There's A First Time For Everything...

...that's the old saying, isn't it? If so, today Jacob experience his first real "injury." He ran into something in one of the play rooms at school and split his eye open. Su called me with the news and fortunately I was able to get to school within a matter of minutes (I work just around the corner.) We spent about three hours at the ER and Jacob has his first three stiches. He continues to amaze me with how brave he is. His only tear came from an injection to numb the stitching. He did say as we left, "Don't want to go back to hospital." I don't think any of us do! I will get a picture of the injury although I don't have one yet.

However, I can't go this long in between posts without sharing some image! This is Patrick last week for his eight month photo shoot. Neithe of us can believe it's been eight months. Patrick is a very hardheaded, energetic, physically strong youngster. He wears me out after a couple of hours. I truly don't know how tiny Suzanne manages an entire day....still, we love him very, very much!

Buddies

I know, I know...it's been a while and there's a lot of catching up to do. You see, everyone's been healthy for a whole week and I don't know what to do with myself.

Things About Jacob

I know, I know...I still haven't posted holiday pictures (there are none of New Year's). I'll get to that this month. I promise! Hehe.

This will keep everyone entertained for a few days anyway. It was ripped directly from our friends, the Parnells. We both thought it was a great idea. We asked Jacob a series of questions regarding his favorite "things" at age two to see what he'd say. I was suprised at how well he understood most of the questions. All of the answers, obviously outside of "age," "height," and "weight" were his, with no prompting from us.

Jacob Brister
Age: 2.5 years
Height: 3 feet
Weight: 30 lbs.
Favorite color: Brown
Favorite food: Meatballs
Favorite drink: Milk
Favorite dessert: Cookies
Favorite book: Frog and Toad
Favorite show: Barney (urghhhhhh)
Favorite movie: Toy Story 3
Favorite character: Buzz Lightyear
Best friends: Ms. Alexis, Erica, Reece, Lila Bennett (two people one word), Patrick
Favorite place to go: Starbucks
Favorite animal: Animal crackers (it's really Corduroy, the teddy bear)
Favorite songs: Duh-duh-t (I refuse to even admit what this is), Wheels on the Bus
Favorite game: Trains
Favorite toy: Vacuum (urghhhhhh)
Favorite place to visit: Nana and Pawpaw's
Favorite place: Nana and Pawpaw's
Favorite football player: Drew Brees

The Walking Wounded--An Update Head Count

The following have now experienced "The Bug" in some form or fashion:

Jacob Brister-12/23
Davis Brister-12/24
Suzanne Brister-12/25
Patrick Brister-12/26
Nicole Hebert-12/26
Peggy Hebert-12/27
KK Hebert-12/27
Betty Brister-12/27
Ron Hebert-12/28

Amongst the soul survivors:
Ward Brister
Renee and Bill Clements

My ultimate goal after my illness was to make sure to avoid soon-to-be-mommy Renee at all costs to keep her from getting sick. So by those standards, I'd say Christmas was a rousing success!

I will get the few pictures I took online here at some point. At this moment, we are preparing for our trip to Children's Hospital for Jacob to get tubes in his ears. It's early in the morning so say your prayers if you view this late.

Bah Hum-BUG!!!

Well, this Christmas has been interesting for sure. At last report, you knew that Jacob was sick.

I received Jacob's bug at about 10:30PM on Christmas Eve. I was up all night sick, pretty much meaning that Christmas Day was a wash. I participated in Santa Claus but missed the Hebert family Christmas gift opening festivities, informed my parents of my illness literally two minutes before they pulled into the driveway and barely made Christmas dinner. I feasted (Gege, is this a word?) on crackers and a couple of other items in which I should not have eaten!

Then, Suzanne received the bug at about 10PM Christmas night and was up all night herself. She has been in bed all day today. And to top it off Patrick threw up his entire breakfast this morning, which served as our indicator that he had gotten the bug, too.

Also, apparently Aunt Colie was up all night at the Hebert house with the bug.

Most of us are on the mend, except poor Su who is still in the bed.

I feel so bad for everyone who went out of their way to prepare and to get here for Christmas and it's been a downer from that perspective as we can't celebrate in proper fashion. However, I am still thankful to have my family and friends, sick or not!.

Christmas Conversations with Jacob

It's Christmas Eve and been an interesting day or two around here. Jacob developed a stomach bug yesterday morning and threw up all day and night. He did sleep well, was lethargic the first half of Christmas Eve but is doing just fine right now.

He was in good enough shape last night to have this conversation with him mother.

MOMMY: Jacob, what did you ask Santa to bring for Christmas?
JACOB: An ipod....a cell phone....a computer....and a camera.

Ummmm, I hope Santa doesn't disappoint!

The festivities start tonight and I will not wait a week to post the pictures.

Christmas Week!

It should be a fun filled Christmas blog week and we start with Jacob's school sing-along from Wednesday. Suzane and I were invited and boy did we get a treat. The kids sang three songs before enjoying a cookie (I believe Jacob's cookie count this week has been about 17).

If the pictures weren't fun enough, I got some video as well. Yes, that's Jacob you hear screaming. I can frankly say, if one day is an indication, that Jacob is the life of the party. I honestly did not expect that. The funniest moment was when all the parents walked in. All of the kids were quiet until Jacob went and started running in circles on the rug you see in the video. Within two minutes, every kid in the class was following along. I am not quite sure if that's good or bad.