Yes or No, we shall soon Know

Today was Jacob's turn at the big city doctors office. We arrived about 20 minutes early so both Jacob and I could play with some toys in the waiting room. The nurse gave Jacob a hand kitted Christmas stocking with a Jimmy Neutron coloring book and a Dale Jr mini remote control racers, how cool was that. Once she noticed me, she brought out another stocking with a Elmo coloring book and a Santa teddy bear. The doctors and nurses at the Cleveland Clinic really go above and beyond to make us feel good about visiting the Children's Hospital. Jacob kept saying that he didn't want a shot, and both mom and dad kept telling him it would be a quick pinch and then it would be over. Our regular doctor, Dr. Kate, was at a blood conference in Orlando (I think she is really at Disneyland) We met with Dr Jennings and then Dr Yap. They both examined Jacob and talked to mom and dad some more about Von Willebrand Disease. When It came time for the nurse to draw blood, Jacob got really scared. A total of 3 nurses and mom and dad had to hold Jacob still while the drew the blood. There aren't any pictures of the office visit this time because everyone had their hands full. Jacob was really really scared, and held onto dad pretty tight after it was over. He's not looking forward to coming back here. The doctor said she'd call in a few days with the initial results.


This was Jacob on the way back to the packing garage. We both really like this cool tunnel under the road. The lights change colors.

We had to park on the top level of the garage. The view was pretty cool, we got to see all the work their doing on the Clinic.

Over the Bridge...

Over the Bridge and through the woods to Grandma's (& papa's) house we go.
As we normally do on Sunday's, we loaded into the mini-van and headed over to Grandma & Papa's house for dinner. Dad said you can't beat a free meal. Not sure what he means cause all of Jenna's and my meals are free.

That's me and my cousin Taylor. We're sneaking some of Grandma's chocolate candy from the table, but don't tell anyone.


Jenna wouldn't finish her dinner, so she had to sit at the table for awhile longer.


This is our cousin Bella, she's Taylor's little sister.


Wahoo, since we all finshed our dinners, we got popcicles as dessert.


This is one of my favorite Christmas toys at Grandma's house.


Come On everyone, we need to go home, I have trains to play with.


Once we got home, Jenna wanted to play dress-up and watch her cheerleading movie.

Santa's Workshop

Today we went to Santa's Workshop to help him build some toys. We'd been there before, so we knew what to expect. Jacob wasn't as sure about this Santa, so he hung back and let mommy get his wooden train. Me, well I jumped right up and helped Santa make the train and then sat down for a story.

Dad found some new photo sharing website and is playing around with some different ways of showing all of our pictures. let us know how you like it.

Snow, Wonderful Snow

When we woke up this morning it had snowed again. Mom had picked us up from Gramma's house and when we got home, it had snowed a bunch more on our side of town. They call the part of town where we live the "Snow Belt" since we get 2 to 3 times the amount of snow as Cleveland, which is just about 15 miles (as the crow flies) away. There's a winter weather advisory now until Friday morning at 6 am. Cleveland could get 3-5 inches of snow and for those of us in the snow belt, it could be 10-15 inches of the white stuff. Dad was headed off to the Browns Game in Pittsburgh PA after work. It's a long drive, and it's supposed to snow a lot, so hopefully he'll drive safely. Mom took us outside to play after lunch.

Yummy Yummy

Last night Mommy had Cake Class, we spent the night with Gramma because dad was doing something too. Here's some pictures from Mommy's cake class. She's getting better with each class she goes to. She's completed both the first and second courses now. The third course starts in January. The cakes mom makes look really good, and taste good too.

Dad went to see Lebron James and the Cav's play the Toronto Raptors, Cav's won 95-91.
Dad really isn't a Basketball fan, but he said he couldn't pass on the Sweet tickets he got. Mom was kinda upset that she couldn't go with him, she said she wanted Sweet tickets too. I don't know what's so Sweet about these tickets, but then again I'm only 4-1/2.
Last time Dad went to the Cav's game he got a Lebron James Bobblehead, this time he got a Brad Daugherty Bobblehead. Brad was the 1st round draft pick in 1986. That was so long ago I don't remember it, but Dad said he was in high school then, and Mom was just turning 10.

Let it Snow......

Finally, what was Mother Nature waiting for, I mean it's December already and we hadn't had any real snow yet. But that all changed yesterday. When Jenna and I woke up mom said it snowed a couple inches, we played a bit before heading over to gramma's house. It snowed a bunch now inches today. Dad started up the snow thrower and cleaned the drive when he got home from work. Since it was so bad out this morning, mom stayed home from work and we all played outside in the snow.

Santa's Helper

This morning Dad told us a little secret, today we'd be going to see one of Santa's helpers at Wally World (Wal-mart) I was excited, but got into trouble right before leaving.

I gave Dad my saddest puppy eyes, and what'daya know, it worked.


Jacob was ready to go too, he growled like a lion.

We're ready to go, who's getting the mini-van outta the garage. While you're at it, warm it up cause it's mucho cold outside, and we don't want to be cold on the way to Strongsville.

Here I am with Santa's Helper. I told him what I wanted for Christmas.

Jacob took his turn too, he made sure that Santa's Helper had it written down.

After we got home, we took a nap and when we woke up, the moon was out already. It wasn't even dark yet, but I guess it couldn't wait.