Dads are the BEST!

Jacob has had a really hard time separating himself from us at times.

He cries when we leave him with a babysitter...the minute he hears me call to arrange the babysitter he tells us, "I don't want a babysitter." "I want you to stay with me."

He has cried going into nursery (that is getting better).

He cries and tells me he doesn't want to go to preschool. Last Thursday he told me "I want to quit preschool." Yet when he goes he has a good time and is happy when I pick him up.

If he cried at only one of these events I would think it was that specific event and worry about it. But since he fusses over all of them and doesn't give us a reason why he doesn't like them (other than not being with us) I don't worry about.

After last Thursday with him crying running from me, and wanting to "quit" preschool, I called Jason at work about it. Trying to get him to go 2 times a week when he is like that is hard! I had told him there were no friends to come over to play with because they were all at preschool.

That night Jason talked to him about it when he went to bed. At bedtime we say prayers, read our scriptures and then Jason will usually stay in the room for a few minutes to talk to Jacob about his day, etc. As part of this Jason began to talk to him about how he was a big boy and big boys don't cry every time their mom leaves them. That sometimes moms need to leave, but that they always come back.

Jacob seemed to understand this, coming from Jason and they talked about how he wasn't going to cry on Saturday when the babysitter came and on Tuesday he was not going to cry when mom took him to preschool. Instead he would say, "See you when you get back!"

Wha-la! Saturday he did not cry. Today he began to say he didn't want to go and I asked him if he remembered what he and dad had talked about. He said, "Yes" and didn't put up any more fuss. Instead as we walked to preschool and got close he told me, "I'm going to say, See you when you get back!" And he did.

Jacob wants to be just like Jason (and I'm glad). He asked him the other night if they were brothers. Jason tried to explain that he was the Dad and Jacob was his boy. Jacob asked what brothers were. Jason said they are 2 boys who have the same parents. Jacob turned over in bed and said, "We're brothers Dad." Then he went to sleep.

Dads are wonderful!!!

I Married a Mountain Goat

Last week we went down to Zion's for a few days. We stayed at the Zion Ponderosa Ranch which is just on the east side of the Park.

We played in the pool(Jacob's thumbs up sign is done with his index finger. He hasn't figured out how to get the thumb up yet.)

and the playground.

We went into the park to hike on Thursday...we did three different hikes. One was to the Emerald Pools (just the 1st one) and another on the River Walk. Jacob did pretty well, but was tired by the end of the day.

On Friday morning Jacob drove the mini ATV
and...

Jason climbed the rock wall.
As we left for home, we decided to go back into the park and back to the River Walk to let Jacob splash around.
It must have been 90 degrees while we were there so the weather was perfect.

Now for the part about the mountain goat. When I was hiking I had my hiking boots and a walking stick to assist me. Jason was wearing his Teva sandals, no walking stick and hiked around with Jacob on his back most of the time! I'm trying to keep my balance and he is flying Jacob around, jumping from rock to rock like it is nothing!
We are so evenly matched in this area aren't we? ;)