Jacob - Diggers, Peanut Butter & Investigations

Oct 2022 - Jacob

The joke was on me. Jacob had been standing on the seat of the red tricycle which I took away.  He was using it to get up higher so he could investigate the record played I'd been showing his dad Clint.  I didn't want him to fall from such a precarious position.  When I turned around, he'd pulled up a replacement.  That record player HAD to be investigated. Now he was standing on the seat of a toddler ride-on car!

June 2022

Jacob worked diligently to carry his construction toys to his dad.  He parked all his diggers on the couch next to his dad, looked up and said, "Jibber jabber jabber!"   I got this.  I actually know what he's saying, LOL.  I asked, "You want dirt?"  and he nodded his head and plainly said, "YES!"  So, he got dirt.  We went outside, I pulled the tote from under the deck, and he got to motor in the topsoil.

Nov. 2021 - 2 years old

Master Jacob has grown tall enough that he can open my silverware drawer and on tiptoe prop his chin on its side to view inside. He pulled out a red spatula which I didn't think much of it, it's rubber, it's harmless, until he took a bite!  Little devil bit my red spatula!

Here's a Thanksgiving Day story I can tell.

Jacob who is short - long waisted, short legs - spied the open jar of peanut butter with a spoon stuck in it. He kept standing on tippy-toe and dipping into that jar, (I was watching from the other room over the divider) and each time he'd say "Ummmm" -- very sincere and thoroughly enjoying himself. Next thing I know, he's grabbed the jar and put it in the crook of his left arm! The spoon's in his right hand and he's walking around the kitchen table feeding himself!  ROFLOct. 2021 - 2 years old

Oct. 2021 - 2 years old

Dipping with a butterfly net, I had to fish a tractor out of the pond.  My eyes caught Jacob trucking rocks that were the flower bed border to the water feature, or tiny pond.  We had circled the pond with an expanding fence.  Never did we want a child to come to harm by falling in.  Well, Jacob was dropping the rocks over that fence into the water.  I told him no, but he went back to the border to get more.  Just as he was about to finish the job, I said, "No, no, Jacob."  He looked at me, opened his palm, and let it go!  Oh, the little terror!

Aug, 2020 

Oh, oh, oh, let me share a Master Jacob story.  This one I didn't observe, this one was told to me by Jacob's dad, Clint.

There's a child's gate between kitchen and living room at his house, and it just happens to be next to the refrigerator as their house is laid out.  So, though he's not yet walking, he uses things to push and get around much like an old person's walker.  He pushed Miss Lilly's red plastic childs chair up to the gate, climbed up on top of the chair reached over and cleared her magnetic numbers and letters off the fridge!    

Well, there's a boy in the house!