time to reflect...

Jacob has been sick for a week or so now, a nasty stomach bug, until this past week i have taken for granted what a fantastically chilled out and calm baby we have, he is always so content and happy, full of smiles and giggles for us. He has always been happy to meet new people and loves to go out and see things, he is like a sponge, soaking up everything around him. What Joy this little boy of only 9 months has created in our lives! Having Jacob has opened our eyes and given us a small +gli7mp87?pppppp/'#@.llllllllllllll. (thats Jacob contribution to the blog) a small glimpse of how much God loves us! It is fantastic! I remember when he was very small (well, he was never small) i used to just look at him and be in awe of Gods creation and plan for us here on earth!

This week has been hard work, he has wanted lots of cuddles and is much more tearful and very shy, even of me and david sometimes. he is eating better now and is on the mend, but watching my poor boy suffer is not much fun!

So many plans ahead of us, its all getting quite exciting now, this time next year david will have a job set ready to start when he graduates which means we will know where we are going to live for the next few years atleast. we LOVE it here in Bristol and if he can get a job at Southmead Hospital (where he has been on placement this year) he would be super duper happy! they are wonderful people to work with and they are great at paying/supporting further study so he would be able to do his masters without question which is exciting! If there are no jobs here we will go wherever we need to for David to be able to work. Its an exciting prospect as who knows where we will be, we are hoping to get on a rent to buy scheme wherever we go so that we can get on the property ladder.

Jacob is becoming more and more mobile, his crawling is getting quicker and now he can pull himself to standing very easily and loves to do so. i wonder how soon he will be walking around the furniture and the without it... its a sc1are`y thought, he is turning into a little boy rather than a baby!!! for his first birthday he is having a party with his 2 cousins at a soft play that my mum owns, so will be lots of fun and free wooooo. i have been making novelty cakes recently for a few friends and i love it so am planning a great cake for the 3 of them!

I have also started a little company, very small and only in my dreams will it become sometthing i can do instead of working but i have started making scrapbooks for people, i just completed my first one for a girl from our church who is about to go on a misson to serve in germany. it was full of pics of her family and friends for her to take with her and look through to remember home.

pictures wont upload so will add them later

jacob wants a cuddle so will write more soon

x

Feb 2010

Jacob turned 6 months old at the beginning of this month and is changing everyday, he is so interested in everything and is really alert! Some of his favourite things to do at the moment are...
- playing peekaboo
- chewing his feet/shoes
- sitting on his play mat and playing with all of his toys
- eating (this has always been one of his favourites!)
- saying dada when we try to get him to say mama
- other babies
- calpol (he has been teething/unwell!)

we love him so much and are so excited to watch him everyday and love making him giggle and smile! no pictures to post at the moment because i am at my mums house for a week with jacob, David went back to Bristol this evening, we miss him terribly already!

Jacob jonas Pilkington 5 months later

HOW TIME FLIES!!!!

it is so crazy to think that Jacob is already 5 months old. I look back at photos and videos from the first few weeks and cant believe how small he was... I take that back, he was never small, but he has grown so much and changes every single day. I have been trying to scrapbook and keep a journal to remember all of the special moments from the past 5 months. There is so much I have missed I am sure!

I will just post a few things on here... Jacob was born on 6th August weighing a mighty 11lb 3oz, he was over the 99th percentile on the charts... and he is still over the 99th weighing in at 23lbs this week... I solely breastfed him for 3 weeks but he was loosing weight and they were unsure i was producing enough milk so we started him on a bottle aswell... he quickly put weight back on! He started having solids at about 3 and a half months! He loves his food! Here are a few other things about him...

- He sleeps on his front, and just this morning we found he was facing the other direction and had turned onto his back in his sleep!

- He can sit up without help but does tend to give up after a while and fall back so we have to put cushions behind him.

- He loves standing in his activity stations and bouncing in his door bouncer.

-He can roll from front to back but not the other way and is showing no interest in moving around much - he is lazy!

- He loves to laugh and smile.

-He loves bath time.

-He is the most contented baby who has slept through the night since he was about 6 weeks old