Miss B: I am a big girl.
Mommy: Yes, I have a little boy and a big girl. Aren't I lucky?
Miss B: Little Boy?
Mommy: Yes, your little brother is in Mommy's Tummy.
Miss B: (turning to look at Daddy) Yes, and Daddy's Tummy.
Mommy: (laughing out right) You have another brother in Daddy's tummy?
Miss B: Yes, abnoter one.
Daddy: (Says nothing but has a slightly bemused look on his face)
Thank you, Susan, for writing most of Jacob's story for me. And I Quote:
"I love Isaac. Jacob means 'supplanter' because he tricked his father (Isaac) into giving him his inheritance and blessing instead of giving it to his older brother Esau. (At his mother, Rebekah's request). Jacob is considered the patriarch and founder of the Israelites. He is the father of Joseph (as in coat of many colors). Jacob isn't my favorite name on the list, but he is my favorite Biblical male and that will save you some research, and explains the name's meaning."
We are actualy reading that story right now. So, I would like to add that he first "conned" Esau out of his birthright all on his own, before the thing with his Dad. Yes, Esau was completely and totally unworthy. What a weenie. "I am starving so yes you can have anything you want, I couldn't possibly wait a few hours for something else to cook." Plus Jacob comes from a very tricky family. Laban (Leah and Rachel's Father) was his cousin (second cousin?). So they are all tricky, except for Esau and Isaac, who were really very straight forward guys. Plus GOD said all this would happen when Rebekah asked about the war going on in her womb. What I don't like is the treatment of Leah by pretty much everybody but GOD, but that is a whole different subject.
2 comments:
OH I know Laban is such a bad guy!! I love the Jacob-Leah-Rachel story so much. There's a fictionalized account of the story called The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, and she tells it from Leah's daughter, Dinah's perspective. I know you're boycotting anything written after 1945, but it's an amazing book. It is, as I said, a fictionalized account, but it's told the way that the Jewish tradition tells the story. I think, if you're reading the actual Biblical account right now, that you'd enjoy this book too. If you want it, let me know and I'll send it to you.
You know, I sort of lined out (in my thinking) James and Jacob and Moon Town. But James and Jacob of the Bible turned out pretty good. James was one of the favorite three of Jesus when he was walking the earth. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that Jesus had a brother named James. And Jacob... they don't talk so much about what he did wrong, but what he did right. They always are saying Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and how they are the direct line to Jesus. I don't see the apple of God's eye (David) on the list. He was a bad boy but he changed his heart and joined that line to Jesus. Jordan is a river, and a nice name. And another J name that I like is Jude...he wrote a book of the Bible. We have a Caleb, but he really was a hot dog in God's eyes. I wonder if you plan to call Nugget by his whole first name. I am thinking of Thaddeus and some of those other multi-syllable names. I wonder what sort of nicknames he will get as he grows older. I guess he might be like Pat and consider anything less than Patrick is for close friends. I wonder what clothes you want for him. I wonder if you have a dresser or chest for him. Do you have enough yellow receiving blankets? Do you have a plan for how to do a boy room and a girl room all in the same room? Maybe I have a little bed for beside your bed that was Pat's when he was tiny...he was tiny even if for a short time. Now he's grew-some. LOL
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