Jacob
"Ping" went my cellphone. It's a Marco Polo from daughter-in-law Jessica. The screen shows her in the foreground and Jacob in the background, and you can hear Miss Lilly coughing off screen. "Kids are sick, and I have a stuffy nose," Mom says, with a muffled voice, evidence of her own cold.
But, her words, his grin, are so incongruous I have to laugh.
Behind her to the right is Jacob happily licking a green sucker! Lick, lick, lick, grin. Tongue green, eyes happy to be on screen, he licks, licks, licks when mom says, "Jacob has the sniffles." and right on cue, while grinning he goes "sniff, sniff" then returns to licking the green!
I wonder if she sees, ROFL.
Jan. 2022 - 2 1/2 years old
On a cool Sunday, I was seated between Miss Lilly and Master Jacob at suppertime. The waiter gave the kids activity coloring sheets and 2 crayons each. Master Jacob scribbled twice on the paper then turned to the window and began scrawling on it. Mom was across from him and getting tense, so I gently exchanged the crayons for his napkin and told him to clean the window. He put his knees in the seat, leaned over the black sill, and with wide arcs, roughly tried. I was graced with a toddler, "Tank u."
Jan. 2022 - 2 1/2 years old
Jacob was trying to catch fish from the Let's Go Fishin' game but his fine motor skills were taxed. He hollered from the living room and when I looked he was jabbing a pointed finger to the floor between himself and his sister Lilly. I asked Mom what that meant, she said, "He wants you to sit on the floor and play with him." LOL, so I held his little hand steady while he "fished" for the difficult fast gulping fishies. In his words, I was sufficient, I had answered his call of "make it do." LOL
Still in Jan.
Daughter-in-law posted a video of my son Clint and his boots. 2 kids, his 5 year old daughter Lilly and his 2 year old son Jacob, each were clutching an ankle as dad tried to walk. "We're yer boots, ha, ha." said Lilly. "I BOOT!" said Jacob. Nancy Sinatra Clint is not, but these three were cuter than snot! Clint sang, "These boots were made for dragging and that's just what we'll do, dragging the floor with you, it's true."
More in Jan.
On this my sister's birthday, we played stink bug. Do you get those bugs? Last year we were inundated. This year not so much. Lilly has an aversion to all things buggy, not so with Jacob. If you touch one of its antenna, it changes directions, Lilly squeals. If you place a napkin down for it to crawl on, Lilly squeals. If you let it run away or fly, Lilly squeals. If you let it crawl up on your finger and let it transfer to the finger of the other hand, Lilly becomes unglued! With jumping-up feet, flying arms, Lilly squeals, LOL.
Jacob blows on it, Lilly says, "Get the bug, Jacob!" Jacob starts to touch it, and it moves. He's her underling to do her bidding. He's boy. He's brave. Lilly says, "Jacob! Bug! Get it!"
Last in Jan.
It's the sweetest thing when Jacob comes to me to be cuddled because he's a very independent little guy. He plays hard, alone or with Lilly; he's adventuresome and goes exploring. So, when he squeezes my hand, or says "up", it's special. Today he bent his knees and pushed up like a jump, so up he's swung, and cuddled he's done -- I'd put him to sleep with Baby Shark.
I'm grandma, you know, sing it,
"Grandma Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo
Grandma Shark"
Grandma Shark"
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