All About Bubba

Some things about Jaycob now that he's seven years old.

He's now in first grade and doing so well on all his school work. Not doing so well on the not talking during a test, not talking in the halls, not talking in the bathroom type things.

Jaycob is still obsessed with all things Star Wars and every so often he will ask me if I know everything about Star Wars and when I say no, I don't, he tells me everything about Star Wars. I'm pretty sure I actually now know everything about Star Wars.

He cannot go thirty seconds without pretending to shoot someone or something with his imaginary weaponry. Sometimes it's a gun, other times it's a laser. Maybe a ninja star. I'm not always certain what I've been shot between the eyes with.

He loves to ride his bike around our street and his most recent trick is to stand up and pedal or pop wheelies. He's really, really fast and so we just bought him a super duper helmet for his birthday to replace his old helmet that was falling apart. How can a helmet just start falling apart?

Jaycob loves video games and in an attempt to prevent him from becoming the 40 year old overweight mooch living in our basement in the future, we only let him play video games if he doesn't get in trouble for talking at school. So he gets in less trouble for talking at school, but not enough less to actually earn video game time. Win/win. Sort of.

Every morning Jake wakes up to his alarm clock, gets himself dressed for school and comes upstairs for breakfast. He's so terrified of his alarm clock that he wakes up a half hour before it goes off and sits in his bed and cries in anticipatory terror. We finally had mercy on the poor guy and switched the alarm to music so know he wakes up to KLOVE and comes upstairs singing to Jesus.

Jaycob accepted Jesus as his Savior this past spring and has been wanting to be baptized ever since. His utter and complete revulsion of having water on his face has caused us to put it off for months all the while practicing (with much screaming and gnashing of teeth) in the bathtub. He finally felt comfortable enough last week to go for the dunk and was baptized in front of the church last Sunday night. His favorite part was the robe because it reminded him of Star Wars.

Jaycob's favorite things are Star Wars in general, Boba Fett in particular, video games on the Wii or the PSP (Star Wars of course), building things out of Legos (Star Wars ships mostly), playing wrestling with dad (and only dad) on our bed, going to playgrounds, eating ham and cheese sandwhiches without mayo (that's my boy!), playing football at recess, talking about Star Wars and eating Top Ramen.

He is SO smart. SO diligent. SO stubborn. He is so like his father that his father is terrified. I love everything about them both. Well, I could do without the Star Wars and random sniper attacks.