Jacob
i love almond eyes & straight dark lashes & sandy curls & an upturned nose & matching toes & dramatic expressions & apple cheeks & perfect ears & little creased chins & irresistible grins & you
Category: Jake & Nake: A Mom’s Opinion
Plan B?
Yesterday I caught Nate moving the toilet paper roll from the holder on the wall to the back of the toilet tank. That’s what his daddy does so he can’t reach it.
Friday Night
Tonight we went to dinner at my favorite gourmet food court: San Pedro Square Market. One time during a semi-meltdown, the guy at the Vietnamese spot actually got Jake to smile, via chicken on a toothpick. Of course he remembered us the next time we came back and now Jacob…
Madagascar
It’s May. Wouldn’t you know, I’ve been meaning to write about Halloween? Last October marked our third Shasta Halloween. We got about 450 trick-or-treaters, which was way down from 2010. I think the problem, or perhaps the financial upside, was that it fell on a Monday. Jake was a lion,…
Bedtime 2.0
Recently Jake and James discovered free books on the iPad. I’m not sure exactly how they chose the two stories they downloaded, but most nights we now listen to strange versions of Goldilocks and The Princess and the Pea. I say “strange” because they seem to have changed the stories…
Self Portrait
It was approximately a year ago when Jake’s previous classroom devolved, as James describes it, into Lord of the Flies. Ultimately the problem seemed to be too many kids, a disproportionate age spread, and perhaps a tad too much “free play.” Every day I would encourage Jake to keep his…
Naketionary
We’ve suddenly noticed Nate talks. I mean, we’ve known he says things, but now all of a sudden, I think he’s saying lots of things. Here’s a little cheat sheet, in case you find yourself in a deep discussion with our littlest conversationalist: Mama = Mama Dada = Dada Mo…
If I Were a Rich Mom
I think I’ve mentioned something about Nate and climbing… If my kids were goats, Jakey is a farm goat and Natesy is a mountain goat. Every time we turn around, Nate has figured out how to climb up something we’d previously considered “safe.” We find him standing on the coffee…
owe/bill/debt 2
At one point Jakey was trilingual. At least in the case of one word: mo. He could express the word “more” in English, Spanish, and his own version of American Sign Language. I wonder what the odds are for two babies, born two years apart, to have the same first…
Jakey Patois
Jacob has kind of an interesting accent… and its origins are fairly murky. I have a hard time replicating it in writing, but I always notice it when he’s talking. It comes out not only in his pronunciation, but also in his use of the various parts of speech. It’s…
Plan B?
Yesterday I caught Nate moving the toilet paper roll from the holder on the wall to the back of the toilet tank. That’s what his daddy does so he can’t reach it.
Friday Night
Tonight we went to dinner at my favorite gourmet food court: San Pedro Square Market. One time during a semi-meltdown, the guy at the Vietnamese spot actually got Jake to smile, via chicken on a toothpick. Of course he remembered us the next time we came back and now Jacob…
Madagascar
It’s May. Wouldn’t you know, I’ve been meaning to write about Halloween? Last October marked our third Shasta Halloween. We got about 450 trick-or-treaters, which was way down from 2010. I think the problem, or perhaps the financial upside, was that it fell on a Monday. Jake was a lion,…
Bedtime 2.0
Recently Jake and James discovered free books on the iPad. I’m not sure exactly how they chose the two stories they downloaded, but most nights we now listen to strange versions of Goldilocks and The Princess and the Pea. I say “strange” because they seem to have changed the stories…
Self Portrait
It was approximately a year ago when Jake’s previous classroom devolved, as James describes it, into Lord of the Flies. Ultimately the problem seemed to be too many kids, a disproportionate age spread, and perhaps a tad too much “free play.” Every day I would encourage Jake to keep his…
Naketionary
We’ve suddenly noticed Nate talks. I mean, we’ve known he says things, but now all of a sudden, I think he’s saying lots of things. Here’s a little cheat sheet, in case you find yourself in a deep discussion with our littlest conversationalist: Mama = Mama Dada = Dada Mo…
If I Were a Rich Mom
I think I’ve mentioned something about Nate and climbing… If my kids were goats, Jakey is a farm goat and Natesy is a mountain goat. Every time we turn around, Nate has figured out how to climb up something we’d previously considered “safe.” We find him standing on the coffee…
owe/bill/debt 2
At one point Jakey was trilingual. At least in the case of one word: mo. He could express the word “more” in English, Spanish, and his own version of American Sign Language. I wonder what the odds are for two babies, born two years apart, to have the same first…
Jakey Patois
Jacob has kind of an interesting accent… and its origins are fairly murky. I have a hard time replicating it in writing, but I always notice it when he’s talking. It comes out not only in his pronunciation, but also in his use of the various parts of speech. It’s…