peek at our little nugget- we're officially 'due' December 21st. The nausea seems to be subsiding and today marks 11 weeks along.

Currently, there's slight concern with placenta previa (marginal) but apparently 9 out of 10 early cases correct by 20ish weeks. We're scheduled for another ultrasound Aug 5-until then I'm on 'pelvic rest'....so I'm not lifting anyhuge bundles and Jacob's getting snuggles on the ground level.

Now that we're really unpacking and have located the camera, there will be plenty more pictures, videos, and updates on our summer adventures!

Final Hurrah

Our Berkeley days are limited for this go around...we're headed out by next Tuesday headed to Phoenix. While we're excited about what this next year(plus) brings, it's sad to leave this beautiful community and location. In celebration of Berkeley and California, we're been visiting our hotspots and throwing some new ones into the mix- and Grayson has been here to be a fun part of the action! (For some reason I can upload pictures but only see text, so no captions for the pictures....just a random montage!) I believe this first photo is Jacob tucking in every single stuffed animal from his bed to the coach into their "new bed". It was a long and funny task to witness...

This one goes out to all the Moms

A happy Mother's day to all. Things are starting to wind-down here in Berkeley. With roughly two weeks till we move, every day seems like an adventure. And, despite the copious amounts of school work I have left, or the sermon I'm giving tomorrow morning, procrastination has gotten the best of me. What better way to satiate a need to procrastinate like blogging it up?

And now, for the photos:

Here's a photo series I like to call "watermelon head-shots".
Just like an actor would send in headshots showing off a wide range of emotions, I imagine this is what Jacob would look like if he were sending his pictures to an casting call for say, a watermelon advertisement (perhaps for unique method for eating watermelon?).
Enjoy!

We played Kickball tonight with students and faculty and Jacob loved it. Only hours after getting his cast off (Thank the lord!) he was running and playing. He is still slow to get it moving, but as I am writing this he is brushing his teeth with his left hand. Let's face it, we need as many Lefties as we can get.

Following the kickball, we returned home to get Jacob in the tub for the most necessary, thorough scrubbing thus far as a two year old! What did he do? He immediately got in and starting "swimming like a fish"- it was great!

After Jacob got in bed, we got the call that Jacob's good friend Olivia was getting her baby sister really soon and needed to come sleepover. This morning at 6:45 we had two of the happiest munchkins ever reported: upon discovering the other was present and awake there was laughter, squealing, non-stop chatter, actual jumping up and down, you name it. Adorable.

So we made a day of it and went to the playground, played with play-doh, ate a lot, read a little, and rode a steam train.

These two are just the sweetest things... We got to meet Olivia's baby sister, to whom both Olivia and Jacob gave some gentle pats and sweet attention.

It's heart-warming that Jacob like babies and other people so much as he's getting a sibling around Christmas time. What a 'gift' we're all looking forward to<3!>

Happy Mother's Day!

This really is one of the more random posts....

Our camera batteries were dead thus fewer photos /videos for a little while. Now that it's the last day of April, I feel I should post the various silly things we had on the camera before May happens!

This is Jacob being silly during his before bed snack a few nights ago. (To provide setting: this was Jacob's before bed-time-ish snack.) Notice he actually can use his right hand for the spoon....but the cast comes off next Friday, then his left hand gets back in on the action!

And this photo is from this morning, when Jacob decided he wanted to go outside wearing my shoes, pj's, and a goofy grin. I wasn't convinced, but we both got a really good laugh out of it!