Jake meets cousin Kyler...

I have mentioned on the blog before that, on my mom's side of the family, four of the cousins (myself included) were pregnant at the same time, and we all had our babies in the span of two months. All of the babies are happy and healthy, and our family just had such a neat baby boom. So on Sunday I took Jake to my cousin Stephanie's house, where we met up with Grandma & Grandpa Valentine. We were so excited to get to meet Stephanie & Chris' brand-new baby boy, Kyler, who is just about a month old. Jake just looked HUGE compared to Kyler, I guess since I see Jake everyday I don't realize how much he grows in a month, a week, a day. The babies didn't seem all that interested in each other, but give them few years and they will be great buddies. :) I am looking forward to the day in the near future that we can get all the new kids in my family together: Jake, Kyler, Ethan, and Madison.

Jake was unusually fussy during the visit (Nice, Jake. Thanks a lot.), but Kyler was kind enough to let Jake use his gas drops and also his aquarium swing. Kyler already shows great sharing skills. We have very advanced children in our family :) Stephanie and Chris also have a Boston Terrier, Charlie, who is very good at making sure no one hurts his new baby brother. Charlie seems to be a much better 'watch dog' than our Boston Terrier, Ruthie, who thinks everyone comes to our house soley to visit with HER. ("Jake? Nah, there's no Jake here. I'm R-U-T-H-I-E.")

Speaking of Ruthie, she has been quite the 'helper' lately. She even helped clean off a nice big piece of steak off my plate the other night when I went to change Jake. Bugger. She also helps 'water' the flowers in our garden instead of watering the grass. (Nice, Ruth. Thanks a lot.)

And speaking of watering, I had been doing really well in the avoiding-being-pissed-on category for quite a while. I had an impressive stretch of about four or five weeks going. But it's like a no-hitter in baseball - you don't want to mention it, or you'll curse it. So anyway, my no-pisser streak all came to an end thursday as Ralph and I were preparing to go out. It was a triple threat: Jake somehow peed thru the back of his diaper (Nice, Pampers. Thanks a lot.), then as I was changing him out of that diaper and the soaked outfit, he peed all over my arm and down my leg. Once I got over that, he promptly puked all over my shirt. I get no respect in this house.... (Everybody say it with me now: Nice, Jake. Thanks a lot.)

A very cool website...

So my cousin Stephanie mentioned something about this fascinating website, and I just had to look it up. There is a site out there that can determine what colors eyes your baby will most likely have, based on your eyes, your mate's eyes, and both of your parents eyes. It also takes into account your sibling's eye color. (Baby Fact of the day: While most caucausian babies are born with blue eyes, their eyes will eventually turn whatever color they are going to be within a few months to a year.) Based on our results, Jake has a ZERO percent chance of having brown eyes! He has a 12.5% chance of them staying blue, but a much more likely chance they will turn green (87.5%).

***My brother Danny and I both had a 50% chance of having brown eyes: mine are green (a 37.5% chance), and his are as blue as can be (only a 12.5% chance). So there's hope for Jake!***

Check out the site for yourself.

10 weeks old

Okay, one more picture...I couldn't resist :)

I could take a million pictures of this child...

But here are just two from today...

A visit with Uncle Chris

We had a nice visit with Chris this morning, who stopped off to see us in Delaware on his way back up to New York from Elon. (Good luck today Kiddo!) Of course, we took a few pictures. Here is Jake wearing Chris' wristband ...on his head. LOL.



Not sure Jake likes the headband...too funny!

Jake gets a haircut

Jake was born with a head full of dark brown hair, which quickly receded and then fell out in funny chunks here and there. He has been left with new blond hair growing in short on the top, and a funny mullet of dark hair in the back and down his neck, and one funny long peak right on the very top of his head. The back of Jake's head is a little flatter than we would like it to be (babies these days have to sleep on their backs to prevent SIDS), and with a patch of dark long hair hanging straight down in the back, it just looked even more flat, and totally ridiculous. I have threatened to take the clippers to Jake's head in the last few weeks just to even it out.

Well last night, Ralph agreed with me and we took out the clippers and gave Jake his first haircut. We were careful to keep as much of the hair that we cut as possible as a keepsake. My friend Nicole had given me the cutest baby keepsake of three boxes tied with blue bow, to keep a lock of hair, a first tooth, and baby's hospital bracelet. So the haircut isn't *perfect* (mommy and daddy are by no means professional barbers), but it looks a thousand times better than it did before. We took the before and after pictures with Ralph's cellphone.

9 weeks old

Jake went to the doctor for his two-month check-up the other day and
our little guy continues to grow bigger and bigger! At this appointment, he was 23.5 inches long (almost two feet tall!), and a whopping 13 pounds, 8 ounces!

Not much else going on at the Vasami house. Just lots of power outages because of all the thunderstorms. Ruthie dog is terrified of the storms, and even her doggie Zanax (prescribed anti-anxiety medication) won't control her shaking during the thunder and lightning. We keep resetting all of our clocks and our stupid answering machine.

We can't believe June came so quickly, and Jake is due to go into daycare on June 26th. More importantly, that's the day Kelly goes back to work full-time. I've enjoyed the time home with Ralph and Jake, but I am certainly looking forward to the return of the paycheck! :)