News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
Crystal is having a great time provding art time for Kai and Nora. Kai enjoys making things while Nora mostly likes to taste them. Some recent expereinces were recently held in the backyard–you’ll see why in the pictures.
There isn’t much to write here, the captions pretty much speak for themselves. Enjoy!
The other day we brought out the stir-crazy popcorn maker to make colored popcorn. Though the colored stuff is always pretty stale and stains thier lips the opportunity to watch the popcorn pop is a real treat for the kids.
One of Kai’s preschool teachers organized pony rides for charity a few weeks back. Her family has been doing charity work in Ethiopia/Eritrea for generations. The offered pony rides, sold cookies in horse shapes (we had to leave with two of those, as you can imagine) and sold hand woven baskets from Ethiopia to raise money.Â
Nora, having not seen too many horses in her life, exclaimed excitedly “CAM–OO” (translation: camel) when we got there. It took a fair bit of practice, but by the end she seems to have understood that she actually rode a horse.
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We are at that pleasant time of year when it is nice and warm ((I started drafting this post two days ago when this was true but today the high is 104 and the sky is full of dust)) but not too hot to play outside with the wiggle water snake in the backyard. After a session getting everyone wet and muddy ((the wiggle water snake doesn’t discriminate)) we hosed off, had a snack at the table in the backyard, and practiced making faces.
Kai has been really into dinosaurs recently so we dug out a BBC series that Art and Ellen got for us years ago called Walking with the Dinosaurs. It is still a stunning series and it really got Kai fired up, so much so that he wanted to get out his dinosaur costume from last Halloween. ((We’ve agreed that it is an Allosaurus outfit though a case could be made for Godzilla)).  Of course Nora needed to get her ladybug outfit out as well.  Even though she was dressed as a ladybug; I think she was pretty convinced it was another type of dinosaur.
Here is the last back-log gallery and then I’ll be caught up (at least for now). In this gallery you can see some pictures of the very popular wiggle-water-snake as well as some playdough time on the learning tower. Â
As I mentioned, the pictures were getting a little backed up and I’m just getting around to posting them now. These pictures are from a trip to the park after Kai got his new bike at the end of March.  It took him a little while to get used to the pedaling but now he is zipping along. Of course he likes to look around as he is biking especially to see if anyone is appreciating how fast he is going. So far no major spills though.
I know that Easter came and went some time ago but I haven’t been updating this site recently so the pictures are somewhat backed up. We just got back from a 5 day trip to Bangkok where Crystal presented at the NESA Spring Educators Conference. I’ll have a couple of galleries from that trip posted once I get the pictures sorted.  Here is a gallery of what happened on the Friday after Easter (we waited for our weekend). Enjoy!
I haven’t posted any images in a while so I thought I’d throw together a few recent ones and get them posted. Enjoy!
