Yogurt & Wiggles

Seems all Jacob wants to do these days is eat yogurt & watch "The Wiggles!" Seriously, he'd be content if we let him eat 4-6 cartons of yogurt per day, and have "The Wiggles" on continuous rotation. He doesn't watch it consistently, but if I turn it off (because he's walked away & is clearly not paying any attention) he flips out & demands that I turn it back on! He calls it "dancing" but it comes out "dan'ing" & he does a little dance move when he says it. He mostly likes to watch while he's eating breakfast and dinner, and sometimes in the middle of the day.


He's actually doing quite well with the spoon, but you have to watch him because he's not quite as skilled with getting the food on the utensil so he gets frustrated easily. Here's what happens when he's left alone:


Forget the spoon!

More yogurt please!

Here he is showing Dad how to do the "Monkey Dance" - his favorite. He also loves "Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" and claps along when prompted ("Everybody Clap ...") and loves to do the "Shh'ing" part when bear falls asleep. ("Shh, Shh, Shh")

Jacob's Surgery :(

So no pictures of this (it was too early & I was too sad) but the day after Labor Day, Jacob had tubes put in his ears. At first I really didn't like the idea at all, mostly because I didn't like the idea of him going under and having surgery. It was just too nerve wracking for me. But, Jacob's ear problems had just been getting worse & worse.

He got his first ear infection in October 2006, and proceeded to get an ear infection every single month after that, without fail. Every ear infection was accompanyed by a nasty runny nose & fever. Twice that runny nose got rubbed into his eyes which led to pink eye. YUCK! Then in July, he developed what his peditrician thought was an allergic reaction to the antibiotic he was taking for his infection. One morning he woke up & had huge welts on his arms and legs. I totally freaked out and thought it was spider bites or something. Anyway, after that, his ped said we had to get the tubes. I said ok, then he got another ear infection 12 days after finishing the last antibiotics! To treat that, he had to have antibiotic shots every day for 3 days in a row. Poor Jacob! He was so not happy.

So, flash forward to September 4th. Jacob has to be at the surgery center at 5:45am. UGH! But, everything went very quickly and Jacob did great. I stayed home with him that day, and while in the morning he was kind of hysterical from the anethesia, he recovered just fine. The only problem was, we were suffering from a horrible heat wave and it was well over 100 degrees all weekend long, including that Tuesday. I had to keep Jacob indoors all day so both of us were going kind of stir crazy.

But, he's doing great now, though he does not like having his ear plugs put in before his baths. But, he hasn't had an ear infection yet. Yay!

Swimming Lessons

I'm still playing catch-up with my posts - UGH.

Back in August, Jacob started swimming lessons! I hesitate to call them lessons because it was really just an exercise to get him used to the water. His first lesson did NOT go well. He was being a real mama's boy even before we left, so he wasn't having much fun with Jason in the pool. He just screamed & cried the whole time. He kept asking to get out of the pool, so finally after about 15 minutes, we relented. Once he got out of the pool and into my arms, he was ok. But he immediately went behind a tree & pooped (he likes his privacy!), so maybe part of the problem was that?

Anyway, the next week, even though I didn't want to (I'm not much of a swimmer/water person) I did the lesson with Jacob. He did much better, but fussed a little. He didn't like going under water, but liked the floating.


Here he is going down the water "slide".


This was an exercise to try to get him to stretch his body out and kick his legs behind him, but he really didn't want to.

Here we are trying to get him to hang on to the side of the pool to blow bubbles but that really didn't go over well either.

Throwing the ball at dad was the most fun!

So next summer hopefully we'll have better success with the swimming lessons! He is interested in the pool and likes the water, so that's promising.