News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
Here are a few random pictures from the Jacobs clan from September and early October. Enjoy!
I recently cleared some photos off of the iPhone and put a set up on the website. Enjoy the reading, winking, cooking and pensive Clone Troopers.
Cub scouts, intersession activities, new backpacks and soccer team photos. Enjoy the pictures.
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.
Truth be told it was Friday, not Sunday that the Easter Bunny came. Since Sunday is a work day here we put in a special request that he visit us early and, since Dad has some Easter Bunny wasta, he was happy to comply.
The Easter Bunny hid some baskets with books and a new toy in the house and then left a series of clues scattered through the house. Each clue was a picture inside an egg that led to the next clue until finally the basket was found. Kai and Nora really got into it and it was a hoot to watch them decipher the trail.
When that was done we found the Easter Bunny had left some plastic eggs hidden outside. Some had chocolate and some were filled with confetti that looked like someone had emptied the bin on an automatic 3-hole punch. Clearly the Easter Bunny works in an office when he isn’t doing his egg gig.
Here is a quick post with a few pictures that have accumulated. There is a box fort made with remnants from the move, reading books with face paint and Nora playing in Dad’s shoes.
Here are a few more random pictures that were waiting in the queue. The first couple were taken when Kai came back from art school where they explored mixing colors by mixing different colors of frosting. A pretty cool idea – and then the bonus was that they got to frost cookies and bring them home.
We started reading books to Kai shortly after he was born and he really loves them. We have a bedtime poster ((we took digital pictures of different things to do to get ready for bed: brush teeth, get pajamas, piddle (a creative camera shot allowed this one to be tastefully done), choose books, etc. and made them into a poster. Because, after all, you may argure with Mom and Dad but who will argue with a poster?)) that lists the steps we take at bedtime and pick books is the step he likes best. He’ll scour the house trying to find his favorites and will often end up with a stack of 10 books in bed that he wants read to him. He’s ussually ready to sleep after about 3 but we love that he loves them.
Nora, on the other hand, hasn’t had the same deliberate exposure to books. We still read to her but with Kai also running around there aren’t the same number of quiet down-times that work really well for books. Still, Kai’s interest in them is rubbing off since she’s getting into them ((Kai will choose some books for her at bedtime when he is picking out his own and his choices are thoughtful)). Brown Bear, Brown Bear is a current favorite and she’s getting really into page turning which is great since she is seeing a book as something to interact with.Â