Another Katieism

I forgot to put this one in the last post. The other night when we were visitng baby Jacob, the girls (Katie almost 3yrs and Paige 15 months) spent a lot of time playing together. I was busy talking to Kristi and holding the baby & Mike and John were busy dishing up brownies and ice cream. As Mike was chatting with John he realized the girls were "missing". He walked through the kitchen and saw Paige pulling trash out of the garbage can. Katie, working on her big sister skills, was standing next to her whispering, "NO! It's ISHY!, IT's ISHY! " Just think of all the things she'll teach Jacob!

Jacob Update

Jacob has been here for almost a week! Here are some of his latest pictures and updates on the family.

These are a few more pics from the hospital. I can't tell who looks the proudest; John, Uncle Mark & Aunt Colleen, or "Big Sister" Katie.


As you can see, Jacob is getting settled in at home. Kristi is glad to have him in his own little outfits and blankets, not the hospital gear. He got a nice visit from Laurie Kruger-from-work too! Sorry if I spelled your name wrong Laurie!



Here he is getting his first bottle from Grandpa and a big snuggle from his FABULOUS Aunt Jenny! For anyone who wasn't sure, Mike and I are obviously still in charge of Jacob's blog. :)


We had a long visit with the family today, here is the latest information:

Jacob seems to be a good eater and a good sleeper. John has been taking the night shift so Kristi can sleep and recover from surgery. She says the time at home this week has been a little more difficult pain wise than it was with Katie. She stayed in the hospital quite a bit longer the first time, so that's a factor. Kristi said that she was feeling better tonight (Thursday) than she has all week, so that's good news!

Jacob is a pretty happy little kid too! He's been easy to sooth but hasn't done much crying anyway. He's even made some cute smile faces at his parents.

Now that they've had a chance to get a good look at him, Kristi and John have discovered that Jacob's got really long toes! Kristi thinks he's got a "Gonzalez" nose, and the same mouth that Katie had. John says he's sees some Tiessen in him too.

He really is a cuddler, likes to be held. He kind of drapes his arm up over your shoulder and hangs on.

Katie is taking all the changes in stride. She was very excited to show her brother to us when we got there tonight. "Unco Mike, come see OUR baby!" I guess there have been a few other cute Katieisms concerning Jacob. Apparently she's been asking Kristi some questions about the "milk machine" (AKA breast-pump) she uses to make Jacob's bottles.

He'll have a Dr. appointment on Monday afternoon so we'll post any news from that visit once we have it.

--Jenny

We Love You to the Moon & Back

Welcome to The Tiessen Ticket!

Greetings from Uncle Mike and Aunt Jenny. Our gift to Baby Jacob is a new blog where his mommy, daddy, and big sister can post pictures, videos, and stories about him and the whole Tiessen crew!

Since Kristi and Jacob are both still at the hospital for the rest of the weekend, we'll be on blog duty for a little while. Eventually we'll let Kristi and John take over.

Here is what we know about Jacob so far:

Full name: Jacob Vincent George Tiessen (Vincent is a family name on Kristi's side & George on John's)

Born at 2:21pm at Unity Hospital on February 6th, 2009

He weighed in at 9lbs 5oz (actually 4.9oz according to John)

He's 21.5 inches long when he's not snuggled up.

He's got some hair, not nearly as much as Katie did.

Kristi says he's got Vince's nose, John says he has his ears too. We think he looks like his big sister.

The first thing Kristi wanted to know was "is it a boy?!"

Loud crier but Kristi already knows how to quiet him down.

Seems to be a good sleeper (so far). Very content to lay in his hospital bassinet next to Mom.

Katie held him for a loooong time and didn't want to give him to anyone else.

They let John videotape the surgery