It all began with a somewhat frantic trip to the hospital in the wee hours of December 2nd, 2008. Stacy woke me up only after having contracts for the last hour, and decided when she was four minutes apart that it was time to wake me up to drive us to the hospital. As if we were not cutting it close enough, Stacy then wanted to start washing some dishes before we left. She got overruled.
After several hours of labor, Jacoby was born a 5:17....I think. Something like that anyways. We enjoyed the attention we received at the hospital and wish we could have taken a full-time nurse home with us. Sometimes I wish we still had!
A couple weeks into parenthood, the big blizzard hit, and Stacy and I had a crash course in parenting. It was just Stacy, Jacoby, me, and the Christmas tree and a LOT of snow. After almost two weeks the weather finally broke, and we were happy to receive guests again.
As the months have passed, it has been amazing to watch all of the strides Jacoby has made. He goes to a great daycare full of older children, so he is always pushing himself to learn things quickly so he can play with the other kids. First came rolling over, then came crawling, then standing up...now walking. We have our little Frankenstein wandering around the house.
Jacoby has also developed quite the personality. he is a happy-go-lucky kid with a great sense of humor and an appetite for destruction. He is also quite the ladies man, and he is always flirting with the checkers at the grocery store and has all the girls at daycare wrapped around his little finger. I have a feeling he is going to be quite the heart-breaker when he grows up, our little Barney Stinson.
Let's see, what else? the dum-dum? Yeah, one night Stacy took a grouchy Jacoby out to pick up some chinese food while Daddy worked on his homework. When they came home Jacoby had a dum-dum sucker in his mouth that the chinese restaurant owner gave him, and he was smiling and laughing, and falling all over the place for several hours! Everything was funny, and neither one of us had the heart to put him to bed because he was having so much fun. He paid the price the next morning when I had to wake him for daycare though. Sack of potatoes.
So what's in store for birthday #1? Well, first thing is taking him to Segals to have his car seat turned around so he can officially face forward for the first time in the car. More legroom for him, and more legroom for us also. Then off to Dairy Queen for a lovely family dinner and Jacoby's first ice cream cone. Then back home to give him his birthday Tonka truck and then watch him zing around the living room for a couple hours high on sugar.
Over the weekend we will have some family and friends over and introduce Jacoby to cupcakes and wrapping paper!
So it is a great milestone for all three of us as we trudge forth on to year #2. So in the meantime...
Happy first birthday Jacoby! Smoke em if you got em!DISCLAIMER. No babies were actually smoking during the making of this blog.
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