Clever exploration continues into the ER

Happy Thanksgiving! This has been a very busy last couple of weeks. Jakob continues to continue to try to learn more and more about his surroundings. We held off on childproofing the house completely and just adjust as he grows. That means that Christmas will no doubt become interesting this year.

As Jakob's strength and super powers increase, we've had to begin pulling him away from the cabinets. Our sun makes his cells extremely powerful, more powerful than the average human, but they have not completely matured yet. That being said, he can pull lighter items out and play with them, but can only lift the heavier items out for a short period before BONK, they hit the floor. They also sometimes hit his feet. You can imagine how fun that is. Go ahead. We'll wait.

Done? Good. We went as a family to Hy-Vee earlier this week to get groceries for the annual Thanksgiving feast. We started Thanksgiving Day at Marc's parents' house to enjoy Belgian waffles. Later that day, Marc's parents came out to enjoy the big meal with us. They arrived just after Jakob continued his tradition of falling asleep 30 minutes before the big meal. Yes, he slept through it again this year. He woke up shortly after to have some fun with Nana and Pape. And for those of you keeping score, we did in fact feed him both before and after his nap. He didn't miss out.

Before we had Jakob, we would get up together and go shopping on black Friday, but now we've decided we will trade off so Jakob doesn't have to endure the "fun." Last year, Kim went and this year it was Marc's turn. We made a list in relation to store openings and succeeded in getting 90 percent of our entire list completed in one day.

Later that evening, while Marc cleaned up in the kitchen, Kim played with Jakob and turned around just in time to see him spin, fall and hit his forehead on the corner of the door frame between the living room and kitchen. This prompted MUCH screaming (by all of us), a blue goose egg literally the height of his forehead to show up and a trip to the Liberty Hospital ER to take place. After a short time in triage, they called us back and informed us he would need a CAT scan to ensure there was no skull fracture or concussion. That was fun. Actually quite terrible. Awful really.

Thankfully, the scan came back negative and his wound was only skin deep. On Saturday, he was a little sore and his balance was a bit off, but it didn't keep us from making it to Vineyard for the 4:30 p.m. service.

Recently, the big teddy bear in Jakob's room has become his nemesis and the two continue to battle it out. We recovered some rare footage of the two combatants clashing together:

Last night, we started putting up Christmas. Like we said, it's going to be interesting this year. We purchased a barrier that should keep Jakob's clever yet wandering hands away from anything that could hurt him. We got most of our decorations up and then this morning did the big tree reveal with all the lights and decorations for Jakob. It's truly amazing seeing his reaction to new things. We also got our first snow yesterday. Last year, Jakob got to see and feel snow, but he was only a few months old so it didn't make much sense. When we left church last night, it was incredible seeing the wonder in his eyes as the calm snow fell.

Tomorrow, it's back to the grind knowing that in two weeks we both have our work Christmas parties. It's going to be here before we know it.

More soon.

Something, but really nothing

Now that Halloween has passed and the election is over, our conservative minds are a bit worried. We're going to continue to devote time to this blog until the Obama/Biden ticket wipe out free speech all together and bring about the new socialist order.

But today we're still good, so we thought we'd update you on how the little boy is doing. First a couple of movie clips for you to check out:

Jakob Marcus: I'm Gonna Get You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82VT5g_reXQ

Jakob Marcus: Noisy Boy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F52XEpVtI


Speaking of vocal, Jakob really enjoys making noises especially with his hands near his mouth - We were trying to get a video version of the photos below, but he wasn't going for it. The pictures are pretty self explanatory. Hope a chicken doesn't come sit on that bottom lip.

This weekend we didn't do a whole lot as Jakob continued to recover from his upper respiratory infection. We had been giving him breathing treatments and he LOVES those [sarcasm], but it's all paid off as he's back to his normal self. . . for the most part. We're unsure, but he is exhibiting the appearances of perhaps getting another ear infection. Awesome. Double order of awesome.

Jakob has also learned exactly what to do when his daddy's team scores a touchdown. Pretty awesome:

Tonight, we decided to take photos of each other with our eyes crossed. What we learned is that Kim can't do it unless her eyes are squinted. Otherwise, she looks like she's completely evil. Marc on the other hand somehow has the ability to only cross one of his eyes in a sort of "I grew up in Kearney" kind of way. Whoa.

Big month as the new 007 movie comes out, the Twilight movie Kim wants to see comes out, Kim's parents come to see us next weekend and Marc leads worship in our Vineyard Venue service. This all leads up to Thanksgiving then the mother of all holidays. . . Christmas. Pretty exciting.

More soon.