Two new teeth!

And on bottom no less! Way to go, Jake! And he was the first one to wish Mommy Happy Birthday. Who's my little dude?! Smooches!

Jacob is not an alligator

Just in case anyone was confused. We went to Grandma Lynn's this weekend where Jake to ride a "motorcycle" and play piano. After dinner Jake wanted to leave and was telling everyone "bye bye." Grandma Lynn said "see you later, alligator." Jake proceeded to point out that he is NOT an alligator. Alligators go "snap snap." Then he told us all the way home that he wasn't an alligator. I asked him if he's a monkey (we went to the zoo and spent a lot of time with monkeys that afternoon) and he said yes. So, there you have it, my son is not an alligator, but he is a monkey.
No real reason for this post, just thought it was a cute story that, I have a feeling, will live for a while. :-)

Pictures from yesterday

We're back up! Yay for electricity! Sadly, Internet is still on the fritz, but I brought the pictures to work. The pictures that go with the post below are:

Doctor visit and other fun times

*** This post was supposed to go up yesterday but as I was uploading the pictures (which will be in a seperate post) the power went out. That was 15 minutes or so into Jake's nap (about 12:45 p.m. on the 13th). The estimate to get our power back is either 5:30 p.m. tonight or sometime tomorrow afternoon. So, we have a fridge full of rotten food (and probably a freezer as well), no hot water, no lights, no Lolli-Pops (GASP!), a freaked out dog and toddler, and I want my HOUSE BACK!! I will post the pictures from the pumpkin patch when I have a home network again. Trust me, they're cute. ***

Jake had his 2 year doctor visit today. He is 35.25" tall and weighs 28# 6 oz. That's 75% and 50%, respectively. He got his first (of 2) seasonal flu shots and was very brave even though it hurt. No crying and he recovered quickly as soon as I told him we were all done. The one shot visits are definitely easier than the 2+ shot visits! After that we went to Mommy's office to show him off, got a donut at Marie's, and went to Kline Music in S. Land Park where he got to hold a REAL violin, play drums, and Mommy bought him a tom tom drum and a harmonica. We came home and ate lunch while watching Nemo. Pretty good morning for all that it involved a shot and a massive storm (the weather is monsterous outside! Pouring rain, high winds, and cold!). The doc pronounced him a perfect 2 year old, super smart (very verbal), and darling. All information we knew, but it's nice to have an expert tell you!

Last weekend we had fun at the Bishop Farm Pumpkin Patch in Wheatland. It was a bit of a drive, but they had a petting zoo, a train, a fort, HUGE pumpkins, and a ton of other stuff that we didn't even get to do because we were only there 3 hours!! And we still have to go to a local pumpkin patch because we were having so much fun it got dark before we had time to buy a pumpkin!

Sunday we went to have a play date with BFF Jack. The boys had a blast jumping off of the fireplace hearth (well padded) and Jake fell in love with Jack's garbage truck (see his updated Amazon wish list for details for Christmas! He's been very good, Santa.).

All in all, life continues to be a series of fun days with my boy and basking in the amazingly sweet and brilliant little man that we're raising. OK, the tantrum going down for his nap today wasn't all sunshine and puppy dogs, but hey, what's 10 minutes of shreeking "MY GUITAR!!!" between friends? All in a day's mom-ing. TTFN... I need a nap too.

Growing and blowing

OK, I'm getting a little strapped for new titles. But Jake is, in fact, both growing and blowing in this installment. First, growing: he measured 34.5 inches on his 2d birthday. Not sure if I'd mentioned that. He also has been taking in food like a toddler shaped black hole lately (and chunking up a little) so I'm thinking there's more height in store soon. He's also outgrown his high chair. I put him in it Tuesday night just fine. Wednesday it was pinching his legs and, bye-bye high chair. So he's sitting at the table like a big boy and lovin' it.

The picture is Jake at South Land Park in this snazzy new sweater Ama got him from Alaska.

Now, to blowing. As you all know, I think, Jake has been fascinated by musical instruments of all types. His favorite changes randomly, but the trombone has been getting quite a bit of "play" lately. So we had Poppa bring his trombone over and play it (and let Jake play it). After that, it slipped in the polls for a few days (really loud, Momma) but it's back with a bullet since Momma's friend Carrie sent him "Zin Zin Zin, a Violin!" for his birthday. In the first 12 hours we had the book he read it 6 times. Keeping in mind he was asleep for 10 of those hours. We read it twice when he got home, 3 times at bed time, and first thing this morning before even getting out of bed! Good choice (and THANK YOU) Auntie Carrie. And a special IBO shout out to Jude who is also just two!

Baking cakes and other news

I wanted to post the pictures of Jake and I baking his birthday cakes for school. We made carrot cake mini-cakes in the shape of dinosaurs. They were a HUGE hit with all involved. In fact, we seriously over made the batter, so Mommy's office got a bundt cake out of it, which disappeared in record time. Yes, it WAS that good. Probably Jake's doing. He dumped dry ingredients in, beat the eggs, and mixed the batter. He was very excited.

Also wanted to share the picture with the guitar. He's destined to be a star: can't you just hear him saying "Look, why don't you papparazzi just leave me alone?"

So he's been having problems sleeping lately (thus, so have I). I think it may be, in part, a growth spurt. I went to put him in his high chair last night and he got stuck! He fit Wednesday. Now it's in the garage and he's sitting on a tall chair at the table. Just like that. Last night he "scared" his pony (puppet) and I asked him what Jake was scared of (because I think it may also be some nightmare issues) and he told me he's scared of robots. Oooooo Kaaaay. No idea where he' got robots or that they're scary. I don't think there are any robots at his school. How very random. So I tried to ward off the robots last night but was informed this morning that it didn't work. Must get stronger robot repellant. Anyone know where I can find some?