Jake

I don’t get to post a lot of pictures of Jake on the blog. He is at school all day and isn’t really into getting his picture taken to much these days. Too cool for mom to photograph I guess.

But this morning before school he looked to cute and I wanted to document his life right now so I wouldn’t take no for an answer.

The first few he wouldn’t smile but after a min. he warmed up. I got one smile out of him and that was all I needed to be happy.

So here is a list of “whats new” for Jake:

• He is currently broken and this makes me so sad. He fell skiing last weekend and broke his humerus just below his shoulder. They didn’t cast him. I guess the location is hard to cast? I don’t know. I do know I would have felt better with a cast to protect his arm.
• Due to the broken arm he can’t do much. No activity for 6 weeks. He was pretty much ok when they told him that. Then they put the sling on him and he started crying. The nurse asked him if his arm hurt. He said no, it was just that he couldn’t play the wii with the sling on. LOL
• He loves his video games. ALL OF THEM. Thankfully he can take off the sling when sitting on the couch so he can play them.
• He is becoming a very good reader. He is good at reading out loud as well. He loves to go to the library to check out books. His favorite author right now is Mo Willems who writes the Pigeon books and the Elephant and the Piggie Series. He laughs so hard at these books. Bedtime reading is so much fun these days.
• He is an excellent big brother (when he wants to be!)   He will introduce Tess to his school friends and he always has his arm around her shoulder when we are in his class. (since he broke his arm, we take him into his class and pick him up from his class everyday, so he gets to “show her around” twice daily.) It is adorable.
• He is my early riser. Some mornings he comes in our room before 6am, ready to start the day. If you ask him why he is up so early, he will inform you very seriously that he is up so he can see his dad before work.
• He still goes to bed at night without any trouble. After the bedtime routine, he climbs in his bed, says goodnight and that is it. Lights out and we don’t hear from him again till morning. (So UNLIKE his sister!)
• He LOVES to dance. He does break dancing in the foyer when I put his hip hop songs on iTunes in the library. He is very serious about it too! It is so funny to watch.
• He loves to wink at you. It is his silent little way of saying “I love you!”.
• He loves cereal for breakfast. I know that isn’t too interesting, but for this cereal hater, it is fascinating. LOL
• He walks around the house all the time humming the Mario Bros. video game song in its entirety. Completely in tune I might add. He can also do Indiana Jones and Star Wars as well.
• He is a fantastic whistler and he has a crisp loud snap! LOL He does both all the time.
• He loves to record his voice and take pictures with his DSi. The playback mix mode makes hilarious songs!
• He is my mammas boy and I love him dearly!