When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Jacob worked his way through the songbook that came with his new(ish) Ukulele... In honor of St. Patrick's Day I thought I would post his rendition of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. He has never heard the actual song, so the tune is completely his own. Enjoy!

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Jacob (3.9yo), yells from the bathroom: "IIIII neeeeeeeed a wiiiiiiiiiipe..."

Josh (2.75yo), immediately drops what he's playing with and frantically runs towards the bathroom: "OKaaaaaay! I'm comiiiiiing!"

Oy!

Jacob and Josh on the rock climbing wall

Here are the boys going up a rock climbing wall at a birthday party yesterday.

The still pic captures Jacob (in the front with Craig) on his first and only attempt, and Josh (in the light blue shirt in the back with Rachel) on this third go...

The video is of Josh on his first trip up... After this attempt he waited in line for 2 more turns!

Both boys had a great time!

Josh on the snowboard...

Ok, so he's just pretend snowboarding in our bedroom, but he was having a great time anyway! He especially loved wearing my helmet and goggles! (**If you look closely, you can see Josh's relatively new camera-smile in the last picture!)

Counting challenges

On the way home from school today Jacob nonchalantly announced that he was going to count "in trinary." Then he did. 1, 2, 10, 11, 12... What?!? Knowing that Craig had taught him the binary system I asked him where he learned trinary (is that even a correct term for Base 3??)--he told me he figured it out himself (knowing what he already knew about binary numbers... he then went on to count in Base 4 next...) [Craig later confirmed that he has not taught Jacob any Base 3 or 4 etc...] Anyway, when we arrived at home Jacob ran for the paper and pencil and wrote down his counting! Almost 4 years old...

Happy Birthday Craig!

And here's a picture of the birthday card Jacob made for Craig (with a little help from Josh). Jacob cut out each of the letters himself (each is from a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper), and Josh decorated the car and the truck! Made with love for daddy... Happy 44th (gasp!) Craig!

Happy Chanukah Cards

Jacob has been quite crafty lately... Here's a picture of the Chanukah cards that he made for all 19(!!!) of his classmates! Whew!

Does this thing still work?!

It's been almost a year since our last post (!?!) so I thought I would share a few recent pictures of Jacob and Josh. I'm not promising anything, but who knows--maybe I'll start posting regularly again...

Josh and the mirror

Here's a quick video of Josh admiring himself in the mirror not too long ago... Just before I got my video going he had been flashing his belly to his reflection over and over...

Some random semi-recent pictures...

In an attempt to get things a bit more up to date here I'm posting a few random pics of the boys from the past few months... I'm also hoping to get a couple more posts up soon with pictures from our recent trip to visit family on the east coast, so stay tuned...

Jacob and Josh sing their first duet

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star... Enjoy!

I apologize for the video quality--I couldn't get a good shot given where the boys were situated, but I hope you can get an idea of the performance anyway!

Jacob's nightmare

I woke up around 4:30 this morning to Jacob crying loudly. This was unusual, so I hurried to his room to make sure everything was okay. As I knelt down by his bed and started to rub his back to calm him down, he rolled over towards me and exclaimed in a somewhat frantic voice, "You skipped a page!" then rolled back over and quietly went back to sleep.

I wonder what book he was dreaming about.

Jake's first day of school

Here are a few pictures from Jacob's first official day of preschool. He was a little bit nervous, but did great overall! My my how time is flying...

Jacob with his teachers

Here are a few pictures of Jake--one with each of his new preschool teachers. The picture with Patricia is during her home visit to meet Jacob the week before school began. The other two pics are from the classroom visit day (the day before school started)--Sonia is doing play dough with him and Kristin is talking with him while he's writing.

Grandma Sheila and Grandpa Chuck's visit-August 09 (Part 2)

Grandma Sheila and Grandpa Chuck's visit-August 09 (Part 1)

Jacob and Josh had a fantastic time with Grandma Sheila and Grandpa Chuck, and sucked up as much attention from them as they possibly could. In addition to our field trips to various museums in the area (SF Academy of Science, Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, San Jose Children's Discovery Museum), we spent time splashing around at the Menlo Park Pool, hob nobbing at the Stanford Shopping Center, checking out the Rodin Sculpture Garden at Stanford (we never actually made it inside the museum to see anything beyond the sculptures), playing (and relaxing) at home, and taking walks in the neighborhood.

At Uncle David and Aunt Judi's house

And here are a few pictures from Uncle David and Aunt Judi's house in Tiburon...

Uncle Michael's here too!

We met Uncle Michael up in San Francisco (where he ran the 2009 SF Marathon the following day!) and enjoyed a few hours at Yerba Buena together.

Ari, Zachary and Aunt Alyse visit CA

Jacob and Josh were THRILLED to have Aunt Alyse and cousins Ari and Zachary visit this July. Here are a few pictures of the boys playing together...

A few pics from Tahoe...

Starting at the top:

• Craig with Jacob, Hank and Oliver
  
• An attempt at a family picture (thanks for the effort, Lucy!)
  
• Rachel and Josh at the house
  
• Craig and the boys taking a rest at Taylor Creek
• Jacob playing in the sand at the lake
• Craig reading to Josh and Tessa back at the house
• Backyard painting extravaganza (thanks for organizing, Kevin!)
  

And here's a short video of Josh when we stopped for lunch on the way back home after the trip... He saw a piece of sweet potato on his foot, and didn't want to miss out. I quickly got out my phone and was able to capture the aftermath. Oy!