RockinRRanch

We listened to Jacob chattering on this morning in his crib. We still keep the monitor in our room cause its hard to hear him down the hall without it. So I keep it low and you can only hear him when he talks or cries. I love his huggs in the morning. He snuggles right in and even tucks his arms in right close to his sides. He wiggles his body back and forth and lays his head on me. This morning after his oatmeal breakfast he wanted some of my cheerios. I poured him a little bowl of cheerios and milk of his own and he ate all that up too. Daddy still isn't back to himself. Jared went outside for something and Jacob wanted to go out too. I was by the hallway folding the blanket on the chair and Jacob walked over to me with a shoe in his hand. He handed it up to me, made a little noise, and walked towards the door expecting me to follow. I set him on the bench and put on his shoes and we went outside to check on the animals. He went to sit in his truck and then he and I went to check on the goats while Daddy watered the chickens. We pet Celeste on her nose and then Jacob wanted to go over by the tractor. Stopped at a garage sale and I got Jacob a life jacket for $2. We went to the store to look at coolers for our trip to the UP and had to get some patches for Jacob's Jeep stroller. We let Kenzie sit while we were walking up and down the streets at garage sales. They are not built for 8 year olds. We went to my parents church picnic today. We had a nice lunch and both my sister's and their families were there. Max loves watermelon. After eating Jacob headed right over to the motorcycles. Alot of the people road their motorcycles to church and they all parked in together. My Dad road around a motorcycle tricycle and all the kids wanted turns riding. Dad says he is going to buy it. Jacob loves his Aunt Vikki and wanted her to hold him. We hung out by the motorcycles for awhile and talked. Jacob is so sleepy. We took him over to the swingset and he and Hailey swang on the double swing together. Hailey was so excited she was giggeling and would put her arms around Jacob talking to him. She would say things like, "Are you having fun Jacob", "Do you want to swing Jacob". She acts like a big sister. I though Jacob was going to fall asleep swinging. He and Hailey went over to the tunnel and the climbed on the slide. On our way home we stopped at Payless so I could get some flip flops that were on sale for $4 - what a deal. Vikki had the same pair and I thought they were cute. We also stopped at Walmart. When we got home we lay Jacob in his crib for an overdue nap. While he was sleeping I worked on his stroller. I sewed up the back and then ironed on the patches. I had to unscrew the stroller and take it apart to get to the area where it was ripped. When it was time to put it back together I couldn't remember how it went. Jared said, "Are you kidding". I said, "Yes" but I really couldn't remember - it was so easy to take apart. He helped me and we got it back together. Then I took Jacob's life jacket we had picked up today and worked on that. I cut out, from the leftover patch, Jacob's initials - JWDR and ironed them onto his life jacket. It had an ugly worn out badge and I color over it with perm marker and ironed on the letters. Jacob woke up and we went outside. I pushed him in his truck over to Daddy. Daddy gave him a couple of rocks to play with. He would throw them down and then pick them up. He went to put one in his mouth and Jared and I both said "No" at the same time. Jacob jumped and then we all smiled. Jacob was sitting on his wooden rocker and I said, "Jacob are you ready to take a bath". He quickly got out of his chair and headed down the hallway towards the bathroom. I said lets brush your teeth and he went over to the sink and lifted his hand up. He loves to brush his teeth.

Kimmy