Jacob Thomas Selim

Jacob was born four years ago!  Jeremy likes to tell people it was an easy delivery because we got to the hospital at 9 something in the morning and Jacob was born at 11:30 ish. But, it was a crazy intense one! And it started long before we made it to the hospital! :)

 I am so glad he is our son and he is getting so big and so smart. He made his name out of train tracks, I only helped with the 'B'. 

His birthday was April 16th and it was a bit of a crazy day.  I performed a play for the first time in seven years at a nursing conference in Gilbert

 which is about 2 hours from here. My wonderful sister in law watched the boys for me. She lives only minutes from the hospital where we performed. It worked out perfectly. Thank you so Emily! This way I only had to leave the boys for the time I was at the performance rather than the four hour round trip plus the three hours I was at the hospital.  And Emily made Jacob's birthday fun for him.  We drove back and 

met up with  Jeremy and Andrew and had Taco Bell for dinner. Jacob wanted cheese roll-ups for his birthday. The birthday boy always get to pick what we have for dinner and this made it pretty easy for me. :) He even included it in the birthday wish list: I want a 5 button race cars, a dump truck, a cheese roll up, etc..

They also get to pick what kind of cake they have. At first,  Jacob wanted a circle cake with numbers like a clock and a dump truck in the middle. I managed to convince him that it might be more fun for it to be a big dump truck

cake instead.  Sometimes, convincing him of anything can be a hard job. He has very strong opinions and ideas!  He helped me do the food coloring for the icing and he helped with the black icing details.  He is a really great helper.  We sang him happy birthday and blew out each candle one by one. He told me that when you are four years old that you don't have to eat food anymore. When you are so many years you don't need dinner, you can just have candy and cake. :) He is so funny. 

We gave him a big dump truck and

 he loved it. He loved all his presents and Thank you so much to all his aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpa that gave him presents.  We met Lynne on Saturday at the half way point between us to continue the celebration. We watched Monsters vs Aliens and then went to Peter Piper Pizza for lunch. Everyone had a really fun day.

4 things I love about Jacob:

I love to talk to him - his logic gets him out of trouble all the time. I love the way he can explain himself and make me understand what is happening in his brain.

He loves his brothers. He is so good with Michael and loves to play with him and help him. He and Andrew are such close friends. They play together so well - most of the time!

He is a great helper. He tries to help me everyday. I can't make a meal without him      

pulling up his stool to watch and help. He throws away the dirty diapers outside and is pretty good at putting away his toys. 

He is so smart. He is a great counter and is learning to read. He is a pro with the computer games on PBS Kids. He is going to be really ready for Kindergarten.