Incase I never get around to the baby book...

Jacob had his 7 year well-child visit on Monday.  It may be some time before I get around to updating the baby books, so for the record, he was 45 pounds, 46 1/2 inches.  Oh, and of particular note was that they couldn't complete his hearing test because he had too much ear wax.  Ew!  I felt like a totally negligent mother, but as the doctor was flushing out his ears with water, she told me that it looks like he has really narrow ear canals.  Guilt reduced, but I was sent home with the gear she used and was given a thorough lesson so that I can flush out his ears at home.  Yay motherhood.

Wann she Baby Emma

This is what Sabine says to me every day.  She wants to see Baby Emma, meaning pictures of her on the computer.  Emma lives several states away from us, so it will be a while before we get to meet her in person, but in the meantime we've been keeping up with her daily progress via photos on the internet.  Actually, it's been a couple weeks since we've had to check in daily with Emma's photo page because thanks to Emma's mother and grandparents, Sabine's gotten her very own 3D 'Baby Emma Wall'.  In the photos there's only one picture, but now we've got five of them scattered about that wall.  I've been promising to post them for Jenny for a couple weeks now, so here they are. In the third one she's 'kissing' Emma.

 

This is the life...

Laying in bed this morning, I pretended to still be asleep as Jacob and Sabine were snuggling with each other.  I had been working on teaching her to say, "I love you" and she's finally gotten the hang of it. I heard Sabine say the magic words, "I ofv ouu, JeJe." and little parts of my heart started shooting all over the place.

After a little bit they found out I was awake, or rather, they didn't care whether I was or not and just started climbing on me.  Each arm was filled with one of my kids as we laid there chatting with one another.  Hands down the best part of being a mom.  Then Jacob said aloud what I was thinking, "Ahh, this is the life!" he exclaimed.