News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
I’ve heard that when a parent looks at pictures of their own children the pattern of activity in their brain is strikingly similar to that of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This activity is missing when they look at pictures of other children.
That is interesting but I’m not sure I buy it. Anyway, here are a few more pictures that I’ve put together of the most fascinating and engaging children I know of.
Today was Kai’s first day of Kindergarten and what a day it was. He is going to sleep well tonight!
In the morning they read The Gingerbread Man and in the afternoon they baked some. I was expecting Kai to bring one home to eat but instead he could barely contain himself with the story that they put in them in the oven to bake but them someone must have opened the door before they were done because all 17 ran out and were last seen headed towards the library. Tomorrow they are going to continue the search.
It has been a long time since I posted – over a month which may be close to a record. There has been a lot of excitement building in the Jacobs household as Kai starts kindergarten on Saturday (8/28). We are all anticipating the event and I will try to get some pictures posted of the first day of school (without waiting a month between posts inshallah).
In other news, yesterday we got back from a visit to Bahrain to see Aunt Julie and Uncle Eric. It was Ramadan which meant many things were closed but, more importantly, less traffic during the day which makes things more pleasant all around. A nice dinner on Wednesday and a little shopping on Thursday (unlike Saudi Arabia, some stores open during the day in Ramadan) made for a nice little trip. Pictures follow…
It’s a new picture format! We’ll try it for a little while anyway and see how it goes. These are just a few random pictures that were taken in the last couple of weeks but I thought it was time to get some fresh content up. Click on the picture to enlarge. Right-click after it is enlarged to open in a new window (full size).
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Kai turned five last month. It doesn’t seem quite real that he will be starting kindergarten in just a few weeks! Considering that his birthday was a month ago I will probably have first-day-of-kindergarten pictures up sometime mid-October.
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Now that I’ve downloaded the pictures from my phone I think I have them all processed and these are the last. Now I can start working through the pictures that we’ve taken in the month we’ve been back. Enjoy!
The picture on the left was taken the last night we were in Danbury. The larger lens for the camera was already packed so this was taken with my basic setup (and a tripod). It is an HDR image so several exposures were taken and then used to keep both shadows and highlights.
With the gallery below I’ve nearly reached the end of our summer vacation pictures. I believe there are still some on my phone that I need to get off and there may be some worth posting in that lot. Stay tuned!
The week before we came back we packed up the car and headed down to Arlington Minnesota to visit family. The first day we went out to the Posts’ farm to have dinner with Aunt Lea Ann, Uncle Steven and Cousin Nina. Grandma and Grandpa Wiemann also were there and Uncle Paul and Bev stopped by as well.
Visiting the farm is a favorite for Kai and Nora since they have chickens (Lea Ann stacked the coop so that there were sure to be plenty of eggs to find) as well as goats, cats, and lots of room to run around.
We have been back for two days now and jet lag seems to be pretty mild this time. I have a few more galleries of pictures from our summer trip back to Minnesota and Wisconsin that I’ll be posting in the coming days. To start with, here are a few of the kids.
