Jacob turned 4 months this week and we have been seeing so many changes in him. First of all he is growing like crazy, he is already 15 lbs!!! He is also getting to be a lot more fun to interact with. He is laughing a lot more, he turns to you when you call his name a few times, he is talking more, just overall a happier baby. He is also able to entertain himself more. He loves to reach for things and try to grab them and loves to play with his hands and feet. We are just having so much fun watching him learn new things all the time.

Our First Family Vacation to CA (June 23-June 28)

One of Sarah's roommates from college was getting married in CA, so we decided to plan a family vacation around it. This was our first vacation with Jacob and he did soooo good! We started our journey at 3am so that Jacob would sleep and he slept the whole trip, yay!! We met up with my best friend from college, Jen, and her husband Adam. We got to meet her daughter Rubie for the first time and Jen got to meet Jacob. We stayed up in Crestline where Adam's parents live. The weather was beautiful, so we got to hang out by the lake a few times, visit Thousand Pines Camp where Jen and I worked 3 summers, and show Chad Lake Arrowhead. We got to visit some friends from camp and their kids which was fun catching up. Friday night we drove down to Orange County for Lindsey's wedding which was very nice. Saturday we went to Hunington Beach, we laid out on the sand, made sand castles, watched street performers, went to Wahoo Tacos :) and then we drove on to Balboa Beach. We took to the ferry to see Balboa Island to go check that out. Sunday we went back to Balboa Beach to go for a family bike ride down the beach front which was so much fun on a tandum bike (and Jacob attached to me in a bjorn). We enjoyed hanging out there all day and then jumped in the car and drove 6 hours home, Jacob slept the whole wayyyyyy, it was soooo nice.

Father's Day Surprises!

The first father's day is here. We started out like every Sunday. We went to church and Jacob rocked out like normal. He has this routine where he loves the lights and music of worship. Chad and Jacob dance to the music because Sarah's family is notorious for not having rythym so he has to learn it from somewhere. Anyway, then after the songs he pigs out on a bottle and then goes to sleep during the speaking. I guess he can get away with it since he's a baby right? Anyway today after service we went out to In-N-Out Burger and Jacob enjoyed lunch with dad. His eyes got so big as the burger got close to him. He started drooling when he smelled the greasy burger then mom stopped it and wouldn't let Jacob have any. Party pooper. After that we went home and hung out while he started a new trick. Chad was laying on the floor with him and we have been trying to get him to roll over. He is only 3 months old now so we didnt expect him to but it's fun trying. Well today he surprised us. He rolled over numerous times. It was awesome. After all that excitment we just packed our bags because we leave the next night for California to meet up with Jen and Fam. Cali here we come!

Seeing Changes

Jacob is now 10 and 1/2 weeks and it has been so fun to see changes in him. For the last 2 weeks he makes great eye contact and puts on a big smile when you talk to him. He is starting to make all different kinds of noises and Chad thinks he will be a talker because Jacob loves to make noise and be heard. Jacob has also been very alert to lights and music. He goes in his jumparoo and floor gym and he loves to look at the blinking lights.
There have also been changes in Chad which has been fun to see. Early on, when the baby cried Chad would hand him back to me and say I don't know what to do with him, but now Chad likes to put him in his baby bjorn and entertain him. Chad also has found Jacob's favorite sleeping positions and one of his favorites is sleeping on dad's chest, its really cute!
Jacob just woke up and is crying so I will have to get back to this later :)

Jacob's First Day Swimming

We went out to Toys R Us and bought Jacob a couple of bathing suits (Chad wants me to call them boardshorts I guess) because we are excited to get Jacob in the pool. We weren't sure how long we had to wait to take him in but we looked it up and after the umbilical cord falls out you can take them in. Well, we waited until he was 7 weeks and Dad came home early from work and said "let's go swimming!"
We went to the pool and put him in the water and he loved it. He didn't cry at all. As he got used to the water, Chad just held the back of Jacob's head and the rest of Jacob's body just floated on the top of the water. Jacob just smiled and looked around. He was sooo cute! Later, Chad said it is time for him to go under the water and he dunked him under and I said, I can't watch this and I went to the other side of the pool. But Jacob did so good and didn't even cry when he went under. So Grandpa B. and Chad passed him back and forth underwater. I guess really little babies have a natural thing where they hold their breath. Kinda weird and scary.
Chad took him in the shower after and washed off all the clorine and moisturized his skin so it didn't dry out. The whole swim day was like a half hour.
Jacob loved the whole experience and hopefully he will be swimming like a little fish by the end of next summer.

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Attack of the Green Monsters.

ok so Jacob just turned one month and for his one month birthday he got a cold. He is loving his new gift. Dad cam home with a cough and congestion one day. It lasted about 3 days In that time He tryed to steer clear but had to help Mom take shifts. So it was inevitable that Jacob got what Dad had. We could tell the poor little guy was getting it because his cute cry turned ito a raspy whine and he just ouldn't breath. Today he sneezed and theese huge green slime monsters shot out his nose. It was kind of funny becase Sarah jumped back and was grossed out. Dad cleaned him off. He did feel better soon after that. Then dude to the fussy nature He went for a walk where he blew out another green monster. Now he is just fussy and who can blame him. Dad feels really bad, I'm sorry buddy!

Bombs Away!

Ok so by now you guys know our kid has some serious gas issues. We thought we would share some of the funny stories from the past couple weeks.

The other night I was watching him while Sarah got sleep. I patted him and fed him and got him all ready for bed. He was so tired that finally after some fussing he fell asleep. I laid him in his swing on the off position . Mind you he is all swaddled like a little bean at this point. About an hour goes by he makes a grunt and all of a sudden he blows this huge bomb. I look over at him and simultaniously as he extrudes his power booster gas he falls over right on his head. He farted so hard it knocked him over. It was so funny I laughed so hard I cried. He was like a little weeble wobble.

Needless to say a kid with this much gas is going to coin his own phrases. Auntie Lexie came up with the first phrase that she refers to as the "foop" Kind of a gassy juicy foamy bomb poop thing. Well the other night again Sarah had passed him off to me and I was trying to get th gas out of him. So I laid him on my lap and took his knees and pressed them into his stomach very gently. Well a little bomber came out so I relaxed him and then all of a sudden 3 huge man FOOPs came out! We cheered because it had been hours of fussing by this point. Then all of a sudden I thought that was a lot of "foop" I better roll him over and look and sure enough it blew out the diaper all over me and my clothes. NASTY! Even pampers couldn't hold the load this kid had!

Finally the other night I was online in a video chat conference with people from all over the USA. They were all admiring the new bundle of ....."joy". All of a sudden with like 30 people in this room he blew such a huge bomb that the microphone picked it up and everyone heard it. They all laughed so hard because they thought an adult did it. I had to explain that Jacob has a very very special talent.

No cool Easter stories, Sorry. We didnt look for eggs or anything, no pics with a bunny . Nothing we just tried to survive the rage of Jacobs stomach all day!