Birthday Boy!

So, Jacob is ten years old today. I was thinking back to the day he was born, and trying to remember how I felt about raising this new little boy. I remember thinking how ready I was. I was wrong. You are never ever ready for Jacob. He's a handful and a half. He is equally my greatest source of frustration and pride. He's funny as heck, he's a little turdbucket at times. He's incredibly smart, and creative, and thinks of the weirdest things sometimes! You know the spell from Harry Potter, Adava Kadavra? Yeah, out of the blue yesterday, he just jumps on his sister and says "Adavra KaTackle!!!" She wanted to be mad at him, but it was just so darn funny, we all couldn't help but laugh! We talked about going on a day trip this Friday to have s'mores and celebrate the last week of summer vacation. So what does Jacob do? He hops on GoogleEarth and plots out every reservoir in Western Idaho, narrows it down to three that looked to be nearby and had roads, and insisted we vote. He does stuff like that all the time. This week, he has been watching shark week on Discovery, classic NFL football games on ESPN, and get this: reading one of Ted's old Geology of Southeastern Idaho textbooks!

Dude?!?! What planet are you from, kid? I LOVE IT! As he grows, he fascinates me more and more each day, entertains me endlessly, and is such an awesome kid! So happy birthday buddy! I can't wait to see what the next year has in store for us!