Jacob dancing

This video just made me laugh so hard so I had to post it to the blog.  I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did. 
Occasionally, Jacob and I will watch Baby Signing Time, a DVD teaching basic sign language for children.  I hadn't turned it on in over a week and when I did, this is what happened. :)

Independence Day

It is not very often that I get to spend the day doing whatever I want with my husband and baby. I thought about it for several days and realized that there isn't a whole lot you can do when you have a one-year-old who still takes 3 naps! One of our original ideas was to go camping somewhere. We realized quickly that probably wouldn't work so well, since our tent is a VERY SMALL two-man tent. I can just see the three of us trying to get some sleep. That idea was quickly vetoed. The next idea was to go somewhere where we could build a fire and cook a meal. We began to realize that it was already the weekend of the 4th of July. All of the camping spots were reserved. We put on our thinking caps. Where do we always go to build fires and roast smores? EPIC!! We decided to camp where there was a kitchen, air-conditioning, a seperate room where Jacob could nap, and plenty of cool things to see and explore.

We made some tinfoil dinners and grabbed some stuff for smores and headed to EPIC. We were in the circus room with a very nice fireplace and it just happened to be very 4th of Julyish. (Is that even a word?) We had a blast. Despite the wonderful conditions, we still arrived home smelling like we had gone camping. :)

Thanks again Marc and Becca

Here we have another picutre of Jacob in his froggie towel after having a bath.  He loves being wrapped up in it and we think that he is so cute in it. 

Here are some pictures of what Becca and Jacob do while Michael is at work.  The typical day is get up, feed Jacob, Michael gets ready for work, and he leaves.  Becca and Jacob then just play all day and even get to go to the zoo.  Michael comes home from work and Becca has an amazing dinner all prepared.  Michael gets to play with Jacob for about an hour and then we put him to bed.  Becca and I then usually havae a project to do and then Michael puts in a couple of hours of work while Becca works on all sorts of talents and reads voraciously. Then we go to bed.  that is pretty much how our lives run right now. 

This was a fun day for Becca and Jacob, although Becca may have enjoyed the time at the zoo more than Jacob did since she was able to go with a couple other ladies in the ward.  It is always nice when Becca can have some time with her friends in the ward, so she can get out of the house.  Usually though whenever she leaves the house she is going to do service of one kind or another.  There have been a lot of people moving in our ward, in, out, and across the ward. There is quite a bit of work to do for each move and Becca is generally there helping clean or watch kids or something. She seems to stay quite busy with all of the things she does and just keeping up with the house in general.  In all reality it is Michael that has the boring life, he just goes to work, has 7-8 meetings a day and then comes back home.  That is about it.  

Well, Becca just said that I am rambling so I  better end and show some more pictures, what everyone looks at a blog for anyway.  

Here is a tiger.  Tiger (a nickname for Jacob) liked looking at the tiger.

   

Jacob learns the letters EEG

Jacob, why were you at the hospital yesterday?

Bah, bah, bah dah, dah

Oh, you were having an EEG done?

mah mah ba ba

Oh yeah, I bet it was scary.

bah, bah, bah, bah, bah

And you had to wait in the Dr's office for an hour and half before he told you that you weren't having infantile spasms? I bet you were nervous.

What a day! I have never been so terrified in my life while at the same time feeling so calm. Does that sound weird? I was scared thinking of all the implications that might come and yet at the same time, comforted knowing that all would turn our how God intended it. And if that's how He wanted it, I would be able to handle it.

I better start at the beginning. Friday morning, I began to notice Jacob doing some weird stuff. He would sit on the floor playing and occasionally his head would drop down on his left side kind of close to his legs and waist, it would stay there for a second or two and then his head would come back up. I wasn't so worried until it started happening a lot. By the time Michael came home from work, I was feeling sick. I had been looking on the internet and had found what they call infantile spasms. I had even watched a Youtube video of it and it looked exactly like what Jacob was doing. And what scared me even more was how scary infantile spasms can actually be to treat and the damage the do in the mean time.

Michael wasn't convinced that they were infantile spasms so we decided to wait out the weekend and see what would happen. They still happened Friday and Saturday but not near as much. But Monday they were still happening so I called the pediatrician and we scheduled an appointment for Tuesday morning.

At the appointment, the pediatrician basically told me some things that he was pretty sure it wasn't and then he said he thought it might be infantile spasms but he wasn't sure. But he said he would call the pediatric neurologist and see if he could get us in to see him in the next week or so.

When we got home, we got a call from the ped. neurologist's office telling us that we had an appointment at the UW hospital at 2:15 for an EEG and then the doctor wanted to see us but was full so that he would see us after all of his other patients.

The EEG went ok. Jacob really didn't enjoy the sound and feel of the blow gun that dried the glue and the electrodes to his head. But once they were on, we had fun and he was even giggling while we waited for it to measure the electronic activity of his brain. The nice thing was that the EEG would either confirm the pediatricians suspicions of infantile spasm or we would know for sure that he wasn't having infantile spasms. Isn't it nice sometimes in life to just get a yes or no?

After the EEG, we waited for an hour and a half. Then the doctor finally came to tell us the results. The EEG showed no results of infantile spasms! YEA!!!!!

I had brought in a video of Jacob and he looked at it and said that he wasn't too worried about it. So he said to keep an eye on him and if something is worrying me to give him a call and to also call him back for sure in a month and let him know how things are doing.

So we don't know what it is but at least we know that its not infantile spasms!

Jacob and the slipper

Jacob found a few random items to play with at Grandma Pieper's house. He looks cute even when he is chewing on a slipper :)

Visiting Idaho

Jacob and I are here in Rexburg enjoying time with family and friends. It is always so good to see those that you love you so much. The sad part is that Michael is not here with us. WE MISS HIM DEARLY.

While here, I have cut my hair and although Michael and I talk on the phone every night, he has not yet had a chance to see my new do. So here it is. I hope you like it, Michael.

I need to be better at taking more pictures. I just get so caught up having fun with everyone and forget to take some shots.

Christmas day

We are a little behind getting these pictures posted, but they are fun ones.  Jacob was very happy on Christmas and loved the gifts that he received.  We love the little frog bath towel that we received from Marc and Becca.  Also, the top picture is Grandma and Grandpa Pieper's gift.  Jacob had way more fun with the packaging than anything else. 
Jacob loved opening the presents, but usually didn't care much what was in them.  He tried to see if he could rip off a little piece of wrapping paper and put it into his mouth before we realized what he was doing and caught him.   It was a great day to spend with family and have so much fun together.