June 17, 2009 | By: Nicole

Jacob turns five!

My firstborn, my baby boy, turned five today. I can't believe I have been a mom for five years, but at the same time I can't remember a time when I wasn't a mom. Was there ever a time when the only person I was responsible for was me? Seems like I have some hazy memories of something like that... must have been a past life.

I don't have a lot of philosophical thoughts or nostalgic memories to offer. I'm really tired (lots of contractions lately, let's hope they're doing something fruitful). Although it's sad that our babies have to grow up, I'm more and more proud of Jacob every day and the little person that he's turning into is just as amazing as the infant I worked so dang hard to bring into the world five years ago.

Now that my technologically capable husband has fixed my cd drive, I present you with five years of The Jake (there's about 70 pictures, so it takes a few minutes. I won't feel bad if you don't make it the whole way through.)

2 comments:

Mimi Collett said...

He is way cute! I can believe that it's hard to believe that he is 5 years old. I have trouble believing that Jill is growing out of some of her newborn clothes already!

Becca said...

well, I just spent a lot of time catching up on your blog. You always crack me up. I especially loved the description of Norah saying "cheese"... that reminds me so much of dorky, little Hope. I also am enjoying the descriptions of pregnancy. Oh boy, I can relate. And one more thing I can relate to: loosing motivation with the whole schedule/cleaning/menu thing. A few things have become second nature (thank the Lord!) like laundry and nightly kitchen cleaning, but otherwise I just can't stay committed to my plans. Argh.
Anyway, you should enable "following" so that I can be your follower and get a notice whenever you post something. Then I won't have to catch up on months at a time!
Uhhh, thanks for letting me use your comment feature like email :). I miss you!