Sparkly

The other day, Jacob had been sitting on his hand.  It had fallen asleep and he began shaking it vigorously.  "What's wrong Jacob?" I asked. He replied, "I was sitting on my hand and now it is all sparkly."

I've Got a Feeling

February brought our first big snowfall of the season. Jacob woke up in the morning, ran to the window, looked out over the white blanket of snow on our yard and squealed, "Oh, this just tickles my feelings!"

Tomatoes

During the last tornado scare in April, we had the TV on for several hours while we were monitoring the storms. Jacob watched with great fascination before commenting, "The red on the screen means there's lots of thunder and lightning and tomatoes!"

Unexpected Event

The family had just sat down to the table for a peaceful dinner together when Jacob jerked upright. "Excuse me," he quickly remarked. "My bum just burped."

Free as a Bird

Shortly before Jacob turned 3, Amy was headed out to the garage to load up the boys in the van.  With Caleb on her hip, she turned to push the automatic garage door opener on the wall. By the time she turned around, Jacob had made a beeline to the rising garage door, had grabbed onto the bottom of the door, and was being lifted off the ground while yelling, "MOMMY, I FLY! I FLY!!"  By the time Amy made it to him, he was at shoulder height and Amy had to grab hold of his waist to get him to release his grip on the door.

Happy Hour

Amy told the kids that they were headed to Sonic to get some slushies during Happy Hour.  Jacob looked perplexed and asked Amy, "Mommy, what's Sad Hour?"

It's OK Officer...

We were driving home one night and the following conversation took place:

Jacob- Daddy, you need to go super fast. Go the speed lemon. 

Me- You mean the speed limit. 

Jacob- No Daddy. You have to go slow when you go the speed limit. The speed lemon lets you go fast.   You need to go the speed LEMON!