just like his mother

We are learning that Jakob is very prone to accidents.  Just like Kara.  Need we remember the great finger injury of 2009 that resulted in an emergency room visit on Kara's birthday and a kitchen that took me over an hour to clean-up.  How does a cut on the finger turn into several stitches and the fear that our landlord will think someone was murdered in our kitchen.  Need I say more?  Now the problem is that Jakob's injuries are not always the result of his own doing.  It's just that if someone is going to get hurt it's going to be Jakob.  The boy always has scratches and bruises on his body.  Just last week Jakob almost lost a finger tip while Kara was trying to cut his fingernails.  Note:  This is why I bite their fingernails as opposed to using the nail clippers.  In fact I think Kara has thrown in the towel on fingernail clipping duty.  She will just stick to using the Nosefrida to suck out snot.  Our experience with the Nosefrida is a whole other story for another day!  And then over the weekend we were trying to put Jakob in the carrier and we somehow managed to pinch his arm in the snap portion.  Poor little guy.  It's not a good idea to take an already fussy baby and injure them in the process of trying to calm him down.  Oops.  And these injuries are all on top of the scratches Jakob gives himself over and over again.  If Jakob gets too hungry he will start to dig at his eyes with his fingers.  I'm serious.  The little man thinks he is going to starve to death from time to time.  I'm afraid the next time we take Jakob to the pediatrician they are going to call child services on us.  I have officially decided that once Jakob learns to walk he will be wearing little baby football pads.  And then there is Mr. Chill Alex who has never scratched his face to this day.