Catching Up Chapter 3: Jacob turns Six!

Jacob's 6th birthday was June 21st... We seems to be on an every-other-year pattern for parties... Last year was the great Bliss Water Park party, with pool & sprinkler & slip-n-slide, so this year was a "just family" year. It also turned out to be a "one-present" year, because it was such a BIG present! :) We sent him on a scavenger hunt...

and the clues eventually took him to the present...

After some more practice rides, we let Jacob choose where to go for supper, and he picked Gattitown. I was so glad he picked it -- I was wishing I had gone there for MY birthday, but didn't get to! :) Both the boys rode the (lovely pink) car... love those faces!

And Jacob took a ride on the bumper cars:

He also did great at the skee-ball & the whack-a-mole games. It was very fun for everyone!

(And that concludes our catching up adventure! I think we're up-to-date. :))

Catching Up Chapter 1: Jeremiah Turns Two!

Jeremiah's 2nd birthday was April 1st... He opened some presents:

And played:

He did great at blowing out the candles:

And eating cake:

The present that Jacob picked out for Jeremiah (with Nana's help) was this microphone... which Jacob also enjoyed a lot:

I remember thinking "I can't believe he's TWO!?!?!" ...and now I'm still thinking, "I can't believe he's TWO & a HALF!!" :) Arrrrgh...

jeremiah's 1st birthday

So yesterday was Jeremiah's birthday,
I can't believe it's been a whole year...
Holy moly cow! (as Jacob would say)
We wish you all could have been here.

(Truly, that did not start out as a poem, but alas, rhyming happens.)

This is the boys drumming on one of Jeremiah's presents... They've got some serious rhythm.

And Jeremiah holding up the elephant from his new "Where's My Tail?" game... So far he mostly only knows how to pull out the fur/hair from the tails (woops!), but he's close to being able to attach a tail to the velcro spot on a block.





And here's Jeremiah talking with "Dusty the Vacuum" (and himself) in the hallway mirror... I wish I knew what he thought about the scene he sees in the mirror! I think maybe he's thinking "Man, that's one cute baby! I wonder where he got that cool vacuum and where can I get me one?!?"

We didn't really do the whole "let's see what the baby does with the cake" deal, but we did enjoy a lovely gourmet lemon cake on his behalf. :)