2 Months of JOY

Two Months ago our boy was born.

Before two months ago we got to go where ever we wanted. Do whatever we wanted, when ever we wanted. Sleep for hours at a time. Live each moment by the seat of our pants.
But...

We never got to see anything as BEAUTIFUL as this.

Jacob's 2 Month Check-Up: Height-24 inches (75-90 percentile), Weight- 14 lbs 8 oz (>95 percentile), Head- 39.4 cm (25-50 percentile).

Sweet, Happy Baby Boy

I was finally able to catch Jacob smiling. I have yet to capture it in a picture because when Jacob smiles, his whole body smiles so all the pictures come out fuzzy. Oh well, videos are better anyway. Enjoy!

First Smiles and Tender Mercies

In Seminary I remember studying a talk by David A. Bednar entitled "The Tender Mercies of the Lord". He described that "the Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts...One of the ways whereby the Savior comes to each of us is through His abundant and tender mercies."

Here is mine.

Last Saturday night, I was sitting on my bed, holding my baby boy. It had been a long day and of course I was exhausted. My mind was on grocery shopping, cleaning our messy apartment and the long night of feeding and soothing that was ahead of me. Then I looked down at my sweet boy and he gave me his first real smile! It was a large, open-mouthed, toothless grin...and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. At that moment I was no longer tired or dreading the sleepless night ahead. My only thoughts were of how much I loved the little person that was laying in my arms and what a gift he is to me.

(I haven't been able to capture his smile with the camera... yet)

Over the River and through the Woods...

To Grandma's Farm! This past weekend, Lauren brought her girls to visit us from Colorado. We decided it would be fun to go up and visit Jake's Grandma's Farm in Layton. After a long drive and a short stop at Ikea for lunch, we were there!

This is Baby Jacob's great-grandma Sarah

Jacob slept the whole time but the rest of us had a blast!

We found a tree swing!


Jacob got to swing too

And a Hammock

Here are some of Jacob's cousins and Aunt Charie! At this point Jake, Annie, Quinn, Belle, Baby Jacob, and myself went to check out the horses. Sadly I had handed off my camera so there are no pictures of them. Jake and I also found (and climbed) the biggest haystack I have ever seen!

Lauren's daughter, Elisabeth (about 18 months old), loved Jacob's car seat. While I was holding him she put Baby Dolls into the seat and tried to strap them in! Later she used it as her own personal toy chest. When I finally put Jacob back in his seat she kept coming over and looking at him like he had stolen her toy.

On the way home everyone was exhausted (including Baby Belle) and took a nap in the car, except Jacob who finally woke up.

Summer in Provo

To some people SUMMER means a break from school, going to the beach (for my Florida friends) and enjoying the nice tan you get from soaking up some sun by the pool. To us with a new baby, SUMMER means sweating in our un-air-conditioned, old Provo apartment. For Baby Jacob is means enjoying the pleasure of sleeping in his diaper.

Last week we finally got an air-conditioning unit (Thanks Mom Gillespie)! It is in the front window of our house, which makes the family room extremely cold but pleasant when the oven is on. The rest of the house is finally livable and Jacob no longer has to sleep in his diaper (which I think he is not too happy about because he loves laying around in his birthday suit. He doesn't get to do this often because he has developed the habit of giving his Mommy a sudden surprise every time she takes his diaper off).