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Victoria didn’t even want me to put any dates past Sept 25th and no weights beyond 8lbs.  (I don’t understand why?!?!?!)

The last couple of nights, Connor and I have been busy doing the following:

1. cleaning up the room that is going to be Connor’s new room.
2. moving the baby items out of the attic, cleaning them, and putting them back together.
3. throwing away “junk” that has collected in “Connor’s room” and the attic.

Connor has been very helpful.  I go in the attic crawl space and have him hand me things.  He slides the packed boxes over to me or pulls one out from the entry way.  When I got home from work tonight he met me at the door and said, “Clean room upstairs?”  (Because we did it the night before.)  My little helper loves doing things.

The plan is to finish cleaning up “Connor’s new room”, paint it, and get some furniture in there.

Jacob will go in what is currently Connor’s room.

Jacob Ross Woodruff

How did we choose the first name?

1. I liked how it sounded and once I told Victoria, she loved it.
2. The English translation of Jacob is James, which is Connor and Uncle Danny’s middle name.  I was considering James as a first name, but liked how Jacob “sounded”.
3. I am not big into nicknames, but I like “Jake” — for now he will be Jacob.
4. Jacob was a twin, my father was a twin, and to this date I still think there are two inside of Mommy.

How about Ross, the middle name?

1. Simple enough…it is Papa’s (Victoria’s father) middle name.
2. Papa is such a big part of Connor’s life and will be a big part of Jacob’s life as well!  So, I felt the best way to honor an exceptional grandfather was to give Jacob part of his name.
3. Where does Ross come from?
   1. Jacob’s grandfather (Papa):  Gene Ross Shelton
   2. Papa’s great grandfather:  Wheeler Ross Wilkerson
   3. That is where Papa got his middle name from.  (That would be Jacob’s great-great-great grandfather.)
   4. Wheeler Ross Wilkerson was Papa’s father’s mother’s father.  (I know that is a mouthful.)
   5. So basically here is how it was passed down:
      1. Wheeler Ross Wilkerson (Papa’s great grandfather)
         1. Marjorie Elizabeth (Wilkerson) Shelton  (Papa’s grandmother)
            1. Jean Marcel Shelton (Papa’s father)
               1. Gene Ross Shelton (Papa)
                  1. Victoria Louise (Shelton) Woodruff (Mommy)
                     1. Jacob Ross Woodruff

Here is more about Jacob from the web:

From Wikipedia

http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jacob.html

So Daddy has been hard at working trying to find a name that he and Mommy would like (and Connor too). I’ve been pretty good at keeping it a secret from the Grandparents and only tried names out on Uncle Danny and Mommy. Mommy shared “the name” with Laura (Abby and Isaac’s Mom) and she also decided to share it with Connor last week.

One night when we were tucking Connor into bed, he goes over to give Mommy her nightly kiss and lifted up her shirt and kissed her tummy (like normal). Then he said, “Good night, Jacob.” Well, I was shocked and then I knew the name had been chosen! Plus, it was only a matter of time before he would let it sneak out to the grandparents.

Saturday night, Mimi asked me what the baby’s name was and I told her to ask Connor. He said it a few times and then she finally picked up on what it was.

Sunday, Connor spent the day and night with Grandma. Here is part of our conversation on the phone Monday morning…
Grandma — “You have to be careful with what you tell your son.”
Daddy (worried he picked up on a bad word, even though I don’t say them) — “What did he say????”
Grandma — “He told me the baby’s name.”
Daddy and Grandma — laughed on the phone together

And to officially announce it, here’s Connor:

More on the full name tomorrow night!

Mommy has noticed that Jacob is kicking a lot more than Connor kicked. He kicks at all times of the day and night. At times, I feel Victoria “jump” in bed and then I ask her what is wrong. She says, “The baby kicked.”

Definitely a little more active than Connor at this stage. Mommy seems to be getting around pretty good but she is feeling the summertime heat. She is freezing Daddy out of the house. Normally she is the one who is cold in the house and I am hot/warm. Well, I am sleeping with a down comforter at night because our room is freezing cold!

So, remember all the time and effort that I put into building Connor’s swing set.  For 1 week Connor loved it and played on it!

Well, on Saturday Mimi and Papa came over and dropped off a sandbox to go under Connor’s new swing set. Since it was assembled and put under his swing set, I haven’t seen Connor swing or slide down the swing set.  All he wants to do is play with the sand!

That’s alright…Daddy is planning how he is going to expand the swing set into the trees (my neighbors are going to love me!).

Dinner with Mommy and Daddy outside:

Enjoying an ice pop outside!

was a blast! He are a few pics and videos of Connor enjoying himself there.

We were there for nearly 3 hours and most of that time was him climbing up and sliding down the slides in the videos. He absolutely loved it. Everyone had been telling us he would enjoy it and that we ALL would have a great time. Well, they were right! I think I was smiling and laughing the entire time he was in the pool with me. What a great time!

He would slide down, walk by me and give me a high five and then head right back up! What a great time!

Videos:

This birdhouse has been in this spot for 5 years and we never had a bird nest in it. So, the plan was to take it out. When I started laying out where everything was going (about 2 weeks ago), I started to notice that a bird was coming and going. Soon, there were two birds and one looks a little plump…

Fast forward to this weekend…I decide to leave the birdhouse for now. I put some “padding” around the pipe used as a pole for the birdhouse and taped it with blue tape. Hopefully, Connor and his buddies can coexist with the new family nesting above. As soon as the birds have hatched and moved out, then we will relocate the birdhouse.

Connor played outside with Daddy until 8:30pm tonight.  We finally went inside because it was getting dark.  Here are a couple clips of Connor playing outside.