Jacob Update
February 8th, 2009
Last week, we got a new HD camcorder. Jacob has really enjoyed watching video of himself on TV. He wants to watch it over and over. He’ll start cackling when it gets close to the parts he thinks are funny. He’ll jabber about it — “That Jacob funny!” Sometimes when he hears a question that I asked him on the video, he’ll answer it for himself now.
Today, I woke up feeling like vomiting. I haven’t yet, but it’s been really close. Terah and I explained to Jacob that my tummy hurts. Jacob came over to me and said “kiss it!”, and kissed me. (If he gets hurt, he wants a kiss where it hurts.)
I’ve been in bed sometimes, at the desk sometimes, and at the couch sometimes. It’s one of these annoying things where I can’t sleep, but the only way I can not feel like vomiting in bed makes me sore after awhile, and sitting at the desk or reading something only works for a little while.
As I was sitting at the desk, Jacob came in and wanted to watch some train videos. “See old train! See old train IN SNOW!” He usually sits on my lap, his squirmy 2-year-old self, and watches the videos off Youtube. Today I told him he would have to be very still, and he did a very good job of it.
Later he saw me on the couch. “Dad sleeping,” he said. He gave me a hug, then said, “I sleep there too.” For about a minute, he had his head on the pillow facing me, with a big smile on his face. Then he was off to find a book or something. “Dad have ouchies.”
It’s very sweet to see his sense of compassion developing already. Even if the bounciness sometimes made my stomach more queasy.
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