Trying so hard

Jacob has been trying sooo hard lately so form real words. His mouth makes the shape of the word he is trying to say but the sound that comes is just noise. You can semi make out the word he is trying to say but so far it is jumbled noise. It's so cute to watch him try. He really gives it his best effort. I have a feeling it will be any day now before he's forming real words/sentences. He can say.....Mama, Dada, Kila, Grandpa, Grandma, GG, Nene, ball, dunk it (muttled), cup, up, Moose, and milk. I think there are a few more but I can't quite remember off of the top of my head. He's just turning in to such a young little man.

Calling POISON CONTROL

Yes that's right you read the title correctly. This morning while Daddy was taking a shower and Mommy was making spinach and phyllo dough pockets Jacob decided to explore his environment and found something new.........it was a Bath and Body Works air freshener. He has been dieing to get to the one at the office and we had to put the ones up higher at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I should have taken my own advice and moved the ones at our house higher as well. Little Jacob comes strolling in to the kitchen holding the plug-in in one hand and the air freshener bottle in the other. His mouth was green (the color of the air freshener) and it was running down his mouth. I IMMEDIATELY grabbed the spare air freshener I have locked up and read the back for a warning. It stated if swallowed do not induce vomiting, contact Poison Control immediately. This is why Kaiser asks if you have the telephone number for Poison Control by the phone. I don't so I had Jay Google it. I called them and the pharmacist stated that if he wasn't choking on the fumes, then he was going to be ok. Apparently it's only dangerous if he ingested a large amount or if he managed to inhale it in to his lungs. She said to give him some juice to wash it out of his mouth and he would be fine. It gave me a heart attack. So needless to say all air fresheners are up and out of Jacob's reach.............for now.

I'm in love!

Jacob is such an amazing young man. He brightens my heart daily. He challenges me at times and yes it drives me up the freaking wall and makes me want to scream at the top of my lungs but then there are times when he runs up and gives me the biggest hug, pats me on the back, and looks at me with those big blue eyes and says "Momma". It's amazing to think that the decisions we make as parents can shape our children, for example.....I have spoken to various people about night night time. Some parents swear by the CIO (cry it out) approach to help their children go to sleep on their own. I tried that last weekend and I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN. The approach I take is to nurse him and while he's still awake, I lay him down in his crib and let him fall asleep on his own while I am still in the room. This is working and he feels safe and knows that Mommy is there but is still able to fall asleep on his own. Also when he wakes up in the middle of the night, I let him cry for a bit to see if he falls back asleep, if he doesn't I will go in , pat his butt and he falls back to sleep. I don't see anything wrong with the approach I am taking. I don't believe he is going to have issues down the road because I stay in the room while he falls asleep but I do believe that he will have issues if I leave him in the room and let him cry. I can't imagine what he was thinking when I didn't come back in to get him. How can they say to put your child in timeout a minute for how old they are but leave them in their room for 10 minutes to cry before going in. Makes no sense. I am going to follow what my body and heart tells me to do and that is make sure my son feels safe and secure.

Aaarrgggg he's driving me crazy!

Jacob is testing me all of the time. He yells, whines, and hits. I don't know what to do. I have been there for him from day one and he has no reason to take his frustration out on me. I know he has no way to vent his anger other than the above stated ways but I wish he was just a little nicer to me. If he hits my hand I don't want to hit his hand back to show him that it hurts because that's showing him that hitting is ok. How do I vocalize to him that it's not ok to hit Mommy? I hope I am not losing control of my son at 15 months and I hope that this isn't a peek in to the future. I have never written a blog other than happy experiences but I am hoping someone will read this and give me some input.

And the climbing and naughtiness continues......

Jacob is scaring me to death lately. He is climbing on EVERYTHING! He climbs on the ottoman to get on the chair, he climbs on his garage to get the pictures off of the cd cabinet, he climbs on the wipe box to get to anything. I feel like I am going to have a full head of grey hair before I'm 30. It doesn't matter if I am standing right next to him he will climb on to things and fall and I feel like I am watching him fall in slow motion and my hands are glued to my side. There are tears, laughs, boo boo's and scares but I love watching him when he gets in to his curious mode. You can see it in his face that he is trying to figure out what to climb on to get to what he wants.

Also, he is just getting to be so naughty. I feel like I am in the midst of the terrible 2's early. He tests me and stomps his feet on the utter of the "NO" word, he whines when he wants something, and will do what you just asked him not to do. I know he's still a baby and I know he doesn't know better but goodness he pushes my buttons sometimes. I am hearing "boys will be boys" a lot. Whew I am tired from keeping up with the naughty climber.

Oh the dare devil he is!

Today I was in the kitchen doing some dishes and I noticed that it was very very quiet in the living room where Jacob was. Well as any parent knows, quietness is not a good thing. It either means sleep which is unlikely or trouble. Well in today's case it was trouble. I go in to the living room to see what was going on with Jacob and I see him on top of his toy chest looking out the shutter of the sliding glass door. I didn't want to startle him in fear that he would fall so what does a Mommy do????? Grab the camera! Here is the picture and video I was able to take. Boy o' boy I see grey hair in my near future.

Teefies and sickness, oh my!

Well Jacob already has his two bottom teeth that managed to poke through at 11 months and 24 days; just in time for his 1st Birthday. Well today Jacob and I were rolling around on the floor and Mommy was blowing bubbles on his tummy and he was cracking up. I looked up at his little angel face and see some white poking through the top of his gums. The left tooth looks like it is coming through before the right. So poor bug on top of being sick he's also teething.
Oh yeah about the sickness. I took Jacob to Gymboree play gym last Friday and again for his make up class on the following Sunday. Sunday night Jacob had his first fever. It ranged from 99.3 to 101.1. I was a little nervous because we haven't had a fever scare yet. I gave him Tylenol every 4 hours and put him in warm baths throughout the day. Poor baby he was sooo irritable and not hungry except for Mommas milk. The fever lasted 3 days. On the third day I called Kaiser's Nurse Advice line and they stated not to bring him in unless his symptoms changed or worsened or fever reached 104! 104! yeah 104 (crazy)....Well as I said the fever finally broke but was IMMEDIATELY followed by a rash that covered his trunk area. I googled his symptoms and followed up with Kaiser's Nurse Advice line and it turns out he has/had Roseola. It's nicknamed "baby measles". The rash is not itchy but baby is irritable. Since he got it now, he won't likely get it late. His appetite is improving but he still has the rash and diarrhea. I called Gymboree and asked to speak to someone in Corporate. When children are enrolled in Gymboree the parents are given documents about Health Standards and they are NOT to bring their children in sick. Well Jacob could have only caught this at Gymboree because that's the only place he went and only caught it if the child was contagious with a fever or the rash. So poor baby has not left the house in a week, and neither has poor Mommy. He is super clingy and just wants to be held. Can you blame him? Mommy gave him sugar free popsicles to make him feel better.