Jacob's birthday photoblog-nanza
I started this post, oh, three weeks ago. Here are some pictures to tide you over. Babies and Dada are much less sick, but because there are still teeth to cut, there is still NO SLEEPING and thus my book's still not done. RAWK! If these things (teething; books) are not finished by Monday morning I am totally shooting myself.
Flashing back to the weekend surrounding February 19th...
The blog sends birthday wishes to Jake:
Jacob's most important birthday present was the birthday people we imported from Indiana for him. Meemaw and Poppop, bless them, drove through some seriously sketchy winter weather to spend the weekend with us. We were so glad to have them, especially when the sleeplessness hit. Two out of three nights when they were here, Isaac woke in the night twice and Jacob woke up, like every 45 minutes. Turns out both of them were beginning a horrible snot infestation, and Jacob's top two first molars were cracking through his gums. Poor Meemaw got up in the middle of the night to help. Why don't we live closer to home again?
Despite the suffering, the show must go on. The night before we treated Jacob to a birthday shopping spree at Toys R Us, letting him pick out his own birthday presents, as was done for his brother before him with Mamaw and Dadaw.
He picked out some toys that are already huge hits with both fellers: an Elmo Sing-n-Learn activity table and a Fisher-Price singing Animal Train. I threw a big-pieced peg puzzle in the mix for him.
On his birthday morning we let him open the toys the UPS man brought him from Mamaw and Dadaw:
*a pull-along puppy
*stacking/nesting boxes
*Monster Bowling
Later on that afternoon the FedEx man brought another Mamaw and Dadaw present, a small ride-on horse:
For his birthday, we took Jacob to Red Robin, which is becoming something of a birthday tradition with us. Watch Jacob marvelling at the complete strangers singing to him...
... and then presenting him with his first sundae:
This was after he had coated himself in mac-n-cheese, hence the jaundiced look of his shirt. He was very weirded out by ice cream. I think he was not at all prepared for the coldness of it, and screamed in horror when he touched it or if it touched his lips. We'll work on that.
After we got home, we opened more presents from Meemaw and Poppop, and also from Great-grandparent Peetzes.
*a Laugh-and-Learn house
*an animal-themed huge-piece peg puzzle
*books
Birthday cake time -- another carrot cake decorated by Meemaw after being lovingly handcrafted and stuffed with whole wheat flour by the Mommy (but this time with no blood because a much wiser mommy used her food processor! They didn't give me that thar Ph.D. for nothin'!). Jacob helps himself. Another reaching hands suggests he might have picked that up from a friend.
Meemaw and Isaac with Jacob's new house:
Jacob also got an IKEA gift card from Aunt Jean and Uncle Chris that we have already waxed buying organizational stuff for his room. Aunt Robin, Uncle Joe, and Jacob's cousins sent him this awesome squishy fabric garage thing with four cars and four little caves for them to hide in. It is fabulous and the boys fight over it every day. Thanks everybody! For once in his short little life he got to be the center of attention, and though I think he was a bit weirded out by that, he certainly enjoyed himself.
Flashing back to the weekend surrounding February 19th...
The blog sends birthday wishes to Jake:
Jacob's most important birthday present was the birthday people we imported from Indiana for him. Meemaw and Poppop, bless them, drove through some seriously sketchy winter weather to spend the weekend with us. We were so glad to have them, especially when the sleeplessness hit. Two out of three nights when they were here, Isaac woke in the night twice and Jacob woke up, like every 45 minutes. Turns out both of them were beginning a horrible snot infestation, and Jacob's top two first molars were cracking through his gums. Poor Meemaw got up in the middle of the night to help. Why don't we live closer to home again?
Despite the suffering, the show must go on. The night before we treated Jacob to a birthday shopping spree at Toys R Us, letting him pick out his own birthday presents, as was done for his brother before him with Mamaw and Dadaw.
He picked out some toys that are already huge hits with both fellers: an Elmo Sing-n-Learn activity table and a Fisher-Price singing Animal Train. I threw a big-pieced peg puzzle in the mix for him.
On his birthday morning we let him open the toys the UPS man brought him from Mamaw and Dadaw:
*a pull-along puppy
*stacking/nesting boxes
*Monster Bowling
Later on that afternoon the FedEx man brought another Mamaw and Dadaw present, a small ride-on horse:
For his birthday, we took Jacob to Red Robin, which is becoming something of a birthday tradition with us. Watch Jacob marvelling at the complete strangers singing to him...
... and then presenting him with his first sundae:
This was after he had coated himself in mac-n-cheese, hence the jaundiced look of his shirt. He was very weirded out by ice cream. I think he was not at all prepared for the coldness of it, and screamed in horror when he touched it or if it touched his lips. We'll work on that.
After we got home, we opened more presents from Meemaw and Poppop, and also from Great-grandparent Peetzes.
*a Laugh-and-Learn house
*an animal-themed huge-piece peg puzzle
*books
Birthday cake time -- another carrot cake decorated by Meemaw after being lovingly handcrafted and stuffed with whole wheat flour by the Mommy (but this time with no blood because a much wiser mommy used her food processor! They didn't give me that thar Ph.D. for nothin'!). Jacob helps himself. Another reaching hands suggests he might have picked that up from a friend.
Meemaw and Isaac with Jacob's new house:
Jacob also got an IKEA gift card from Aunt Jean and Uncle Chris that we have already waxed buying organizational stuff for his room. Aunt Robin, Uncle Joe, and Jacob's cousins sent him this awesome squishy fabric garage thing with four cars and four little caves for them to hide in. It is fabulous and the boys fight over it every day. Thanks everybody! For once in his short little life he got to be the center of attention, and though I think he was a bit weirded out by that, he certainly enjoyed himself.
posted by Claire at 3:12 PM
1 Comments:
wow! sounds like a fantastic birthday!! i have 3 months to prepare for noah's 1st birthday! i am practicing baking cakes or am going to?!!
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