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I keep sitting down to write a post but feel like I don't have anything interesting to write about right now. I think of cute things Jakob is doing here and there but it's never really enough to make a whole post, so I think I'll just write them all in a single post. Here's what's going on around our house lately:

Jakob has finally (at 2 and a half!) started saying "no". He actually started saying it while we were visiting home a couple weeks ago. Before that if you asked him if he wanted a certain snack or movie he would say "uh-ummm!" Now he just says no to everything. Even if he wants something he just says "no" and sometimes "nope".  It is kinda cute.

When we got a new t.v. a couple years ago we moved the old t.v. and vcr into the office. Jakob knows how to work the vcr and change his movie when he gets bored with one. He will bring me movies and say "line keeng" and he has the Lion King movie. He also knows the Toy Story movies and Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse movie. He knows which one is which from the writing on the top of the movies. Can we call those his first sight words??? (lol)

We have a new obsession around our house. His name is Spiderman. Thankfully Netflix has many many different episodes of Spiderman. We are currently watching the shows from back in the 70's every night (he also knows IceMan and Firestar :). He walks around shooting webs and karate kicking stuff. Last night I had one of my cookbooks on the couch (it is red and blue) and Jakob walked by, glanced at it and said diedoo-meen (which is spider man) He thought it was a Spiderman book because of it's colors :)

Last Sunday we started keeping Jakob in Church with us during worship time as a sort of practice for when he turns 3. At this Church kids leave the nursery when they're 3 years old. They stay with the adults until singing, etc is over and then they go to their children's church. (Sunday nights they sit in the service with their parents and Wednesdays they have kids for truth so they aren't with us.) I've been nervous about how he will do when he has to sit with us so someone suggested a "practice run". Everyone kept telling me he did so good and they didn't hear him, but he did talk quite a bit. We've got to work on our inside voices :D Also he kept trying to shoot a web (like spidey) at the Pastor (lol)

We were at JCPenneys the other day and Jeremy found a little boys shirt that said "dirt-ologist"

He laughed and said Jakob needed that shirt. He really does! The weather has been so nice lately that we go outside for hours every morning. The only thing Jakob wants to do outside is collect rocks and dig in the dirt. He is filthy every time we come in. Sometimes I just want to take him out in just undies because his clothes get so filthy!

I've been reading this girl named Rebekah's blog for a couple years now. Her and her husband went through an open adoption around the time we were trying to have a baby. Not knowing if we would be successful with IVF or if we'd also turn to adoption one day I really enjoyed reading her blog. I feel the way to have a really good blog is to be open and honest with people. This girl is really that way. She and her husband have recently adopted another 2 year old out of foster care. I really appreciate that she's sharing the hard times as well as the happy ones. It's a good blog and if you have time you should check it out.

There's a baby shower for one of the girls at Church on Saturday. She has 4 boys and is due sometime this summer with a little girl :) I bought the cutest little outfits the other day for the baby. I l-o-v-e shopping for girl clothes! At first I thought I'd go to the shower, but I think I have decided that I'm not going. I think this girl would totally understand my hesitation. I am feeling alot better these days but I just don't feel like I'm ready for a baby shower yet. It has nothing to do with envy, jealousy, any problem at all really, I actually feel like I might be able to make it through a shower, but I just don't know if my heart is quite ready yet so I think I'll sit this one out.

At Church on Wednesdays we started a dvd series by Paul Tripp called "Forever: why you can't live without it" It is so good! So many times I think that because I'm a Christian and because God loves me my life should be without pain. I sometimes wonder why I have so many physical issues and why I can't just be/feel "normal" like everybody else around me. One thing that Tripp said that totally encouraged me was that our pain and heartache is not getting in the way of God's plan. More often our pain and heartache is God's plan for our lives. Sometimes we need to suffer so that we will open our hands and let go of this earthly life, and our minds will be drawn to eternity. We need that heavenly perspective and sometimes it takes trouble in this life for us to remember that this world is not our home. If you can find these dvd's or even get your hands on this book you will not regret it! It is so encouraging. 

Anyways, that's some of what's going on around this house lately. I went for a blood test last Friday for my thyroid. I'm pretty sure it's messed up again. I am waiting on a call from the doctors office in the next few days. I've also gotten an itch to change my hair color. I will probably go in a couple weeks. I still don't know what I want yet.  I have had to cancel 3 or 4 hair appointments due to pregnancy and morning sickness, then the miscarriage so I am in major need of some hair help. Thankfully it's just long enough now that I can pin it up so people can't see how badly my hair needs some style!