Cuddle Boy

Jacob is 100% a momma's boy, no denying, no getting around it.  I'm not going to lie, I love it!!!  He will randomly come up to hug, kiss, and sit on my lap without asking.  He was particularly cuddly last week and willing to cheese it up for pictures!

He also had lots of love for his sister this night and showered her with hugs and kisses while she was trying to watch her show.  I absolutely love when they show affection towards each other!

My Buddy

Remember that toy from the 80s/90s, My Buddy?  I can't help but sing the jingle (My buddy, my buddy, wherever I go, he goes.  My buddy, my buddy, my buddy and me!) when I see Jacob and Riley together.  She has quite the little buddy in Jacob and he literally follows her where ever he can, including time out!  It makes my heart sing seeing these two so loving towards each other!

Hugs for Sister

Riley was throwing a temper tantrum the other night and Jacob walked right over, laid down, and gave her a hug.  At first Marc thought he was biting her, I him "no, I think he's hugging her," as he did this a few days earlier when she was throwing a tantrum at school when I picked them up but it did warrant another look because well, it was very possible that he was biting, pinching or pulling her hair.  But nope, sweet boy was hugging his big sis!  Jacob has started to be become aware of other people's moods and responds to them, i.e. hugging a crying-fit throwing Riley.

As you can see, Jacob successfully turned her frown upside down!  I love this age because they are playing so well together.  They love to give each other stuff, especially Jacob, he'll grab Riley's sweatshirt and hand it out to her or when she's doing gymnastics and he sees her, he'll point and scream at her.  And the feeling is mutual, Riley tells us that Jacob is her best friend.  Saturday she told us that she likes Jacob better bigger than smaller because he's so much more fun.  (I on the other hand, love this phase of Jacob but miss the cuddly baby phase, especially after a few visits to see Bella's new brother Max!)

Baby cuddles from Max for me! :)

Tubes

Super behind on blogging, I feel like all I do is work and when I'm not working, I'm trying to spend as much time with the kiddos as possible which leaves little time for blogging, let alone getting my toes done, eye brows waxed, watch fixed and going to the mall to try to find a new pair of jeans which I need desperately (since I wear jeans to work almost every day).  Oh and sleep, sleep would be good too.

Thursday I took the day off and took Jake-os down to get tubes put in his ears.  Overall it went very well, the hardest part was really just waiting for them to take him back.  I got there at 6:20 (in the am!) and they didn't take him back until 7:30 so he got very antsy.  Around 7:10 they gave him a sedative which made him very sleepy and very giggly but because it made him so relaxed I had to hold him and not let him walk around the waiting room that they had us in.  That was a challenge.  Marc took Riley to day care at 6:30 so with traffic he didn't get to the surgery center until just before they took Jake-os back.  Around 7:15/7:20 Jacob was getting super mellow which was nice, he just laid in my arms.  The anesthesiologist and the ENT came back and talked to us and at 7:30 on the dot they wheeled Jacob back, the anesthesiologist was great and kept assuring me that Jacob would be ok, that there was more of a risk of us driving every day than there was with him under the general anesthesia (I was more nervous for him to go back there and have anesthesia than I was with Riley, I think because of his asthma but Riley, while much smaller, seems much tougher than Jacob and I seem to worry about her less.  Perhaps because she faced so much more at a younger age than he ever had to so I know she can handle anything).  The anesthesiologist gave Jake-os his stethoscope to hold because he was obsessed with it and I walked back to the OR door with them.  No tears, at least from Jake-os. 

15 minutes later, the ENT was back and everything went great, Jacob was in recovery and doing well.  As Marc said, he spends more time in the bathroom than it took for them to do the procedure.  When we got back there I was expecting screaming, unruly baby but he hadn't quite woken up yet.  He was coughing a bit which the anesthesiologist told us about but he monitored him closely.  He was a little fussy but they handed him over to me and he settled right into my arms and fell asleep for over an hour and slept off the anesthesia.  I LOVED cradling him and him sleeping in my arms, literally at this stage in his constant movement I will take the cuddles wherever I can get them.

As promised we were on our way home by 9:30 after 2 Popsicles and some crackers.  I got him home around 10AM and I put him down for a nap to sleep off the anesthesia.  He slept for 2 hours and then it was pretty much like nothing had happened.  He was a little fussy and clingy but overall did great, we even managed to sneak out of the house for a bit and ran to the outlet mall to return some stuff and treated ourselves to a Starbucks (milk for Jacob and coffee for me).

Waiting for his turn in the OR

Post surgery and 2 Popsicles later (I had to cut him off from the Popsicles, he kept asking for more!)

Sweet baby boy!

Keeping himself busy before surgery

Sneaking out to run some errands after surgery

Lunch time, who would have ever guessed he had surgery that morning!

Present from Nana!

Friday Jacob went to day care and they told me they would keep an eye on him.  I picked him up of course later than I wanted to thanks to work being absolutely out of control and I noticed his ear was super oozy and bloody (they told me they had been draining and they had been cleaning them up throughout the day), I freaked out and put in a panicked call to the Dr, of course it was 5:05 and they were gone but I finally got an operator who put me through to the ENT on call, I was in such a panic.  I got lucky and it was Jacob's ENT who said he was not at all surprised given what he saw in the OR, that there was a ton of fluid and so it's now all draining out and it's totally normal so he put Jacob on an ear drop for both ears and we go back for his normal post-op appointment Friday.  Riley was very concerned about his ears on Friday.  They were seriously gross, even I was gagging but when I came in from unloading the car I found her cleaning his ears. She had gone into the bathroom and wet a tissue and was wiping his ear down because she was so concerned about it.  Such my sweet girl!