A la peanut butter sandwiches!

Poof! Brace yourselves... Prepare yourselves... Three months have been good to baby boy Jacob. It's time to test your comparative size perception skills. We tried to put Jacob in the same basic situations that he was in in the pictures from his birthday post to show how much he's grown. Enjoy!















Sorry the tint is so yellow, I messed with it in our photoshop thingie...it sort of adds to his mystique though, considering the look on his face.







Remember this little shirt? He's wearing it in a lot of the previous pictures.







What a pitiful swaddle. But honestly, he's so big I just can't do it! Check out those legs!







Those booties might as well be painted on. They were soooooo tight.







Mid roll



And here's something that's definitely gotten better with age.

Hmph.

Well, since all of you readers were too busy to ooh and aah over Jacob's pictures...we were just too busy to post the promised update pictures tonight. So there.

(But please, do enjoy the previous post and leave us lots of juicy comments. Thanks!)

Happy Birthday to Jacob!

Today Jacob is three months old. Our little boy is growing up! And aging beautifully. We pulled out the camcorder last night and looked at just how tiny our boy was and how much he's grown. Enjoy a look back at the first few weeks of his life and tonight we'll post some today pictures for comparison.



Brand new



In the hospital with his Mother Teresa blanket



With his body double



Tiny, tiny man (um, I guess we could put this caption with all of these)



The Circle of Life...or our little Man Cub



Our first glimpse at how curly his hair really was, and apparently (by the look on his face) his first glimpse of daylight



Look at those tiny (or teeniney or witsie) legs



Again, note those legs! (he didn't get those from momma!)



Little pink skin and tiny nobbly knees



Maxin' and relaxin'



"The Moneymaker": the only way to hold him to get him to calm down, now he's so big we really can hardly do it



Misery! (Some things never change)



The bouncer that saved us all, the ONLY place he would sleep



Smell something bad son?



What a sweet little wrinkly body!



I love this picture, daddy looks so refreshed (which belies the amount of sleep he was getting) and so proud



Little buddha legs, but no buddha belly!



Blessing day



This looks like one of those eye trick pictures, do you see the baby in this picture? (Jacob's the little guy in the middle)



This was one of our first days alone with him (no grandmas or grandpas to help us)



And life rolls on...



...we think.

We have some news!

On Monday daddy did something very special. (Aside from playing with and loving Jacob and helping mommy clean bottles, etc.)



He started a new job!!! Congratulations Daddy from your boy and your beautiful wife. We're awful proud of you. We're excited for life at Taylor Consulting Group.






And while you're busy at work valuing mergers and acquisitions, Jacob will be busy at home figuring this guy out...



And he'll be ready to smile at you and play, play, play (or cry, cry, cry...depending on his mood) when you get home.



We love you!

(Please excuse the poor quality/pale and sickly pictures...we're between cameras right now and so we're using the camera setting on our camcorder. And one megapixel really is just one lowsy megapixel.)

Last Sunday we took some pictures...

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Which one's your favorite?

I'm losing my mind! And the snaps from Jacob's onesie!

On Tuesday night we put Jacob down for the night, anticipating a night of uninterrupted, or nearly so, sleep. But about 30 minutes later Jacob woke up crying. For those of you not acquainted with our sweet little boy's nighttimes, they do not include crying before 2:00 am, and usually not before 7:00 am. We calmed him back down, but it happened again. The third time it happened I decided to take that boy's temperature. It was 102.0, the second try was 102.3. So, now that my heart was beating in my ears, we called the doctor and they said that considering his age it could be:

a. nothing serious

b. something serious

They told us to go to the children's hospital here in Atlanta to have him seen to. I now had jungle drums and a high pitched humming sound in my brain as we were getting him ready to go to the hospital. So much so that, while fastening his onesie, I only "found" one snap. I looked at it and thought, "where did the other two snaps go?!? They must have fallen off in the washer!?! And left no trace on the fabric?!? Pant, pant, pant." I thrust Jacob at Matt and told him to get a new onesie because the snaps weren't on that one. I busied myself with the diaper bag while Matt quietly (he knew better than to rub my nose in it now) unsnapped the mismatched snap and realigned the snaps to find three fully functioning snaps on both sides of the onesie. A miracle!

The hospital made us feel so grateful that Jacob is a healthy boy. I had no idea that things like baby blood pressure cuffs and baby hospital gowns (make sure to tie it down the back) existed. And while it was funny to see all of that in miniature, it really brought home how hard it would be to have a sick child. It made us realize what Hailee, our cousins' daughter who has strugged with Leukemia, and her family deal with all of the time.

It also made us grateful to have a children's hospital so close. They took great care of him and helped us feel at ease. Despite their efforts to make us comfortable they did have to take a urine sample and blood work. Our eyes got wider and wider as they catheterized him for the urine sample, but he seems unscathed now. And I couldn't watch the IV. Matt held onto him and we both tried to calm him. But apparently, twenty minutes with a numbing solution on your skin still doesn't numb it enough to not feel this...



Yes, baby blue had a full IV. They strapped his arm to a three inch plastic board so it would stay straight. They did the IV to get the bloodwork and in case he needed fluids once the results were back. But thankfully he didn't. The bloodwork and urine sample all came back clear, so they chocked it up to a viral infection. We just monitored the fever (didn't get past 100.5 after that night) and gave him Tylenol as needed and by Friday morning the fever was gone, and it hasn't returned.

Most of the night (we didn't get back home until 5:00) Jacob spent in Matt's or my arms looking more or less like this...



You may be wondering what the pacifier-like thing is in his mouth, and it is a pacifier! A very wonderful pacifier that they had us dip in sugar water to keep him calm until they examined him. The first time he's really taken one. But I guess most babies, and some adults, would suck on almost anything dipped in sugar water.

These pictures were taken on our cell phone, hence the not-great quality. When we told Grandma Hutchison about the experience she said, "and I bet you didn't have your camera!", and I was happy to know that the extra money on the camera phone for "the baby's sake" had finally paid off. See? Sometimes my brain does work.