My Baby Float

What Jacob didn't get to do in the ocean, he made up for in the pool. Daddy & Grandpa bought him a floatation device dubbed "my baby float"...enjoy watching my baby float.












It was also in the pool that we realized that Jacob knows how to "bow to his sensay" a la Napoleon Dynamite.

Who looks like they're ready to get out?

Dudes

My dudes.

Banana Seats, Longhorn Handlebars, and Foot Brakes

Foot brakes, I tell you.

We took a jaunty ride 'round our hotel and felt like kids again. Literally. I fancy myself a bike rider now, but my biking glory days were around '88. Those were sweet times.

Here are some more sweet times.









We're off to the sandlot to play some ball.

The Hutch Fam...

... Raising the Bar.

Bubble Boy goes to the Beach: Part I

This beach trip was complicated by the fact that Jacob, Daddy & Mommy all had colds. So, Jacob was under special instructions from the nurse. First and foremost was sun exposure. While other little babies and toddlers ran around in trunks or bathing suits, Jacob sported a wide brimmed SPF 50 hat, a T-shirt and had SPF 45 sunscreen wherever the sun did shine. So, I give you, Bubble Boy.





Grandma Jan, otherwise known as the paparazzi.





Watch Jacob's expressionless first experience with the water. And no, we didn't use that pacifier again that day.

Jacob loved crawling on the sand. He played with it lots and ate (medicinally) a little.

The Beach

This past week our family vacationed in Destin, Florida. We had hoped to escape the ever lurking paparazzi, but, obviously, we weren't successful.



These people will stop at nothing to take our personal moments and make them public. As frustrated as we are, we do have Jacob's college fund to think about. So, we have sold the rights to the pictures of our week at the beach to this blog for an undisclosed (huge) sum.

Please enjoy the many authorized beach posts to come.

Mother, I love you;

mother, I do.



Father in Heaven has sent me to you.



When I am near you,



I love to hear you



Singing so softly that you love me too.



Mother, I love you;



I love you,



I do.



Happy Mother's Day to all of our mothers, grandmothers and nurturers along the way. We love you.

Someone's in the kitchen with Maaaah-meeeee

I'm not quite sure who, but someone definitely is.

Summer Legs

Not your newborn's ER visit

Yes, we took Jacob to the ER, but before you get worried and start thinking his onesie has lost its snaps, here's a brief overview.

1. Mommy and Jacob were playing in Mommy & Daddy's room.

2. Jacob knocked some books off Mommy's nightstand.

3. Jacob played one foot away from Mommy with his back turned to her.

4. Mommy noticed Jacob smacking his lips in his usual "something's in my mouth that ought not to be there" sort of way.

5. Mommy decided not to use her cat-like reflexes as she took a slow approach to do a mouth sweep.

6. Jacob GULPED.

7. Mommy heard said GULP and worried about what he could have swallowed and looked behind him to see...A PAPERCLIP!

8. Mommy called the doctor and explained the situation and the doctor said he needed an x-ray, "just to be sure".

9. Daddy, Mommy & Jacob ended up in the waiting room at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital watching Monsters Inc. and playing this game for a couple of hours.


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(It obviously got old for Jacob after a little while.)

10. After stretching Jacob out like he was on the rack on the x-ray table, as he wailed and wailed, we found out that Jacob had nothing metallic in his belly.

Phew, double phew.