baby got back

After much ado about flights and weather and hurricane force winds Jake is back in Philadelphia, bigger and better than ever.

The first thing he did after I grabbed him away from my mother was put his little fingers together and said "Its". Then I sang about his favorite spider and he gave me a kiss and touched my ear and told me what it was as if I had to go a whole entire week without knowing what the hell was sticking out of the side of my head.

The last thing he did before he went to sleep was lift up his head, look around his room, kiss his bear, sighed big, and said "home". And I melted and summoned every inch of self control that I have in my entire body to keep me from crawling in his crib with him and crying.