Rules according to Jacob

As soon as you see an ant, you must immediately....
1) lie flat on your stomach no matter where you are, at the park, on the sidewalk, on the deck,.... 2) then you must stare at it, for as long as you can possibly see it.

When you talk on the telephone you must...
talk about cat and flowers. Don't worry it is easy. You make the sign for cat and or flower and the person caring for you tell the person on the phone what sign you just made. Then the person who you are talking to will talk to you about the cat and/or flowers in their life. It is very exciting. If they start talking about anything else,... just repeat the sign and your back on track.

When outside you must protect the birds and their feeding places from intruders....
hence you must be on guard for any possible intruders and scare them away,... this mean black squirrels, grey squirrels, and cats. Chipmucks are OK, they can eat the seeds that are on the ground. After all they are small.

When inside the house, your job is to make sure that you are always in sight of the cat...
as you need to reminded your parents or grandparents that the cat needs help, to go outside or to have more food, or to have cuddles.


When the pantry door is open,... you need to stand very tall and see how much more you have grown.... in order for see if you can finally go down the slide at the wave pool!!! (3 more inches to go, I am now three feet tall!!!!)


And Maman puts you down for nap time, not Daddy. Daddy puts me to bed for the night time sleep, not Maman!!!

The visitation

"Do we need to come take the hospital tour? As we were here a little less then 2 years ago to give birth to our son?" was one of the questions we asked at our last pre-natal check up. The Doctor was confident that we didn't need to repeat this hospital tour, after all since the SARS outbreak the tour is a virtual tour done via video.
But a tour we did get, an up close and personal tour. One of the labour and delivery room, one of being monitored and made to be on my back for close to 10 hours, and one of being admitted to the hospital for two days. No panic, the babies are doing great and are still in utero. Thank you God!!!
I caught the "Norwalk virus" (not sure if that is the correct spelling or not) but it is a nasty gastro-intestinal virus. I started symptoms at 12:00 am on the Sunday to Monday overnight, by 3 am I knew we needed to go into the hospital, things were not looking good.
By early afternoon they decided to admit me to the hospital as I was still having symptoms and dehydrated even though on was on I.V. liquids. Due to being contagious I was placed in a isolation room (a private room, with doors closed, and every one that come in had to be gown, masked, and gloved). I was not allowed to go out of my room for any reason. The room did have it's own bathroom and shower which proved handy.
The experience I was not a pleasant one, with a fair amount of tears, but God was faithful, comforting and my companion through it all. Sometimes it didn't feel like it, but other times I would feel Him taking me in his Fatherly arms, rocking me, and gently telling me that all would be well. He wiped away a lot of tears and brought comfort to my aching mothers heart. I was not able to see Jacob for all the days I was admitted.
Then as I was crying out of shear frustration and telling Him I just could not handle it anymore. He calmed me and said just wait it will be OK, it will pass. A few minutes later the nurse came in and told me I was free. It was a huge surprise as I was only expecting to get out late that evening or the next morning. He truly does not allow more then you can handle. As I was leaving my room, the pastoral care worker arrived to offer me Holy Communion. It was such an emotional moment, as I received my Lord at such at time of gratitude.
I am now home, and realize how weak I am. I need to concentrate on gaining my strenght and drinking lots and lots of water.
Thank you for all your prayers for me and our family.
and a special thank you to those who took care of our son, especially on short notice (in the middle of the night) and to my in-laws who rearranged their whole week so that Jacob would have consistency in these days. Thank you form the bottom of my heart.