In the past week or so, I have been able to get Jacob to interact with me vocally. If I say “grrrrr” he says it back to me. If I give a high pitch “ooohhh”, he says it back to me. It is truly amazing to watch his eye brows scrunch up in concentration and his mouth, lips, and tongue move around as he tries to say “grrrrr” or “ooohhh”.
So Daddy was the one to teach Connor his first bad word.
We were at the table having dinner like we do just about every night (a tradition Victoria and I deeply believe in). We were having Mommy’s baked spaghetti which Connor loves. Mommy brought over some fresh out of the toaster oven garlic bread and placed them on the table. I love garlic bread and grabbed one and preceded to put it right in my mouth. IT WAS HOT and I said:
“Damn it, that’s hot.” and dropped the piece of bread on my plate.
Victoria laughed at me and told me to be careful.
Next thing I notice, Connor picks up his fork with spaghetti on it and brings it up to his mouth. Drops his fork back down on his plate and says, “Damn it, that’s hot.”
Of course I go into “explanation mode” on why that is wrong to say and how Daddy was a bad boy. Connor then thought it was funny so he did it a few more times. Most things like this we normally ignore and it passes. Victoria starts saying, “I don’t want him saying this at school.” So we made eye contact and decided we would not say anything further. Sure enough, because he wasn’t getting any attention out of it, he stopped saying it.
Boy I am glad it was that word and not any of the other words in my “bad” vocabulary…
Victoria and I can just picture him at school sitting there (after saying grace) and then picking up his sandwich…dropping it back on his plate and saying “Damn it, that’s hot.’ I know his brain is like a sponge, but let’s hope this has gone to a section in his brain that he won’t recall for another 20 years or so! (I know, wishful thinking.)
Most of the postings have been pictures and/or video and less of the rambling type posts I used to do in the past. Well…here is a post like the old days…
In the past week or so, Jacob has been sleeping more during the day and that has been concerning Victoria for a couple of reasons:
She doesn’t want him wide awake a bed time or in the middle of the night (especially when it is “her shift”).
She is concerned there is something wrong with him…growing too fast, that he might be sick, or something else.
So I got a text message Friday morning saying, “Jacob sleeps a lot. I worry about him.”
My response, “He is ok. We can talk about it later.”
So when I got home I told her my theory on why he is “ok” and why he sleeps so much during the day:
Every night he goes to bed at 8:30pm or so and he sleeps through the night until about 4:30am. Now remember that I am Victoria’s ears while she sleeps because she takes her hearing aid off (to give the skin between the magnets a rest). At 4:30am our “little mover” or “perfect son #2” wakes up slowly. I hear him grunt a little bit…maybe sneeze…and then it is play time. Feet go up in the air and bang down on the mattress. I hear him moving around. He laughs at times and will let our a brief whine but it is more of one where he is talking/entertaining himself.
Now I get up at 5:30am to go to work…so I usually just ignore what he is doing because he is not crying. At 5:30am I go through my normal routine and leave Jacob in his crib. I hope in the shower (Victoria and Connor are still sleeping and Jacob is still playing). By the time I get out of the shower, Jacob usually has fallen back asleep. So that is nearly 2 hours of play time in his crib that Mommy never knows about. He plays so quietly and seems to be so content in there. (He has to make up for that sleep somewhere else.)
Around 7am or 7:30am he wakes up and is the happiest baby I have ever seen in the morning (sorry Connor…he takes the cake on this). He smiles and has even started to provide us with a little laugh lately.
Sure it would be ideal for him to play during the day and sleep all night, but this seems to work for him and he has learned to entertain himself…so no complaints from Mommy or Daddy.
My theory on why he wakes up so early…he is going to be a golfer…we always get up as early as possible to go and play a round of golf!
We’ve been noticing that Jacob was starting to chew and suck on his fingers. He has now discovered his thumb. We thought taking the pacifier away from Connor was tough…how do you take a thumb away?!?!?!?!
Mommy has been telling me that Jacob moves around in the crib. One morning she found him positioned 90 degrees different than how he was laid to bed. He also “inch worms” himself down the mattress as the crib is slightly elevated to help with his acid reflux.
This morning we found him turned over on his side…nearly on his stomach. He is getting very strong.
He is always in such a good mood when we go an get him from the crib in the morning.
