Ouch

I slammed Jacob's finger in our back door today. The fingernail turned purple right away, there was blood everywhere and the "pad" on the tip of his finger was a flap. He screamed for about 15 minutes until Kate came home and got some Advil into him. Then we went to the hospital, where one of our good friends was the doctor who examined him and he got patched up. Jacob didn't so much as wince the whole time we were at the hospital. He came home, had a bottle, a two-hour nap and woke up completely cheerful, and not a bit vengeful toward me. We went to Scott and Julia's for dinner and when J asked him what had happened, he said, with a brave smile, "baba slammed the door and hurted my finger". You try not tearing up when your little boy says that.

A more enjoyable story. Yesterday we were looking at the globe together:
Molly: Where's China?
Me: Here.
Jacob: Where's Great Wall of China (this seems to have captured his imagination)?
Me: It goes from about here to here.
Molly: What's this?
Me: That's India
Molly: What's this?
Me: That's Mali
Jacob: Mali?
Me: Yes, Mali
Jacob: Where's Jacob?
Me: Sorry, there's no country named Jacob.
Jacob: (Look of devastating disappointment and injustice)

My Tiger Woods Joke

What do Jacob and Tiger have in common?

Neither likes to go anywhere without his cheap, dollar-store ho(e).

C'mon, that's funny.

I'm the Gitch Eddybuddy

The twins experienced their first movie this week. The Grinch. Now every day is filled with make-believe play with Jacob, Molly and Zoe cast as the Gitch, Cindy-Lou Who and Max the Dog/Reindeer. What's as "eddybuddy" - why "everybody" of course. As in, "Come on eddybuddy, come play with me" or "eddybuddy, let's make a train" or "look out eddybuddy, I'm a scary monster". Jacob does not lack for enthusiasm. And I love that our family is big enough, that he needs a word like eddybuddy to rally the troops behind his latest scheme.

Zoë had her doctor check-up this week. She put on about 2 1/2 lbs in the first 5 weeks with us, and in the process has gone from being seriously off the growth charts, to now being around the 10th percentile. Several people came up to me this week and said, "she seems so big for ten months", which I can only surmise is due to the enormity of her fantastic cheeks.

Eddybuddy in the family seems to have the sniffles and Zoë has a funny tummy so we're still all a bit sleep-challenged, but daytime is mostly filled with toboggans, shoveling, books, puzzles, hilarity and hijinks. I wouldn't trade a minute of it.

Last night Jacob woke up around 10pm with a sore throat and quite beside himself. So I brought him down to the couch for half an hour or so of Habs hockey. When I brought him back to bed, he snuggled in with his stuffed animal and said, "Dog, I watched hockey with baba". That's the good stuff.

Some photos and a Zoë video
- practising on skates again

- Zoë starting to work on standing

- snacktime by the fireplace

- A little video footage of Zoë working on her standing

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Here's Molly reading Twas The Night...